If there were ever a time for America to face up to the drug problem, in a deeply honest way, this was it.
Walt explained that the heroin flooding Vietnam wasn’t from ordinary street criminals, because it was over 90 percent pure. And it wasn’t profit-driven, because the Chinese were selling the heroin for a loss. He concluded, quite logically, the drugs were political in nature and “bound to have a demoralizing, long-term impact on American society.”
Beijing was engaged in covert chemical warfare against Americans. That’s blockbuster testimony from an extremely credible source.
However, Walt’s revelations were politically inconvenient. President Richard Nixon had just gone on his celebrated trip to Beijing, palled around with Chairman Mao, and informed Americans that we were to be allies with China.
But how could we build a relationship with a country that was purposefully killing Americans in one of the most despicable ways possible? A serious problem for ordinary folks, but, apparently, not for Nixon. He ignored Walt’s testimony.
Every presidential administration since has continued Nixon’s policy of turning a blind eye to Beijing’s nefarious machinations and, all the while, binding the United States and China closer together.
But while President Donald Trump is finally putting an end to that, so much damage has already been done. The opioid problem facing America has become a crisis.
It’s likely that Adams’s deceased stepson was directly killed by Chinese fentanyl, or he died because of the Chinese fentanyl that had already created and fed his addiction.
In 2017, about 30,000 U.S. drug overdose deaths were related to fentanyl and synthetic opioids. America’s drug policy has been a staggering failure, even by The Swamp’s incredibly low standards.
Of course, if Walt was right, and China’s plan was to kill Americans with drugs, and they continued that policy, as we built closer ties with them, this is exactly the result you’d expect to see.
Joseph Douglass Jr.’s seminal book, “Red Cocaine,” which takes a courageous look at the drug problem, elaborates on Walt’s 1972 testimony. It’s required reading for anyone who wants to get serious about the problem.
Douglass explained that China’s use of heroin during the Vietnam War and the Chinese fentanyl flooding America today aren’t isolated incidents. They are part of a continuing plan in which China uses drugs as a strategic weapon to weaken enemies (Douglass also writes extensively about Moscow’s participation in this same plan).
He traced this plan’s origins back to 1928, when Mao began distributing opium to destroy domestic non-communists. When Mao took over China in 1949, he expanded operations to Japan. A top Soviet ideologist later observed that China’s strategy was “to disarm the capitalists with the things they like to taste [meaning drugs].”
China’s deception has been sufficient for people who want to be fooled. But the truth is there for anyone with the will to see it.
The CCP is responsible for so many fentanyl deaths, it’s like the entire Vietnam War is happening inside of the United States, every single year.
The president is entirely right to place tariffs on China. It’s true, from a short-term economic perspective, that tariffs are a bad idea: the pricing on our trinkets and baubles will rise. But there’s more to life, for those of us alive, than cheap toys.
