A Texas House committee report warned that the Chinese Communist Party is out to influence local public servants. The report’s writers recommended state lawmakers ban relationships between Texas and Chinese local governments but did not include an enforcement mechanism.
Michael Lucci of State Armor, an Austin-based security firm, warned a special Texas House committee of the danger posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“The CCP has shifted from a strategy of peaceful co-existence to one of attempting to become the leading global power,” committee members wrote in their interim report. “According to Mr. Lucci, the CCP is pre-positioning assets in the US to disrupt every normal function of civilian life if a conflict arose. Mr. Lucci emphasized, … the Chinese strategy of disruption is an ‘everything everywhere all at once’ strategy.”
As part of their strategy, Lucci said the CCP is targeting state and local governments. “Mr. Lucci discussed the Chinese government’s strategy for influencing local and state governments in order to make them dependent on their companies as essentially client states,” the report read.
One of the CCP’s infiltration methods is forming agreements between Chinese and American cities through Sister City partnerships. […]
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