Book Review: “Blood Money - Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans”
Lately there has been much controversy over the Tic Toc social media platform. Some believe it to be a Cold War weapon of Communist China deployed against the United States. Those believers are correct; in fact, there is much more to the story. If you have doubts, do I have the book for you!
The book is “Blood Money - Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans” by Peter Schweizer, Harper, 320 pages.
The book tells of the of the myriad avenues used by China to penetrate the government and culture in an effort to weaken and ultimately bring down the country.
We can refer again to Tic Toc again for an example of a vehicle used to attack Americans. While most platforms will offer suggestions that serve the interests of the user, keeping the user on the site and getting exposed to more ad revenue, etc. Tic Toc, on the other hand, will entice users, particularly the young, to follow a path that will foster antisocial behavior and all sorts of other damaging psychological pathologies - all tuned to the vulnerabilities of that particular user.
If you have not crawled into a fetal position lately, read the extensive revelations concerning the Wuhan lab leak. From the book:
The ties between the military and the Wuhan lab are extensive. In 2015, researchers at Wuhan and China’s Air Force Medical University produced a chilling essay titled “The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons.” The authors included eighteen military scientists and weapons experts. The paper was startling in its conclusion: corona viruses could be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponized and unleashed in a way never seen before.”They went further to predict that engineered viruses would lead to a “new era of genetic weapons.” They even questioned whether such an attack with such a bioweapon could cause the “enemy’s medical system to collapse.”
The author also points out that after China knew the virus had spread through Wuhan, it barred any airline flights from Wuhan to other destinations in China, while keeping flights from Wuhan to other countries uninterrupted. Combine that with the fact that first reaction of the Chinese was to purchase all the protective gear - gloves and masks - they could find, cornering the world market. This not only gave them all there gear they needed, but, more importantly (to them) denied protection to the rest of the world. They did not share it.
Early on, representatives from the United States worked with Chinese counterparts to come up with the best response to the spread of the disease. The Chinese convinced many of the Americans that lockdowns were the way to go. The Chinese knew that lockdowns were not working, but they wanted the American governments to adopt them so they could declare that hard and fast totalitarian crackdowns are always the best response to an emergency - even the Americans are using them!
When we think of the fentanyl epidemic, we think of the drug cartels. We should think of China instead. The cartels are merely a delivery service. The precursor chemicals are sent from China to labs in Mexico where Chinese technicians manufacture the pills - often with fake trademarks to disguise them as legit pharmaceutical products - which are then moved by the cartels into the United States.
The author has a keen insight to the Chinese perspectives. We see the fentanyl problem from the demand side. We think that if we can just eliminate the demand, the supply will stop. The Chinese, however, think of the what the West did to China with opium, and use that as a model for the fentanyl attack. China does not get mad, it gets even.
We need to wake up to this war on the U.S.A., and this book will shake awake anyone who reads it.