Posted on 09/01/2025 7:38:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There appears to be a fair amount of cooperation between China and some of the Central and South American drug cartels. We've known for some time now that China has been supplying cartels with fentanyl and other drugs and drug precursors. Now it appears as though some Chinese interests are actually laundering cartel money through the American financial system.
Chinese networks are laundering billions of dollars in drug cartel cash through the U.S. financial system, according to a new report from the Treasury Department.
Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said banks flagged about $312 billion in transactions from suspected Chinese money laundering networks from January 2020 to December 2024. That came from 137,153 Bank Secrecy Act reports from financial institutions. Treasury also linked Chinese money laundering networks to U.S. real estate transactions, casinos, human trafficking and even laundering through assisted living homes in New York. The networks also use Chinese students studying in the U.S. to help facilitate some schemes. Real estate alone accounted for about 13% of the total, but the vast majority was U.S. banks.
"Money laundering networks linked to individual passport holders from the People's Republic of China enable cartels to poison Americans with fentanyl, conduct human trafficking, and wreak havoc among communities across our great nation," Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John Hurley said.
Well, that certainly puts a whole new spin on the term "Chinese laundry."
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) report makes it appear as though Mexico has tighter controls than the United States does, which leads to the use of the American, rather than the Mexican, system to carry out this money-laundering.
The FinCEN report noted that laws and regulations in Mexico and China also play a role.
"Mexico's currency restrictions prevent large amounts of U.S. dollars from being deposited into Mexican financial institutions, hindering the cartels' ability to launder funds through the formal Mexican financial system," according to the report. The [People's Republic of China] currency control laws limit the amount of money Chinese citizens can transfer abroad each year."
This is another piece of evidence we can add to the growing stack of "China is not our friend" indicators.
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These Chinese networks appear to be great in breadth and depth; it would seem as though hundreds, maybe thousands, of Chinese nationals (would they trust anyone else?) would have to be involved in all these transactions. This brings up another interesting question: What's in this for China? The Chinese Communist Party is, no doubt, wetting its beak in all this. Could this be the source of some of the money China is using to buy up American real estate, including farmlands which are, by what we are sure is an amazing chain of coincidences, located near U.S. military bases?
Ironically, it may be America's laws and regulations that are attracting some of these people.
Scott Greytak, an anticorruption attorney and the deputy executive director for Transparency International U.S., said the U.S. is considered one of the best places in the world for money laundering because of its strong property rights and rule of law.
"Even though they don't like the rule of law, they certainly like their money being protected by it," he told The Center Square. "So we just tend to attract a ton of dirty money."
China is up to something. They aren't working with the cartels and laundering money for entertainment. They aren't buying up farmland for no reason. The Chinese Communist Party under Chairman Xi wants to see China surpass the United States as the one major world power, and they know that time isn't necessarily on their side. They can't yet take us in a knock-down, drag-out fight: Thus, these kinds of things.
We do, to quote what is supposedly an old Chinese curse, live in interesting times.
China pushing fentanyl in the US warrants a formal Declaration Of War against China.
The only people surprised at this are the democRATS who did not receive their 10%.
China intended for reprobate Tim Walz to be installed so he could continue our USAID funded self immolation downward spiral toward the WEFs pursuit of the CCP model ruling over us. A forced totalitarian AI surveillance state. We will own nothing and Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates will be happy.
The Constitutional USA Republic has proven to be far more resilient than they expected.
They are actively waging warfare against us.
The WEF and the CCP cannot overcome us as long as believers are praying daily to rebuke their anti-Christ evil.
“Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” - 2 Corinthians 3:17
Heard Gordon G. Chang on a talk show a few days ago.
He detailed that the so called agricultural land bought up by the Chinese in the US is being used to human trafficking as well as illegal marijuana growing as well as watching the US bases they coincidentally are near. And he said Chinese gang members are flying to the US and arriving in those places owned by China.
And this aggravating and typical American stance:
They sell land to China, who called itself the “enemy” of the USA.
BUT it is not allowed for Americans to buy land in China.
Not— one— square— inch— of— land.
RE: He detailed that the so called agricultural land bought up by the Chinese in the US is being used to human trafficking as well as illegal marijuana growing as well as watching the US bases they coincidentally are near.
How does Gordon Chang know this? If he knows this, then surely our FBI and CIA ought to know this as well, and if they do, what are they doing about it?
Congressman Dan Whitehouse. Statement.
“Some people might be surprised to find the leading cause of death among Americans ages 18 to 45 is not heart disease, cancer, motor vehicle accidents, or COVID-19—it is fentanyl.”
“Fentanyl is highly addictive and creates large profit margins for those involved in the manufacturing and dealing of the synthetic opioid. The world’s largest source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl analogues is China.”
“A mere 2 milligrams of fentanyl make up a lethal dose for most people—the equivalent to a few grains of salt. Fentanyl is cheaper to make than other opioids, easier to smuggle over borders because of its power in small quantities, and highly addictive. This creates a sizeable business model for the drug ring and a perfect storm for users who can easily get addicted to this lethal drug.”
“At the very top of this lethal food chain are bad actors in China manufacturing fentanyl and the CCP who is allowing their lethal fentanyl engine to run while it kills off thousands of Americans. We must put a stop to this crisis, and knowing our enemy is the first step.”
Well, then, we should crack down on freedoms of law abiding American citizens so we can hinder these outlaws.
We need more monitoring, more intrusion and more bureaucracy.
It’s for the children of course....
Excellent questions.
Isn’t all land in China government owned? You get a 70 year land lease and own your buildings/ structures. And you pay no property taxes.
I know nothing about China. Tim Walz could tell me but he’s in Minnesota and I’m in Michigan.
Ping
Left out of this equation most of the time is that the CCP takes great pleasure in seeing Americans succumb to drug use.
Culturally, they view this as payback for the Opium Wars in the 19th Century where they perceived that the West was using opium as a tool of warfare.
So, this delights them, as they say with a solemn countenance just how terrible it is that Fentanyl is killing Americans.
Off camera, they grin and high-five each other at the deaths of Americans.
The Chicom scumbags.
I don't think Trump is willing to go there but basically it's an act of war by China on the U.S.
Yes, they absolutely are. America has its well known problems, but Communist China is the face of evil in the world today.
I agree. They know they are responsible. We know they are responsible. They know that we know they are responsible.
And the CCP spokesman will piously intone that they will partner with America to stop the Fentanyl carnage, then break into hysterical laughter on the set when they go off the air.
My guess is that we are dependent on China for rare earth minerals so we don’t want to piss them off too much.
Could well be. Viewing his actions since taking office sure does make me feel confident that as he took office, someone made sure he understood the state of the current strategic pickle we find ourselves in both in rare earths and industry in general.
It explains much that he has done, IMO, from his tariff actions and even up to this admission of 600K Chinese college students.
I believe he is trying to find us time to address these strategic issues.
From 137,153 Bank Secrecy Act reports from financial institutions
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<><>to U.S. real estate transactions, casinos, human trafficking
<><>and Chinese laundering through assisted living homes in New York.
<><>laundering networks use Chinese students “studying” here to facilitate some schemes.
<><>real estate alone accounted for about 13% of the total,
<><>but the vast majority of laundering was thru U.S. banks.
Clearly, “someone” is allowing this.
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