End Our Post-Tiananmen Betrayals of the Chinese - and American - Peoples

End Our Post-Tiananmen Betrayals of the Chinese - and American - Peoples

From Secure Freedom Minute by Frank Gaffney

June 4, 2026 · 1 min · Episode 2418

About this episode

The episode discusses the repercussions of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the subsequent U.S. government's response that prioritized business relations with China over human rights.

Thirty-seven years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party violently crushed freedom demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and other cities across China. Grave insult was added to the murderous injury inflicted when the U.S. government made clear that such repression would not be allowed to interfere with business as usual between the two countries. The message was personally conveyed to that epic crime’s perpetrators by President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft – a longtime protégé of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who blazed the path for “engagement” with the CCP. In practice, as author Peter Schweizer has devastatingly documented in his latest best-seller, Invisible Coup, Kissinger, Scowcroft, and former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson spawned the practice of profiting immensely by selling out our country to China at the expense of Americans’ economic wellbeing and national security. That must end.

People in this episode

Host: Frank Gaffney

Topics covered

  • Tiananmen Square
  • U.S.-China relations
  • economic wellbeing
  • national security
  • political repression
  • historical events

Keywords

  • Tiananmen Square
  • Chinese Communist Party
  • Brent Scowcroft
  • Henry Kissinger
  • Peter Schweizer
  • economic wellbeing
  • national security
  • U.S.-China relations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chinese Communist Party

Places: United States

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