In this mailing: Gordon G. Chang: 'Unrighteous Commerce': Our Responsibility for China's Barbaric Acts Chris Farrell: The Biden Administration and the Mexican Border: Questions of Food Security, Drug Smuggling and Money Laundering 'Unrighteous Commerce': Our Responsibility for China's Barbaric Acts by Gordon G. Chang  •  December 1, 2020 at 5:00 am       Those who trade with China, invest in it, or promote ties with Beijing — in other words, strengthen or legitimize the ruling regime — have to know they are enabling the Party and are therefore complicit in its crimes against humanity. "The world could have and would have been different if captains of industry as well as cultural and sports elites had acted differently in the 1930s, but they can act differently now." — Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to Gatestone. China's regime is able to engage in malevolent acts because businesses enrich it with trade and investment. Cut off the trade and investment, and Chinese leaders will have no cash for barbaric projects. American companies and Americans are enabling Chinese atrocities. That has to end. In China, at least a million — and perhaps more than three million — inhabitants of Xinjiang, for no reason other than their Uighur or Kazakh ethnicity or adherence to Islam, are being held in facilities meeting the definition of "concentration camps." Pictured: "The Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center," a facility where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, north of Kashgar in Xinjiang. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images) China's Communist Party is committing crimes against humanity. American companies are helping it do so. It is, as explained below, no longer possible to "compartmentalize" China, so the White House and Congress should use their powers to end all trade, investment, and other business relationships. In what the Chinese euphemistically call the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Party is relentlessly eliminating cultural and religious identity and implementing race-based policies reminiscent of those of the Third Reich, at least before the mass exterminations. At least a million — and perhaps more than three million — Xinjiang inhabitants, for no reason other than their Uighur or Kazakh ethnicity or adherence to Islam, are being held in facilities meeting the definition of "concentration camps." Internees are dying in detention. Families are broken apart and children incarcerated in "orphanages." Continue Reading Article The Biden Administration and the Mexican Border: Questions of Food Security, Drug Smuggling and Money Laundering by Chris Farrell  •  December 1, 2020 at 4:00 am       A number of corrupt officials along the way facilitate the transactions and perpetuate our 50+ year-long "War on Drugs" that we can never quite seem to win. Mexican cattle crossing into Arizona cannot be traced once they enter the U.S. The cattle should be traceable all the way to the slaughterhouse. It is a question of disease. The sale, movement and slaughter of untraceable cattle are a means to smuggle drugs and a way for the Mexican cartels to launder money.... Drugs are hidden inside cattle. You may be thinking (correctly) – "Hey, wait a minute! We have these threats... UNDER A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION?" Yes, we do. Now imagine what the "open borders" advocates within the Biden administration will demand in the way of public policy. Mexican cattle crossing into Arizona cannot be traced once they enter the U.S. The cattle should be traceable all the way to the slaughterhouse. It is a question of disease. The sale, movement and slaughter of untraceable cattle are a means to smuggle drugs and a way for the Mexican cartels to launder money. Pictured: Cattle are brought through a gate in the border fence from Mexico into the United States on December 9, 2014 in Nogales, Arizona. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) When was the last time you wondered if your food was safe to eat? Sure, in the dystopian weirdness of 2020 "COVID world" – people enjoy "contactless delivery" and online shopping for groceries – but did you really question if your ground beef was contaminated? Get ready to do so. It is the most under-reported story you have never heard of. There is an increasing food security threat to the beef industry and the American people. That threat is part of a mosaic of corruption and criminality involving modern-day cattle rustling, Mexican cartel drug smuggling and money laundering. All told, hundreds of millions of dollars are in play. A number of corrupt officials along the way facilitate the transactions and perpetuate our 50+ year-long "War on Drugs" that we can never quite seem to win. The public corruption angle to this story is the subject of a current, ongoing investigation by Judicial Watch. Continue Reading Article