Blood Money: Why The Powerful Turn A Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

Author: Peter Schweizer, published by Harper Collins.

Reading Peter Schweizer’s new book is a disturbing revelation.  It is a very important book, perhaps the most important book for a Conservative American to read right now.  However, it is not a pleasant book to absorb.  It is deeply disturbing on a number of levels.

His general conclusion is that China has its talons buried deep into American politics and culture, and most of us do not know it.  Further, they basically have bought off key leaders in America’s political class, who profit from betraying our country and our liberty.  This is often not a direct bribe as the Biden Family, but the threat of a loss of market in China.

In the early part of the book, he spends a good deal of time setting the table explaining unconventional warfare and the Chinese tradition of Sun Tzu and his modern-day counterparts.  The idea is to defeat your enemy by avoiding actual kinetic combat.

This can be done by dividing and weakening your enemy so they lose both the capacity and will to resist.

There are many very disturbing themes explored in the book.  One of the most important is how American political leaders, of both parties and major business leaders; have been compromised by the vast monetary incentives that flow from gaining access to the Chinese market.

Also, the American assumption, was that the more we traded with China, and the more China was integrated into the world economy, the more China would liberalize and become a nation of laws that respected liberty.  This has proven to be about as successful as when the Trojans accepted the gift of a giant horse filled with Greeks.

Almost all Chinese “corporations” are controlled by the People’s Liberation Army and the CCP.  They look like Western corporations only on the surface.

But the money to be made has been too much for many American leaders.  The “Big Three” are the Biden Family, Gavin Newsome (the Pelosi Family), and GOP leader Mitch McConnell.   However, there are many more.

According to Schweizer, his research team of 17 took over a year and a half to prepare the book and it is filled with important documentation.

As such the book has already had a significant impact in the US, mainly in the House of Representatives’ Impeachment Inquiry into President Joe Biden, and legislation currently pending concerning the Chinese government divestiture of TikTok and its malevolent influence on the youth of America.

Another grim theme is the key involvement in what could be called the “reverse opium war.”  China has never forgotten the role primarily played by Britain and some US individuals (FDR’s grandfather for example) in getting a huge percentage of Chinese citizens hooked on drugs so the country could be more easily exploited.

China is deeply involved in the production and distribution of fentanyl, which is killing more young Americans almost every year about the total we lost in the entirety of the War in Viet Nam.

They sell the components and cooperate with Mexican drug cartels, even to the extent of having more than 2000 Chinese nationals operating the supply chain with Mexico itself.  Shocking stuff.  And of course, Mexican leaders are deeply involved in either participating in the murder of Americans or conveniently looking the other way.

The same can be said for much of our political leadership.

Chinese commercial interests are also the biggest contributors to LQBTQ agitation, and the social media company, Tik Tok, which has done so much to spread this psychological contagion.

If you have felt somebody was playing with your mind, about Covid, about transgenderism, about racism; you would be correct.  It is the Chinese military intention to divide this nation and to weaken both its moral fiber and to confuse our youth.  The Chinese call this “cognitive warfare.”  You are both seeing and feeling this effort.

We have homegrown reasons for our racial divide, our sexual confusion, and our infatuation with drugs.  The Chinese are not to blame for these things. What they seem adept at is making all these things worse.

We have no room for details or documentation for these stunning charges.  You must read the book!

The current battle over TikTok is instructive of how China uses our free system to undermine our free system.  To defeat this will require some finesse because we don’t want to undermine our own liberty while fighting Chinese manipulation of our system.

For example, Rand Paul, for whom we have enormous respect, recently went on Tucker Carlson to oppose steps to make the Chinese government divest its holdings in TikTok. In a recent edition of The Drill Down, Schweizer’s Podcast, he shows where the good Senator is badly informed on the subject (a rarity we would say) and maybe even financially compromised.  Please listen to the show provided below.

The trouble is so many US businessmen have such a huge stake in China, that China can exert influence without directly funding their initiatives.  It will gladly be done by Americans, thereby providing the Chinese with plausible deniability.

TikTok is technically not completely owned by the Chinese, and that makes it look “normal”.  But US investors signed an unusual gag order, not to criticize the company.  They also don’t have voting rights. This is not a normal arrangement in the US where proxy battles and hostile takeovers are regular occurrences.

The question is not so much ownership but rather who has control.  And the party that has control is the Chinese Communist Party and its intelligence agencies.

A US tech billionaire is one of the largest investors, and he happens to fund several conservative efforts in this country, including giving more than $10 million to Rand Paul.

Even Donald Trump has recently wavered on the subject of TikTok, apparently fearing it could be taken over by the leftist Mark Zuckerberg. When President, he used an Executive  Order to force ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok.

This is how insidious our relationship with China has become.  Our own freedom, our own leaders, and our own business people can be turned to support Chinese unconventional warfare against our system and our liberty.

Some progress is being made in understanding this cancerous yet profitable relationship with China.  We will see how the attempt to separate TikTok from Bytedance will progress.  It has passed the House but now faces difficulty in the Senate.

The encouraging thing is that there has been some rare bi-partisan political action, and two major hearings are underway. 

None of this is likely without the important research done by Peter Schweizer.

As citizens, you need to understand the commercial relationship with China comes with their attempt to use unconventional warfare and cognitive confusion against us.  This is not the normal behavior of a trading partner.

How do we square this with the principles of free trade and the ability of our businesses to invest abroad?  How do we protect free speech while allowing our enemy to speak directly to our youth? Unlike FaceBook where “friends” can see conversations, TikTok was designed to be free of parental supervision and its algorithm is considered classified by the Chinese government.

In China, children’s time on the platform is strictly limited, and it mostly about history, culture, and engineering.  In America, the product has no limitation on time and is often dominated by unhinged blue hairs screaming about their psychological issues.  Why is the product so different in China than it is here in America?

It’s all part of unconventional warfare. The sooner the nation understands what China is trying to do to us, the better off we will all be.