Peter Schweizer in March 2022. (NTD)
Posted on 04/19/2024 10:19:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Three months after the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned a Chinese mafia leader for fentanyl trafficking, he received an award in Beijing.
Peter Schweizer in March 2022. (NTD)
In March 2021, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Overseas United Working Committee recognized Wan Kuok Koi, also known as “Broken Tooth,” as a “patriotic businessman” and the “chief representative” of all international Hongmen associations. Hongmen is synonymous with triads, or Chinese transnational organized crime syndicates, to many Chinese.
The awarding entity is a CCP United Front organization and a platform under the China Association for Science and Technology. It also pushes China’s flagship infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), worldwide. According to the Treasury Department notice, Mr. Wan has established a security company protecting BRI investments in Southeast Asia.
In a recent interview with EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders (ATL), investigative writer Peter Schweizer cited Mr. Wan’s case as an example of the CCP’s take on the United States’ fentanyl crisis.
“The notion that ‘oh, China’s trying very hard, but they can’t fix this’ is an absolute joke in my mind,” he said.
In addition, the author of a new book titled “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans” told ATL that the U.S. fentanyl crisis is a “CCP-run operation.”
“The drug cartels are certainly involved, but they’re the junior partner,” Mr. Schweizer said, adding that the CCP is present at “every link of the chain.”
The Chinese production of fentanyl precursors is widely known. However, Mr. Schweizer’s research also shows that China provides pill-pressing machines at cost for fentanyl-laced fake pill production, distributes the synthetic opioid in the United States, facilitates the Mexican drug cartels’ financial transactions, and provides secure communication systems to cartels so they can bypass detection by U.S. law enforcement.
Currently, fentanyl overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45. The deadly drug was responsible for about 75,000 deaths, or 200 per day, in 2022. Compared with 3,105 deaths in 2013, the death toll increased 23-fold.
Facing this crisis, which has been growing exponentially, the U.S. government has yet to come up with an effective solution. In Mr. Schweizer’s view, U.S. leaders’ inaction is a significant factor.
He documented in his book how senior U.S. leaders, albeit initially voicing concerns about China’s involvement in fentanyl trafficking, have remained largely silent on the issue.
One of those leaders is President Joe Biden.
At a Senate hearing in 1992, the then-chair of the Judiciary Committee warned that “China is poised to become the lynchpin of the heroin trade.”
Then-Sen. Biden also criticized the then-Bush administration’s lack of action on confronting China, saying that “the truth is that the cooperation between the United States and China in fighting drugs is limited, at best, and as is its course, the administration is turning a blind eye to China’s renegade behavior.”
Yet, the Biden administration has been taking a similar approach: touting its counternarcotics cooperation with China, which relies on voluntary domestic control measures. CCP leader Xi Jinping didn’t keep similar past promises that he made to former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Different than heroin or cocaine, fentanyl takes the lives of people who mostly take the drug unknowingly. A New York University study in 2023 showed that a majority of the people who took fentanyl didn’t intend to do so.
Therefore, Mr. Schweizer thinks calling the fentanyl crisis a drug problem is missing the mark.
To him, it’s “extremely convenient” for the Biden administration to treat fentanyl as a “drug addiction problem, rather than what it is—poisoning,” he said.
“It absolves you of trying to confront the CCP on this because you’re essentially saying this is a human nature problem in the United States.”
In Mr. Schweizer’s view, the first family’s financial ties to China prohibited them from confronting the communists to reign in the Chinese fentanyl actors—a move that could be effective “overnight” if CCP leader Xi Jinping wanted it to be, Mr. Schweizer said.
The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.
Mr. Schweizer’s findings don’t stop at the fentanyl crisis, which he sees as a part of the CCP’s broader approach of “disintegration warfare,” aimed at bringing down the United States by attacking its “soft underbelly” regarding Americans’ politics, economics, and psychology.
In the ATL interview, he also talked about the CCP’s links to activities that sow social discord by inflaming racial and gender divisions in U.S. society and “dumbing down the West” with TikTok.
The interview premieres on April 18.
“a majority of the people who took fentanyl didn’t intend to do so.”
A cop on TV recently said that they are contaminating weed as well.
When does it extend to beyond just contaminating recreational drugs or has that stage already begun?
Its not said outside China, but this tacit acceptance and support of the fentanyl trade is seen as “revenge” for what the Chinese view as the corruption and degradation of their society from 1840s onwards, when the Opium Wars forced open China’s borders to opium trading, mainly by Britain but other nations also
It was part of a slow, violent and humiliating century of decline of China’s society in its contact with the West, all the way until the Communist revolution in 1949.
Its also why drug-dealers are dealt with VERY harshly in most of East Asia. Its recent history for them.
So unless the US Government aggressively acts to stop the fentanyl trade (which woke, bloated and corrupt US Fed.gov refuses to do) the Chinese Govt will claim ignorance and allow it to continue apace
so go ahead, do your "harmless" weed and take your mom's oxycodone and sleeping pills..but you tell yourself that you're not a druggie..
And a democrap party enabled problem too. They think they are just poor Repulican voters. So who cares?
Yes,
Many people know the truth, BUT in DC no one wants to point or waive a finger at China/PRC for anything.
That is where a big part of US manufacturing takes place.
It’s a major market for US goods and services.
China/PRC holds onto a huge share of US securities.
China/PRC through their US subsidiaries, lobbying, etc. has managed to become vastly influential in DC.
***US policy makers do not want to see, hear or speak any evil regards China/PRC.***
Never mind they are a single party communist regime. Execute more folks than any other nation. Make dissidents disappear. Oppress religion. Mass censor. Have internment camps, forced abortions and questionable organ harvesting policies. Occupy Tibet, back North Korea, today arm Russia, and threaten Taiwan. China/PRC can literally drive tanks over pro democracy students on Tianamen square, and we will vote for most favored trade status that same year and support WTO membership shortly thereafter.
So, while China/PRC is the true culprit in this public health/safety crisis, you’ll have US congressmen talking about invading or attacking Mexico, no kidding: https://youtu.be/UD4kFxyHALo?si=Fk8p5ht-9-Osumzv. What is this tough guys stance on China/PRC? Cricket’s...
This is a user error and problem. Nobody not going after a cheap high like weed or illicit pills is getting fentanyl.
More deaths from it, the better. Cleans out the scum.
Chomo Joe has allowed hundreds of thousands of Americans to be killed by his promoted invasion at the border.
Doing weed is risky. Doing illegal drugs, or anything is risky. Nobody getting sanctioned meds are getting killed by them with fentanyl.
Don’t try to get high on anything, and you probably won’t die from OD’ing.
You may be interested in the show Peaky Blinders.
I recently finished watching it.
IMO it is an exceptional show of post WWI in Europe and at time here in the US, from the POV of an UK crime family.
The left wing narrative ignores quite a bit. LOL
Our leaders are the worst! More people die from fentanyl than guns, yet we must outlaws guns. You all know that there are two reason our leaders take that position. 1. Money. 2. No one has killed a politician with fentanyl. Makes you think…. 🧐🧐🧐
"Nobody not going after a cheap high like weed or illicit pills is getting fentanyl."
"Don’t try to get high on anything, and you probably won’t die from OD’ing."
Don’t do drugs. Problem solved.
Ping
Fentanyl is one weapon in China’s asymmetrical warfare campaign.
Seems the whole Dem party is run by the CCP, maybe Mayorkas was given instructions to allow thousands of combat aged male Chinese into the USA.
Softening up the target population before the invasion.
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