The Chinese Communist Party has made no secret of the fact that it sees itself at war with the US. Many Americans are concerned about how much of their money is going to China, whether through the products they buy or where their money is invested. In this episode of China Unscripted, we look at how you can get your money our of China. Joining us in this episode is Frank Gaffney, the founder and president for the Center for Security Policy, as well as vice chairman for the Committee on the Present Danger: China. He's also the host of the show Securing America.
I've been a conspiracy wingnut ever since I discovered BBSes in the 90's. So, in my mind this was Rockefeller Foundation's plan since the 70's. David has a whole chapter about it in his autobiography. This is a feature, not a bug.
The real question is how we get our money out of big oil.
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Q.) What would you say about people who have a 401K that's invested in maybe Fidelity or Vanguard, but they're not in charge, they can't go to the fund manager and say well I would rather not have my money in China. What can they do? A.) Get people focused on talking about and well, raising hell, about what is being done with their money, without their permission, and in many cases, without their knowledge. I think what you're going to start seeing is people, at a minimum, being offered an alternative, an ex-China alternative, as they say.
[If you] go back to the South Africa example that is a case in point that [divestitures as protest against Apartheid from the west] was not a government-led initiative.
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