Commentary
Is communist China committing genocide against the United States?
Mounting accusations and some evidence point to Beijing not only killing Americans with illicit fentanyl, but doing so intentionally. Intentionality is a key ingredient to the legal definition of genocide.
The motive for the use of fentanyl, which
18 state attorneys general last year called a “weapon of mass destruction,” certainly exists.
The United States is the strongest bulwark against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) well-recognized goal of global
hegemony. A weaker America through fewer Americans and mounting overdose health care costs of
$1 trillion annually ease the CCP’s ascendancy.
There are two main elements of the
U.N. definition of genocide germane to the allegation that the CCP is conducting chemical warfare against Americans through fentanyl poisoning.
Killing of Americans
First, is the CCP, in fact, killing Americans?
The
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that of over
107,000 annual overdose deaths in the United States, approximately 71,000 are from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. The CDC predicts this high rate of deaths to be relatively constant up to October 2022, the latest for which partial data is available.
According to CDC data, the number of fentanyl deaths has risen dramatically since 2016, plateauing between 2018 and 2020, with another rapid rise from 2020 to early 2022, then plateauing again at its current high annual rate. The increase in overdose deaths since 2015 is almost entirely driven by synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, and to a lesser extent by psychostimulants and cocaine, which is often adulterated by the cheaper fentanyl.
Two milligrams of fentanyl (equivalent in weight to as few as
10 grains of salt) can be lethal.
Carfentanyl, which is as much as 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, can be lethal at just 0.02 milligrams, the equivalent of as little as one-tenth of a grain of salt.
Last year alone, the Drug Enforcement Administration seized
379 million potentially deadly doses of fentanyl, more than double the catch in 2021. This is more than enough to kill every American citizen.
In 2022,
drug overdose became America’s leading source of death for ages 18 to 45, with fentanyl playing a leading role.
Experts and lawmakers at a March 23 congressional
hearing titled “Follow the Money: The CCP’s Business Model Fueling the Fentanyl Crisis” agreed that since 2018, when President Donald Trump supposedly forced Beijing to crack down on China’s production, most of the illegal fentanyl trafficked into the United States simply shifted, with full knowledge of the CCP, to cartels in Mexico.
Within days, the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels were producing multi-kilo batches of illegal fentanyl for export to the United States, according to
Jason Grellner, whose law enforcement experience, including extensive counternarcotics, extends back to 1992.
Precursor chemicals were delivered mostly from China, plus some from Chinese chemists in India. The U.S.
Treasury Department and
Brookings Institute identified Chinese organized crime, including the Zheng cartel, that supports illegal fentanyl production in Mexico. The Zheng cartel operates through storefronts that include veterinary services. This is relevant because, increasingly, fentanyl is mixed with veterinary tranquilizers called xylazine, which makes reversing overdoses more difficult.
Intent to Kill
Second, does the CCP intend to kill Americans?
Congressman
Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) thinks it does. “The Chinese Communist Party is destroying American communities,” he said. “They are inviting societal breakdown, and tearing apart families. They are doing this intentionally, with the help of the Biden administration, that can’t bring itself to realize that our border is not secure. ... 2300 lbs of fentanyl were seized by the CBP [U.S. Border Patrol] last month at the southwest border, which represents a 238 percent increase from February of 2022,” he said.
“Our failure to secure our own sovereignty is creating a financial incentive for the Chinese Communist Party to kill Americans.”
Grellner told the committee the CCP sells drugs that kill us “because they want to kill us.” He cited a
DEA alert from last month that found fentanyl laced with xylazine in 48 of 50 states. Known by its street name of “tranq,” xylazine cannot be neutralized by Naloxone, the primary antidote to fentanyl poisoning.
“The DEA Laboratory System is reporting that in 2022 approximately 23 percent of fentanyl powder and 7 percent of fentanyl pills seized by the DEA contained xylazine,” said DEA chief Anne Milgram in the alert.
Xylazine can be reversed by yohimbine hydrochloride and tolazoline hydrochloride, according to the
Food and Drug Administration, but these are not approved for use in humans. There is no approved drug to reverse xylazine poisoning in humans.
“There’s only one reason that they’re selling this poison, and it is to destabilize the United States and to kill Americans,” Grellner told the committee.
Other evidence of the CCP’s intention to kill Americans is ongoing. After then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last August, Beijing retaliated by suspending its
counternarcotics cooperation with the United States. This intentionally pressured the United States by not taking action against criminals in China that traffic fentanyl precursors to gangs in Mexico that produce fentanyl. Seven months and 62,000 U.S. overdose deaths later, and Beijing is still not cooperating on counternarcotics.
Provincial governments in China go further to actually subsidize the chemical companies that produce fentanyl precursors for ultimate export to the United States, according to panelist Donald Im, former assistant special agent in the Charge, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Cyber Section DEA Special Operations Division.
A strong argument, therefore, can be made that the CCP is not only engaged in actively killing Americans with its support to illicit fentanyl production, but that it also intends to do so and is thus engaged in genocide. The motive is that it benefits economically and militarily in the process, especially when considering its effect on the balance of power between itself and the United States.
A genocide against Americans would be on par with the CCP’s other genocides against
Uyghurs,
Tibetans, and
Falun Gong.
Failure to Defend America
The Biden administration, however, is doing little to mitigate this ongoing tragedy and existential threat to the United States.
“We know exactly what is going on. We can name the players. We can name the locations. We’ve got satellites two-and-a-half miles up in the air that can read a license plate number … we know exactly where the poison is being made,” Grellner
noted.
Several panelists agreed that the failure is with the lack of political will in the United States to put in place trade embargoes, sanctions, and tariffs tied to progress against illicit fentanyl in China and Mexico.
To defeat the threat, we need to take the threat of illicit fentanyl as seriously as we do genocide and weapons of mass destruction.
“This is not drug trafficking, this is an attack on the United States, and the minute that we understand that … we go at it as an attack on the United States,” Grellner said. “They are killing the people that are of fighting age in the United States, if we are forced to go to war anytime in the future, and we need to understand that and go after them as if that is occurring right now. The time to act was yesterday.”
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