Gordon Chang - Author of “The Coming Collapse of China” Joins Houston Morning News, June 26th, 2024

Episode Transcript

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Gordon Chang joins us, author ofThe Coming Collapse of China. Welcome back
to the show, Gordon. Theconnection, thank you, Jimmy. You
bet the connection between the Chinese governmentand the cartel. How deep does that
go? It's extremely deep. Andthe reason is that the cartels need somebody
to move their money, so they'reusing Chinese money laundering gangs. Now,

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those Chinese money laundering gangs use China'sstate banks. China tightly controls its state
banks, so you can draw theconnection from the Mexican cartels to the Chinese
regime. You know, for thelongest time, we just figured that they
were providing the ingredients for the sentineland the money trained. This is something

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that we hadn't really given a wholelot of attention to. It's pretty big.
It's very big, and it's notjust the cartels, and it's not
just Mexico. Chinese money launders havetaken over the money laundering business around the
world. And they can do thatbecause they can move large sums efficiently and
quickly and out of the sight oflaw enforcement. And that's because they've got

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a large state behind them. SoChina is at both ends of the fentanyl
trade. It supplies the precursors andit launders the money. Gordon. We
know there have been a lot ofChinese nationals that have shown up at the
border and have been gaining into tothis country. They seem to be male,
they seem to be of military age. What is the purpose? Why

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are they here? Well, manyof them here are because they want to
live in a free society. ButI think that there is a substantial portion
of the Chinese migrants who have beenseated here by the Communist Party to attack
the United States. If we goback a couple of years, we are
basically seeing family groups coming into theUnited States Chinese migrants now it's primarily basically

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eighty percent of the males military age, single, traveling without family members,
some of them known to the USauthorities as Chinese military, and we know
that they're doing some pretty disturbing thingsonce they get in our country. And
to top it all off, theBiden administration isn't tracking them. So this
is a perfect storm for US.You know, as Christopher Ray, the

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FBI director said in February, theterrorism risk in the United States then was
higher than it was in the weekspreceding nine to eleven. And it's not
necessarily going to be armed with riflescoming over the horizon. I mean,
the cyber attacks alone are enough tothrow this entire country into chaos. Yes,
and you were talking about Dengey fever. Remember in December twenty twenty two,

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and Alert Building Inspector in Reedley,California discovered what is clearly a Chinese
biological weapons facility. They had atleast twenty pathogens, including the one for
a bola, which by the way, is being weaponized at the Wuhan Institute
of Virology, and they found almostone thousand mice that have been genetically engineered
to spread disease. You take themigrants, they show up at facilities like

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that one, and they spread thosemice around the US. That's a pandemic.
Well, how do you how dowe call this the coming collapse of
China? Sounds like they're pretty muchon the march. They are on the
march, but their economy is insevere distress right now, and we know
this from a number of different factors. They're not growing at the five point

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three percent pace that they claim forthe first quarter of this year. They're
probably growing maybe one percent if that. And the problem for them is that
even if they were growing at fiveto three, they would be not growing
fast enough to create the output toservice their debts. So they've got their
two thousand and eight debt crisis startingnow, and that means Si Jinping,

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the Chinese ruler, has a realincentive to lash out to attack Taiwan,
the Philippines, whatever. We've beenseeing some pretty dangerous Chinese activity recently.
Okay, Gordon Chang, always apleasure, Thank you, sir. Author
of the Coming Collapse of China,Gordon Chang