UPDATE: Thank you! Many of you participated in a recent IFA campaign to ask President Trump to intervene to stop our nation’s military retirement investments from being invested into Chinese Communist companies. We are happy to report that on Monday, President Trump appointed three new members to the Board that oversees these decisions. They are awaiting confirmation. Praise God!

Just the News reports: “The five-person board oversees the Thrift Savings Plan, a retirement savings fund that is similar to a 401(k) for federal employees and military members. If confirmed, the Trump appointees could reverse the board’s 2017 decision to allow the TSP’s $50 billion international fund to track an index that include some China-based stocks of companies accused of human rights abuses, violating sanctions and aiding the Chinese military, according to Thomson Reuters.”

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Original article by Committee on the Present Danger: China…

Communist China is becoming an ever-greater threat to the United States, its people, and vital interests. To add insult to injury, the growing capacity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to attack this country and its allies around the world and to repress its own citizens at home and those of nations it is colonizing abroad is being financed by American investors.

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Public pension funds and other institutional investors, as well as individuals, are – most often unwittingly – pouring billions of dollars into the coffers of Chinese state-controlled companies closely tied to the CCP and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) through the U.S. capital markets. Among the PRC’s corporations listed or traded on these exchanges are ones enabling Beijing to: violate U.S. sanctions; illegally build and militarily fortify islands in the South China Sea; monitor, incarcerate and repress its own and other nations’ religious minorities and ordinary citizens; engage in surveillance state practices, digital totalitarianism and “social credit” scoring; conduct cyber-attacks and intellectual property theft; and construct advanced weapon systems with which to inflict murderous damage on this country and its men and women in uniform. [It is truly an evil regime.]

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Scores of millions of us are unknowingly underwriting such companies, directly or indirectly, through the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) All-Country World Index. There is at least $6 trillion that investors passively invest in this benchmarked index, which has 6% percent of its portfolio invested in the stocks of Communist China’s corporations. It will shortly go to 7 % or an increase of $60 billion.

Worse yet, starting next year, due to a decision by the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, the federal retirement system’s Thrift Savings Plan, with its over half-a-trillion dollars under management, is set to “mirror” this particular MSCI index. If that is permitted to happen, some 5.7 million U.S. government employees – past and present, military and civilian – who hold any international stocks in the portfolio will be compelled to have their pension dollars underwrite these types of malevolent Chinese Communist Party enterprises. It is totally unacceptable to oblige, for example, our veterans and those serving in uniform today to invest in Chinese companies building weapons designed to kill them or their comrades-in-arms. It is equally unacceptable to have champions of human rights unwittingly funding, for example, [killing Christians, and holding others in concentration camps and organ harvesting operations.]

We call on President Trump and Congress to take such steps as are required to prevent the Thrift Savings Plan from being used to finance those corporate instruments of an adversary state that seeks to extinguish our freedoms and everything we hold dear as a nation. Pray for this issue to come to light, and that leaders would choose to do the right thing with our government and military retirees pensions.

We hope you will join us in alerting the President and your members of Congress know about this concerning issue, and ask them to take action. Pray with us that our leaders would willingly and swiftly rectify this situation so that we are not funding the very regime that seeks to harm us.