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I am headed to Oklahoma City to moderate a meeting with the Oklahoma Speaker of the House, Charles McCall. I chair a 501(c)3 educational foundation, and our goal today is to hear from Speaker McCall about his Christian faith and his view on the importance of Christian character in state and national leadership.

Yesterday, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters testified before a House subcommittee about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempt to influence public education throughout the United States. Secretary Walters represented Oklahoma well before Congress. What he had to say was no surprise to me.

Oklahoma Speaker Charles McCall (L) and Secretary Ryan Walters (R)

The Chinese people are beautiful human beings. They have a rich culture and heritage, and they value family. The Republic of China was a bastion of freedom in the first half of the 20th century, but after World War II, the communists from Soviet Russia led a revolution to make China a communist country.

The freedom-loving people of the Republic of China lost the 1949 Chinese civil war to the communists and were forced to flee to an island off the southeast coast of the mainland.

That island we know today as Taiwan. Taiwan, whose ancient name is Taipai, represents freedom.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) desires to conquer Taiwan.