Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

by Peter Schweizer

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

It’s often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far the war is hot, and the body count is one-sided.

China is killing Americans and working aggres­sively to maximize the carnage while our leaders remain passive and, in some cases, compliant. Why?

If anyone could crack the code, it’s the renowned nonpartisan investigator Peter Schweizer. Schweizer’s previous three number one New York Times bestsellers sent shock waves through official Wash­ington, sparking FBI investigations and congres­sional probes that continue to this day.

For Blood Money, Schweizer and his team of forensic investigators spent more than two years scouring a trove of restricted Chinese military documents, data-mining a mountain of American financial records, and tracking US political lead­ers’ investments and family businesses. Schweizer unloads bombshell after bombshell, exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s covert operations in the American drug trade, social justice movement, and medical establishment to sow chaos and deca­dence in the United States.

A towering achievement of investigative jour­nalism, Blood Money is one of those rare books that makes you clearly see the world anew.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, China, History, Audiobook, True Crime, War

316 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 27, 2024

About the author

Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. From 2008-'09 he served as a consultant to the White House Office of Presidential Speechwriting and he is a former consultant to NBC News. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Review, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere. His books include The Bushes, Reagan's War, and Do as I Say, Not as I Do.

Reviews

[Mandi Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you have children or grandchildren in your life, then you MUST read “Blood Money” by Peter Schweizer. Make no mistake, you and those you love are in harm’s way due to a new kind of war conducted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against the United States. In this short, easy-to-read book, Schweizer provides documents showing that the CCP’s People’s Liberation Army has a written, clearly stated, objective of undermining and defeating the United States. Their strategy is to use novel “unrestricted warfare waged in all fields, directions and dimensions.” This unrestricted warfare has completely redefined the 21st century’s weapons and battlefields. Folks, we are in big trouble because our politicians, media sources, and other “trusted” institutions are currently turning a blind eye to our safety and protection in this war. First off, this is not a book about politics—Schweizer calls out public figures ignoring our peril no matter what side of the aisle they occupy. The primary mission of this important book is to educate people about the tactics being used by the CCP in their war against America. These tactics have resulted in millions of both physical and mental casualties in the USA, and will continue to do so until we recognize and insist on stopping this war against us.

Schweizer’s “Blood Money” is organized into 4 succinct parts.

Part 1, called “Murder With a Borrowed Knife” details China’s fentanyl attack on the United States. Make no mistake: China is the center of the international drug trade. They work hand-in-hand with the Mexican cartels to kill millions of Americans by fentanyl poisoning. Schweizer describes in detail how the CCP pulls this off. In China, they make the chemicals that are the precursors of fentanyl; then, they ship those chemicals into Mexican ports controlled by China; next, cartels are provided with Chinese chemists who coach the actual production of the fentanyl; conveniently, China provides the mechanical presses to stamp the pills; and “somehow” the CCP influences Washington DC policies which keep America’s borders completely porous for easy distribution of the poison throughout our country.

Part 2, “Watch a Fire From Across the River” reveals how the CCP arms criminals in America. China is the world’s largest producer of illegal gun enhancements. They are masterful at smuggling millions of these lethal firearm parts into our country. Our inner cities are being flooded with inexpensive, Chinese-made auto-sear switches (which turn handguns into machine guns) and firearms suppressors (silencers). Then CCP organizations fund and foment gangs, anarchists and extremist groups in America to cause violence and destabilize our society.

Part 3, “Hide a Dagger in a Smile” is the most important part of the book for parents with children at home. It is all about the psychological warfare China is using to inflict mental casualties on young Americans. The CCP’s People’s Liberation Army has entire, extremely sophisticated, divisions dedicated to information warfare which they smugly refer to as “borrowing mouths to speak”. (Incidentally, Chinese intelligence agencies make their Russian counterparts look like amateurs in the art of information warfare.) Tactics include influencing Hollywood messaging in the movie and music industries; sponsoring athletes and celebrities for use as communist propaganda mouthpieces; manipulating social media with fake hashtags, artificial bot tweets/posts, phony profiles, and radical influencers; pressuring US mainstream media to be more CCP “friendly” in their reporting—these are just a few of the CCP’s brainwashing techniques. If you want to really understand the dangers of TikTok, largely owned by CCP-controlled Byte Dance, and the threat it absolutely poses to your children’s brains, this section of the book is critical reading!

The final Part 4, “Loot a Burning House” will touch a raw nerve for all of us who survived the recent COVID pandemic. China was the epicenter of this global pandemic that killed millions. But most importantly, the CCP’s policies and actions during the crisis were malevolent and callously executed to maximize damage, havoc and deaths worldwide. Regardless of your personal beliefs about the origin of Covid-19, Schweizer provides proof that the CCP regards biological warfare as a valid part of their arsenal.

Bravo Peter Schweizer. “Blood Money” is a well researched, brave book—a critical wake-up call for all Americans.

[Amora · Rating 4 out of 5]

China is a more malicious actor than I previously thought. Fentanyl, illegal firearm parts, a global pandemic, propaganda and spyware have all come from China. This isn’t by accident, as Schweizer shows. This is done on purpose by the regime with the intent of undermining the US. Excellent investigation by Schweizer and his team.

[Sherrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an Excellent book. I have read many Peter Schweizer's books. Americans need to wake up and realize the Biden is allowing Communist China take over America. We need to STOP China! I personally make an effort to not buy any product made in China. They enslave/torture people for free labor.

[Michael K. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have you ever wondered how people who enter into politics became millionaires? It is not that hard to figure out. This is one of numerous books that show how the elite tend to turn a blind eye to the "illegalities" of how they obtain their multitude of millions all the while the average American gets screwed in the long run. Laws are written that exonerate those in power and allow them to insider trade and use their positions of power to attain the stature of kings, while we the average American gets stuck holding the bag and the tax bill for it all. It is a sad truism. I hope you will find the time to keep yourselves informed in this that perhaps, one day, we will be able to take back the reins of power to this country that is ours.

[Patrick Duran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Once again, Schweizer delivers an incisive report on the various machinations of China and the CCP's ulterior motive to undercut the United States and foment instability throughout our country. There is massive evidence of the buying of farmland and other real estate assets near military bases, the existence of secret Chinese police stations and harassment of Chinese dissidents on U.S soil, and corporate technology theft, among other nefarious actions. Some politicians are finally beginning to admit that China is blatantly shipping fentanyl to the U.S. through shell companies in order to kill citizens, a strategy of unrestricted warfare. In addition to the drug warfare, they seek to undermine the safety in our streets by shipping auto sear switches, or Glock switches, which transform standard hand guns into fully automatic weapons that can fire 20 rounds per second.

Remember 2020 and the riots that transpired following George Floyd's death? Some Marxist organizations in the U.S. were actually funded by communist loyalists to sow instability and chaos in our streets. Neville Singham, an American billionaire who made his fortune from capitalism, is heavily influenced by Maoist thought. He stated "The Chinese and Cuban revolutions defined my generation's attraction to liberation and socialism." He now lives in Beijing and has contributed over $100 million to organizations driving the protest movement in the U.S. I will never understand how intelligent people can be so misguided by ideology.

At any rate, this book is an important work and should be read by everyone.

[Chris Hansen · Rating 5 out of 5]

must read. well researched

It appears that well placed leaders within the United States government have questionable ties to the Chinese Communist Party. This book provides excellent references to evidence. China cannot defeat USA militarily and has well developed programs to defeat it using Sun Tsu’s military strategies.

[Karen greer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a real eye opener. As other reviewers have said……read this book……read what is really going on in this country and around the world. I suspected some of what I read but this author researched and has the facts in print. This book is a reality check. It should be required reading for everyone.

[Roy Murry · Rating 4 out of 5]

BLOOD MONEY
Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye
While China Kills Americans

PETER SCHWEIZER

Review by Author Roy

The composition of this non-fiction is so well-developed that the reader will come away thinking - Wow, I did not know that. And, most likely, the reader is correct.

I am well-read and knew many of Schweitzer's topics just by the headline theme. Thank you, MSM and the press, for the information.

According to detailed information by the author, China is attacking our young through social media (TikTok), the motion picture industry, and video games. Using cut-outs, China has already killed Americans with drugs (Fentanyl derivatives) and did control their information about the COVID-19 pandemic.

This propaganda war by the CCP is, in some respect, payback for the Opium Wars - Please look it up. And the CCP believes that the West's, especially America's, decadence will destroy the world.

Schweitzer's narrative includes how our leaders do not pressure China, knowing they are doing what they are doing. This is a mind-boggling financial circle.

This book is what readers, my followers, consider a book for the INQUISITIVE MIND. It is a must-read if you care about your children and grandchildren.

[Ari Damoulakis · Rating 1 out of 5]

It is a pity that fear-mongers such as these only ever quote from The Art Of War and never highlight any positives of both ancient AND MODERN Chinese civilisation.
This is just so selective.
For humanity’s sake China and America will probably co-operate, since you are both too smart not too.
And please America, stop trying to export democracy.
Some of us would prefer living in a functioning, enlightened dictatorship that is prosperous like Singapore compared to a dysfunctional democracy. Only other politicians, media elites and those sort of people are the ones who really care about those things. I prefer hardly any crime, safe and clean cities, more jobs and prosperity, even if that might mean a few innocent people are locked up with the guilty.
Anyway you have the most powerful military, your country and companies innovate the best, and in most countries you are loved because of your soft power and things like peace corp and USAID.
So really, what are you worrying about?

[Audrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

SUMMARY
Here, Peter Schweizer lays out China’s plan to destabilize the United States. It’s not a secret; they’ve declared their intentions and methods many times. But American leaders tend to give them the benefit of the doubt, form committees to “study” the issue while believing their lies, even when they’re not taking money from them to do so. Many politicians call out China before being elected and then do a 180 once they’re elected and China starts paying them off. The book focuses or four main outrages:
– Fentanyl
China has started its own opium war, manufacturing tons and tons of fentyanyl, shipping it to Latin America, and selling it below cost. It’s smuggled into the US and spread among drug users. Even those not intentionally taking it often end up taking pills containing it, unknown to them. Deaths from accidental overdoses have skyrocketed, which is intentional by China. Our response has been to complain about cartels and discuss rehab efforts.
– Violence
China smuggles illegal firearms into the US, usually through Mexico. Often they send tools that turn semi-automatic handguns into fully automatic ones. (For you liberals who don’t know anything about guns, semi-automatic means you pull the trigger and one bullet comes out. Fully automatic guns, which are illegal, will spray bullets continually with one trigger pull.) This arms criminals with deadlier weapons. Our response: more gun control laws! Because criminals will obey gun laws even if they don’t obey laws about murder. On top of this, China incites violent protests. The 2020 riots killed over a dozen people and cost billions in damage. A lot of this was from China sending in professional protestors incite violence.
– TikTok
This app is not allowed in China; its version is education and has time limits. The purpose of TikTok is to dumb down America’s youth and spread propaganda. It has already destroyed their attention spans and ruined grades. Many can’t even sit through a movie now. That’s before any security concerns. Hollywood also bows to China and avoids anything offensive to China in movies.
– Covid
China lied about Covid origins and lied about infection rates and lied that lockdowns were effective. It convinced other countries to lock down. This was to get free citizens used to living under tyranny. It did little to stop the disease and instead created a crisis of mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence, not to mention loss of education and income for millions. China happily gave other countries advice on locking down its citizens and surveillance to catch rule-breakers.

COMMENTARY
There’s something about Western culture that can’t believe someone would purposely lie to us or want to kill us for no reason. “If we’re nice, they’ll be nice!” Sorry, it doesn’t work like that.

Peter is a good writer and a good researcher. Everything is cited and documented. He is not loyal to any politician or party and will call out anyone he finds tainted by corruption. The writing was interesting and engaging and went quickly.

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HIGHLIGHTS

When Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union address in 2023, he talked about fentanyl, acknowledging the stigma associated with substance abuse, and called for better substance abuse services. In other words, he treated it as a conventional drug problem. So he promised more drug detection machines and more inspections of cargo. What he never mentioned was Beijing’s hand in the matter. President Biden has been remarkably quiet in discussing China’s involvement in the drug trade; he does not challenge its leadership about their conduct. l … Some of these businessmen who funneled money to the Bidens have ties to the fentanyl trade, including $5 million from a Chinese national who was a business partner with a notorious triad leader. This cash flow connects the Bidens with Chinese triad associates.

As governor, [Gavin] Newsom has been reluctant to support even rudimentary initiatives designed to contain China’s activists in California. In 2022, the California State Legislature passed with strong bipartisan support a bill that would ban the sale of agricultural land in California to foreign governments, with a primary focus on China. Newsom vetoed the bill.

In 2022, fourteen US states announced that they were backing a Mexican government lawsuit against American gunmakers. The lawsuit alleged that the gun manufacturers were spurring violent crime in Mexico—even though the lawsuit presented no evidence that the gun manufacturers were shipping guns illegally or that laws were being broken. Yet none of these states has publicly taken China to task for trafficking illegal weapons technologies that are falling into the hands of criminal gangs operating in the United States. US political leaders are more focused on going after American gun manufacturers producing a legal product for millions of Americans than cracking down on Chinese companies catering to and further weaponizing criminal gangs in the United States. Gun control advocates focus their attention on taking away semi-automatic “assault rifles” from law-abiding citizens—supposedly to control crime. But they have been silent about China’s providing felons and criminal gangs with illegal devices that transform ordinary pistols into automatic weapons. Perhaps there is little political value in raising this issue, but it would seem to be a place where gun control advocates and Second Amendment advocates could find common ground. The question is, why does no one in Washington seem to care?

As millions of Americans sat glued to their TV screens and watched the protests and violence unfold [in 2013], many assumed that, in each case, the people they were seeing were local activists. In fact, though Black Lives Matter (BLM), named after the #BlackLivesMatter movement that followed Martin’s death, is the organization that gets most of the media attention, activists with pro-Beijing ties did much of the heavy lifting for the most violent protests that erupted.

As protests mounted across the United States in the summer of 2020, Twitter deleted an incredible 170,000 accounts linked to a Chinese government influence campaign, including accounts tweeting about George Floyd and other decisive issues. One tip-off was the fact that the tweets were overwhelming posted during business hours in Beijing. The organizers of the influence campaign worked to increase engagement on their tweets to “boost them to the top of Twitter’s search for specific hashtags.” Analysts said that “This allowed the campaign to effectively drown out organic activity on that hashtag for a period of time.” China’s president Xi had vowed to “retake the Internet battlefield.” The operation was now fully under way.

DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] manages to straddle the divide between being left wing and seemingly pro-Beijing while also being well positioned inside the Washington establishment. Beijing also sees the organization as useful in its goal of sowing dissension and divisiveness in the United States. The organization is unsparing in its condemnation of the US political system, regarding both the Senate and the Electoral College as “undemocratic.” But the organization has little critical to say about the dictatorial regime in Communist China.

The CCP delights in using the work or organizations such as the DSA for its own benefit. “Using foreign strength to propagandize China” is the idea that when foreigners make statements beneficial to Beijing, it is a particularly potent form of propaganda. As previously noted, Chinese government officials sometimes refer to it as “borrowing mouths to speak.” DSA leaders don’t seem to mind being dummies for this sort of political ventriloquism.

When activists from Beijing-allied groups such as FRSO and PSL organize protests and encourage violence, the news media cover the events but never mention the broader agenda or foreign ties of the organizations. They instead present their members as idealistic American activists. Likewise, other liberal and leftist organizations appear all too willing to work jointly with them, turning a blind eye to their deeper destructive agenda. And politicians in Washington seem to be cowed into silence, unable to isolate the organizations from the broader movement. … Pro-Beijing groups see the trans movement as a powerful force to advance their pro-Beijing agenda and push to further radicalize the movement.

Chinese propagandists also recognize that young Western people may easily discern and discredit themes or messages from one source but not when that theme or message comes from many sources. They compare this phenomenon to “multiple voices in a choir. Each communication subject sings its own melody.” The key is to simulate community—a peer group—as TikTok does. “Content control is becoming more important,” said analyst Liu Ying, noting that “emotional incitement … can affect public opinion more than facts and truth.”

ByteDance desperately wants Americans to believe that it is not a Chinese company. In 2020 (updated in 2021), TikTok distributed a memo within the company entitled [sic] “TikTok Master Messaging,” concerning public relations with the American media. First: “Emphasise TikTok as a brand/platform.” Next: “Downplay the parent company ByteDance” to “downplay the China association.” In 2021, the company circulated employee guidance to address questions about “China/ByteDance Ownership.” “TikTok is a global company,” the spin claimed, obscuring Chinese control. “The app is only for users aged 13 and over, according to our terms and conditions,” the memo stated, obscuring the reality that a full third of the platform’s users could be fourteen or younger. “There, in relation to our users, we may speak of young people, but not of children.” (Emphasis added.)

TikTok is severely damaging the cognitive abilities of America’s youth. The phenomenon is known as “TikTok brain.” A stunning 50 percent of TikTok users develop addiction signs: nervousness, irritability, anxiousness, and severe sadness when deprived of the app. “The app provides an endless stream of emotional nudges, which can be hard to recognize and really impact users in the long run,” argued Marc Faddoul, a codirector of the digital rights group Tracking Exposed. He warned that heavy use “can have a serious impact on your mental health.”

China’s TCL Technology produces television sets for companies such as Walmart, Best Buy, Costco, and Target. The Ellen DeGeneres Show and the Call of Duty video game series each count it as corporate sponsor and partner. Never mind that in 2020, it was revealed by the US Department of Homeland Security that the company had “incorporated backdoors into all of its TV sets exposing users to cyber breaches and data exfiltration.” The company could hack the data as Americans were in their living rooms and surveil them, sending their images and conversations to China. When the breach was exposed, TCL claimed that it had fixed the problem with a patch—without notifying anyone. (Trust us, they said.)

In early June 2021, newly elected president Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s TikTok order to force a sale and replaced it with an open-ended order calling for greater investigation. In Washington, sometimes the best way to avoid action is to commit to studying the problem. Biden’s hesitancy was intriguing. Just months earlier, during the height of the 2020 election, the Biden campaign had demanded that all staff members remove TikTok from their phones, citing security concerns. If he thought it was such a security risk for his staff, why wouldn’t he want to protect the American people?

It had long been accepted that lockdowns and the severe disruptions they caused sabotaged the fight against pandemics. Dr. Donald Henderson, who was responsible for eradicating smallpox, explained to colleagues in 2006, “Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted.” Indeed, he and his colleagues went on, “There are no historical observations or scientific studies that support the confinement by quarantine of groups of possibly infected people for extended periods in order to slow the spread of influenza.” He even cited a WHO working group that had concluded that “forced isolation and quarantine are ineffective and impractical.” And given all that, “The negative consequences of large-scale quarantine are so extreme … that this mitigation measure should be eliminated from serious consideration.” In contrast, lockdowns have long been enforced in China. While a quarantine requires the sick to stay at home, a lockdown requires everyone to stay at home. The practice has been common in China going back centuries. In the crucial days of the spring of 2020, American and European leaders abandoned its own medical wisdom and imitated the authoritarian policies of the Chinese police state. Within weeks, they imposed forced lockdowns throughout the Western world. Beijing lauded their doing so as an endorsement of its repressive measure. What happened? Beijing’s hand loomed large in laying the groundwork for US leaders to embrace the Chinese model of keeping people in their homes.

Imperial College London was in rarified company. The relationship continued, and in 2018, it was one of only two European colleges (none in the United States) to sign a “strategic academic cooperation agreement” with China’s most elite college, Tsinghua University in Beijing. Indeed, Imperial College also was the site of two major companies, whose work could “advance China’s military ambitions.” They were shut down by the British government in 2022. When Ferguson and his team, which included Chinese researchers, put together their bombshell reports, they relied on data from Beijing. Chinese misinformation embedded in those apocalyptic reports played to human fears, causing Western leaders to imitate the repressive Chinese state and forcibly lock their societies down.

The rapid pace with which the United States abandoned its own protocols and embraced Beijing’s model [for Covid lockdowns] was remarkable. Even Professor Ferguson, who had gotten the ball rolling with his doomsday reports, was stunned by how quickly the United States slide into repressive measures. “I think people’s sense of what is possible in terms of control changed quite dramatically between January and March,” he said later. “… It’s a communist one-part state, we said. We couldn’t get away with that in Europe, we thought. … And then Italy did it. And we realised we could. … If China had not done it, the year would have been very different.”

The world eventually discovered the obvious: China had not controlled the virus; it had covered it up and controlled the narrative. From the earliest days of the pandemic, Beijing controlled the narrative message. On February 3, President Xi directed the Chinese media to report the country’s response as “heroic.” … Ordinary Chinese people who attempted to tell the world the truth were silenced.

Lockdowns in the United States quickly became subject to political manipulation and control. As reported by CNN, hundreds of health care professionals wrote a letter supporting the Black Lives Matters protestors gathering in large numbers, which went against social distancing and lockdown rules. But they added, “This should not be confused with a permissive stance on all gatherings, particularly protests against stay-home orders. Those actions not only oppose public health interventions but are rooted in white nationalism.” They never explained why rejecting lockdowns was a racist matter. Lockdowns enabled a chosen few—almost always Democrats—to exert control not only over people’s daily habits but over who had the right to speak out. It was straight of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, except that in this case: All free speech is equal, but some free speech is more equal than others.

In early April, California governor Gavin Newsom proudly announced on national television that he had signed a $1 billion contract with a Chinese company to provide masks and other medical equipment for California health care workers. The contract was with BYD, a Chinese company with no experience in producing medical gear. However, among other things, it did build guidance systems for the Chinese military’s missile program. BYD also had a history of hiring lobbyists to secure no-bid contracts—as was this one. When the contract terms were finally made public, it included heavily inflated prices. And when the masks arrived, federal inspectors rejected them for being subpar and unsafe. None of this seemed to have bothered Newsom. When he traveled to China in October 2023, he visited a BYD factory, praising their products.

Staying home caused a whole host of terrible outcomes. Half of cancer patients reportedly skipped their chemotherapy sessions. Organ transplant surgeries involving living donors dropped by 85 percent. Severe child abuse cases jumped by 35 percent. Suicide attempts by teenage girls skyrocketed some 50 percent. Not to mention the dramatic negative effects the lockdowns had on education and low-wage workers. Some advocates of the lockdowns argued that they were important to calm citizens; they would lessen public anxiety. But studies demonstrated that they had the opposite effect, creating more fear. l … Fear tactics pushed by Beijing drove our political leaders to seek solutions from Beijing. The American people were looking to their leaders for guidance—our leaders were looking to the CCP. Beijing sought to prevail over, not work with, the United States. Beyond its obfuscation of data about the virus and cornering of medical supplies, it actively worked to undermine US efforts to come up with medical treatments for the virus.

The WHO investigation was more of a bureaucratic cover-up than a scientific investigation. The purpose and scope of the WHO investigation was “to identify the zoonotic source of the virus.” In other words, the scientists would not even be going to take a serious look at the prospects of a lab leak.

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[B. Cheng · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is absolutely terrible with its arguments. Much of the time the initial points are based on fact and are informative, but then the author takes them to the extreme. Are there party members working at Tik Tok? Yes, there are party members working at every company in China (including US owned ones), does that mean its automatically nefarious?

Yes, Xi was a higher up in the government in Fujian for a couple years, but there are 40 million people in Fujian, the idea that working in Fujian ties him to the mafia would be like saying Barack Obama has connections to and profits from Chicago gangs because he spent a few years in Chicago. The reason Douyin and Tik Tok are different has little to do with Douyin focusing on positive content and more to do with preventing Chinese from seeing content negative to the CCP, just like why google, x, instagram etc etc are banned in China.

The author takes everything to an illogical extreme in so many cases that it's laughable. He ignores all other possible explanations and chooses the most negative in every case.

[Dee Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Audible credit 7 hours 43 min. Narrated by Charles Constant (A)

Blood Money by Peter Schweizer, an independent investigative journalist, has written a well-documented look into the very real war that China is waging against the people in the United States. "China is killing Americans and working aggressively to maximize the carnage while our leaders remain passive and, in some cases, complicit. Why? Republicans, Democrats from the state level to our national leaders--there is enough evidence to spread thickly around them all. We need to take time to stop our civil war and to recognize who our real enemy is and how much China is contributing to the undermining of our great country.

Schweizer uses principles found in The Art of War to grapple with very real problems that have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and will continue to do so until action is demanded of our leaders even if it affects our own stock portfolios.
Part One "Murder with a borrowed knife" The new opium war-- the fentynol crisis
Part Two "Watch a fire from across the river" Arming criminals, magnifying social chaos, destabilizing democracy
Part Three "Hide a dagger in a smile" A TicTocking bomb, digital entertainment, The People's Republic of Hollywood
Part Four "Loot a burning house" Social engineering a pandemic, a cover-up for China and themselves

China's stated goals in this war are the undermining and defeat of Ameriica without ever having to fire a shot. The minds of our youth are one of the battlefields. I highly recommend this book.

[Stephen Drew]

Recommended by Ben Shapiro to understand China and
The TickTock saga

[Cmonroe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent illumination about China's intent

Revelation plainly explained about our enemies both foreign and domestic. Should be required reading in high school and college. May help save the current and next generation of americans.

[Benjamin Reardon · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Many people fear that a war with China may be coming. But the war is already here. This is not a shooting war, with boots on the ground, fighters flying overhead, or navy destroyers pummeling the coastline. American soldiers and Marines are not dying on battlefields; cities are not being bombed. It is a war, nevertheless, with massive civilian casualties, that is decimating our social stability if not actual buildings.”

One of the most important current affair books I’ve read to date, and more relevant than ever. Peter Schweizer is a dynamite investigator, and all of his evidence is provable and trustworthy. One need only look at the research (which he has obviously provided) themselves to realize that we are actively at war with China, no infantry or missiles necessary.

Schweizer expounds upon the growing American fentanyl crisis, increase of gun violence by gangs on the streets, Hollywood and video game studio ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the facts of China’s Covid-19 narrative manipulation.

Our leaders are not fighting for us; they are willfully submitting to Chinese homeland security threats. This is honestly one of the most important books on the shelves today, and I would urge every American citizen to read it and become aware of what’s happening to this nation from abroad. None of these issues raised by Schweizer should be politically divisive, certainly not to the citizenry, but they are.

[Brent Soderstrum · Rating 4 out of 5]

China is at war with the United States. No, not the conventional type of war we are used to but a stealth propaganda-laced, indirect war. We haven't paid attention to it and have even participated in it for the love of money. Our children will be who suffer from this.

China has exported fentanyl into our country through Mexico killing thousands of US citizens. China has also exported illegal gadgets for our handguns that make them more lethal. China has used TikTok, video games, and Hollywood to get into the minds of our children. The book also points out what took place during the Covid-19 crisis, which started in China. China was at first secretive about what had happened. Then they hoarded the personal protective medical equipment. Then they lied about lockdowns and the effects they suffered as a result. All in the name of hurting the US.

What was most alarming in the book was how our political leaders either ignored China's actions or participated actively in them solely for money and power. Both of which are temporary. China will continue to work behind the scenes to destroy the US. We will ultimately be under their rule, which is scary. I pity our children.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! This should be a must read for every American! I am shocked at how insidious the tentacles of the CCP have wrapped around the USA with the intent of harm. Well researched and written book.

[Simonas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Taip, autorius toks ant ribos radikalaus respublikonizmo ir sąmokslų teorijų jungimo; bet labai giliai ir įdomiai ištirti pavyzdžiai apie Kinijos įtaką JAV gyvenime. Nors ir skamba vietomis kaip pritempta sąmokslo teorija, jog Kinija atakuoja socialinį JAV gyvenimą heorinu, fentainiliu ir covid'u. Praėjus pusemčiui po knygos išleidimo Financial Times išleido savo tyrimą, realiai patvirtinantį vieną iš esminių knygos istorijų, kas turbūt tik dar labiau legimitizuoja supratimą apie likusius.

Įdomu.

[MJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Schweizer uses lots of reliable sources to show how China is connected to problems like the opioid crisis, and how most politicians know about it.

[Christopher · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rife with right wing conspiracy, but well written and raises interesting concerns. The chapters specifically about the TikTok ban are somewhat agreeable and I LOVE TikTok. Reading this in parallel with the Mueller report does make it plausible that the CCP would do what it can to stoke motivation for protest/violence/disfunction following inflammatory events (such as the George Floyd incident), just as Russia propagated misinformation during the 2016 election. Overall though… this book is giving infowars/Tucker Carlson vibes

[thewanderingjew · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book does not discuss the banking industry at all. It is about the pervasive Chinese influence in almost every other avenue of our lives. Hollywood, politics, Tiktok, communication, the gaming world, social media, health care, our elections, spies, the covid virus etc. have all been used to try to destabilize the world and the United States, according to Schweizer. In addition, their production and distribution of drugs like Fentanyl are dangerous and deadly. The author covers China, starting with the way opium was foisted and then almost surreptitiously forced upon them, using that as their excuse to get back at the Western world in all of the underhanded ways they have used to influence us.
Early in the book, the author mentions a book called "Disintegration Warfare", which the Chinese have been studying. It promotes winning without fighting. Deception, disruption and subduing are the weapons. Near the end of the book, Schweizer mentions a book that is one of the most popular works of historical fiction in China, "The Romance of The Three Kingdoms". In this book, in order to gain control of a rival, his crop is poisoned. Once his position is weakened, the rival invades, and of course the victim is overcome. It would seem that China has been engaged, using both of these policies, in trying to master the parts of the world that they can, and because of their patience, determination and control of the situations, they have often been very successful.
The use of devious methods like lies and secrecy may be the mainstay of their wheelhouse. The book is interesting, but grows dry with the mention of so many businesses, people and issues, and it often gets redundant and bogged down with details.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. This book is saying that a lot of the bad things happening in America are caused by China.

1. China exports fentanyl precursors to America. So the opioid crisis. And Obama didn’t care.
- how about OxyContin pushed by some Purdue Pharma?
- I am shocked that the author labelled the wealthiest man in Hong Kong Li Ka-Shing has links with Triads, and that Deng Xiao Ping met with him and Henry Fok to ask them to do triad work for the CCP. This was lifted solely from a book by Sam Cooper. This is bothering on the ridiculous as Li’s own son was kidnapped by the Triads before.

2. China sells Glock switches that enable anyone to change a handgun to a machine gun. So shooters kill.
- But one can just buy an assault rifle in America right?

3. China supports the Black Panthers to further racial chaos. Then it supported Black Lives Matter
- Black Panthers were communists
- Lots of American also supports BLM

4. TikTok: The Chinese version is educational, the American version tells kids to do stupid things
- maybe they’re just showing what viewers trend?

5. China forced Hollywood to portray a nice version of itself in order to let their films be shown in China
- Which country will allow a bad portrayal of itself in its cinema? Maybe only the Germans

6. China labs created Covid
- it harmed China most, at least at first…

Overall this is a must read as this is the Zenith of China-being the culprit- opinion. Certain points bothered on the ridiculous, but this is the current environment. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail to avoid World War 3.

[cool breeze · Rating 4 out of 5]

I rated Peter Schweizer’s previous two books as 5 stars. This one is also important, but it is not as good.

The subject is China’s cold war with America. Unfortunately, Schweizer “buries the lede” about China’s role in the Wuhan virus pandemic until the last 38 pages of a 200-page book. Everything else pales in comparison, but the reader has to slog through 160 pages about silencers, sear switches, Hollywood and Tik Tok before getting to it. He may have thought he was laying the groundwork, but it winds up being boring. I understand that putting this material after the pandemic would have been anticlimactic. But the book would have been much better with an introductory 50 pages about the other issues, followed by 150 pages about the pandemic. Just because Schweizer has 38 pages of material about Tik Tok and Hollywood doesn’t mean it deserves as much space in the book as the pandemic.

I had to force myself to finish the first 160 pages (2-3 stars) because I knew that the really interesting material (5 stars) was at the end. Even so, there are better books about China’s and Fauci’s and Daszak’s role in the pandemic, such as Rand Paul’s Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up, that don’t give it such short shrift.

[Tony · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book intersects with my interests. Money, corruption, and global politics. Essentially its about power. Instead what I read was very disappointing and incredibly biased.

Almost every 2 paragraphs a rhetorical question is asked, as if the writer is trying to prevent readers from forming their own opinion. He treats readers as children or, at worst, is the writer trying to mislead readers into their dubious arguments. Either way it is very condescending.

It is a shame, becuase from the news sources quoted, and the position we are in today, there is clearly issues between the U.S. and China - both economically and politically. The author could - and should have - put in the extra effort to expose the issues with our political and business elite. Instead what we got was a book with no substance. Only speculation.

[Jquick99 · Rating 2 out of 5]

For political books I want an unbiased author. Disclosure: I’m a Libertarian and don’t care for the leaders of either party. But, I have a hard time believing that high level D’s going back to Clinton are the only ones profiting (and allowing/looking away) from China’s “badness” and Mitch McConnell is the only R for the last 30 ish years.

The author does way too much “I’m going to tell you about…” rather than actually just telling. Why wait, besides to drag the book out longer?

[Adolfo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Don’t strike me as a patriot I love Chinese culture and want nothing but peace but the CCP is one mean machine. They are controlling the narrative of the United States from what we consume every day to the video games we play. It’s a form of revenge from the setbacks they endured through American art-of-war tactics.

[John W. Riley · Rating 5 out of 5]

And we do nothing

Another great book by Peter Schweizer. When will the American public understand that China is not our friend and only has bad intentions toward us? Lots of great insight into the blind eye taken by the American Elite only to line their pockets with fortunes. A MUST READ!

[Julia Coggins · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book that will open your eyes to what the Chinese government is trying to impose upon the world. I had to put it down frequently out of anger and disbelief!

Schweizer cites almost every sentence of this work and is very reliable.

[Houston Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a damning book, perhaps too damning that the majority of Americans would refuse to read it rather than face the truth. Peter Schweizer from the Government Accountability Institute elucidates China's end goal: To replace America as the world's hegemonic power to promote "the concept of a Community of Common Density for All Mankind." - President Xi. China's deliberate facilitation of Americans deaths by supplying auto sear switches to U.S. gangs, obfuscating data about COVID, and sending the precursor chemicals of Fentanyl to Mexico for production, brings to light the irrefutable notion that China has deployed the tactics of Sun Tzu to bring down the West, specifically the United States of America:

1. Murder with a borrowed knife: Fentanyl.

2. Watch a fire from across the river: Arming criminals with switches that turn the semi-automatic pistol into a machine pistol.

3. Hide a dagger in a smile: The zombification of the West through the TikTok propaganda machine.

4. Loot a burning house: Concocting a pandemic to destabilize the West and earn respect for their repressive and draconian measures to "contain" COVID-19.

China has already admitted that they cannot and will not surpass the superiority of the U.S. military. Therefore, an Unrestricted Warfare must take place where nothing is off-limits: drug, psychological, cultural, and media warfare.

[Joanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

The scariest book abou the swamp that you’ll ever read. Schweizer shows how when the palms of Washington insiders are greased, so too are the supply chains from China. Thus, magically, poof go regulations and restrictions in place to keep Americans safe.

What’s scarier is that he draws parallels to China following Sun Tsu’s The Art of War as its playbook for carrying out this clandestine warfare against the US culture and future generations. Fentanyl, Covid, and of course TikTok are all in play.

Schweizer is serious, well-cited, and names names so, alas, it’s hard to not believe what you’re reading.