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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

China Crime - Fentanyl - By Laurence F. Sanford

Monday, September 26, 2022

Categories: ASCF News Emerging Threats ASCF Articles

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By Laurence F. Sanford, ASCF Senior Analyst

September 23, 2022

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has foisted a fentanyl/opioid plague upon Western Civilization and, in particular, the United States. This undeclared war follows recent CCP crimes against humanity with the Wuhan Virus (Covid 19) and genocide against the Uighurs.

Over 100,000 Americans died last year from opioids, with fentanyl being the leading cause of death. Fentanyl is cheaper and easier to make and 50 to 100 times more deadly than morphine or heroin. An estimated cost to the American economy over five years is $819 billion.

A significant percentage of American males are not participating in the labor force due to synthetic drug opioid addiction. Also, less than 20% of young American males are eligible to serve in the US military due to obesity, lack of education, criminal records, and drug abuse. And of those eligible, only 2% demonstrate any interest in joining. All military branches are behind in recruitment goals. A factor in the lack of interest in the military is that young men and women interested in serving their country are not attracted to a culture based on Marxist racist “wokeness” ideology that denigrates America and American history.

The CCP is waging an undeclared war on the United States following the blueprint of Sun Tzu's “The Art of War,” written in approximately 500 B.C. One concept describes waging war without engaging in direct battles. Mao Tse-Tung said, “We must not belittle the saying in the book of Sun Wu Tzu, the great military expert of ancient China, “Know your enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a thousand battles without disaster.” The key is to demoralize and weaken the enemy, and what better way is there than to contaminate the enemy with opioids? The “One Hundred Year Marathon” by Michael Pillsbury is an excellent resource for understanding the War.

China has no significant drug problem due to its culture and a police state that punishes retail drug dealers with death. However, the CCP has no problem with Chinese chemical companies manufacturing for export the precursor chemicals that go into fentanyl and other opioids. The Chinese government also subsidizes manufacturing through subsidized research and development zones and tax credits for export.

After U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan, China announced that it was suspending counter-narcotics cooperation with the United States. The limited cooperation had stopped directly processed fentanyl exports from China through the U.S. Postal System. Instead of processed fentanyl, bulk precursor fentanyl chemicals are now shipped to Mexican and Chinese cartels for manufacture in Mexico for shipment to the U.S.

The Mexican criminal Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels dominate the market for supplying fentanyl to the U.S. It is easy to make in makeshift labs and is cheap to manufacture. The cartels have long established drug smuggling routes that quickly adapted to the changing drug markets. The cartels are also the leading force in guiding the massive influx of illegal immigrants into the U.S., adding to the difficulty of enforcing drug laws. The most recent opioids look like colored candy and are even more potent. Enforcement of drug imports is difficult since many of the precursor chemicals are also used to manufacture legitimate pharmaceutical drugs.

CCP operatives working with Mexican cartels have taken over money laundering operations in the U.S. Millions of drug dollars are being flushed from the U.S. to China, often through Chinese students in America on student visas. The students bring suitcases full of money to Chinese money brokers operating through restaurants and other storefront businesses. Thus China’s covert opioid war with the U.S. is not only contaminating our youth, but China’s war is also being financed by Americans.

Chinese government officials in the Washington D.C. embassy said, “The U.S. has itself to blame for the root cause of fentanyl abuse in the country.” The descent of American culture due to drug abuse, the family unit breakdown, Wuhan Virus/Covid lockdowns, and lawlessness certainly contribute to the 100,000 deaths. Social media outlets, many Chinese-owned, facilitate the purchase and shipment of opioids to American youth.

Why the U.S. government has not been aggressively prosecuting these money laundering operations through racketeering laws is a mystery. RICO statutes could be used against Mexican cartels and Chinese crime groups. China’s war on the U.S. should be viewed as a national security issue. Why not revoke the student visa of every Chinese “student” who picks up money for the cartels?

The mystery of why the U.S. Government is not doing more to counter China’s War could be answered in Peter Schweizer’s book “Red Handed,” but that is another subject for another day.

We have met the enemy, and he/she is us.

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  1. Jack Lee Jack Lee It is difficult to imagine that we do not know, or cannot determine, the precise locations of Mexican fentanyl labs/factories. Although these are defended by well armed and well trained paramilitary militias, they are completely vulnerable to Tomahawk strikes. We have used this means effectively at other times and in other countries, and 100,000 American deaths certainly seems sufficient justification for doing so in this instance. Sunday, October 16, 2022