Thursday, February 5, 2026

J. MICHAEL WALLER: 2,000 CCP-linked influence organizations mapped across the US. Let's see how they integrate with mainstream politicians, businesses, and activists, as well as with the radicals.

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J. Michael Waller.  Find Waller's interviews at the Bill Walton ShowCenter for Security Policy dot org.

The People's Republic of China is creating a network that undermines Democratic countries.  The Chinese Communist parties United Front is a weapon that it built that contains a network of its friends with an aim to weaken its enemies from within.  In my new report, I've mapped out how the CCP has built a network of more than 2,000 organizations in the United States, Canada, the UK, and Germany.  These aren't just cultural groups.  Some help with political influence, technology transfer, transnational repression, and even voter mobilization on Beijing's behalf.  The strategy is simple.  Co-op Civil Society, shape local politics, and normalize the CCP's interest inside democracies.  This report shows who these groups are, how they operate, and why transparency matters if we want to protect open societies.  The full report drops next week.  I hope you'll take a look.  Follow Jamestown for more Cutting Edge analysis.

MICHAEL LUCCI: How do you cripple an Air Force base & catalyze a nationwide outbreak in one stroke? You seed diseases into Vegas tourists around Nellis AFB.

"People Fell Deathly Ill After Entering Las Vegas AirBnB with Alleged Chinese-linked BioLab, Witness Claims," Ronny Reyes, New York Post, February 5, 2026. 

Nellis AFB.  

Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy AmericaLiang Qiao, 2021.

It was more convenient to call it "infectious" rather than "toxic," then no one could be blamed.

In Japan, it took 30 years and teams of lawyers to dismiss in court the idea that a virus was the cause of SMON, a blindness and paralysis that by 1971 had affected 11,000 people and cause thousands of deaths.  It was more convenient to call it infectious rather than toxic, then no one could be blamed.  It was only when professor Tadao Tsubaki, in true detective style, tracked the symptoms down and found that this disastrous nerve damage was a toxic reaction caused by a common antidiarrheal drug that the infectious theory was dropped and the toxic reaction accepted. 

SAMA HOOLE: They don't ban meat outright. That would be too obvious. Instead they: - Make it expensive through regulation - Tax it for "climate" - Subsidize alternatives . . .

They don't ban meat outright. That would be too obvious. Instead they: - Make it expensive through regulation - Tax it for "climate" - Subsidize alternatives - Fund studies showing it's dangerous - Promote plant-based in schools - Restrict where you can buy it - Shame you for eating it Medieval lords restricted hunting with force. Modern elites restrict meat with propaganda. Different method. Same goal. Same result.

The peasants stay weak, the elites stay strong. 

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