The Dragon's Long Game: How China Is Targeting America from Within

June 4, 2026 37th Anniversary — Tiananmen Square Massacre

Two women who survived China's communist machinery — one a Cultural Revolution survivor turned bestselling author, the other a libertarian activist and PRC émigré — offer a chilling, firsthand account of Beijing's ambitions on American soil.

Interviews with Xi Van Fleet (American Freedom Alliance, Los Angeles, March 31, 2025) and Mrs. Li Schoolland (FreedomFest 2025)  ·  Speech by Dr. Ming Wang (Anthem Film Festival at FreedomFest). Published June 4, 2026

Today is June 4th. In most of the world, that date means very little. In China, it means so much that the government has banned the numbers six and four from appearing together on the internet. The anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre — when the People's Liberation Army rolled tanks over unarmed students demanding democracy — is not merely a historical wound. It is, as two Chinese-American women explained in separate interviews, a template: a window into exactly how the Chinese Communist Party treats inconvenient truths, inconvenient people, and inconvenient nations.

Those women are Ms. Xi Van Fleet, Cultural Revolution survivor and author of the newly released Made in America: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat, and Mrs. Li Zhao Schoolland, a PRC émigré, libertarian activist, and speaker at FreedomFest 2025. Their accounts converge on an unsettling conclusion: the CCP's campaign to weaken and ultimately dominate the West is not a future threat. It is already underway.

A Book America Needs to Read

Xi Van Fleet is used to being heard. In 2021, a two-minute speech she delivered to a Virginia school board against Critical Race Theory went viral, drawing comparisons between Mao's Cultural Revolution and America's woke movement. Her first book, Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning, became a conservative bestseller. Her follow-up — co-written with renowned Chinese dissident Yu Jie — goes further and deeper, tracing how American elites, over more than a century, helped build the very monster that now threatens them.

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Made in America — Xi Van Fleet & Yu Jie

The untold story of how misguided U.S. elites transformed China from a communist wasteland into a global superpower — at America's expense. Available wherever books are sold, including Amazon.

Xi van Fleet at American Freedom Alliance event 

"It's titled Made in America," Van Fleet explained at the American Freedom Alliance event in Los Angeles. "The subtitle — The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat — is very important." The book's central argument is that China's rise was not an accident of history or an inevitability of economics. It was built, piece by piece, with American money, technology, and willful blindness.

What Communism Is Really About

Van Fleet pushes back hard against the assumption that politicians aligned with socialist or communist ideology are simply misguided idealists who wish to improve other people's lives. That framing, she argues, fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the ideology.

"Communism is really about power. It's nothing about improving people's lives. Never. That's just a tactic — before they take over, that's how they try to convince the public. Once they get power, they will try to maintain power. That is their focus. Always."

Xi Van Fleet American Freedom Alliance, Los Angeles

The question of whether Western politicians who embrace socialist rhetoric are true believers or cynical opportunists, she suggests, may be less important than the structural outcome: one-party dominance. "State like California is good," she said pointedly, "but they want the whole country that way."

She also addressed the fear — common among critics of the left — that communist-style authoritarianism would require the kind of mass violence that characterized Mao's China. Not necessarily, she warns. "They don't have to kill millions. As long as they're in power, they can do all sorts of things." The Cultural Revolution's 20 million deaths, she noted, were mostly inflicted not by government agents with guns, but by ordinary citizens turned against each other — a fact she finds more disturbing, not less.

The Street and the Square: A Revolutionary Parallel

When the conversation turned to the wave of protest movements that have swept American cities in recent years — from the 2020 racial justice demonstrations to the "No Kings" rallies — Mrs. Li Schoolland drew an immediate and visceral parallel.

"That reminds me of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Mao encouraged young people to go on the street and condemn everything good — knowledge, history, art, music, anything with culture or thinking or philosophy. They went on the street to condemn all that."

Mrs. Li Schoolland FreedomFest 2025

Li Schoolland, author of "A Survivor's Story" poses with
Dr. Ming Wang, author of "From Darkness to Sight" at
FreedomFest '25 in Southern California

But she stopped short of despair. America's constitutional foundations, she argued, provide a buffer that China never had. "Our country is founded on the principle of liberty, freedom, democracy, and the rule of law. So even though they have many demonstrations, it's not going to change anything." The critical difference, she emphasized, is that in America the demonstrators cannot become the government by force. In China, they already were.

Xi Van Fleet, meanwhile, traced the funding behind the current protest wave to sources far closer to Beijing than most Americans realize. She pointed to investigations by journalist Asra Nomani, which reportedly traced financing for recent "No Kings" protests to American tech billionaire Neville Roy Singham — a self-described Marxist living in Shanghai who reportedly funnels hundreds of millions of dollars through a network of pro-China activist groups. "That's how China is reaching out and influencing," Van Fleet said.

The Invisible Occupation

Perhaps the most startling claims in both interviews concern not geopolitical maneuvering, but the physical presence of CCP influence on American soil. Mrs. Schoolland did not mince words.

"They have Chinese police stations — not just in Chinatown, everywhere. On campuses. And they have students paid by the Chinese government coming here not to study, but to spy on other Chinese students and to make trouble."

Mrs. Li Schoolland FreedomFest 2025

She described Chinese nationals who drove luxury cars in 2020 protest parades — not out of solidarity, she argued, but out of satisfaction. "Anything that hurts the United States, they're happy about. But they're sitting in the United States, enjoying our taxpayer-funded benefits and technology and freedom. They cannot do the same thing back in China — there's no way."

On the question of CCP influence within American political parties, Mrs. Schoolland was careful but clear. "I don't know, but I'm sure there's a lot of money going to candidates. A lot of influence." When asked whether she would be surprised to learn the CCP was behind funding current demonstrations, she replied: "I won't be surprised at all. Because that's what they want. They think the US is the enemy. They want to hurt us in every means."

Racism, Envy, and the Psychology of a Rising Power

One thread that runs through both interviews, and that rarely surfaces in mainstream discourse, is China's internal racial hierarchy. When critics of Chinese government policy are dismissed as "racist," Mrs. Schoolland offered a pointed rebuttal.

"If you talk about racist — China is the most racist nation. Chinese people will not sit next to a person with darker skin than theirs. They think those people carry some kind of disease. That's the attitude. And they look at the West with envy — envy that leads to hate. So they have to put themselves up in order to look down at other people, especially the United States."

Mrs. Li Schoolland FreedomFest 2025

The goal, she argued, is not simply economic competition or geopolitical rivalry. "They want to be the world power — in control. But they also know they can't control America directly. What they can do is influence the politicians, the government. Bring America down enough that they rise by comparison."

CCP Chinese tanks fire upon civilian protesters in Tiananmen Square, June 4th, 1989

Biden administration attempts coup against Israel's new government for restoring true democracy

by Guy Milliere (in auto-translated from the original French in LeDreuz)

Since the Israeli right won the parliamentary elections on November 1st, and Binyamin Netanyahu - after having been defamed, destabilized, incriminated in court for essentially non-existent reasons, removed from power, replaced for a year by an opportunist, Naftali Bennett (a right-winger wearing a reversible vest, ready to form a government that looks like a piece of junk dominated by the Left, and powerless - both in the face of a Biden administration hostile to Israel, and in the face of the rise of murderous anti-Jewish terrorism), Binyamin Netanyahu was able to form a coherent government. Yet, the Israeli Left shows that it is ready to imitate the American Left in matters of ignominy and irresponsibility.

 

Interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid said as soon as the election result was known - that the government Binyamin Netanyahu could form would be legal, but "not legitimate" and would pose a "danger to democracy." Since then, he has made equally vile and inflammatory remarks. Several former IDF chiefs of staff have called for civil disobedience and urged the army to disobey government orders. Demonstrations have been held every Saturday night in Tel Aviv to denounce the government in very vehement terms, and "Palestinian" flags are unfurled alongside Israeli flags. Calls for insurrection have been made several times.

French law-professor, Guy Milliere, wrote
"Twilight over Europe"about Islamo-Marxism
encroaching throughout western societies 

The main reason given is the reform of the Israeli Supreme Court that the new Israeli government wants to carry out, and disinformation on the subject in the European press and in the American left-wing press is rife. One could imagine, reading what is written, that the new Netanyahu government wants to abolish the rule of law in Israel and install an authoritarian regime, and the incessant use of the expression "far right" to describe this government is supposed to install in people's minds the idea that Binyamin Netanyahu is a fascist. The truth is, of course, very different, and the European press and the American left-wing press cannot be counted on to say it. 

Prof. Guy Milliere, in this November '20 video interview, discusses Western politicians' peculiar support for CCP-backed, apocalyptic Iranian Mullahs and their jihadist terror armies pursuing conquest of Israel, Egypt, and the Gulf oil states.

The Israeli Supreme Court was created as soon as Israel's independence was proclaimed. The Left was then in the majority in Israel and the justices of the Supreme Court were left-wing, but at the time, the Israeli Left was a lucid Left about the dangers weighing on the country, and responsible: the threat from the Arab world was blatant and potentially deadly for the newly born State of Israel, the "Palestinian people" had not yet been invented. It was obvious that Israel had to fight to survive.

There came a time when the Israeli Left began to see its power erode.

The Israeli right won elections for the first time, in 1977, and Menachem Begin became prime minister. He remained so for six years. Yitzhak Shamir succeeded him and was in power until 1992 (the Left, led by Shimon Peres, was in power for only two years between 1984 and 1986, and Shamir was in power from 1983 to 1984, and again from 1986 to 1992). The year 1992 saw the return to power of the Left, and Yitzhak Rabin became prime minister and signed the disastrous Oslo Accords, which led to the return to the Middle East of terrorist gang leader Yasser Arafat, the creation of the Palestinian Authority, and an atrocious wave of murderous attacks in Israel.