MEDIA ALERT

For Immediate Release
March 18, 2025

CONTACT:
Dede Laugesen
info@PresentDangerChina.org

Trump’s America First Investment Policy
vs. Wall Street’s China First One

Say ‘No’ to the CATL I.P.O.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Last month, President Trump told his administration to implement an “America First Investment Policy” to stop Wall Street’s underwriting – and greatly intensifying – the threat we face from Communist China.

This month, four prominent U.S. investment banks are defying his executive action by ramping up their China First investment policy. J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are helping a Chinese military company called CATL raise $7 billion dollars or more from American investors.

They have so far failed to mention President Trump’s directive, let alone its potential negative impact on the value of this foreign adversary’s corporation and its securities.

The Trump team must make an example of CATL’s Initial Public Offering by disallowing its enabling by U.S. banks. It should also require prominent warnings about any such future deals that they put China, not America, First.

The next webinar in the Committee on the Present Danger: China’s series on the Chinese Communist Party’s unrestricted warfare against America will take place today from 12:30-1:45 p.m. EDT and examine the contrast between the President’s America First Investment Policy and the CCP threat-enabling one Wall Street is intent on perpetuating. It will also examine in detail the strategic, military and fiduciary problems with the CATL initial public offering and why it must not be sponsored in U.S. capital markets by American investment banks.

Register at PresentDangerChina.org.

WHAT: A CPDC Webinar: “Trump’s America First Investment Policy vs. Wall Street’s China First One: Say ‘No’ to the CATL I.P.O.”

WHEN: 12:30-1:45 p.m. ET, Tuesday, March 18, 2025

WHO:

• Moderator: Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

Panelists:

• Roger W. Robinson, Jr., Former Senior Director for International Economic Policy, Reagan National Security Council; former Vice President, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Special Assistant to then-Chairman David Rockefeller; former Chairman, U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission; Founder and Chairman, Prague Security Studies Institute
  • Topic: “President Trump’s Brilliant and Vitally Needed ‘America First Investment Policy’: A Blueprint for Ending Our Underwriting of the Enemy” 
• Justin Bernier, CEO of National Security Index; Founding Partner, All Source Investment Management; former Portfolio Manager, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management; former U.S. Navy intelligence officer
  • Topic: “The CATL I.P.O.:  A Case Study in Wall Street Looking the Other Way to Fund the Chinese Military-Industrial Complex”

HOW: Register at PresentDangerChina.org            

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CONTACT: 

To interview representatives of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, contact Dede Laugesen at info@PresentDangerChina.org

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