GRANT NEWSHAM: Chinese organized crime does not operate without the support and the protection of the Chinese state, and that’s just the reality of it.

Despite all the platitudes today, we can never forget, as @NewshamGrant reminds us, that the Chinese Communist Party is a mortal enemy to our way of life. https://t.co/jWnQS9gwKO

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) September 24, 2026

Jan Jekeilek's notes,

“China has a surveillance network that George Orwell couldn’t have dreamed of.” Grant Newsham says we have to stop being naive about the CCP. China is one of the most tightly controlled societies on Earth. And he says the CCP knows exactly what is happening with the fentanyl killing Americans. “The suggestion that somehow you have these drug makers and sort of drug pushers actually operating without the Chinese Communist Party knowing… that is fantastic in the sense that you just can’t believe it.” “They know what they’re doing.” “Chinese organized crime does not operate without the support and the protection of the Chinese state, and that’s just the reality of it.”

“The Chinese have a direct involvement in the fentanyl that comes into the United States.”

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China has a surveillance Network that George Orwell couldn't have dreamed of. And the suggestion that somehow that you have these big drug makers and sort of drug pushers actually operating without the Chinese Communist Party knowing . . . that is fantastic in the sense that you just can't believe it.  I would suggest that anyone who thinks that's the case would go to China and go out of your hotel room and walk around and draw a mustache on a picture of Xi Jinping, the first one you see.  And see if the police aren't at your hotel before you get there or 5 minutes after.  They know what they're doing.  And additionally, I used to do a lot of work with organized, or involving organized crime, and we did Cover the Chinese, and it always tracks back to some arm of the Chinese state.  Always.  It can be the PLA, MSS, the public security but the Chinese organized crime does not operate without the support and the protections of the Chinese state, and that's just the reality of it.  So you have several ways that you can actually understand and get a sense that the Chinese have a direct involvement in the fentanyl that comes into the United States.  And as I said, the numbers are 800,000 [Americans killed by Fentanyl poisoning dumped into American cities by the Chinese] and counting.

The CCP’s United Front has been expanding its influence in the West—largely unnoticed by many.

I’m joined by @PLMattis for an in-depth discussion on what this means now, and the consequences ahead if the West fails to change course.

Watch full: https://t.co/BAFwFEM7Bh

— Jan Jekielek (@JanJekielek) April 26, 2026

Peter Mattis, President of The Jamestown Foundation.

Interesting.

Most recently, Mr. Mattis was Senior Fellow with the U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party on loan from the Special Competitive Studies Project where he served as Director for Intelligence. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the Senate-appointed staff director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) where he was a part of the legislative team that passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, Tibetan Policy and Support Act, and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. He began his government career as a counterintelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he earned exceptional performance awards for analytic leadership and community support.

TAYLOR HATHORN: The CCP is inflicting hybrid, asymmetric warfare on the U.S. A lot of scary realities tied to China’s covert tactics.

Thank you to J. Michael Waller. 

The CCP is inflicting hybrid, asymmetric, mental, whatever academic word you want to call it on the U.S. and it’s easy to make jokes about things like TikTok, but there are a lot of scary realities tied to China’s covert tactics. @IWF pic.twitter.com/NRI8OMYjV2

— Taylor Hathorn (@TaylorHathorn) February 7, 2026

With students what is the long-term strategy here and talk to us about Chinese students and Scholars associations in the US.

So really there are two methodologies that you can have in any kind of mental warfare and really this is mental warfare, right.  So you've got your overt strategies and you have your covert strategies, and really what China is super good at is the covert strategies.  If they were focused on the overt strategies, you wouldn't have Prime Minister Carney in Canada talking about how they wanted to ally and align themselves with China moving forward with this values-based realignment that he talked about in Davos not too long ago. 

And so really you're looking at these covert strategies and covert tactics.  So what does that look like?  It looks like mental manipulation. Our society regrettably is incredibly susceptible to influence from the outside world.  Our youth, because of their involvement on social media, on web platforms, where they have access to information all around the world are incredibly susceptible to this influence.  I wrote a series of articles for Independent Women at the start of last New Year about the Tik Tok ban, "Tik Tok Ban: The Battle Is Not Over Freedom of Speech," Taylor Hathorn, Independent Women, January 26, 2025, and several of my friends were like, "Man, Taylor, you need to get over it.  It's not that big of a deal. It's not that big of an influence."  What a lot of people didn't realize is that the algorithms for Tik Tok in China students were rewarded, vastly rewarded, for looking at videos and watching what videos and promoting their algorithms focused on engineering, education, medicine, reading, literature.  They were promoted and rewarded for that, while the same algorithms in the United States existed for United States students they were promoted for doing Tik Tok dances and Tide pod challenges and their ratings went up for that.  So that is just one example of a covert strategy that has direct effects on the mental capacity, truthfully, and on the educational abilities of our students.  

TERROR PROPAGANDA: THIS IS WHAT THE CCP, CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, WANTS WESTERN GOVERNMENTS TO DO TO ITS PEOPLE

New “leaks” from China claim to show vast COVID “quarantine camps.” Obviously this is more ridiculous theatre for international consumption, but this kind of terror propaganda shows the darkness of what the CCP wants western governments do to their people.  pic.twitter.com/6Fsgplg8ln

— Michael P Senger (@MichaelPSenger) January 10, 2022