China's Underground Banking Empire: How Drugs & Money Corrupt America

[g5000]

I have subscribed to Ed D'Agostino's newsletter for I don't know how long. Ten years, maybe? He always interviews the most interesting people.

In his most recent newsletter, D'Agostino interviews Sam Cooper, the author of Wilful Blindness, Election Interference, Elite and State Capture.

Wilful, with one l, is a Canadian spelling. Sam Cooper is Canadian.

I will link the YouTube video below. It is 43 minutes, but well worth your time if you want to know how the Chinese Communist Party exploits Canadian ports in Vancouver, BC to use them to smuggle in fentanyl precursors.

Cooper claims Canada does not even police the Chinese importers in Vancouver any more. They have free reign to bring in whatever they wish, and they use Canada's casinos to wash their money as Canada's casinos have far more lax anti money-laundering laws than the US does.

He also claims the CCP has many Canadian politicians in their pocket and influence the outcome of their elections to keep friendlies in place.

The poor guy is smiling all through the interview out of sheer incredulity how easily China is now able to infect the planet with fentanyl.

"This is the Opium War in reverse." China is out for revenge. This is war.

Beijing is complicit in this. These are not outlaws doing this. They have the full cooperation of Beijing.

"The objective of seeing deaths in America, they want this," Cooper says.

"As long as Chinese merchants ship those precursors elsewhere, and don't sell fentanyl in China, they're being paid to do it. It doesn't get any more intentional than that."


This is worth your time watching the whole thing:

 

[MarathonMike]

I have subscribed to Ed D'Agostino's newsletter for I don't know how long. Ten years, maybe? He always interviews the most interesting people.

In his most recent newsletter, D'Agostino interviews Sam Cooper, the author of Wilful Blindness, Election Interference, Elite and State Capture.

Wilful, with one l, is a Canadian spelling. Sam Cooper is Canadian.

I will link the YouTube video below. It is 43 minutes, but well worth your time if you want to know how the Chinese Communist Party exploits Canadian ports in Vancouver, BC to use them to smuggle in fentanyl precursors.

Cooper claims Canada does not even police the Chinese importers in Vancouver any more. They have free reign to bring in whatever they wish, and they use Canada's casinos to wash their money as Canada's casinos have far more lax anti money-laundering laws than the US does.

He also claims the CCP has many Canadian politicians in their pocket and influence the outcome of their elections to keep friendlies in place.

The poor guy is smiling all through the interview out of sheer incredulity how easily China is now able to infect the planet with fentanyl.

"This is the Opium War in reverse." China is out for revenge. This is war.

Beijing is complicit in this. These are not outlaws doing this. They have the full cooperation of Beijing.

"The objective of seeing deaths in America, they want this," Cooper says.

"As long as Chinese merchants ship those precursors elsewhere, and don't sell fentanyl in China, they're being paid to do it. It doesn't get any more intentional than that."


This is worth your time watching the whole thing:

I think somebody hacked g5000's account!

 

[JoeB131]

I don't have time for this kind of xenophobic crazy.

China has done a lot to help curtail the sale of Fentanyl precursors from getting into the wrong hands.

China-US Cooperation on the Fentanyl Crisis Is Very Possible

Bilateral cooperation on fentanyl can save lives, protect societies and punish drug traffickers.

thediplomat.com

To make a comparison to the Opium Wars is just obscene. The Opium Wars was the west humiliating China so they could continue to sell drugs there.

China is a major producer of chemical precursors for legitimate pharmaceuticals and items that end up in illicit narcotics. Its industry provides many of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and chemical precursors used to manufacture the world’s antibiotics, and fentanyl used for pain management. These same medical precursors that generate life-saving drugs, or opioids used for hospital pain management, can be used by illegal actors for illicit drugs. In this context, it’s not surprising that research by the Council on Foreign Relations reports that illicit actors have used the supply chains provided by Chinese industry to source fentanyl.
This history of China’s counternarcotic efforts against Western forces is reinforced in China’s education system and history lessons. The Chinese people despise drugs and drug trafficking. Motivated in part by mandatory incarceration policies toward drug users, the scope of China’s domestic drug use of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids is incredibly small.

Given this, it might be tempting for Chinese officials to react to the United States’ struggles with synthetic opioids by merely saying “that’s your problem.” But China is working with the U.S. to understand and combat the problem. Through increasing educational efforts, they have understood the impact of the fentanyl crisis on American societies and the pain and death fentanyl has caused to U.S. families.



China doesn't have a drug problem. Why? THey straight up execute drug dealers.

 

[progressive hunter]

I think somebody hacked g5000's account!

has he gone maga??

 

[JoeB131]

I think somebody hacked g5000's account!

you are right.

Usually he doesn't engage in this kind of crazy Xenophobia.

 

[MarathonMike]

you are right.

Usually he doesn't engage in this kind of crazy Xenophobia.

Nice, another Democrat minion has seen the light!

 

[JoeB131]

Nice, another Democrat minion has seen the light!

Blaming China for our mistakes isn't helpful.

China didn't cause an opioid epidemic. Big Pharma did that by handing out drugs like Halloween candy.

China didn't cause our manufacturing to go away, big greed American Corporations and dumb government policy did that.

China didn't cause Covid to spread across the country like a Zombie epidemic. Trump did that by fighting the sensible doctors and local officials every step of the way.

You guys want to blame China for our fuckups as we continue to make the same fuckups.

 

[westwall]

I have subscribed to Ed D'Agostino's newsletter for I don't know how long. Ten years, maybe? He always interviews the most interesting people.

In his most recent newsletter, D'Agostino interviews Sam Cooper, the author of Wilful Blindness, Election Interference, Elite and State Capture.

Wilful, with one l, is a Canadian spelling. Sam Cooper is Canadian.

I will link the YouTube video below. It is 43 minutes, but well worth your time if you want to know how the Chinese Communist Party exploits Canadian ports in Vancouver, BC to use them to smuggle in fentanyl precursors.

Cooper claims Canada does not even police the Chinese importers in Vancouver any more. They have free reign to bring in whatever they wish, and they use Canada's casinos to wash their money as Canada's casinos have far more lax anti money-laundering laws than the US does.

He also claims the CCP has many Canadian politicians in their pocket and influence the outcome of their elections to keep friendlies in place.

The poor guy is smiling all through the interview out of sheer incredulity how easily China is now able to infect the planet with fentanyl.

"This is the Opium War in reverse." China is out for revenge. This is war.

Beijing is complicit in this. These are not outlaws doing this. They have the full cooperation of Beijing.

"The objective of seeing deaths in America, they want this," Cooper says.

"As long as Chinese merchants ship those precursors elsewhere, and don't sell fentanyl in China, they're being paid to do it. It doesn't get any more intentional than that."


This is worth your time watching the whole thing:

And you are complaining about Trump stopping this...why?

 

[westwall]

I don't have time for this kind of xenophobic crazy.

China has done a lot to help curtail the sale of Fentanyl precursors from getting into the wrong hands.

China-US Cooperation on the Fentanyl Crisis Is Very Possible

Bilateral cooperation on fentanyl can save lives, protect societies and punish drug traffickers.

thediplomat.com

To make a comparison to the Opium Wars is just obscene. The Opium Wars was the west humiliating China so they could continue to sell drugs there.

China is a major producer of chemical precursors for legitimate pharmaceuticals and items that end up in illicit narcotics. Its industry provides many of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and chemical precursors used to manufacture the world’s antibiotics, and fentanyl used for pain management. These same medical precursors that generate life-saving drugs, or opioids used for hospital pain management, can be used by illegal actors for illicit drugs. In this context, it’s not surprising that research by the Council on Foreign Relations reports that illicit actors have used the supply chains provided by Chinese industry to source fentanyl.
This history of China’s counternarcotic efforts against Western forces is reinforced in China’s education system and history lessons. The Chinese people despise drugs and drug trafficking. Motivated in part by mandatory incarceration policies toward drug users, the scope of China’s domestic drug use of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids is incredibly small.

Given this, it might be tempting for Chinese officials to react to the United States’ struggles with synthetic opioids by merely saying “that’s your problem.” But China is working with the U.S. to understand and combat the problem. Through increasing educational efforts, they have understood the impact of the fentanyl crisis on American societies and the pain and death fentanyl has caused to U.S. families.



China doesn't have a drug problem. Why? THey straight up execute drug dealers.

That's a load of bullshit.

 

[22lcidw]

I don't have time for this kind of xenophobic crazy.

China has done a lot to help curtail the sale of Fentanyl precursors from getting into the wrong hands.

China-US Cooperation on the Fentanyl Crisis Is Very Possible

Bilateral cooperation on fentanyl can save lives, protect societies and punish drug traffickers.

thediplomat.com

To make a comparison to the Opium Wars is just obscene. The Opium Wars was the west humiliating China so they could continue to sell drugs there.

China is a major producer of chemical precursors for legitimate pharmaceuticals and items that end up in illicit narcotics. Its industry provides many of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and chemical precursors used to manufacture the world’s antibiotics, and fentanyl used for pain management. These same medical precursors that generate life-saving drugs, or opioids used for hospital pain management, can be used by illegal actors for illicit drugs. In this context, it’s not surprising that research by the Council on Foreign Relations reports that illicit actors have used the supply chains provided by Chinese industry to source fentanyl.
This history of China’s counternarcotic efforts against Western forces is reinforced in China’s education system and history lessons. The Chinese people despise drugs and drug trafficking. Motivated in part by mandatory incarceration policies toward drug users, the scope of China’s domestic drug use of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids is incredibly small.

Given this, it might be tempting for Chinese officials to react to the United States’ struggles with synthetic opioids by merely saying “that’s your problem.” But China is working with the U.S. to understand and combat the problem. Through increasing educational efforts, they have understood the impact of the fentanyl crisis on American societies and the pain and death fentanyl has caused to U.S. families.



China doesn't have a drug problem. Why? THey straight up execute drug dealers.

We are the "partay" society.

 

[JoeB131]

That's a load of bullshit.

Why?

China sells chemicals that have legitimate medical and pharmaceutical purposes.

Some of those chemicals are bought by bad actors who make fentanyl.

A demand that was only created because Big Pharma pushed doctors to get people addicted to their product.

China has put on additional controls to track and interdict these precursor chemicals from going to third parties, and their drug smuggling laws are truly draconian.

Every once in a while, Mrs. B131 shows me videos from China were some drug smuggler has been convicted and sentenced to death.

China didn't create our drug problem. We did.

Don't expect China to fix it for us.

 

[FA_Q2]

It really is not worth the 40 minutes if it is just a narrative on how China exploits or assits drug traffiking to the US. That is uninteresting without the important part, what should be done.

Considering the timing, are you suggesting that the teriffs imposed by Trump have merit because of this? That is the implication here.

 

[JoeB131]

It really is not worth the 40 minutes if it is just a narrative on how China exploits or assits drug traffiking to the US. That is uninteresting without the important part, what should be done.

Considering the timing, are you suggesting that the teriffs imposed by Trump have merit because of this? That is the implication here.

Tariffs are almost always a stupid idea.

Especially in an economy as globalized as this one is.

 

[Dragonlady]

I have subscribed to Ed D'Agostino's newsletter for I don't know how long. Ten years, maybe? He always interviews the most interesting people.

In his most recent newsletter, D'Agostino interviews Sam Cooper, the author of Wilful Blindness, Election Interference, Elite and State Capture.

Wilful, with one l, is a Canadian spelling. Sam Cooper is Canadian.

I will link the YouTube video below. It is 43 minutes, but well worth your time if you want to know how the Chinese Communist Party exploits Canadian ports in Vancouver, BC to use them to smuggle in fentanyl precursors.

Cooper claims Canada does not even police the Chinese importers in Vancouver any more. They have free reign to bring in whatever they wish, and they use Canada's casinos to wash their money as Canada's casinos have far more lax anti money-laundering laws than the US does.

He also claims the CCP has many Canadian politicians in their pocket and influence the outcome of their elections to keep friendlies in place.

The poor guy is smiling all through the interview out of sheer incredulity how easily China is now able to infect the planet with fentanyl.

"This is the Opium War in reverse." China is out for revenge. This is war.

Beijing is complicit in this. These are not outlaws doing this. They have the full cooperation of Beijing.

"The objective of seeing deaths in America, they want this," Cooper says.

"As long as Chinese merchants ship those precursors elsewhere, and don't sell fentanyl in China, they're being paid to do it. It doesn't get any more intentional than that."


This is worth your time watching the whole thing:

Where is all this fentanyl that they’re making?

We have serious opioid problems with cocaine, meth and other drugs coming in from the USA but hardly any fentanyl is coming from or going to the US from Canada. 25,000 lbs of illegal drugs seized at the Csnadian border last year but not enough fentanyl to even make the list.

So if all this fentanyl is being produced here and isn’t leaving, and few Canadians are dying from fentanyl overdoses, where is it?