GOP Rep. Says China Creating ‘Empire’

Representative Frank Lucas (R-OK) said during a talk at the Hudson Institute that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is building an “empire reminiscent of the colonial period.”

This “empire” exploits financial systems through loan schemes. Underdeveloped nations are often unable to pay back the loan, making them subject to Chinese policies Lucas described as “mercantilist.”

“The Chinese operate by different standards than the rest of the world,” Lucas said.

“Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific poses a significant challenge for the U.S. and our allies,” the representative wrote on X. “We must act now to counter China to preserve international order and maintain U.S. leadership abroad.”

The CCP is not only seeking to dominate financial institutions, but is also infiltrating U.S. schools.

Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, stated that China’s infiltration into American K-12 schools is “almost everywhere.”

The scholar argued that China’s influence could be seen most often in schools that “feed” into elite colleges and universities.

“That is, in every state that we’ve looked at, we have found instances of it, but I would say it’s concentrated in the feeder schools to elite education, which means mostly West Coast and East Coast, but not exclusively those,” Wood said.

“While we were working on the Confucius Institutes, we gained some knowledge of the junior version of Confucius Institutes, Confucius Classrooms, which were being spotted in American K-12 education around the country, oftentimes at the sorts of schools that were feeders to elite colleges and universities,” he continued.