Eyes on China 

Part 1 - Gordon Chang, interviewed by Harrison Watters.

     "When my wife and I arrived (in China, 1996) my wife and I were optimistic like everybody, because it was a very good time in China's history. My wife on the phone said, 'Mom, China is not communist anymore.' And I agreed with her.

     "But as we lived there, worked there, traveled around the country, talked to people, we could see that the old system was still in place. After we left, Xi Jinping became general secretary of the Communist Party. He started moving China back to a state-dominated system. This is a China that is dangerous.  

     "Xi Jinping has been trying to impose China's Imperial system, where Chinese emperors believed they had the mandate of heaven to rule what they call 'all under heaven.' And since 2017 Chinese officials have been talking about the moon and Mars as sovereign Chinese territory. You either have competing sovereign states or you have worldwide Chinese rule. You can't have both. 

Undermining the U.S.

     "Each year, 70,000 to 75,000 Americans die from illicit Chinese fentanyl. This is run at the top of the Communist Party. Some fentanyl producers are state owned. Every container that leaves China is inspected by Chinese officials. The gangs run their proceeds through the Chinese state banking system. Xi Jinping promised Obama, Trump and Biden to reduce the flow of fentanyl. He violated all those promises, because this is an integral part of his plan to weaken the U.S."  

Tomorrow: Like the Soviet Union in a new cold war