Beijing's Malign Intent

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In 1999, two Chinese Air Force colonels authored the book Unrestricted Warfare. The book described how China, acting behind the scenes, could weaken Americans' faith in their own country and infuse Americans with disgust in themselves and their country. The strategy was to attack American culture, economics, and politics on multiple fronts, and indeed encourage Americans to attack their own institutions.

Today, the tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party reach everywhere. In the heavily-researched book, Blood Money, Peter Schweizer describes how the strategies of Unrestricted Warfare have been successfully used by Bejing to undermine our society and our institutions, while our political leaders willfully ignore the consequences.

Schweizer concludes that:

The book is organized into four sections, according to classic Chinese military proverbs.

Section 1. Murder with a Borrowed Knife

Blame someone else for your crimes.

While Mexico is blamed for the fentanyl crisis, China is in fact orchestrating every aspect of the crisis. In northern Mexico alone, approximately 2,000 Chinese nationals work to import the ingredients to produce the drug.

America's politicians are either compromised or unwilling to confront China. As a consequence, fentanyl is now the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of forty-five. More than 67,000 Americans have died - more than the combined American combat deaths in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. The end result is that China has been able to remove a large number of military-aged males from our population, while turning many more into liabilities to society.

By the late 1980s, Chinese triads controlled 60 percent of the heroin entering into America. The fentanyl crisis has been more than half a century in the making.

Our political leaders are complicit. Schweizer notes that a Chinese influence operation in 2012 illegally funneled $800,000 into Obama's reelection campaign through straw donors. Joe Biden has been notably quiet in discussing China's involvement in the drug trade. As Schweizer recounted in his book Red-Handed:

Schweizer notes that:

Schweizer also observes that "[California governor] Newsom has a history of shielding the CCP from legitimate criticism while cultivating commercial ties with China." He documents many instances of such actions.

Section 2. Watch a Fire from Across the River

Set your enemy's business on fire, then watch the chaos.

Per unrestricted warfare, China is surreptitiously sowing social chaos in America. China is arming criminals in America with Chinese firearms, while our political leaders remain willfully ignorant. For example, China has deployed through Mexico a simple device that converts a Glock handgun into a machine gun.

The nineteenth-century Opium wars were considered by China to be a Century of Humiliation. While the Chinese people were the victims, Imperial China was the target. Sweitzer notes that today, China has turned the tables:

Schweizer discusses racial conflict and social chaos as an opportunity to insert Chinese influence in order to magnify resulting societal damage, noting that:

In 2003, the Chinese military updated the PLA Political Work Regulations to include "Three Warfares" to be used: "Public Opinion Warfare, Psychological Warfare, and Legal Warfare." Schweizer observes that:

Schweizer observes that racial diversity has been one of America's greatest strengths, and this is perhaps why Beijing is so intent on subverting racial harmony.

The book does contain a significant error, however. In discussing social unrest, Schweizer writes, "The callous killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020, near Minneapolis, Minnesota, sparked peaceful protests against police brutality and involved hundreds of thousands of earnest Americans nationwide."

We now know that George Floyd was a thug who died from a drug overdose, not from police malfeasance. Floyd's blood contained a multiple of the fatal dose of fentanyl. (See "The George Floyd, Jr. Narrative Unraveled - The Whole Story Was a Lie".)

Section 3. Hide a Dagger in a Smile

Your victim won't suspect you are out to kill him if you're friendly.

Today China utilizes social media as a crucial tool to create political and social strife in America.

In 2020, YouTube discovered and banned nearly 2,600 channels linked to Beijing. Schweizer notes that: "The point was not to take a side but rather to boost divisiveness by amplifying competing, emotionally-charged viewpoints."

This particularly informative section describes how ByteDance's TikTok - which is banned in China - is designed to dumb down America's youth. In China, a ByteDance app called Douyin is used instead, which is designed to cultivate educational and intellectual interests. ByteDance is wedded to the Chinese Communist Party military-intelligence-industrial complex.

TikTok, which has been banned on U.S. government devices, collects an astronomical amount of information - as much as half a megabyte in less than 10 seconds. Every TikTok feed is unique. Content is customized for each individual subscriber, and there is no way to know what any individual is seeing.

Schweizer writes that:

Schweizer notes that according to a leading Chinese PLA strategist, China is engaging in:

Schweizer documents that powerful American investors who had an ownership stake in ByteDance also happened to be big donors to the Democrat Party and to the Biden campaign.

China is now heavily involved with Hollywood and video game production in order to influence America's younger generations. Schweizer lists numerous movies that included positive references to China, including: The Martian, The Great Wall, Midway, and Looper. Indeed, it should be anticipated that most new content from China-influenced Hollywood will contain mandatory favorable references to China.

Section 4. Loot a Burning House

Set a house on fire, then steal what you can.

This section focuses on the China Virus - that is, COVID-19. The author documents how our health care leaders hid information in order to protect themselves and their Chinese colleagues.

When the China Virus erupted, China began buying up medical supplies from around the world. Schweizer documents that by the end of February 2020, a stunning two billion masks had been bought up from other countries, including America, and shipped to China.

Schweizer notes that in 2017:

He also notes that today, "Evidence abounds of cases on US soil of secret Chinese police stations."

In his book Blood Money, Schweizer has documented China's objective:

Schweizer concludes that:

Read this book. It presents information that is crucial for Americans - and their political leaders - to understand.

The War That Will Destroy Us - And that we refuse to face, by David Horowitz, 8 April 2024.