The Protecting America Initiative, a coalition of concerned Americans and public policy experts dedicated to combating the growing influence of Communist China in the United States, today announced a new ad campaign urging State Republicans to hold Big Retailers accountable as they look to blame President Trump and his tariffs for the unnecessary price hikes they have recently implemented.  

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Protecting America Initiative Senior Advisor Chad Wolf wrote an op-ed for Fox News Digital this week supporting President Trump’s America First tariff agenda. He argues that the tariffs on China are revitalizing U.S. manufacturing, protecting American farmers, and strategically pushing back against China’s economic and security threats.

President Trump is taking historic action to reset America’s trade imbalance with China through strategic tariffs. The Protecting America Initiative (PAI) late last month commissioned a national survey of likely general election voters in order to gauge how voters view the President’s approach to China on trade and the types of efforts they would like policymaker to pursue at the state level to ensure the tariff strategy is not undermined by the retail industry.

One method that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used to influence people around the world through higher education. Despite efforts from Congress to impede the Chinese government’s influence, the communist regime has not stopped its attempts to influence U.S. higher education.  

In an era where digital infrastructure and national security are increasingly intertwined, leaders in Washington are taking steps to confront the growing threat of foreign influence over American technology. 

Last week, President Trump made the greatest stride in recent history toward restructuring global trade to ensure fairness for the United States when trading with partner countries like China. With the new tariff rates now in effect, the President has notched a big win for his agenda and for the U.S. economy. Unsurprisingly, numbering among the chorus of critics are companies that stand to gain the most by keeping the prior status quo intact. Indeed, big businesses have been raising prices on consumers and disingenuously blaming tariffs even when there has been no evidence of cost increases.  

Americans Largely Support the USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan

The Protecting America Initiative, a conservative nonprofit organization focused on safeguarding the nation from Communist China’s growing influence, released new polling today that found Americans largely support the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Farm Security Action Plan to protect U.S. agriculture from the threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The 30-second spot is running on TV and digital platforms in the DC market over the next two weeks

It has been known for some time that the Chinese government has made it a priority to acquire American farmland. The Chinese government and their representatives have been buying up U.S. land at a rapid pace and now own almost 300,000 acres. Over the past few weeks, however, we may have seen the most blatant acknowledgements by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that obtaining agricultural property is at the cornerstone of their strategy to dominate the globe. 

This week, the Trump administration unveiled a multi-agency effort that formally acknowledges American agriculture as a crucial component of national security and lays out concrete steps to protect our food and agricultural systems from foreign adversaries. The threat to those systems is all too real, with two separate instances of Chinese nationals smuggling biological materials into the United States having come to light in just the past month.  

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been engaged in a long-term, sophisticated effort to undermine America’s economic dominance and threaten our national security. H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), includes policies designed to fight CCP aggression by making America more resilient and prosperous. Here are the top ten policies in the OBBB that help mitigate communist China’s efforts by strengthening our economy and securing our country.  

This week, U.S. authorities arrested Chengxuan Han for smuggling biological materials into the United States. A Chinese national who planned to spend a year conducting research at the University of Michigan, Han admitted to sending four packages containing regulated biological material related to roundworms – in one instance even hidden within the pages of a book – to individuals at a University of Michigan laboratory and making false statements about those packages. Upon arrival at the Detroit Metropolitan airport, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers found that Han had wiped the contents of her phone three days before arriving in the United States from China.

This week, two Chinese nationals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) with smuggling “a potential agroterrorism weapon” into the United States. One of the pair is a “loyal member of the Chinese Communist Party.” She used her boyfriend’s connections in the research community to try and smuggle the dangerous, illegal pathogen into the U.S. under the guise of conducting scientific studies at the University of Michigan.

In early May, the Protecting America Initiative sought to gauge public sentiment around President Trump’s tariffs and concerns that our nation’s largest retailers would use them as an excuse to hike prices.

Voters Want FTC, State Attorneys General to Hold Retailers Accountable for Price Gouging

This month, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at the U.S. Department of Defense delivered its Worldwide Threat Assessment to the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations. Central to DIA’s assessment of China was that the nation “continues to advance its global capabilities to confront the United States and its allies across the diplomatic, information, military, and economic domains” and that it continues to undertake “focused efforts to undermine popular and political support for U.S. military alliances and security partnerships,” all with the goal of presenting itself as the preeminent and undisputed world power.   

For decades, America’s economic relationship with China was marked by imbalance, exploitation, and complacency. Beijing’s systematic use of unfair trade practices — from intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers to state subsidies and currency manipulation — hollowed out American manufacturing and left key industries vulnerable.

Since day one, protecting American land – especially farmland – from foreign adversaries like China has been one of the biggest goals of the Protecting America Initiative. We’re proud to report that our policy advocacy and paid media efforts are paying dividends around the country.

While President Trump has pressed ahead in recent weeks on his effort to correct the damage that has been done by decades of outsourcing our manufacturing to China, one group has stood out as a thorn in his side. The big retail industry has vigorously opposed Trump’s efforts to use tariffs to negotiate a better trade balance with China and have proactively blamed the President for future price increases that consumers could face because of the tariffs.