‘The drug cartels are certainly involved, but they’re the junior partner,’ he says, adding that the CCP is present at ‘every link of the chain.’
In a new interview with EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” (ATL), investigative writer Peter Schweizer said that the U.S. fentanyl crisis is an operation run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Three months after the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned a Chinese mafia leader for fentanyl trafficking, he received an award in Beijing.
In March 2021, the CCP’s Overseas United Working Committee recognized Wan Kuok Koi, also known as “Broken Tooth,” as a “patriotic businessman” and the “chief representative” of all international Hongmen associations. Hongmen is synonymous with triads, or Chinese transnational organized crime syndicates, to many Chinese.
The awarding entity is a CCP United Front organization and a platform under the China Association for Science and Technology. It also pushes China’s flagship infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), worldwide. According to the Treasury Department notice, Mr. Wan has established a security company protecting BRI investments in Southeast Asia.
Mr. Schweizer, the author of a new book titled “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” cited Mr. Wan’s case as an example of the CCP’s take on the United States’ fentanyl crisis.
“The notion that ‘oh, China’s trying very hard, but they can’t fix this’ is an absolute joke in my mind,” he said.
“The drug cartels are certainly involved, but they’re the junior partner.”
Mr. Schweizer added that the CCP is present at “every link of the chain.”
The Chinese production of fentanyl precursors is widely known. However, Mr. Schweizer’s research also shows that China provides pill-pressing machines at cost for fentanyl-laced fake pill production, distributes the synthetic opioid in the United States, facilitates the Mexican drug cartels’ financial transactions, and provides secure communication systems to cartels so they can bypass detection by U.S. law enforcement.
By Terri Wu and Jan Jekielek
