{"id":2196102,"date":"2024-03-10T21:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T01:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peter-schweizer-on-chinas-covert-assault-on-america\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T21:51:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T01:51:35","slug":"peter-schweizer-on-chinas-covert-assault-on-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peter-schweizer-on-chinas-covert-assault-on-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Schweizer Exposes China&#8217;s Secret Attack on America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpeter-schweizer-on-chinas-covert-assault-on-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2196102&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Covert Assault\u2063 on America: China&#8217;s\u200c &#8220;Disintegration Warfare&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><i>The following is an edited \u200dtranscript of a\u2062 recent interview between Daily Wire\u2064 Editor-in-Chief John Bickley and\u2062 investigative journalist Peter Schweizer on a special <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/blood-money-china-s-covert-assault-on-america-sunday-extra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday Edition of\u2063 Morning Wire<\/a>. They discuss Schweizer\u2019s new book \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blood-Money-Powerful-Blind-Americans\/dp\/0063061198\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29T170ZKWKBNZ&#038;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ziXJAoc3va71UZCFZRlCYX5AXdPIM1nnKqNHXd4XM6L8PUTaeTgvubWS_xjtztu5DgRuO2Yc5vvKpxTMuta0aKyb8blYLIeiU3FXBORZ3FNkLCcTiZDE3I9RKjUI75X1Yqnr99t3tnwQ7FXe3OGm85PTWg9e7FAFNV1OOCyuklSz03DqeL2b-cDpG1PEzyLCgT_LhQaW3DTbBrrdX6FV9beIxyWAI6cQrwBgyFqywRc.9nGJcU4tJM4HGuMVAO9CB3BPYaxsO8kvX6PR9AOTytc&#038;dib_tag=se&#038;keywords=blood+money&#038;qid=1709932850&#038;sprefix=blood+money%2Caps%2C87&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blood Money<\/a><\/strong>\u201d and China\u2019s covert strategy \u200dof \u201cdisintegration warfare\u201d against the United States.<\/i><\/p>\n<h3><strong>JOHN<\/strong>: Joining us now to discuss his new investigative book \u201cBlood Money,\u201d which shines an alarming\u200b light on China\u2019s \u200dattempt to engage in what they call \u201cdisintegration warfare\u201d against the U.S., is bestselling\u2064 author Peter\u2062 Schweizer. \u2063Peter, thank you \u2063for coming on.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>PETER<\/strong>: Absolutely. Great to be with you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHN<\/strong>: Now what \u2064you lay out in \u201cBlood Money\u201d \u200dis clearly sending some \u2064shockwaves through many circles. Let\u2019s start with the big picture, with the premise\u200c of the \u2063book. What did your research about China\u2019s relationship to the U.S. lead you to conclude?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PETER<\/strong>: \u2062I think there \u200bare two stages to the\u200d story, John. It\u2019s best demonstrated by a picture. The picture is America on fire and China holding an empty \u200dcan of \u200bgasoline. Some of our leaders are aware of it but they\u2019re\u200b not saying anything. So it\u2019s really about two things. Number one, China has a strategy\u200c called \u201cdisintegration warfare,\u201d which is designed to literally\u2063 disintegrate\u200c the\u2062 United States \u2014 get \u2063us to turn on\u2062 each other, social division, social chaos, death, et cetera. The second part of the equation is that\u2064 our political class in Washington \u200breally has not talked about it and will not confront China on these \u200cpoints. Those, I think, are the two important elements to this story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHN<\/strong>: You make a point of emphasizing \u200cthat every claim in your book is backed up by verifiable documentation and \u200csources \u2013 and indeed the footnotes run some 100 pages. \u2063You\u2019re famous for digging up information no one else was able to find. What were\u200c some key materials you unearthed for this \u200bbook?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PETER<\/strong>: We made \u200cuse of a lot of leaked documents \u2064from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and the\u200b Department of Justice. We also made use of documents that were hacked, not by us,\u200d but were hacked by\u2062 other parties and were released by journalists in Mexico. These \u2062are internal \u2063communications from the Mexican police. What we find is that these \u200bmaterials can be very valuable, \u200bespecially if you know what you\u2019re looking for. A lot\u200c of times when \u2063hacked\u2064 or leaked materials are released they can be thousands of pages, so people are looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-dems-want-to-monitor-americans-bank-accounts-blasted-as-violating-4th-amendment\/\" title=\"Biden, Dems Want To Monitor Americans\u2019 Bank Accounts, Blasted As Violating 4th Amendment\">low hanging fruit<\/a>. \u2063We find it much\u200c better, and you can be more successful, by actually going in knowing what you\u2019re looking for, knowing that you\u2019re panning for gold. So you know where to look for the gold. Those were very, very important tools.<\/p>\n<p>The third component were materials \u200dand documents from China itself. We were able to get access\u200b to \u2014 not classified by \u200cany\u2063 means \u2014 but restricted Chinese\u200c military documents and government documents from the\u200d ministry of propaganda.\u2063 We got access to those by essentially spoofing a domestic account with a domestic Chinese phone number to\u200d gain access to documents that gave us very interesting insights into what they are saying about TikTok. And \u2063it\u2019s quite different, obviously, \u200dthan the debate we\u2019re having in the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>JOHN<\/strong>: \u200bI\u200c found it really striking in the introduction to the book, \u200dwhere you lay out \u200csome \u2062of these influential documents from the Chinese military\u2062 that lay out a strategy and talk about this disintegration of warfare. \u200bCan you unpack some\u2064 of the information you\u200c learned from those documents?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>PETER<\/strong>: Disintegration warfare, is predicated on the idea that \u200bthe best way to defeat your enemy is by \u200dnot fighting them. In other words, you are the\u2062 supreme strategist, as \u2062Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese scholar, would have said. The supreme strategist is the \u2062one who defeats his enemy without actually firing a shot. And \u200cthat\u2019s\u200b the strategy. You know, \u2062we focus on\u200d aircraft carriers and missiles with regards to\u2063 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-u-s-general-warns-chinas-military-is-growing\/\" title=\"Top U.S. general warns China\u2019s military is growing\">military balance<\/a> with\u200d China and \u2063I\u2019m not saying we should neglect that, but that\u2019s not their \u2063play. Their play is to look at our weaknesses, what they call our soft underbelly \u2013 which\u200d are the divisions we have in this country \u2013 and to exploit them, to turn\u200d American against American, and to \u200cplay off of our decadence. And I would say the strategy is working quite successfully.<\/p>\n<p>If \u200cyou just look at fentanyl, for\u2064 example, it is now the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov\/media\/dea-administrator-record-fentanyl-overdose-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leading cause of death<\/a> for people under\u200b the age of 45 in the United \u2062States. The vast majority of people dying don\u2019t even know they\u2019re taking fentanyl. And this is a Chinese operation. People want to talk about \u2063the Mexican cartels, but they\u2019re\u2062 really the junior partners in\u200b this. The Chinese \u2063are running this along every link in the chain. And\u2064 yet, this is a strategy \u200bthey call \u200ba \u201cmurder with a borrowed knife.\u201d In other words, try to kill somebody, but use\u200c somebody else\u2019s knife to do it. So while our focus is on Mexico and the drug cartels, \u200cthis is actually \u200ca\u200d Chinese operation designed to undermine us. It\u2019s\u200b a great example of disintegration warfare.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/blood-money-china-s-covert-assault-on-america-sunday-extra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LISTEN: Hear the full interview with Peter Schweizer on Morning Wire<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>JOHN<\/strong>:\u2062 In \u201cBlood Money\u201d you track how\u2064 China controls every chain in the production, delivery and\u200c the \u2062money laundering involved with fentanyl. Can you describe \u200bsome \u200cof that process?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PETER<\/strong>: Fentanyl starts with precursors in China. A lot of people know that China provides the\u2062 vast majority of\u200b the precursors the cartels use to \u200dmake\u2062 fentanyl. But what people probably don\u2019t know\u2063 is that those precursors are shipped \u2013 90% of them \u2013 to a port in Mexico called Manzanillo. And people wonder why can\u2019t they\u200b stop shipments in this port? Well, the problem is the international terminal in Manzanillo is actually run by a Chinese \u2062company that\u2019s close to the Chinese military.<\/p>\n<p>The precursors come in from China, they\u2019re then shipped to a small \u200bcity in northern Mexico, where, according to \u200dour federal government, there are \u20622,000 Chinese nationals who just happen to live in this Mexican city who basically create the fentanyl out of these precursors. \u2062They do it for the\u2062 cartels. Now that the cartels have the fentanyl, they need to put them \u200dinto pill form. Because, again, people who are dying from fentanyl overdoses,\u200c they\u200d think they\u2019re taking a Vicodin or an\u200c Adderall when \u2064they\u2019re actually taking a look-alike\u200b pill that is laced with\u200b fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Plus,\u200b they need pill\u2063 presses.\u2062 Where \u2064do the cartels get the pill presses? Well, they are imported from China, and according\u2063 to the\u2063 Department of \u2064Homeland Security,\u200b the Chinese are selling them to the\u2064 drug cartels at cost. Meaning they\u2019re not trying \u200dto make a boatload of money. \u2062They\u2019re selling it \u2063to the cartels at cost. They have \u200blittle \u2063molds that\u2064 make them look exactly like the real \u2062pills, even though they\u2019re fake pills.<\/p>\n<p>Now that they have the pills, John, they need to distribute them in\u2063 the United\u200b States. If you\u2019re a drug cartel,\u2064 you need \u2064secure communications. So what do\u200d the\u200b Mexican cartels\u200b use?\u2064 They\u200b use Chinese apps and Chinese communication devices.\u200d They\u2019re encrypted\u2063 in China and they know that the Chinese will not share those with you \u200cand U.S. law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Then the final component is, if you are a drug cartel like the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, and you\u2019ve made all this money, you have to launder the money. Now, in the old days of cocaine, you would have laundered the money in Latin American banks. Today, the\u200b cartels are laundering their money in Chinese state-owned banks. And, again, according to our federal government, \u200dthey are oftentimes using Chinese\u2062 students in the \u200bUnited States on education visas to do so. So again, the cartels \u2063are the junior partners here. This is a Chinese operation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHN<\/strong>: Unbelievable. \u2062Peter, thank you so much for coming on and good luck \u2063with this book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PETER:<\/strong> Thanks, John.<\/p>\n<p>To \u2063listen to the full interview with John Bickley \u200band Peter Schweizer, tune in to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/blood-money-china-s-covert-assault-on-america-sunday-extra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morning Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Who produces the pill presses used by cartels to create fentanyl pills?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Form so they \u2063can\u200d distribute it on the\u2063 streets. Well,\u200b who \u200dproduces the pill presses? China.\u200c Hands down, it\u2019s China. So the pill presses are\u200d\u200d shipped from China to Mexico, and then they\u2019re used by the\u2062 cartels to create the \u2063fentanyl\u200d\u2064 pills.<\/p>\n<p>Once the pills are made, they\u2019re then \u200cshipped back to \u200dthe United States. And people\u2062 \u2063wonder, well, why can\u2019t they stop\u200c the shipments\u2063 as they\u2019re coming\u200c across\u200c the southern border? Well, the reason\u2064 is because they\u2019re hidden amongst \u2062legitimate products. So you\u2019ll \u200bhave a tractor-trailer full of televisions or\u200c washing\u2063 machines and\u200d the \u2062fentanyl pills are hidden\u200c underneath those\u200b legitimate\u200b goods.\u2064 The tractor-trailers travel \u200cto distribution\u2062 centers across the \u2062United States, where, again, \u200dyou have Chinese nationals running these distribution centers. So they\u200d open the \u200ccontainers\u200d and they\u2062 distribute\u200b it\u200b to the cartels, \u2062who then \u200cdistribute \u200bit on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Then, \u200bto complete the\u2063 cycle, the\u200c money that is generated on \u200bthe streets is then \u200cfunneled back to China through a \u200bvariety of means. It could be \u200bmoney\u200c laundering operations, or it could be smuggling cash across the border. And \u2062it\u2019s going back to China that way. So China controls every single\u200b link in \u200cthe chain, from start to finish, and is making billions of dollars \u2062a year off of \u200bthe United \u2064States. This \u2062is a highly sophisticated \u200coperation that implicates the\u200d Mexican cartels,\u2063 \u200cit implicates the\u200d Chinese government and the Chinese\u200b military, and it\u2019s something that we\u2019ve completely turned a blind eye to in terms of our \u200crhetoric and our \u2063policy toward China.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>JOHN<\/strong>: Your book also looks at China\u2019s\u200c involvement in\u200c American\u200c institutions, such as universities, think tanks, and the entertainment industry. Can\u2063 you tell us about that?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>PETER<\/strong>: Absolutely. You know, we focus on the military threat and the economic threat with China, but China \u2062has also infiltrated almost every \u200caspect of\u2062 American society. And it\u2019s done so \u200dwillingly by us. We take \u2062their money \u200band in return, they\u2064 get to\u200c shape \u2064\u200cour culture and our political discourse. So, for example, if you look at American universities, they\u2019re totally dependent on Chinese money. Chinese\u200c funding, Chinese students \u2013 you often hear the argument that without Chinese\u200c students, universities couldn\u2019t \u200dexist. That\u2064 may be true, but the problem is that\u200c that also means we cannot count on \u2062our universities to\u2063 defend American interests.\u2063 They\u2019re too beholden\u200b to their Chinese benefactors.<\/p>\n<p>When you look at think tanks, many of them have huge amounts of Chinese funding. There was a story a few years ago where scholars \u2061at a think tank were\u200d \u2061told by their organization not to write \u2064about China in a negative way because they had just received a couple of million dollars from a\u200d Chinese foundation. \u200cWell, you can see how that influences the output of that think tank.<\/p>\n<p>And then you look at the entertainment industry. We all watch movies and\u200d television shows and, you know, \u2064everybody\u2019s \u2063aware of China\u2019s influence on censorship and things like that. But\u200b what\u2062 people may not be aware \u200dof is how much money the Chinese government itself puts into American \u200cfilm\u200c and television \u2062production. It\u2019s hundreds of millions of dollars a year. So China has infiltrated every single \u200ccorner, and what that means \u200bis our culture,\u200c our universities, our think tanks, are\u200c not going to be thinking \u200cas resolutely about the \u200bface-off \u1806that we have with China.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>JOHN<\/strong>: Lastly,\u200d Peter, what do you hope readers will\u200c take away from \u2064\u201cBlood Money\u201d\u2062 and what solutions do you propose for America\u2063 in dealing with China\u2019s disintegration warfare?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>PETER<\/strong>:\u2062 What I hope people \u2062will take away from \u201cBlood Money\u201d is \u2064an awareness\u2064 \u2064that China is \u2063conducting this warfare and\u200b the\u200c concept of disintegration warfare itself. I think if people understand that China is trying to destroy us by turning us against each \u200dother, they\u2019ll see the problems that\u2062 we have in our\u200b country in a new way. They will understand that this is not normal behavior, and that we need to have a disciplined response to this, that we \u2062need\u2064 to put up barriers and boundaries to what the Chinese\u200d government is doing. We need to understand that their \u2061efforts to infiltrate every corner of our country is unprecedented and dangerous. And\u2064 their activities \u200care undermining\u2062 us. \u2064They\u2019re \u2063destroying our society from within. So the \u2064goal of the book is to raise awareness, to get people to realize that there is a problem and that we need to take action.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200b terms of solutions, there are several that I propose in the book. Number one, we need to be looking at legislation that takes a stronger stance on issues like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-partners-at-firm-hired-to-review-lincoln-project-scandal-have-donated-thousands-to-group\/\" title=\"Senior Partners at Firm Hired to \u2018Review\u2019 Lincoln Project Scandal Have Donated Thousands to Group\">intellectual property theft<\/a> and economic espionage. Number two, we need to divest ourselves from reliance on \u200dChina. We need to become \u2062much\u2062 more self-reliant, particularly when it comes to our supply chains and technology. And finally, we need to rethink our relationship with China. We need to understand that \u200ccooperation is fine, but we need to have much stronger \u200dboundaries. China sees us as an adversary,\u2063 and we need to view them in the same way. We need to have policies and actions that \u200bput up barriers, that push back, and\u2063 that seek to protect American interests in response to this disintegration warfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discuss his new book &#8220;Blood Money&#8221; and China&#8217;s covert strategy is investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. 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