In the wake of World War II, Winston Churchill said, “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” Since then, the United States and its allies have worked together to create an economic and international system that has led to significant prosperity and has provided mankind the longest stint of relative peace from major conflicts in all recorded history. However, just as the Soviet Union threatened to disrupt the global order with its distorted ideological principles, the Chinese Communist Party seeks to do the same today but on an unprecedented scale.

The CCP's vision of the world contrasts starkly to that of the U.S. and our G-7 allies. Its authoritarian regime seeks absolute control over its citizens and wishes to expand its influence and power throughout the world. Politically, militarily, economically, and technologically, the CCP is an existential threat to the principles that undergird the world’s most successful democracies.