latest nonfiction books and authors, funding for "c-span2", comes from these television companies and more, including broadband. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ buckeye broadband along with these television companies support "c-span2" as a public service. >> helen raleigh is the epitomep of the american dream, a minister china and u.s. is a college student, she didn't know anybody and she and had less than $100 in the market, unlike many of immigrants with a craving for freedom, helen raleigh her dreams were rich. her combination of hard work, and scholarship helen raleigh

earned her masters degree in business economics at the university of new york and mba from the university of wyoming and she is the author of several okbooks including first book confucius, which if you have not read it i highly recommend it and is described hercr struggleo survive it and determine the socialist regime andsh contribur and writings have also appeared in the wall street journal fox news, national preview, newsweek and other national media and helen raleigh have served on several boards and commissions in denver where she lives with her husband mike, this includes the colorado state advisory committee on civil rights andse several others. the thing that impresseses me mt about helen raleigh is her courage and love of america and our precious freedom and she became a u.s. citizen in 2013, to protect and defend the united states of america, she takes that very seriously and by

publishing her latest book which is of course for sale at the lobby, and sheby will be sunny after tonight's event, her bucket backlash's aggressions has backfired and helen h is shining a spotlight on her oppressive tactics of the chinese communist party is providing a wake-up call to americans who embrace socialist ideologies like those that she and her familyli painfully endud in china. and for this display of courage, helen raleigh has been attacked on social media, and greatly receives a mouse, and her inbox even including death threats. yet as helen says in backlash, i think we cannot remain silent on things that matter because as martin boudin king jr. said, our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. let's give a warm welcome to helen raleigh. [applause]

[applause] >> good evening everyone, can you hear me okay and is so nice to be back to the institute thank you, i'm a great admirer on the ways that the institute has been able to over the years with steamboat institute in colorado and supporting this rate institute, thank you predict. and this will be a social media and i really encourage you to us check this great institution out and help with events and freedom for all americans. i want to keep this short because one thing that i learned about the steamboat institute in

colorado, they always attract the most educated people so every time i spoke here, i try to take the most thoughtful questions so i will - trinity i wanted interactions and i am hungry for interactions so my remarks but i want to get to your questions, to know what is on your mind about the china pos and the initiative so i'm going to focus on three questions, in my remarks. why did i write this book, and what are the aggressions, china aggressions. in the title of the book, backlash, i have a lot of questions about this, really is thekl backlash because i don't e it, and over the backlash comes from so the first question that, why did ist write this book.

the shortns answer is i couldn't go anywhere so i had the time and the other question is it leads to frustration, i was frustratedec because for decade, president nixon visited china. the u.s. foreign policies to china,rg partially theater becae it's based on region and the understanding of what the communist party really is. and, engaging with the communist party, basically when people will change, so at the time, is

not for the united states, almost for the democracies, and disillusionment that they've engaged to become his party, eventually will become more like us and more open, groups of democracy. by nowow they realize that is an illusion it. in this part of my frustration. not all of our decision-makers and politicians recognize that, some of them - for the policies. in this engagement, not that it was a bad idea because i was a beneficiary of such engagement, i grew up in aggression a remember that everything was rationed, limited supply and you had to get out before 4:00 o'clock in the morning to be at the grocery store in order

to get cooking oil or sugar so i remember the first time that i went to the opening of mcdonald's, could not believe it pretty in the first time i went to mcdonald's, it opened in beijing, i remember there was an apple pie. and the only time we ate an apple pie was on my birthday pretty so i savored every bite and i never tasted something so sweet and tasty. and now i don't eat them because i want to stay fit. but then ius do not care. w freedom was apple pie and wanted to go to the places that you can eat as much sugar as you want. so i am a beneficiary of that economy and engagement in itself, was not wrong, is on the wrong policy, it's been around,

many american economists. we assume that the unconditioned of the engagement, and changing buffet behaviors. the true caricature of the communist party, and the truth characteristics, the communist party is a party that has power, it will do anything to obtain power and do anything to remain in power. power, is the only justification it for what they will do pretty so that is where the communist party, has hostile be done to - 9049, because we see every democratic - free and open

elections, you have opposition parties, open to their ideas, all of this democratic values and to the powers to take power and some stain the power so that is why it has never it will never change, it will never embrace the democracy so you needed treat them as who they really are, not who they want to be or you think that be. so i wrote the book, whenever this book, i keep all of you in mind because i think that we, the we the people, we need to, to the electoral, because the politicians, we respond, how did they get elected. and to cut the policies and the

public and lots of people to go make new laws and policy decisions. so things that we ask ourselves, are the issues that we should care about, cover the platform and with china. and when it comes to the time of election, look past the rhetoric to see what you the candidate, what is the foreign policy that you advocate in the right policy for america. in the way to do that, will it will last decade is so unconditionally, the same time, national security and securities and also a true way to

compromise or democratic values. and eventually they will change, that was specially after 1989e with the massacre and a very weak communistic state, about $400 per person and we actually had a lot of economic leverage to change with the communist party and we did not do that full confession without the u.s. as la and pretend we do not see them in the engagement encino change and guess what, for decadeses later, now because of our unconditional engagement, now there is ahead estate and that is empowered, our investments, at the expense of our only decline another

challenge at the front and seeking power and the power in china but also the world domination of how can we communicate world order that we will enjoy and guarantee peace and prosperity. so that is why i have put this in the book, so that it's easy to understand. so back to the first question that was the first question, the second of question, the aggressions with china, less structure and describe it as appealing an onion. a certain layer of aggression i focus on the massacre in aggression so i focus on human rights violation of an

persecution of the christians and systems that i could've originally proven the communist party is for the people had has control. [inaudible]. and even it has a historical content about how, incident target, and what the persecutions of the christians and so i actually want to focus on the tactic because too often it too often, but it's true there are a lot of brutalities and imprisonments and abortion and how we've seen in some instances but i want to focus on

the techies, but are they thought tax the detectives, is to divide this so social contrast. to the communist partyty come io the chinese people is as long as i can - you can achieve wealth and political ones. [inaudible]. is that really enough because i can share with you in an interview, so these businessmen, pretty wealthy. and yes, they have improved, i'm selling houses, i do not lack of anything materially pretty here's the challenge, i cannot worship the way i wanted not ald to have an open display of

dalai lama in the schools teach certain things about culture and i've been rejected with the government will not allow me to travel abroad. i have everything except freedom. in this flames income is really important to two decide to care about these tactics we should also focus onho the thought tactics and i described this as a drop to pack. pack predict give food on the table been that is not who we are we want more, we want agency to make a decision so we really need to focus on the tactics as a thought tactic when it comes to aggression it

printed so this area one, we need to have hotspots in china o there certain layers that was happening in hong kongon and taiwan and south china sea. so be glad to answer questions about hong kong and taiwan there's a lot of content in the book but i want to bring your that's it china sea because of what is going on there, it is also a reflection in the tactic pretty and that is the thing at the communist party, the new tactic it is these aggression ii can't update what is happening at theg south china sea is an example, the trial run is what is called a - tactic, trinity it is about the sanction of

military so basically invading the country to expand their territory, you have to find a ttraditional war and those tactics of this is now they do and cannot how they expanded into the south china sea and south china sea is this quality water in southeast asia, 90 percent of the trade go to china go through there and china in several countries, including money asia, the philippines and vietnam, the share claims on this particular body of water and this i is also a huge area f oil deposits and extracting it and that is a huge deposit of natural resources and you can understand why they should share this body of water and

economically, as well as other interesto in their overextended so in china did is or was, they came up with this idea on the island, in the south china sea. and it they were not sure what china was doing, they just said, we want to make sure that we have a station here so we can over the fishermen and to report whether and people said okay that is fine. so the first island in three years, china reclaimed 3000 acres of land through this artificial island.

and china has a silent, they have a station of troops and basically established administration of district, they did it but also the surrounding waters andnd now china has saidy doing that, china has claimed the south china sea to 90 percent and now is in china's own backyard and now, other countries can access the hundred and china's coast guard, very aggressive joke because garnet and they drive them out to

protect china's territory they say it is mine strategy. and to understand that, is important because now based on their success in the south china sea, the same strategy on the land because they keep expanding the land with the other countries. so last month a published discovery a stunning discovery, china had three villages inside of the border of the town, a h small country shared border wh china and even though historically for the longest time, china's own claimed this

land. so in order to do this, through the towns territory, basically they adjusted into india and china and india has been fighting wars for the last several decades of china would use this villages strategically. the clamant as a holy land us in china went to the towns. they said well, we are in these villages and these other areas in india and when china agreed to the other area somehow is a small country, all he could do is pretend that it didn't know it happened.

in the report was totally shocking. and this tactic it, that somehow is a moral objection and with the united states and the western democracy is my frustration and is talking so this is what i want you to know. we need to push that back. so that is the second of layer, china and the land so it is about china's global expansion and this is a big area because it covers so many things. and china huge massive, infrastructure, some of you may

have heard about it but this is a infrastructure air force, and other countries, using china's own suppliers and workers really just borrowing money from the china's bank and for many of them, they could pay at the back, they have to backtrack. and then they have to leave the land or china will take it was really genius idea, in this idea actually the obama administration thought about iti and knows aggressive. and again, if you really thought about it, this idea than you can focus and shift our attention it and then they grab it like that, huge resources and push it out.

[inaudible]. and these institutes and tele- programs, china's active recruitment for the scientists in rural researchers, in the technology area basically tell them hey, i will pay you money in the universities and all you have to do is bring your research, share with us and hide it from your employers the last year, for the first time, they actually charged a chemistry professor about sharing his technology with china. with a chinese university secretively. in researching the united

states, founded by the department of defense. and it using our tax dollars to do the research and he shared it with the chinese and he got paid. so that's the education spot and then also the information, huge information up with china happening in the media, especially on social media, and research basically shows that about 50 percent of this chinese diplomat and information it, and spreading the disinformation about the coronavirus. and huge reasons why, they came from talents that from china and

the thing that is been very slow to respond to that so even though there gradually china is coming out and creating them, but there lies in the questions to unknown people who say hey, this information to know because china will testify, and associated with a space in a tiny space so the information especially this misinformation last year, this pandemic it, essentially that is huge in terms of the information horse and china. so that is the third layer and

obviously we cannot write a book in the middle of a pandemic without having a chapter onhe te pandemic so i do have a chapter about the pandemic it. i think it is really been a hassle for a lot of us, and really also kind of the icing on the cake it, we have all of these aggressions together to explain why you should care about the china especially this aggression it in these areas because you look at how you become more about the pandemic, and how china active during the pandemic and a lot of coverups in the early days and now they've suppressed the scientists and doctors and researchers and prevented the media from the systems and talk

about what is really going on. so basically came out of the city last year that shows that for pandemic it, in the early days the pandemic, but the most crucial time they could take action early, they could basically, you did a study of how could the chinese disclose the information that they knew about six weeks earlier, the pandemic and the scope of the pandemic it, it reduced by 90 percent, 90 percent, so evidently be more transparent.

[inaudible]. so why should i care about this, and talking with the pandemic and i realized that they didn't actually care about its own people, they wanted solutions. and eventually, they came out with what we should care about so that is about the aggression to know a stock about the backlash, other backlashes, i think there are. i finish this book in september and i see more backlash now then compared to the time that i was writing about it and it back then, i see several sources on the backlash in first, it is the

public opinion so here research realized research last fall and china and in xi jinping, lost 7f the pandemic it, and hong kong, and 75 percent, communist party, communist china unprecedented political isolation because of what happened in this been a big because of the impact on many of us. so this is a big backlash and there are other backlash, and with the president and also the trump administration and i think about foreign policy and the

fact that we talk about i think d it was a failure of the campan for the reelection because i mentioned in the book, his administration was the first american administration secretary pompeo to talk in the conference is my favorite it from the trump administration, he was the first american administration, and understood the true nature of the communist party and you heard of secretary pompeo talk about manyy times, the truth about the communist party in who they really are, and for the first time, foreign policy and not only that, the trump administration was the first administration it where they were not afraid to

challenge china aggressions especially the domestic omissions because today china has one of the world's most powerful armies in the second largest economy and the cost of china in a space is really high sorry governments, no their allies and are afraid of china because they want to bear the cost and the trump administration, was the first one to confront china. no other administration would do this, they signed and civil rights act. [inaudible]. in the companies and affiliated companies and this distinctions,

and this never happened before, never happened before so i would call that a backlash. and you heard a lot from the media last year about trump and building the wall and it our allies, not even telling the truth so many of us heard about the networks, something that they would push hard and try this. [inaudible]. in the private company, not really private, they had many times with china's military and the government but anyway, champions to support by the chinese government they agree one of which they try to start a

war. and especially with our allies, the network and prevent this huge risk, security risk and they had improved this year by several allies. especially in australia and the chinese had 5g, whatever critical allies, and jonathan, last january, the government and i can tell you it was unreasonable, standing alone businesses so jonathan, going through the powers, and michael

pompeo, and estate you do this and we will stop sharing because we don't feel comfortable and jonathan said no, we are going to do this because what we can afford and guess what, in the pandemic it happened and also the chinese government increased the hong kong and right in front of our allies, and is really tragic anyways, then jonathan alliance, with this 5g network and so, again the pandemic became - the backlash continues through this year the biden administration, united kingdom and canada enjoyed it together and launch the target ascension against the chinese officials in

the human rights violations so we see the backlash come through and it has not became a big thing yet, with the coming from because of the change in administration it, there are a few comments about the biden administration then i will in after my comments into the biden administration came in, the approach was the fall and in fact an area of china, actually change policy, and distinctions of the officials, inserted chinese companies in the military. [inaudible]. and so, the biden administration it my biggest concern is the

biden administration demonstrates the truth the most. [inaudible]. in the previous in menstruation and the biden administration has gaps in with a state and what they do and the same problems with the exact opposite so when trump administration, he made them cringe when he spoke about that she is my friend and putin is great and the policies. and people felt really strong better national securities, and china's policies was with russia and then from china. [inaudible]. the biden administration is the exact opposite the biden administration and will talk about - with russia and the policies is exact opposite in the policies have been very soft

the biden administration with policy in china, that i think is what happens between the regions, chinese and american diplomats in alaska and keep in mind that alaska with our independentt imitation it and read in the reports about what happened in the region basically the chinese diplomats came out and scolded our group and the trojans and talking about the americans have no life to talk about china to anybody because their own sailors did not have racial justice.

[inaudible]. and, the chinese diplomats in the island and india in the talking points, the surprising or disappointing thing was the biden administration and diplomats could not have a strong powerful defense of our country because the group of the talking points during the campaign and that's how you talk about america as well because that's how you talk about america. because our diplomats had the same - of americans and americans great or not, and so

on diplomatic reform how could you and this was really stroubling me. i will leave you with the facts. winston churchill, i loved winston churchill, the americans always know what they always do the right thing, after they have tried everything else. .. to do the right thing. thank you. [applause]

>> the china foreign ministry announced chi is providing free vaccines to 69 countries and commercial exporting them to 20 more. china's competitors are concerned for chines covid-199 vaccine goes its influence will follow. what are your thoughts on china's vaccineva diplomacy efforts? >> that's a really good questio question. china's reputation drop last you but i can tell you the good news is for vaccination is now very successful. because the chinese vaccine, the efficiency is only about 60%. we don't even know if that is accurate. so even china's own cdc announced they're going use american vaccine like pfizer or

moderna or the one infinite in france for booster shot to increase the efficiency of the vaccine. so far the vaccine is not successful. but it does show the relentless of the communist party that it is willing to do again anything and it has the power of the world resources to have a geo-political influence. >> do you think it's accurate to say china has used the covid crisis to gain and flex its influence across the globe? >> i think china tried, the communist party definitely tried to do that. that's why see all of this, this information especially social media as well as because china

controls w.h.o. this whole fact-finding about the origin of the coronavirus was not very successful. they came back with nothing, right? china tried to blame it's the food. we destroyed the evidence that countries look for anywhere else. because now it is a credibe scenario. it is truly amazing story. and with that scientific establishment because they

thought if trump said it must be a lie. not only stop talking about it but actively censor anyone any scientist or researcher to talk about it. here is the free market the power of free market they never met before this is a wonderful piece from newsweek a couple of weeks ago a group of individuals basically open source information. of course none of them have classified access. and through their research could find credible evidence to show it is very likely the viruses from the lab. and with that scientific establishment basically

brought the whole lab theory back to life. that this group of individuals but it back to life and because of that i don't think china is winning the pr war because now even countries hesitate to challenge china. and with that origin of the coronavirus so they are not winning the pr war are not. >> what should the us be doing on vaccination to reinforce allies? >> the donation program is a really good way that president

biden to share the patents to me to share the patent would not only violate their property rights but the thing is it is very difficult to make a vaccine. many other countries do not have the facilities to make a vaccine if we just force them to share the patent and what would happen? the communist party will have it for free and use it for their vaccine diplomacy. i think it's a much better options i am so glad the president i hope somebody talks him out of it that maybe we can donate i think that's the right thing to do. and like a country like india that is our ally and a very important ally in the

geopolitical as many of you have heard facing a very serious challenge from covid so we should help our allies make it available to countries. >> the chinese communist party is made up of a number of factions trying to control the party between 202,012 each had a different agenda. which group controls it. >> i would not call it faction because going back to the true nature of the communist party the ultimate goal is how to remain empowered so maybe a little more liberal on the economic french.

that they will never embrace democracy to present a serious challenge but i do have to say president xi before he came to power in 2012 with the previous two leaders of the communist party they were tolerant so basically they follow the guidance of their successor of mao on —- of now

the pragmatic leader so this is traditional guidance that says we need western money and technology to help us view the states. so wait for your time and do not stick your head out and be addressed one —- aggressive on the international stage. so that is how the three successors follow the guidance. but also the chinese people experience a little more open. then china but that has all changed he modeled himself his

book is the bestseller. [laughter] and getting people to buy a copy and also he controlled all the power he was called the chairman of everything under him. so that is china actually going back to more and that honeymoon of that short period of more political openness is gone. and the leader is relatively young so he will be there for a long time so china will not go back to open this is going the other way much more totalitarian compared to the

past. host: there are 92 million communist party members out of one.5 billion people in china. is there a backlash against any of these programs from their own citizens? but especially during a pandemic there was anger about why didn't the communist party members even of their more in terms of the population they are the elite. so then my first book of confusion never sets but in

day young pioneer program and then you move from that to another program that is for teenagers and young people. when i get to demonstrate if you have good grades you have to be smart and come from a good family so once you're in the party you will be put into the key position of the economy and education every key position throughout the country so you were groomed to be the leader of that successor so there was some backlash with the communist party members during the

pandemic there was a story about a hospital in shanghai overridden by patients the chief doctor was mad about the communist party member so it's very rare for anybody to speak up and press conference in china but he spoke up at the press conference and said where the communist party members and want them to report to me right now because we need anybody who can trace patients to be on the frontlines. of course that was taken down quickly so i believe there is definitely some people are generally afraid including the wall street journal for that

purpose so it is very difficult to get the first ten information of china. >> how can we expect to have the ambitions of china if we don't want that supply a stopped? >> i'm so glad somebody asked about that. the short answer is it can be done except we don't have the will to do it so how media heard of rare earth minerals? so if you do not know what this is it is a group of 17 minerals that are crucial to the digital economy for electronic cars, crucial.

even for solar panels. crucial. and we, the united states had huge deposits of rare earth minerals back in the eighties we know how to get the minerals out of the ground and process it we had that technology. then what happens? than the rare earth minerals says to go to china but telling the china the chinese how to process the rare earth minerals but none of them have that but then hear back home there are environmental laws it becomes very expensive with that extraction so china

controlled 90 percent of the rare earth minerals supply. not because it has the biggest deposit that has the monopoly of how to extract the minerals. because they play such a critical role in the digital economy they have to coerce other countries and then as you know japan is very short all kinds of natural resources. so i use this example so japan if that is their goal to use that monopoly japan realized it cannot depend on china so

the japanese government to form a task force because many other countries that have rare earth minerals deposits and have that technology or the money to extract so that task force have been few factories to extract minerals so that's the one thing they did was to diversify the suppliers so it was true innovation solar panel companies and then to refuse the dependency on rare

earth minerals so with those true efforts it was painful because of the japanese efforts so this example just shows you what can be done but the businesses are show so shortsighted there is simply a lack of will to do this we need to have financial pay to change environmental laws or whatever it takes because it is a national security issue we need to reduce our dependency because we are so polar opposite it takes all of

us and that's what we will do that is how we reduce our dependency. host: what has to happen with corporations or sports leagues cannot even happen? >> i don't know. so we understand the hypocrisy on the one hand they are all for social justice now biden administration makes juneteenth a federal holiday and all companies say slavery is terrible which it is true but at the same time but they

use the supply chain from china so there is a huge hypocrisy so how could we influence the chinese government or convince the chinese people that value is good and we don't even support that? so our behavior will only have done two things. if you empower a regime and then the communist party says look literally believe the things they try to sell us why should we embrace this?

i would be writing a lot of articles criticizing that i think as consumers, that's where we can then. because the business community is dominated by woke capital so with difficult to say we cannot breakout all of them but that so many live and die through social media but then to expose the hypocrisy and to challenge them anywhere with that we can and that is really

the only thing that i can think of to let them know that we are not happy with their hypocrisies. host: describe how the chinese communist party monitors and controls the average chinese citizens by monitoring the activity with a personal score to determine what a person can do quick. >> and how china builds our digital fortress so one of them is the facial recognition technology. so they have about 6 million cameras throughout the country. so there's nowhere that you can hide.

so that is one component and what the question refers to is what they call social chronic system. to think did i pay my bill on time? this is part of the system. and with those chinese citizens. and then putting out your trash correctly because again cameras everywhere. and then all feeds into the system. and some of those data points

say maybe that's not so bad. maybe that's not a good idea but many of them are not. if you complain about the ccp or say something about coronavirus that is different from the government narrative, then points would be deducted. if you're behaviors good what the government likes, you can get a promotion or a better rate if you apply for a mortgage or kids can go to a better school. but if your behavior is that, although that depends on the government definition then you find out maybe you don't get the promotion even you are the best employee. were somehow your kids were rejected or if you go to the

bank and apply for a loan they will not give you a good rate. the worst part is you cannot travel anywhere. you cannot buy train tickets or airline tickets the license to drive will be stopped. losing the ability to travel that has happened to many when they found out they couldn't go attend a conference because they are not allowed to travel. so this 1984 or welling in to bring it to reality. but the really sad part is a lot of the technologies and

how it builds the surveillance system. so those authoritarian countries so what have we done? just like the coronavirus. we actually founded the wuhan lab to do those researches. where is the accountability? we need to educators thousand know what's going on and who was telling the truth and transparency and accountability and businesses before we pointed fingers. host: final question is a good

one to wrap up on, alluding to our own culpability and with a gain of function research, it appears there has been a cover-up. do you believe our allies would essentially come in together for backlash our response against china? what is the ultimate endgame when the truth finally comes out? >> first of all i and pessimistic with the origin of the coronavirus because the chinese government has destroyed the evidence of the scientist in the lab to take down the database and the

investigation team in china to send out one week quarantine so in the wuhan lab reading the report from the lab and then they didn't really walk around the lab and it's a longer time i asked between the this first happened the longer the gap is the harder it is to find out. so i and pessimistic about what we really find out. but i do think this is a wake-up call and then to go back to business as usual then we deserve that crisis in our government cover up will

happen all over again so this needs to be a wake-up call for all of us as long as we keep pressure to continually investigate and hold accountable with the coronavirus this is a worldwide event very few people can claim so we need to keep that going we mean politician in our country? so we as the public as the pressure to demand an answer

as the g7 community to make the announcement of the coronavirus but the problem is with their own government is that gap of what they say and what they do. and then to put actions and then with that take away the coronavirus. the biggest take away is we should never never surrender our liberty what individual freedom and one of the founding fathers you could end

up with neither. it is not a fair trade. and this whole experience of how that was brought back to life shows the power of the individual. and how many walk around today don't really know that. they like to us. so never surrender. host: it's a great note to and on. can we have a round of applause? [applause] i would like to remind all of

you her book backlash is for she will be signing copies of her book. please also watch for announcements about airing at the knights presentation on c-span's booktv series in the coming days and weeks. if you enjoyed the nice presentation we would appreciate you going to steamboat institute.org to support us with your charitable contributions. as a nonprofit we do depend on your support to reach people all across colorado and threat the country with important messages like tonight and promoting individual liberty and free enterprise. we sure to follow us on instagram, twitter, facebook. we are always promoting great things like helen's work, and thank you, and now please go out and enjoy the reception and book signing. thank you for coming. >> thank you, guys. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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