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A new group is set to launch Wednesday to combat Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence in the United States, Fox News Digital has learned.
State Armor, a nonprofit organization, will concentrate on global security threats and will begin by working to expose “malign CCP influence operations” to the public and lawmakers nationwide.
“States are now on the front lines against foreign adversaries. In fact, for years states have been targeted by well-resourced, technologically sophisticated foreign adversaries, particularly communist China,” State Armor founder and CEO Michael Lucci told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“The Chinese Communist Party is engaged in a broad effort to supplant the United States so it can rewrite global norms according to its authoritarian model,” Lucci said. “To achieve its goals, the CCP aggressively pursues a strategy to gain economic leverage over state and local governments, to make states dependent on their technologies, and to suppress the First Amendment-protected speech of Chinese dissidents within America.”
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President Xi Jinping of China. (getty images | istock)
State Armor will focus on four primary areas to position itself as a leading research and educational source for state and local governments, including protecting critical infrastructure, building what it calls “supply chains of freedom,” or sourcing products from free nations, stopping influence operations and preparing state supply chains if China were to invade Taiwan.
The group will work to mobilize a network ranging from citizens to experts to “aid states in developing and implementing comprehensive, common sense, and bipartisan solutions to protect themselves from what is widely regarded as a generation-defining foreign threat.”
According to State Armor, they are currently working on passing several pieces of legislation or executive orders in more than…
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