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China Is Killing Americans with Fentanyl - Deliberately
Gatestone Institute ^ | October 21, 2020 | Gordon G. Chang

Posted on 10/21/2020 3:40:45 AM PDT by gattaca

For one thing, the Communist Party, through its cells, controls every business of any consequence.... Beijing tightly controls the banking system and knows of money transfers instantaneously.... Furthermore, fentanyl cannot leave the country undetected, as virtually all shipped items are examined before departing Chinese soil.

Chinese gangs are large and far-flung. In China's near-totalitarian state, it is not possible for them to operate without the Communist Party's knowledge. And if the Party somehow does not know of a particular gang, it is because it has decided not to.

China's postal service has to know that it has become, among other things, the world's busiest drug mule.

The regime has adopted the doctrine of "Unrestricted Warfare," explained in a 1999 book of the same name by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. The thesis of the authors, both Chinese Air Force colonels, is that China should not be bound by any rules or agreements in its attempt to take down the United States.... The regime, consequently, is using criminality as an instrument of state policy.... China's officials will stop at nothing to increase the power of their regime.

Fentanyl is often sent to the U.S. by mail, which means the Chinese state, through the National Postal Service of China, is the distributor. U.S. Customs and Border Protection learned that 13% of packages from China contain some form of contraband, including fentanyl and other deadly substances. Pictured: An officer from Customs and Border Protection works with a dog to check parcels at John F. Kennedy Airport's US Postal Service facility on June 24, 2019 in New York. (Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images)

"I'm not alleging any kind of conspiracy, I suppose, but just the plain facts of it: fentanyl and Covid both came from China, China's our main rival, they're benefitting from the deaths of many thousands of Americans," Tucker Carlson noted on his October 16 show.

China's regime has been pushing fentanyl into the United States for years.

Fatal drug overdoses in the U.S. last year hit a record 70,980, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those deaths, 36,500, were from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. Cocaine and methamphetamine fatalities were also up, largely because these substances were mixed with fentanyl.

It is, as Vanda Felbab-Brown of the Brookings Institution states in a July paper, "the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history."

There is no doubt where this drug comes from. "Since 2013, China has been the principal source of the fentanyl flooding the U.S. illicit drug market—or of the precursor agents from which fentanyl is produced, often in Mexico," reports Felbab-Brown.

A Drug Enforcement Administration Intelligence Report issued in January comes to the same conclusion as to the source of deadly fentanyl.

In China, gangs work on fentanyl compounds in labs to make the drug more addictive, a former American national security official told me a few years ago. Moreover, Chinese technicians constantly change formulas to avoid detection at the American border.

In short, China's regime is killing Americans with fentanyl. It is doing so deliberately. Carlson was right to suggest intentionality.

Beijing, at the persistent urging of the Trump administration, announced in April 2019 a ban on the production, sale, and export of fentanyl-class substances without authorization.

That ban, of course, was a step in the right direction, but analysts have pointed out that the new rules are hard to administer. "The enforcement challenge," the Brookings paper tells us, "is formidable since China's pharmaceutical and chemical industries involve tens of thousands of firms and hundreds of thousands of facilities, and China lacks adequate inspection and monitoring capacity."

The implication is that criminal gangs can operate in the shadows in China. That proposition is highly debatable.

For one thing, the Communist Party, through its cells, controls every business of any consequence.

Moreover, the Chinese central government operates what is undoubtedly the world's most sophisticated set of social controls. Using big data and artificial intelligence, tens of thousands of government watchers surveil 1.4 billion people with approximately 626 million surveillance cameras and tens of millions of neighborhood monitors and Communist Party cadres. Beijing tightly controls the banking system and knows of money transfers instantaneously.

Chinese gangs are large and far-flung. In China's near-totalitarian state, it is not possible for them to operate without the Communist Party's knowledge. And if the Party somehow does not know of a particular gang, it is because it has decided not to.

Furthermore, fentanyl cannot leave the country undetected, as virtually all shipped items are examined before departing Chinese soil. Jonathan Bass, CEO of importer PTM Images, told Gatestone that the authorities inspect and seal every container leaving China. Fentanyl is often sent to the U.S. by mail, which means the Chinese state, through the National Postal Service of China, is the distributor. The volume of fentanyl postal traffic is large.

How large? U.S. Customs and Border Protection, based on data from its Operation Mega Flex "blitz" inspections, learned that 13% of packages from China contain some form of contraband, including fentanyl and other deadly substances. China's postal service has to know that it has become, among other things, the world's busiest drug mule.

Running drugs, Chinese officials believe, is a small price to pay for achieving national greatness. As Cleo Paskal of the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies tells this author, they are obsessed with "comprehensive national power" (CNP). They meticulously measure it, thoroughly study it, and constantly compare rankings of China to other countries, especially the United States.

China's officials will stop at nothing to increase the relative power of their regime. There are two ways to do that Paskal notes: Increase China's CNP and decrease the CNP of other countries. China is, with malice, trying to reduce America's comprehensive national power with fentanyl. There can be no other explanation for Beijing letting criminal organizations operate unimpeded.

The regime, consequently, is using criminality as an instrument of state policy. "Nobody I know in the law enforcement community doubts for one moment that the Chinese services know exactly what is going on, given their total internal control," the former security official told me. "The working assumption is that Beijing knows about it, approves it, and profits from it."

The regime has adopted the doctrine of "Unrestricted Warfare," explained in a 1999 book of the same name by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. The thesis of the authors, both Chinese Air Force colonels, is that China should not be bound by any rules or agreements in its attempt to take down the United States.

The Chinese regime has always been characterized by viciousness. Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic of China, created a kill-or-be-killed society, and its values are inhumane.

The combination of China's relentless desire to increase its relative strength and the belief that no tactic is out of bounds means Beijing sees fentanyl as a weapon.

At the end of 2017, a friend in Maryland's Anne Arundel County stood outside a church in Severna Park. There, he watched teenage girls and boys, all dressed in black, walk down the front steps of the local funeral home, the girls all in tears, hanging onto each other, and the boys, staring blankly away. Then came the parents, still in shock.

"You know and I know what it was," he said "Somebody was burying their child and somebody else—somebody in China—was counting money."

The good people of Anne Arundel -- and all other Americans -- are under attack. The attackers are from China, their sword is fentanyl, and deaths are the result of maliciousness in the Chinese capital.

My friend recently left a message. "There are," he wrote, "a few old heroin addicts, but I don't know of any old fentanyl addicts."


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1 posted on 10/21/2020 3:40:45 AM PDT by gattaca
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To: gattaca

CCP - hopelessly evil. Its father is Satan.


2 posted on 10/21/2020 3:47:55 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: gattaca

ABOLUTELY!

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838

American EUGENICISTS LOVE chinese eugenics. It’s part of their NWOdor.

DEPOPULATION by any means necessary. Hardkill softkill by land, air, sea, ground, germs, food poison, water poison, extermination centers (pre-planned parenthood)

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

Nuremberg 2.0

Where’s the rope?

Paging Bill Gates, George Soros, the war mongers, the Frankenstein scientists.


3 posted on 10/21/2020 3:48:08 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: gattaca

China is forcing people to take illegal drugs, i think not.


4 posted on 10/21/2020 3:48:49 AM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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Sum Ting Wong


5 posted on 10/21/2020 3:49:54 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: yldstrk
CCP - hopelessly evil. Its father is Satan.

Its murderous step-child is the U.S. Left.

6 posted on 10/21/2020 3:50:35 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: exnavy

No force...voluntary self-inflicted softkill on weak-minded, irrational individuals.


7 posted on 10/21/2020 3:51:38 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPXHn3PYSAw


8 posted on 10/21/2020 3:55:34 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: gattaca

Pay back for the Opium Wars.
The hey have long memory.


9 posted on 10/21/2020 3:55:44 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: gattaca

We need a parking lot in Asia


10 posted on 10/21/2020 4:03:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: PGalt
The thesis of the authors, both Chinese Air Force colonels, is that China should not be bound by any rules or agreements in its attempt to take down the United States

See tagine. Culturally, the Chinese have never felt any legal, moral or ethical compulsion to deal fairly or honestly with "barbarians," who they consider their inferiors.

11 posted on 10/21/2020 4:06:40 AM PDT by henkster ("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
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To: gattaca

We should kill some Communist Chinese by removing a blockage called the Three Gorges Dam. The world will thank us.


12 posted on 10/21/2020 4:15:06 AM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: gattaca

Correction- they are killing druggies.


13 posted on 10/21/2020 4:18:08 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: gattaca
Opium trade, in Chinese history, the traffic that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in which Western countries, mostly Great Britain, exported opium grown in India and sold it to China. The British used the profits from the sale of opium to purchase such Chinese luxury goods as porcelain, silk, and tea, which were in great demand in the West.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade

Reparations for the Opium Wars and enequal treaties, but against the wrong nation.

14 posted on 10/21/2020 4:20:19 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: henkster; All

ABSOUTLELY. Kai-Fu Lee at the edge...

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838

I couldn’t access the People dropdown menu for Lee the last several time for some reason...

He haughtily called the Chinese “data collectors” “CHINA’S GLADIATORS” and said that the were waaaay ahead of the Americans in that regard...

...and that’s why we are where we are today.

Destabilize/Depopulate...Soros/Gates

We see you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRMf3wKBCPo


15 posted on 10/21/2020 4:21:01 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: gattaca

Any society that basically forces women to have abortions is, by definition, evil.


16 posted on 10/21/2020 4:33:28 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: gattaca

China isn’t killing anyone. Junkies are killing themselves and who cares. No one is forcing them to take the stuff. Don’t want to die from an OD? Easy just don’t shoot up.


17 posted on 10/21/2020 4:34:58 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: henkster; All

OOPS! Tagline thanks. Confucius? Sun Tzu?

What will be interesting...Sun Tzu...The Art of War...vs. Mad Mo...The Quranic Concept of War...

https://securitypolicylaw.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/MyersJoseph.Quranic-Concept-of-War.pdf

The Art of the Deal...can be...

Civilization

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships—thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with one another, they may do so only by means of reason: by discussion, persuasion and voluntary, uncoerced agreement.

The necessary consequence of man’s right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use.

Ayn Rand


18 posted on 10/21/2020 4:35:06 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: gattaca

This is a surprise? Let’s look at the history:

1. Poisonous dog food
2. Lead paint on toys
3. Covid
4. Fentanyl

Anyone who doesn’t think that China would love to see America fall into the sea has been living under a rock.


19 posted on 10/21/2020 4:36:39 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Starcitizen

GREAT idea!

Though I feel bad for the many people who will be killed.

I think God’s protection will be eliminated if we do that.

And I do believe that God protects the United States.


20 posted on 10/21/2020 4:36:51 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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