(Minghui.org) Having inherited its communist ideology from Karl Marx and the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ultimately seeks to dominate the world. To achieve this goal, it first needs to defeat the United States. This is why the CCP has always viewed the U.S. as its No. 1 enemy.

In fact, there is a saying among Chinese netizens: “small troubles go to Japan and big troubles go to the U.S.” This observation highlights the CCP’s practice of diverting attention from its domestic crises. When there are small issues, the CCP would stir up conflict with Japan; when there are larger issues, the CCP would incite hatred against the U.S. By doing so, it effectively shifts public opinion toward nationalism, and complaints about the CCP are forgotten.

After decades of systematic brainwashing in China, including through the education system, news media, and entertainment, the anti-American mentality the CCP instilled in people have become second nature. Bad things in the U.S. are seen as good things for the CCP; the more disasters there are in the U.S., the better off China is. This mentality explains why the Chinese internet reacted to the September 11 terrorist attacks with widespread gloating and celebration.

Unfortunately, such hostility has no social or moral boundaries. Back in 1999, senior CCP military officials proposed the idea of “Unrestricted Warfare” against opponents such as the U.S. that transcends all boundaries and limits. “It must go beyond all of the fetters of politics, history, culture, and ethics and carry out thorough thought,” wrote the officials. “… information will be omnipresent, and the battlefield will be everywhere. It means that all weapons and technology can be superimposed at will, it means that all the boundaries lying between the two worlds of war and non-war, of military and non-military, will be totally destroyed.”

More than 20 years have passed, and some believe the drug fentanyl to be one of these non-military weapons the CCP uses against the U.S.

A Lethal Problem

According to a report released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in May 2024 titled “CBP: America’s Front Line Against Fentanyl,” illicit fentanyl takes the lives of more than 150 Americans each day, or around 55,000 every year.

“In my 30 years as a customs official, the trafficking of synthetic illicit drugs like fentanyl is one of the toughest, most daunting challenges I have ever seen,” remarked a senior CBP official.

Originally used as an analgesic and anesthetic, fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and about 50 times more potent than heroin. It can also cause addiction. Ingesting 30 milligrams of heroin can cause death, while 2 or 3 milligrams of fentanyl can be fatal.

Based on data from National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), 20,000 Americans died from fentanyl in 2016. This number increased to 36,000 in 2019 and 64,000 in 2021. The deaths of 77,000 in 2023 is about four times the number in 2016.

“These are shocking figures – and as the map shows that we are displaying now – from small towns, to suburbs, to rural counties, no place is immune,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco of the Department of Justice in 2021. “No place in this country is immune from the overdose deaths that are plaguing this nation.”

Data from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration shows the agency seized more than 80 million fentanyl-laced fake pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. “The 2023 seizures are equivalent to more than 390 million lethal doses of fentanyl,” the agency said. A Newsweek report pointed out that these doses are enough to kill every American and that fentanyl is killing Americans at an unprecedented rate.

Where does the drug come from, then?

A Supply Chain Across the Ocean

Research shows that Mexican drug cartels play the most visible and well-publicized role in driving the fentanyl crisis. “Across the Pacific Ocean, however, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) drives the destabilizing flow of fentanyl directly to the United States,” wrote a 2024 Heritage Foundation report titled “Holding China and Mexico Accountable for America’s Fentanyl Crisis.”

“Indeed, unknown to most Americans, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is actively funding, supporting, and pushing America’s most deadly drug threat in history,” the report continued. “The combined forces of deadly Mexican drug cartels and hostile Chinese ambitions have delivered to the United States a destabilizing crisis and a death toll that each year eclipses the total of U.S. casualties from the Vietnam War.”

More specifically, the CCP’s chemical companies manufacture almost all fentanyl precursor materials (that is, unfinished products to be processed), and then sell them to Mexican drug manufacturing groups adjacent to the United States. The latter can synthesize fentanyl through simple processing and distribute the drug throughout the United States.

A Reuters investigation into the global fentanyl supply chain shows how easy it is to buy fentanyl precursors online from Chinese sellers who disguise the precursor chemicals in gadgets and other low-cost goods. “At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door to North America,” wrote the report titled “We bought everything needed to make $3 million worth of fentanyl – All it took was $3,600 and a web browser.” This is equivalent to putting a weapon in a box. As long as it is labeled as benign, everyday goods, the CCP will allow it to be released.

The CCP’s Playbook: From Opium to Fentanyl

This is not the first time the CCP has adopted such a strategy to target its opponents. In order to defeat the Kuomintang during the anti-Japanese war (1937 to 1945), the CCP planted “special goods” (opium) in Nanniwan and sold them to areas governed by the Kuomintang. This not only harmed the country and the people but also made huge profits.

“Due to the communist party’s secret activities in the past 100 years, the CCP has the strictest discipline, the most sophisticated tactics, and the tightest organization that no other parties can match,” wrote Chiang Kai-shek, then leader of the Kuomintang, in 1938. “Its methods are the most vicious, with no friendship and morality completely wiped out.”

Today, the CCP forbids the spread of fentanyl inside China while covering up its history of planting opium. As a result, many Chinese citizens and much of the international community are unaware of this history.

A War Without Boundaries

In addition to fentanyl, the CCP also actively exports its communist ideology through many channels, including Confucius Institutes for universities, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that helps extend CCP control to remote countries, co-opting U.S. news media and social media channels to amplify its propaganda, and collecting personal information through apps, spyware, and more.

Based on recent trends, it would appear that the CCP is preparing for a final battle with the U.S. Any wishful thinking or negligence, let alone collaboration with the CCP, could undermine the free world. Only by countering the CCP and restoring traditional values can we help build a better society, for both China and the rest of the world.