When China Attacks: a Warning to America by Grant Newsham

Author:Grant Newsham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2023-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

Global Proxies

Almost everywhere you look, you can find carefully cultivated CCP proxies. It’s a fact of life in the Philippines that a good chunk of the elite class acts as Beijing’s proxies, Filipino financial motivations combining with political-warfare-fueled resentment of the United States. They are doing Beijing’s bidding and giving the Americans headaches—while eroding longstanding U.S. alliances.

In Japan, in just one example of Chinese proxy warfare, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s coalition partner, Komeito, had top officials that used to be quietly tracked by Japanese police while meeting with PRC Embassy officials in out-of-the-way ryokans, or inns.17

There is a long list of Australian politicians, business magnates, and a huge number of academics who were, and still are, Chinese proxies. After reporter John Garnaut and academic Clive Hamilton covered the topic, the Australian government took steps to crack down on the worst of it.18 They had some success, but the problem has not gone away.

Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran are effectively proxies for China. In particular, they are willing to make life difficult for the United States in any number of ways.

Iran alone distracts U.S. attention and keeps the Middle East in turmoil. In the event of the PRC taking things kinetic, Iran is likely to cause trouble and prevent the United States from concentrating its resources elsewhere.

In Canada, Chinese organized crime groups—Beijing’s proxies—have had a large presence in British Columbia and the port city of Vancouver—where, apart from other functions, they serve as a money-laundering conduits and drug merchants.19 Beyond the Triads, certain prominent Canadian politicians and officials have met the definition of Chinese proxy.20

Speaking of Chinese organized crime, it is best regarded as an operational and enforcement arm of the Chinese communist government and its security services.

Besides savagely attacking Hong Kong freedom protesters, China’s organized crime machine is operational in Taiwan—potentially serving as a fifth column when the time comes and, meanwhile, operating impressive smuggling routes into and out of Taiwan.21

Anywhere there is a sizable Chinese presence overseas, there is Chinese organized crime. It is one more tool in the Chinese Communist Party’s tool kit.

China has any number of proxies working in Africa on its behalf, and this goes back decades. The PRC armed Robert Mugabe’s insurgent army, ZANLA, during the Rhodesian War and kept a close relationship with him throughout his rule in Zimbabwe—in exchange for access to the nation’s mineral wealth.22

When Mugabe, after thirty-seven years of thuggery and corruption, finally got to be too much even for his associates (it had long since been too much for most Zimbabweans), Beijing switched proxies. It gave the go-ahead to Zimbabwe’s chief of the army and ended up with Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former Mugabe associate.23 Different proxy, same idea.

That is standard for Beijing. When one proxy is no longer serviceable, the PRC adroitly finds another one—and is often cultivating several at a time.

Over in Angola, something similar played out. Beijing was close to the ruling Dos Santos family for decades after independence. When the public tossed him out, China then reestablished itself with Angola’s new rulers.

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