Slavery and Violence Behind CCP Scammers Exposed In Huge Takedown

Welcome to Crossroads, a huge Chinese scam network. These kinds have been calling on your phone constantly. Well, turns out this group was stealing billions from Americans. It was just taken down. Now, I'll be going into how they were using slave labor, extortion, beatings. There's even cases of like crazy I mean organ trafficking not with this one but other ones. We'll be going into all of it. And also speaking of Chinese scammers and the Chinese Communist Party, turns out that hundreds of American universities have actually been working with the Chinese Communist Party, including the CCB's military. Uh your local university may be cooperating with the Chinese Communist Party's military. And look, on another topic, conservatives who support Trump, they were being spied on. So, if you or someone you know uh was a Trump supporter as of 2020, there's a good chance you may have been spied on. A new report shows that Congress collected 30 million lines of phone data on MAGA supporters, and this was linked to their investigations into January 6. Now, I'll be going to these topics a lot more today, so make sure to hit the like button, leave a comment, and subscribe to our channel. Now like first off a huge Chinese spy network has just been taken down. Uh this was transnational all over the world including right here in the US. They were operating out of Cambodia but that was just the headquarters. Now this had been stealing billions of dollars of American victims while also using slaves, extortion, human trafficking and beatings uh not to the point of death but almost as a form of control. Treasury Department says this. It says today the US Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in close coordination with the United Kingdom's Foreign Commonwealth, the UK and Development Office took complimentary actions, meaning they worked together against criminal networks responsible for targeting citizens of the United States and other allied nations through online scams and the laundering of stolen funds. Uh, anybody who's been getting these constant phone calls, scam calls from all corners of the world, you might have been targeted by these people. It notes that US losses to online investment scams have steadily increased over the last several years, totaling over $16.6 billion. A US government estimate indicated that Americans lost at least $10 billion to Southeast Asia-based scam operations in 2024. A 66% increase over the prior year, meaning it's increased quite a bit with scams like those perpetrated by Prince Group TCO being particularly significant. And this is the group they just took down. It says, "Prince group TCO profits from a litany of transnational crimes, including sextortion, a type of fraud involving the solicitation for eventual blackmail of sexually explicit material, often from minors. So they get your kid on social media, they call their phone, they text them, they find a way to get to your children. They then pretend to like, you know, date your kids and, you know, do these tactics they use grooming them. kid will send photos they shouldn't be sending. They then use those photos as blackmail. They blackmail children using these allegedly. Right. Also include this says money laundering, various frauds and rackets, corruption, illegal online gambling and the industrial scale trafficking, torture and extortion of enslaved workers and furtherance of the operation of at least at least 10 scam compounds in Cambodia. Now, important to note, most of the operatives with this, most people running it, they're Chinese, right? CCP title. I'll get into it. uh even some evidence of ties to the United Front, meaning kind of like the Chinese Communist Party being involved. Uh but they were doing this out of Cambodia. Important to note, Cambodia and Laos are so deeply infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party that when the CCP wants to arrest people like luring people who are critics of the CCP, they try to get them to go to Cambodia or allows to arrest them. So deeply tied in with it. It notes that in these compounds, workers are often lured by the promise of well-paid jobs in customer service, tech support, and related fields, but are instead held against their will and made to scam people from around the world in so-called pig butchering and other fraud schemes. And what does that mean? What do they mean by pig butchering? It means you got to make the pig fat and then you butcher it for, you know, what you want out of it. Uh basically they groom people and then once they're groomed they start getting money out of them. That's what they call this. It says these schemes involve cultivating meaning you're growing it. Sometimes over the course of months elaborate relationships with victims gaining their trust and confidence then inducing them to invest funds in fraudulent investment platforms ultimately controlled by Sky. So you're having an online relationship. Maybe someone texts you out of nowhere. an old friend, maybe an influencer. They actually make fake versions of influencer accounts. Uh they've even done spoofs of my accounts. I've seen, not this group, but other ones. Uh it's very common. They get these fake influencer accounts. They reach out to people. Oh, I must have contacted you by accident. Uh but you know, my name is so and so, we should be friends. Very common. They groom you into a fake relationship. And then once you're, you know, talking to them often and you're enjoying their conversations, they then say, "Hey, I have a great offer. You're not going to believe this. You should invest some money in this company. I know it's going to take off." And they get people pouring their money into it. And they steal it. It says, "The butchering comes when the scammers go dark after taking every dollar they can from their victims. Some people clean out their entire investments uh giving it to these groups." It says the takedown of this network also involved a larger network tied to Jinbe Group which is a luxury hotel and casino company Chinese but it al is also tied to again Chinese money uh money laundering in New York even uh again these are Chinese operations basically operating outside of China for the most part. Now, the House Select Committee on the CCP also said in a post on X that quote yesterday's US Treasury action targets a massive cyber fraud network laundering billions. It says the CCP's Chinese Communist Party's opaque financial system enables schemes like this to thrive. It says the Select Committee on China urges the US Treasury and our allies to keep following the money into CCP linked enablers and shell firms. Now, I'd add to that, you know, the Chinese Communist Party's banking system, the financial system, it is opaque, but only for people outside of China. Uh, if you're in the United States, you can't really audit it. You can't really investigate it. If you're in the UK, you can't really audit it. You can't really investigate it. the CCP will not cooperate. But inside China, everything is controlled. They have digital currency. They have other things like this. Not a single payment happens without the Chinese Communist Party taking notice. In other words, the CCP lets this happen. The Chinese Communist Party allows this to happen. And something interesting here. Apparently, this case just uncovered ties in with the Chinese Communist Party's United Front. That's right. That big old CCP global spy network. The bureau says this. It says the latest US Treasury sanctions explicitly connect Chenzi to Juan Quo Koi, the notorious Macau triad boss, triads of the Chinese mafia known as Broken Tooth. And notice that Juan heads the modern Hong men association which US officials describe as directly linked to the Chinese Communist Party and the United Front Work Department. Uh again, the United Front has been a focus of my own investigations going back to 2008. Uh massive Chinese spy network operating heavily in the United States, operating all around the world. uh extorting people, blackmailing people, human trafficking, drug trafficking, compromising government officials, compromising business leaders, and relatively allowed to open free operate freely. They basically nothing ever happens against them. They operate in the open in the United States. It says the sanctions also state that Prince Group worked with Rose Wong, a Palubu based organized crime facilitator who is the vice president of Palou's overseas Chinese federation which may conduct unofficial diplomacy for China. Um oftent times these overseas Chinese federation overseas friendship associations China America friendship association all these things uh those are oftent time what you call tongs to o ngs and the Chinese communist party targets these organizations to basically work as the arms of the regime in other countries which is how these things operate. Uh and typically the Chinese mafia will operate beneath them. uh they they basically work out of the facilities of these tongs which is how Chinese organized crime functions. It says here though in 2018 she introduced Juan Quo Koy to Palu's then president while Juan was seeking casino licenses. Look at these inter intertwining connections, right? And it says that OFAC had already sanctioned Broken Tooth, the mob boss, the Chinese mob boss, in 2020 under executive order 13818 for spreading crime and corruption across Southeast Asia in Palu by designated Rose Wong in connection with Prince Group's Palu schemes. The US government effectively linked Chenzee to Chinese state aligned and United Front operations of which both Wong and Broken Broken Tooth are established associates. Uh meaning you have to tie a couple different things together. A lot of people are not making this connection but that is a very big deal. Uh this network through association does tie into the Chinese Communist Party. Uh the United Front and Work Department is an office of the Chinese government. Now look, these are horrifying stories. Uh some of the operations have just terrible things. People are being sold into slavery. People are being kidnapped. Uh there was a recent story actually where a woman actually sold her boyfriend into slavery to one of these gangs uh for not that much money. There was a horrifying story of a girl traveling from another country. A singer traveled to one of these countries. They traffked her, they sex traffked her, they enslaved her, and they eventually murdered her and harvested her organs. Uh, that was actually in uh Myanmar. They had issues like this. And so these gangs, they're not just robbing people. It's everything. Human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, human organ trafficking, meaning they murder people for their organs. Uh because again, if it's tied in with the CCP, that's what the CCP also does. And look, it's not even just the pig butchering networks, as they call them. It's also just smaller scams being done through like massive phone farms and other tools. Remember in New York and New Jersey, they just shut down a couple of these major facilities. You're talking like hundreds of fake phones, making calls, calling in SWAT teams on government officials, basically causing chaos in the United States, and you know, finally shut down after who knows long, who knows how long. But among the more common scams involved, scammers try to say victims owe money on things like highway tolls. And part of that network is also recently exposed. Maybe some of you experienced this. How many of you have gotten these emails or text messages, you know, according to your local highway toll company, you owe $57. Uh many people get these. I've I've received emails like this. They're extremely common right now. Uh, and if you've received them, well, know that oftentimes it's a scam. But here's how it works. Wall Street Journal just said this. The US is a wash with scam text messages. Officials say it has become a billiondoll, highly sophisticated business benefiting criminals in China. Why is the CCP always behind it? It says, "Your highway toll payment is now passed due." One text warns you have US postal services fees to pay. Uh-oh. Another threatens. You owe the New York City Department of Finance for unpaid traffic violations. It says the text employees to get unsuspecting victims to fork over their credit card details. And the gang behind the scams take advantage of this information to buy iPhones, gift cards, clothing, and cosmetics. It says criminal organizations operating out of China. again, which investigators blame for the toll and posted messages have used them to make more than $1 billion over the last 3 years, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Why is it why is it always China? Of course, you know, some of these operate out of other countries. India has a huge problem with these scammers. Mexico has a huge problem with these scammers, but some of the biggest networks being exposed right now, Chinese networks. And again, uh, these these are real dirty ones tied in with just about every crime under the books. Now, look, speaking of Chinese Communist Party scammers trying to take advantage of Americans getting into our institutions, well, it turns out hundreds of American universities are actually working with the Chinese Communist Party. Go and figure. Including with the CCP's military, American universities are working with the Chinese Communist Party military. Let that sink in. Fox News said this. For many years, American and Chinese scholars worked shouldertosh shoulder on cutting edge technologies through open research funded by you oftentimes I made up your tax dollars says where findings are freely shared and accessible to all. But that openness a longstanding practice celebrated for advancing knowledge is raising alarms among some US lawmakers. Further in it says the house committee released three reports in September alone. They target they targeted respectively Pentagonf funded research involving military linked Chinese scholars. Meaning Pentagon funded who pays for the Pentagon? Your tax dollars. They're stealing military research you are paying for and bringing it back to China. This also includes it says joint US China institutes that train STEM talent for China. I think they call this uh building the noose to hang yourself and it says and also visa policies that have brought military linked Chinese students to PhD programs at American universities paid for often times their tax dollars as we fund all these universities through the federal government. Now, it says this. The reports recommend more legislation to protect US research, tighter tighter visa policies to vet Chinese students and scholars, and an end to academic partnerships that could be exploited to boost this whole thing, right? To boost China's military powers. It says more than 500 US universities and institutes have collaborated with Chinese military researchers in recent years. 500 universities helping Beijing develop advanced technologies with military applications such as anti-jamming communications and hypersonic vehicles according to a report by private US intelligence group Strider Technologies. So if you're wondering well gez where did China build all this technology? How did they get these advanced weapons? Where did those wonderful, incredible weapons come from? Why don't we have them? The simple answer is you helped them build it. You paid for it. The government gave them the money. It went to the universities. And the universities, well, they handed it off to China by bringing in all these Chinese researchers and working with the Chinese military. Now, on another topic, a new trade war is starting up with China. Trump is uh calling them out and we're now looking at an additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods soon. Uh that brings it to about 130% tariffs. That's a lot of tariffs. And this is in response to hostile trade actions the Chinese Communist Party just announced. Uh the CCP is saying they're going to shut down basically a lot of foreign trade. They're, you know, putting additional costs on it. They're going to shut down the availability of some rare earth minerals to the United States and they're going very aggressive on it. Trump says he's not going to have it. And now what's happening? Well, countries are having to decide. Are they with America or are they with the Chinese Communist Party? Are they US aligned or are they CCP aligned? And it's becoming now they can choose one, but they can't choose both. And many are choosing to follow the United States in this new trade war. In a recent speech, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant described this growing battle as quote, "China versus the world." Watch this. As the president has said, we want to help China, not hurt it. If some in the Chinese government want to slow down the global economy through disappointing actions and through economic coercion, the Chinese economy will be hurt the most. And make no mistake, this is China versus the world. They have put these unacceptable export controls on the entire world. China is a command and control economy and we and our allies will neither be commanded nor controlled. >> Uh China versus the world. Uh I would actually say it's been like this for a long time. For many years now, the the world has been having to choose between do you want to align with the Chinese Communist Party or the USA. Uh the issue for a long time though is that you've been allowed to take advantage of America while making deals with the CCP that were not really, you know, that great, but people wanted access to the Chinese market. Uh for decades now, many countries have allowed the United States to fund their military, to bankroll their social, you know, free health care programs, to pay for their food. We let them tariff us. We let them we let them put additional costs on Americans. And Americans have basically been shouldering the cost of just about the entire world uh through bad trade deals, trading at a loss, subsidizing them, giving them grants, all kinds of money for who knows why. But a lot of that's now coming to an end. Uh the Chinese Communist Party on the other hand has had a very different offer. It says look take advantage of America and come and build your factories in China. Uh the CCP has of course become the main focus of a lot of investment, foreign business, manufacturing, minerals, materials, and has effectively dominated a lot of markets. They let them do it. And America has been footing the bill on just about all the fat, all the slack these countries have. Uh what is now happening is both sides of this are ending. The United States is no longer picking up the slack for Europe's defense budget. The United States is no longer picking up the slack uh for Canada's health care system. Again, they're having to pay their fair share on medicines. The United States is no longer allowing countries to make bad trade deals. I mean, at least for now. We'll see if it changes next leader coming in. Uh but now, as things stand, if a country is putting additional costs on Americans, we're matching them with tariffs. And if we're trading at a hundred billion loss, we're going to get a hundred billion worth of tariffs. At least that's the way it's set up. And we'll see if it lasts. But the Chinese Communist Party in its side, it's becoming less uh less appealing. Let's say the CCP is becoming more authoritarian internally. The Chinese Communist Party is putting restrictions on exports of minerals. It's weaponizing them. It's saying that if you don't agree with our military policies, we were we're going to cut off your supplies to magnets or other things you need to basic keep your economy rolling. And as this happens, a lot of countries are saying, you know what, I can build the same thing cheaper somewhere else. I can invest in a new growing market that has more potential for growth. I can put my money somewhere where I don't have the CCP breathing down my neck and my, you know, executives are not being threatened with arrest every single day they're there. I can put my manufacturing somewhere that's not going to risk port shutdowns or other things because the CCB just decides to one day and they're moving their businesses out elsewhere. As this happens, they're finding the CCP actually does not really have much power diplomatically. All the power was tied in with these kinds of deals. The deals go away, the power goes away. And as this happens, the United States is becoming the main focus for the kind of new emerging technologies, new emerging markets, new emerging manufacturing, and we have a whole lot of a whole lot of muscle to to move on this. All right, that said, folks, a lot else is going on. Los Angeles is now declaring a state of emergency, and they're doing this to help pay for the rent of illegal aliens. Be talking more about this after we come back from a quick break. All right, just to pause here for a super quick moment. You are of course watching Crossroads with Joshua Phillip. I'm just here to share a message about American Hartford Gold, my own personal gold and silver bullion dealer. Now, obviously, the recent tariffs have made the markets super turbulent and volatile. With every new piece of tariff news, the markets seem to either crash up or crash down. And of course, it's worth mentioning that these conditions don't only affect Wall Streets. 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Take advantage of their special offer. You can either just call them at 877-260-2764 or text Joshua to 65532. All their information will also be down in the description box below. And now back to Crossroads. >> Welcome back. Now, how many of you woke up this morning and said, "Gee, I wish my tax dollars could help support all these poor illegal immigrants. I wish I could pay their rent. I know they can't afford to pay for their homes. If only my tax dollars could be used to pay for their home so they can continue staying here." Well, good news for you. Los Angeles has declared a state of emergency over the ICE raids and deportations of illegal aliens. And now LA County has announced plans to use taxpayer dollars to give aid to all the affected people, including paying for their lawyers, paying for their cost of living, and paying their rent. So, good news for you. ABC News says this. Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids. The proclamation gives the county the power to assist residents they say have been impacted financially by immigration and customs enforcement action ICE. It says further in Los Angeles County is home to over 3 million immigrants. Are those immigrants or illegal aliens? You have to guess. It says according to supervisors who said the ICE raids have caused widespread fear. Why would immigrants be afraid of ICE? Good question. and led to decreased attendance at workplaces, disruption of local economies, and strain on critical services such as schools, hospitals, and places of worship. And it says this, rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the ICE raids and money for legal aid and other services are among the provisions in the declaration. In other words, paying for their lawyers, paying the cost of their homes, you're going to be paying their rent, and paying for whatever other cost they decide. It says the vote on Tuesday allows county supervisors to mobilize resources, request state and federal financial assistance to respond to the impacts of the raids, and ex expedite contracting to address the crisis. So, if you're wondering, well, when are they going to build back, you know, from the Palisades fire? What about all those affected Americans? Uh what about rebuilding Hollywood? Well, good news. They're not going to do that. At least not yet. Uh they're going to give the money to illegal aliens. Now, like another topic, conservatives who support Trump were being spied on. A new report shows that Congress collected 30 million lines of phone data on MAGA supporters linked to the investigations into January 6. And they might have done this illegally. Just the News says this. Congressional investigators collected a stunning 30 million lines of phone data mapping contracts between conservatives and the Trump White House in the name of investigating the January 6 capital breach. A massive drag net that raised civil liberty concerns about the lack of limits on the ability of lawmakers to snoop on Americans private phone calls. Uh, we used to have the Constitution protecting us from illegal searches and seizures. Was this justified or legal? Well, we may find out soon. It says the mountainous collection of phone records were revealed to the FBI, led by Chris Ray in late 2023 by former representative Adam Kinzinger, a GOP member of the Democrat-run House January 6 select committee. Uh remember the select committee actually turned down refused the Republicans who were offered on the committee to make it bipartisan and instead selected handpicked Republicans uh who had previously voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Uh, so they turned down the Republicans who would have been on the side of the Republicans and chose two Republicans who actually had previously sided with Democrats to be on the committee, which is how they did it. Uh, and questionably legal. That's actually being raised right now. But it notes this. The cache, all these phone records was offered to the bureau on the eve of the 2024 presidential election as evidence without requiring a warrant. according to an FBI document memorializing the offer that was reviewed by just the news. Now, why would they do that not in 2020, but instead right before the election? Good question. Maybe we'll find out. Further in, it says that Mike Howell, the president of the Conservative Oversight Project, told Just the News that quote, "The January 6th committee was in absolute violation of civil rights that far exceeded anything it ever purported to be investigating and added that they abused their authority to engage in a political mapping exercise to surveil their political opponents." and he added that quote, "Whoever turned this information over to the committee is exposed here and we will be exploring ways to hold them accountable." What does that mean? Does it mean calling them in to testify? Does it mean criminal charges? Well, we don't know. It says that Grassly's office said Tuesday uh that he had sent letters to four telecom companies, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Lumen, quote, requesting they provide to Congress all records that were handed over to former special counsel Jack Smith as part of his elector case against President Trump. Uh Jack Smith is also being called in to testify as well. They just announced, but it says this. The Republican chairman told the telecom providers that quote, "No court order or provision of law can prevent you from notifying senators of any legal process that sought disclosure of any Senate data transmitted on Senate or dualuse devices related to senator's offices. uh suggesting that if the private information of senators was included in this phone data, the companies may have violated the law. And it actually does seem to be that that was well that was the case. Uh because as we're finding out, it turns out that the investigations were targeting many Republican members of Congress. Now, that could be secret information. That could be classified information. that could be sensitive information and if these phone companies were transferring that in ways that were not secure or illegal, they may be held accountable. And he added there was a quote reasonable concern that calls, texts, and emails sent from sent to or from those devices may have been acts consistent with the duties of office, meaning somebody might have violated the law. It was that Grassly also sent letters to the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of War, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the US Attorney's Office for for the District of Colombia to ask what information they had provided to Jack Smith, who is now also being called in to testify. Now, they're glad to see where this goes. The Trump administration has shown signs they may be investigating the former Gen 6 committee. Uh Trump has called them out repeatedly. Trump has talked about repealing Biden's pardons of them suggesting that if it was signed by the auto pen and um by the way Trump has created a presidential wall in the White House where he has pictures of all the presidents and for Biden he put a picture of the auto pen. Uh Trump seems to believe that the auto pen was doing a lot of the work uh which was the automatic machine to sign his name and there was people operating it. Trump is using that fact to try to get rid of a lot of what Biden had done including many of his pardons. If Trump does that, it means that many members of that committee may be up for investigation and possible prosecution. Uh Trump has said, as have others, that they actually deleted evidence illegally. They deny this. We will find out if they continue the investigation. Uh Trump is also looking into Jack Smith, the former special counsel. He was also looking into Robert Mohler, the other former special counsel, but Robert Mhler is allegedly in a mental state where he's not really cognizant. Uh and so it's not clear whether that's true or not, but they say that he can't really testify at this point. Uh Trump is investigating the investigators, so to speak. Is this retribution or is it merely justice coming for others who had carried out retribution? We do not yet know. You decide. But that said, let's jump into some questions. So, questions, comments, anything you want to talk about, leave it in the chat. Let's jump into it. Uh, let's see here. First question, what would Jesus do? WWJD. You're saying 500 universities working with CCP Pentagon funded. Good one, Josh. Talk about building the news that hangs you, right? Did you Did you see the recent story that came out? The Chinese Communist Party calls Harvard University their communist party school because so many Chinese Communist Party officials send their kids there. It's kind of ironic actually. A lot of CCP officials, their kids are not studying at Chinese universities. Oftentimes, their kids are studying at American universities. Now, this is something I'm I am a bit critical on. You know, Trump was talking about cutting a lot of this off, basically saying that these universities are too deeply intertwined with China, money from China, you know, ties to China. And then Trump came out and just announced that we're going to be accepting what, like 200,000 Chinese into American universities. The problem is, you know, while we take out loans for our kids, these officials have their kids come here and they pay in cash. And a lot of universities, they become dependent on money from China. Now, in my personal opinion, if the market cannot sustain itself without doing things that are unethical or dangerous to the United States, let the ones that should fail fail. Let the market correct itself and show them where the door is. I I don't think America should be allowing this because obviously it is allowing American funded research programs to fall in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. They're stealing our research. How is it that we're paying for weapons research and we're basically researching it so the Chinese Communist Party can steal it? Why are we doing this? How is it that we're we're doing research that should be benefiting the future of our country and we're letting the CCP send spies to our universities so they can participate in the studies and then bring it back to China. Uh that is the very definition of you know building the news to hang yourself. It's insane. Another and I would note too uh the big thing they need to investigate the Chinese student and scholar associations. If anybody watching this show has the ability to contact your local legislature, if anybody watching this show has u maybe is a lawmaker yourself, the Chinese student and scholar associations, the CSSAs are the biggest threat to American universities. Uh these are organizations openly funded by the Chinese Communist Party. They are funded by and operated through the Chinese consulates. And the Chinese Communist Party has a branch of its government that facilitates the operations. These also tie into the United Front. Uh it's not just students and scholars, meaning faculty at the universities. It's also members of the Chinese community. That's the United Front. They're not talking about like dissident, right? Uh they carry out acts of suppression of Chinese critics of the Chinese Communist Party. If a Chinese student comes to the US and gets involved in a democracy movement, this group spies on them and then punishes them and their family. Uh these are the organizations that plant students as researchers. These are organizations that tie in with compromised people at universities. Uh not even just Chinese professors, but even people who are American professors who are working for the Chinese Communist Party. And there's a lot of them taking money, you know, under the table. Uh having, you know, speaker fees in China, that kind of thing. Uh there's a lot of that going on. A lot of people being paid off by the CCP at American universities. And also the worst part of it, the CCP uses the Chinese student and scholar associations to groom students to become spies in the American system. They will try to grow their careers and plant them into government agencies. They'll plant them into local political organizations. They'll plant them in businesses. They groom them, plant them, then use them. The CSSAs, Chinese student and scholar associations, are one of the greatest national security threats to the United States and almost nobody is talking about them. They need to be exposed. uh they really really need to be exposed and they are active at almost every major American university. Not only are they are they active at almost every major American university uh but for the most part um they also force Chinese students to enroll. They're involuntarily enrolled when they come here. Meaning because of these networks, every Chinese student visiting the United States is a national security threat. If you want to resolve that, resolve the CSSAs. That's the that's the easiest way to fix it. Uh my my personal advice uh to any anyone capable of doing something on this California gal, you're saying I don't think Americans helping the rest of the world has been good for both of both us and them. I agree with you. You're saying it has created an unhealthy dependence and not allowed other countries to thrive on their own. Yeah, I I've actually I've actually talked to some people on this. Um I'll give you one example of it. So, you know, the basic point you're making is that the American support and over support in some cases has created a type of dependency in other countries that has made them not pick up the slack, that has made them, I don't know, lazy or create systems that are not sustainable. They become dependent on us. Um, I don't believe that having someone dependent on you is responsible. Uh, I'll give you a few examples of this. As a parent, if a parent wants to have their kids dependent on them indefinitely, if you're not teaching them to be independent, you're not being responsible to them. A part of what a parent does when they raise a kid is they teach them how to take care of themselves. You're teaching them how to be adults. You're teaching them how to function out in the broader world. That is how you create a responsible member of society. If you want them to be dependent on you indefinitely, it means you want to control them. You don't want them flying off. You don't want them being their own people. You don't want them, you know, leaving because, you know, you love them so much. I I'm dealing with the same thing. My daughter's almost 16 years old, right? It's I'm not She might leave in two years. I'm not looking forward to it. Right? But as a parent, you got to you got to make it so they can take care of themselves. It's the same thing with any any relationship. If you have somebody who's dependent on you, you're creating a person who cannot live without you. And you know, it's mixed like you, you know, you can have a dog that's dependent on you and you want to train it and you can you can withhold the dog treats to train it and do what you want. You can make them do little back flips or roll over or whatever else, you know, by withholding treats and then, you know, giving it to them, right? They're dependent on you. you control them, right? You own that doggy. Uh, and you know, for some relationships, it works, right? May I'd say with an animal, you're it's probably a good relationship. Uh, but with humans, with countries, with business deals, you don't really want that. Um, oftentimes a healthy deal involves both sides benefit. I have something you want, you have something I want. Let's exchange. Uh, any kind of good relationship works on an exchange, right? You fill in the gaps of the other person. Uh a good military unit works as an exchange. You know, you're my spotter, I'm your sniper, that kind of thing, right? Uh you know, husband and wife is an exchange. You have skill sets that the other lacks. You have strengths the other lacks. And you know, you you create a healthy relationship. But when you have a system where one side benefits totally, the other side just provides everything, uh you have you have an unhealthy relationship and when it's not being met in a kind of amicable fashion, uh you have one side that becomes needy and dependent and the other side that effectively controls them through that neediness. Now, is America in a position like that with these countries? Ironically, I don't think it's worked out for anybody. I agree with California, Gal. I don't think anybody has benefited from this. Americans do not like paying for the military of NATO. We don't. I don't. Do you know anybody who's like, "Hey, good thing Spain doesn't pay its fair share. Wonderful." No. We want them to pay their fair share. Um, in fact, recently Trump just announced sanctions against Spain because they're not paying their fair share, saying, "Look, you got to do it. We're not going to pay your bills anymore." um you know that's that's how you create a good relationship. I've heard stories of this for example. So look there are some good sides to it. Post World War II uh many countries would have would have had a famine were it not for American food supplies. Many people in China the CCP covers up this history but many of the older folks know this. Many people in China lived because American was America was sending them powdered eggs and spam. Many people in the former Soviet Union survived after World War II because Americans were sending them food. We kept them alive. They're alive because of us. A lot of them at least. Uh many of them acknowledge this post World War II. You know, American powdered eggs are what made them live. They would not have lived without it. Same thing with Japan post World War II. A lot of people remember that American food helped them survive. And many other countries that's the case as well. You know, our our good old ultrarocessed uh not very healthy food will keep you alive and and you know, good on us for doing it, right? Uh but typically you don't want to do it forever. The problem is some countries have kind of done it forever. uh many parts of Africa have talked about this and and I've actually talked about people on the other side of this. One thing that I've been told actually because you know I like to think hey you know we help the starving kids in Africa. How many of us watch the commercials growing up donate 10 cents a day and you know you can you can stop little Billy from starving you know good you know donate a hundred bucks. Um, a lot of us like to help people, but what has been told to me by people in these countries is that basically because it created an imbalance on competition. They become dependent on free food and free handouts. And it's made it so nobody bothers to build farms. Nobody bothers to start a food business. Nobody bothers to try to produce things locally. Why would you? The cost of doing it is greater than the cost of importing it. there's no demand for it because people don't want to spend money on it. They get free handouts. Uh if you wake up every day and your food gets handed to you on a silver platter, well, not a silver platter, but you know, hypothetically speaking, your food gets handed you on a silver platter, are you going to go out and spend 20 bucks a day to buy food? Probably not. Uh and so what happens over the course of time? You eliminate demand. There's no demand for it because they get it for free. why would you bother producing it? And that's a that's an example of how dependency can turn into a bad relationship, right? Uh they have stopped creating the elements of independence because they don't need it because of dependence and that has made them you knowffect I'm not talking about all countries. I'm talking just a handful of areas but uh that has made them not being able to have a functioning economy in many regards. that's made them so they can't really have uh healthy food in many regards. It's made it so that they they're just indefinitely in uh in dependent on us and and I don't think that's good for anybody actually. It's not just food. You know, we have the we have the starving kids in Europe also getting American subsidized medicine starving for medicine, not starving for food. And so when we talk about all those great health care programs and we find out that, you know, Americans are basically paying the difference. Great. Um I kind of wish medicine was a little more affordable here, too. But you know what? I'm glad we're finally working things out. Uh Denise B, you're saying, "I'd love for my tax dollars to pay for all for the rent of illegal aliens in detention facilities awaiting their deportation." And you know what, Denise? you may just get that Christmas present, you know, speaking of dependence, right? Yeah. Anyways, uh it is it is kind of wild. And look, when it comes to Los Angeles, I should have given a little I'll give a little more of my take on what's happening there. Los Angeles right now, as I mentioned, they've passed they they've signed the bill. They're declaring a state of emergency and they want to cover the costs to offset the troubles that illegal aliens are having as they face pressure from ICE. You have a lot of people who are afraid to go out. They're afraid to go to work. They're afraid to go to church. They're afraid to go wherever because they're illegal aliens and they're worried that ICE is going to throw them in the back of a truck and drive them off to the border. Uh they're worried about this, right? Um, Los Angeles, a huge percentage of the population is illegal aliens. Like, uh, someone told me the I I won't give the number because I I'll get it wrong, but someone told me the the percentage recently, a huge percent of the population in Los Angeles is illegal aliens. And those are just illegal aliens. And even greater percent are the sons and daughters of illegal aliens. Uh and so, you know, you have your illegal alien population, then you have your second generation, you know, population who, you know, are legal because that's the way our system works. Uh but, you know, they they care about their parents. They probably don't want to see them being sent off either. Um in other words, if you're not an illegal alien there, you probably have a friend or family member who is. And um you know that does create problems when you have such a huge population that that comes from that. Now what happens when you want to deport all of them? I mean look I was out in Los Angeles just just recently. Some of you actually came to my speaking events there. We have another one coming up next month actually in Orange County. I'll be giving you more updates on that pretty soon. But um you know it's it's a problem because I don't know how they're ever going to deal with it. you have such a massive portion of the population there that could be deported that you can't really do it without like just turning the whole city upside down. And there are a lot of people wondering if it's even possible. The current numbers of deportations from the Trump administration are not anywhere close to being able to fully deal with the problem. So the question is, look, are they going to up the Annie? Are they going to increase it? Are they just going after the criminals, the gang members, you know, the people with criminal records? Maybe. I don't know. Um, are they going to, you know, throw the border wide open after Trump leaves office because the problem is so big you can never he can never fix it. I don't know. Um, we'll have to see how they approach it. But there are a lot of people fighting to keep it. And the other issue you have is that look, you know, if you if your parents are are illegal aliens and you're born here, you know, you can run for government office. Uh you can become an elected official and and we have a lot of elected officials whose whose parents are illegal aliens. And when they go and pass laws and vote on things, you know, they're they're voting based on that. And so, you know, I don't know how America is going to deal with this issue. uh really either we just let them all stay or we uh send them all back. And I don't I don't know if either of those is totally possible. So I mean I I don't know what they're going to do with it. Uh Robins do you're saying why do Californians let them get away with this? If the illegals control it that much, maybe it's time to give California back to Mexico. You know, I think you might have found the big solution. Look, as a former San Diegon, um I'd hate to see San Diego get given to them. Maybe we can like do like a like a territory thing. You ever see like countries where like like like Alaska Alaska is kind of like in Canada? Maybe we can give Mexico like Los Angeles and San Francisco. Who's with me? We give them LA, right? How about we just give them LA? I'd be okay with that. What What do y'all think? Should we give Should we give Los Angeles to Mexico and we could just finally put an end to this? Maybe we'll give them like a little straight I I don't know how we'd do it. Um what what do y'all think? Should we give Los Angeles to Mexico? Would that solve the problem? Let me let me know in the chat. Let's see. Another question. TMA, you're saying they ought to require them to take a Chinese history class at universities. You know, they really should. Actually, that would be a great way to deal with this. All right, let me paint the picture. If you grew up in China, you've been taught fake history. You've been taught the Chinese Communist Party saved the Chinese people from their backwards past. uh you've been taught that the Chinese people were you know living in like medieval like fe you know thieftdoms and constantly at war with each other and that the foreign countries were always attacking poor old China and that the great CCP saved them from it. That that's the history they're taught. They're not taught about the great leap forward. They're not taught about the cultural revolution. They're not taught about the great things ancient China had. Do you know that China was so wealthy at many points that there was nothing they could even trade with other countries that they wanted? They had there was nothing they needed. Uh they were the most one of the most powerful countries like in history and they have a history of like 5,000 years. Um basically in terms of history, what they're being taught in China is just an outright lie. It's a massive lie. Uh what really happened? Well, China up until the Opium Wars, the United States was not involved. People falsify that history. Um, the Opium Wars, right? Uh, China, of course, basically was happening at the time. Other countries wanted to buy stuff from China. China would only accept gold as, you know, tinder for trade. They didn't they didn't want Western craftsmanship because it wasn't good enough. Uh, they wanted gold or silver. That led to basically the exchange of a hard asset against a disposable asset tea. And so Britain was trading its gold for Chinese tea. What happens after a week or a year? You throw the tea in the trash, the gold stays forever. And basically the wealth of Europe was being offshored to China. They said, "We need to find a disposable product to trade for a disposable product." That was good old opium. China had opium prior to that. They did. Uh but this the the mass trade of opium the greater availability of it um made it into more of a drug. Uh prior to that opium was mainly used as like a a medicine in China. You know if you had to go through a surgery or you know get medical treatment to give you a bit of painkiller. You know what I mean? And and that was how they used it. It wasn't like a potent drug. And of course uh you know a lot of corruption a lot of problems within China during the last dynasty led to the dynasty's collapse. China entered a brief state of anarchy and not a chaotic anarchy actually a relatively harmonious anarchy. Uh but during that state China was looking for a new form of government. Do they follow the rest of the world on the move to maybe the American Republic you know model democracy uh or do they move towards what you know Soviet Union was doing and remember they they share a border with Russia on the north. Do they go that way and they chose to follow the Soviet Union? Mao Zadong worked with um you know Shanghai at the time was was run by it was a it was a Jewish city uh worked with them and brought communism to all of China and that's that's what happened and so of course China went towards communism a lot of people fought against it they had a civil war the Kuming Tong fought them and then when the CCP established itself what happened well CCP established itself they then launched various movements the great leap forward the cultural revolution, all kinds of terrible things. Uh they killed upwards of a 100red million Chinese people. They destroyed the history, they destroyed the culture, they destroyed the religion. Uh they demonized all the traditional values, Confucianism, Buddhism, Dowoism, Christianity. Also, uh a lot of people don't know this, but China for a long time was one of the few countries on earth where most religions existed in harmony. All of that was destroyed. Um the values of the country were destroyed. The the wealth of the country was destroyed. It was it was horrible. And what happened then? Well, Deng Xiaoping 1980s uh comes in and says, "We're going to reform and open up. The Soviet Union's collapsing. Communism is failing." And they decided to open up quote unquote. What happened then? American business, Western investment, and Western money came in and bailed out the CCP. That allowed for them to bring in new technologies. That allowed them to build these, you know, pretty skyscrapers. Uh for those of you into neon lights, right? That allowed them to make all the pretty neon lights. And you know, I've said it before and I'll say it again. The new China was not built by the CCP. the new China was built by Western investment in Western business. It wasn't the CCP that built that. And so, you know, they're not taught this in Chinese in in schools. I I I would say actually that if Chinese students were taught about the Tianaan Square massacre, uh if they were taught about the genocides in China, if they were taught about the real story of Maoadong, a lot of people in China would not be allowed to send their kids to American universities. And if they did, they'd go back to China and they would actually probably help change China into a less communist, if no communist at all, country. Uh it would be fantastic. That That's a great idea. Uh if you Okay, you send your kids here, but they're gonna have to take real Chinese history courses. Wonderful. Uh maybe give them a ticket to go see Shen Yun while they're at it, right? They can they can go watch the show the CCP is trying to stop because they're so afraid of people seeing what true Chinese culture was. Great show, by the way, if you haven't seen it, by the way. Yeah, Epic Times is a sponsor of Sheny Performing Arts. All right, everyone. That said, um, in case you didn't notice, I'm on the road. I'm actually doing some interviews for a future I'm working on. We're working on some big stuff. Um, I mentioned before I'm not a desktop journalist, right? I get out. I get out quite a bit. So, you have to join me on the join me while I travel. Um, that said, let me know in the chat what you think. Do you think a solution to the Chinese student stealing our technology and making us more communist problem can be solved by just showing them real Chinese history? Should we do it? Uh, should we hand off Los Angeles to Mexico? I think maybe that's a good idea. I don't know. Maybe we should. Let me know in the chat what you think. Is that a horrible idea? A great idea? Let me know in the chat. That said, folks, uh, we will not have a show tomorrow again on Fridays. I'm working on some feature stuff. Join me again on Monday though, 10:30 a.m. Eastern time. In the meantime, please like and subscribe. Don't forget. 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