When Will We Start Acting Like China Is At War With The U.S.?
BY Herschel Smith
2 days, 3 hours ago
Federal authorities in Detroit on Tuesday announced charges against a Chinese scholar at the University of Michigan and her boyfriend, a scientific researcher, for allegedly conspiring to smuggle a dangerous biological pathogen into the U.S.—a pathogen capable of damaging agricultural crops and causing illness in humans and livestock.
University of Michigan scholar Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, 34, both Chinese citizens, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the U.S., making false statements, and visa fraud, interim Detroit U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. announced.
According to the criminal complaint, Jian received Chinese government funding to work on the dangerous pathogen in China. A pathogen is a microorganism or biological agent that can cause disease or illness.
In this case, the pathogen is a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, which can cause “head blight,” a disease that affects wheat, barley, maize, and rice. It is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The toxins produced by Fusarium graminearum can also cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock.
The criminal complaint alleges that Jian’s boyfriend, Liu, works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen. Authorities allege that he initially lied but later admitted to smuggling Fusarium graminearum into the U.S. through Detroit Metropolitan Airport on July 27, 2024, with the intent of conducting research on it at the University of Michigan laboratory where Jian had been working since 2023.
An FBI affidavit filed Tuesday stated that Liu was interviewed at the airport by Customs and Border Patrol agents, and eventually admitted materials found in his backpack were different strains of the pathogen Fusarium graminearum. He also admitted that he intended to use the U-M lab to conduct research with the biological materials found in his backpack.
Oftentimes, you don’t get to choose your enemies or when you fight them.
On June 4, 2025 at 1:16 am, Georgiaboy61 said:
The decision to open normal relations with Red China, even though it is now nearly fifty years in the past – is a blunder of historic proportions, whose reverberations will be felt for years to come.
The United States and the UN fought the communists in Korea, first the North Koreans and then the Communist Chinese when they interceded on behalf of their allies. The conflict was halted by the cease-fire agreement in July 1953 at Panmunjum, but no peace agreement was ever signed because none could be agreed upon. This is why some historians and scholars maintain that the Korean War never really ended.
Nixon and Kissinger opened relations with the PRC seeking to drive a wedge between the PRC and the USSR, but their ploy backfired spectacularly. All that happened is that the Chi-Com leadership duped our leadership and financial classes into moving our industrial base to the PRC and then handing them the keys to it. The PRC is now an economic powerhouse, allied with Russia, which is in terms of natural resources, the wealthiest nation on earth. The U.S. is a shadow of what it once was in terms of manufacturing prowess.
The leadership and military of the PRC has been war-gaming since the 1990s with the United States as its presumptive opponent. In 1999, two senior (full) colonels of the People’s Liberation Army, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui published a book entitled “Unrestricted Warfare,” whose topic was how a rising power such as China could beat a “technologically superior foe” – which is the euphemism they used to refer to the United States.
The book concerns not only conventional means and modes of warfare, but unconventional and asymmetric means. In principle, according to the authors, there is no division between the military and non-military, the soldier and the civilian. Warfare is to be waged in all realms, using any and all available means traditional and non-traditional alike. Translated into English, it makes chilling reading for those who are interested.
The common people, whether here in the United States or in the PRC, probably do not want war, but the President of the PRC, Xi Xinping, and his senior advisors and general staff seem to have fewer qualms.
The U.S. lost a historic, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the chessboard geopolitically, when the USSR dissolved and communism collapsed in Russia. At that time, many Russians wanted to enter a new era of cooperation and friendship with the West, including the U.S. The Warsaw Pact alliance was dissolved, in return for guarantees that NATO would not be expanded any further towards Russia. Indeed, Moscow even considered joining the alliance for a time!
But this brief window closed when the Clinton administration back-stabbed the Russians during the 1990s, breaking the promises made just a few years before. The West angered Moscow even more by bombing Serbia, a close friend of Russia, during the Balkans crisis. The betrayals and lies continued into the 2000s and 2010s, and opinion of the U.S. was so low in Russia at one point that a door-mat featuring an American flag was a best-seller in that country!
The end result of all of this is that Russia, which ought to be an ally of the West, has been literally driven into the arms of the PRC. Together with Iran, the three nations comprise a very formidable economic and military alliance.
Separately, none of these nation is an easy out for the U.S., militarily speaking. Together, they represent a strategic and tactical nightmare.
For many decades, the U.S. has relied on its technological superiority and the deterrence of its nuclear triad. However, the U.S. lead in this area is slipping, if not already gone in any number of areas. And like the U.S., all three members of the Russia-China-Iran alliance have nukes and delivery systems for them.
These three nations are also fully-prepared if necessary to fight a conventional war of attrition with the U.S. and/or its western allies. They possess the industrial base,trained workforce and technical know-how to do it. The U.S. no longer does.
What’s even worse is that inventories of many weapons are now dangerously low after supplying the war in Ukraine. The U.S. is low on 155mm artillery shells and manufacturers are saying that the shortfall will take a year or more to replenish ~ which is an eternity for a nation at war. Germany, until recently one of the foremost industrial economies in the world, has less than a week’s worth of 155mm shells in its inventory and cannot make good on the shortage.
On paper, NATO may look formidable, but it is largely a paper tiger at this point.
NATO of course is not an alliance concerned with the Pacific or East Asia regions, but its status is indicative of just how poorly prepared the U.S. and its allies are prepared to go to war. There are exceptions – South Korea is a powerhouse and Japan is re-arming urgently – but the balance of power in the region is tilting more toward Beijing, which is not what anyone on our side wants.
On June 4, 2025 at 9:34 am, george 1 said:
The problem with U.S. v. China is that we inflicted the problem upon ourselves. We shipped our industry to China and made them a global power while simultaneously weakening ourselves. A lot of bankers and oligarchs got orders of magnitude richer though.
The answer is to enforce your immigration laws and close our Borders. We must also bring back industry. That is no longer a luxury, it is an issue of survival. Free trade was always a fraud. I remember Rush Limbaugh being one of the biggest cheerleaders for “free trade” and allowing China into the WTO. An idiot in reflection.
@Georgiaboy61:
“Separately, none of these nations is an easy out for the U.S., militarily speaking. Together, they represent a strategic and tactical nightmare.”
Ha. You can say that again. If the U.S. winds up starting a war with Iran that move could bring down the Western Empire. Not to mention most likely sending the entire world into a massive depression. That will be nothing compared to going to war with Russia or China. In either case we will have our clocks cleaned or the entire world will be destroyed.
On June 4, 2025 at 1:29 pm, GrayDog said:
@Georgiaboy61, yours is the best summary analysis of our dilemma that I think I have seen. Well done! And yes, China is at war with us. This is the “softening up” phase.
On June 4, 2025 at 2:09 pm, Latigo Morgan said:
You can bet that they weren’t the only ones, and that wasn’t the only bioweapon they have turned loose, or tried to turn loose on us. Look at the invasive bugs and fish. Were they accidents?
On June 4, 2025 at 3:33 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ george1
Re: ” If the U.S. winds up starting a war with Iran that move could bring down the Western Empire. Not to mention most likely sending the entire world into a massive depression.”
The Persians – by which I mean the Iranians – simply have to restrict access to the Persian Gulf, or close it entirely – to plunge the world economy into a tailspin. The price of a barrel of oil would go up ten-fold overnight, perhaps more. And that, as the saying goes, would be that.
The U.S. and Israeli militaries cannot prevent this if Tehran really wishes to do it; neither nation has a non-nuclear tactical answer to Russian-supplied hypersonic missile technology which Iran now possesses. Or the swarming weapons they can deploy against shipping. The Houthis, supplied by the Revolutionary Guard Corps “Quds” force, have given enormous headaches to Israel and U.S.-flagged shipping, and Iran properly would be even tougher.
@GrayDog – Thanks for the kind words. Much appreciated…
On June 4, 2025 at 7:18 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@Latigo Morgan
Re: “You can bet that they weren’t the only ones, and that wasn’t the only bioweapon they have turned loose, or tried to turn loose on us. Look at the invasive bugs and fish. Were they accidents?”
Well, the fentanyl crisis certainly is real, and the PRC are behind that, working in conjunction with the Mexican narcotics cartels. And if the government/military of the PRC is willing to kill people or cripple them for life using engineered narcotics, then it stands to reason that other biological-chemical weapons would not be off the table, either.
For what it is worth, I have long-believed that the government of the PRC have been involved in the whole Covid-19 episode from the very start, probably working in collusion with the Biden government and its surrogates, i.e., Dr. Fauci, Gates, et al. The possibility that it was designed from the start as a biological weapon cannot be discounted.
My late father, who was a high-level electronics industry executive (and WW2 veteran), who did a great deal of business internationally including the Far East, once told me that in that part of the world, they reckon the value of human life very differently than in the West. While this is obvious not true for everyone in the PRC or anyplace else, it explains a great deal of the behavior of China’s ruling class.
On June 4, 2025 at 7:44 pm, Latigo Morgan said:
@Georgiaboy61 China could lose 300 million people and not even notice it. If the US lost 300 million? Well, there’d be a lot less traffic congestion, to say the least.
On June 4, 2025 at 11:28 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ Latigo Morgan
Yes, you are quite right about the ability of the Chinese population to absorb casualties. Back in the 1960s, at some conference or other, members of U.S. general staff met with their opposite numbers in the PLAN, People’s Liberation Army-Navy, which is what the PRC call their military. Sorry, but I don’t have specific names or precise dates on hand.
The gist of it is that an American general spoke about the size/strength of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and asked if the Chinese were prepared to absorb such casualties as a nuclear strike would generate, perhaps as many as two or three hundred million dead ~ whereupon the Chinese general shrugged his shoulders and said that his country had more than enough people to recover even from losses that severe.
Along with the Poles and Russians, and perhaps the Greeks also, the Chinese suffered the most casualties per-capita during the Second World War.
On June 4, 2025 at 11:38 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Any discussion of Chinese influence and power, which seems to be growing by leaps and bounds, must include fifth-columnist operations inside the United States and around the world. Leaving aside the latter for the moment to focus just on the U.S., the PRC has spread its considerable wealth around in a very shrewd manner, buying “friends” and influence all over the place, including inside the U.S. government, most of our major institutions, and in many large corporations.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the senior Senator from Kentucky and former head of the GOP caucus, is worth an estimated $30 million dollars, in part because he married Elaine Chao – but he had nowhere near that kind of money as an attorney in private life. Public sources claim that he and his wife invested their money wisely, but the scuttlebutt is that McConnell has been selling influence to the Chinese. It is no secret that his wife is a vocal proponent of their interests.
Is Senator McConnell on the take from the PRC? Only he and the Chinese know for sure, but it is sure is suspicious how many multimillionaires there are in the House and Senate, people who arrived in Washington, D.C. as folks of modest means and ended up being rather rich.
Between the powerful Arab and Israeli lobbies, and now the PRC, it is a wonder that Congress finds time to listen to any Americans at all!
On June 4, 2025 at 11:45 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@Gray Dog
Re: “And yes, China is at war with us. This is the ‘softening up’ phase.”
Yes, quite so. Remember your Sun Tzu? The battle is won or lost before it is ever fought…
Whatever else may be said of them, the Chinese are not stupid, far from it. Which is bad news for our side, because stupidity and illogic seem to be endemic these days in the West, particularly among its so-called leaders.
On June 5, 2025 at 6:10 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
There is yet more to the undeclared war between the U.S. and the PRC for those still interested…
In 1899, the nationalist and anti-foreign group “The Society of Righteous Harmony Fists,” otherwise known colloquially as the Boxers, created an uprising against foreigners in China which also had an anti-Christian element to it. The “Boxers” laid siege to the legation quarter in Peking, as it was then called, as the rebellion spread across Northern China.
The besieged westerners sent out an urgent call for help, and an international force comprised of American, British, French, Italian, Russian and Japanese troops responded, arriving to break the siege and save the hostages inside. After a brief but bloody conflict, the Boxer Rebellion was defeated by this multi-national force – and the dowager empress of China was compelled to sue for peace by 1901.
The imperial powers forced the defeated Chinese to allow the stationing of foreign troops on her soil, to protect diplomatic, business and other personnel inside China, including missionaries as well. The U.S. stationed Marines and soldiers in Shanghai, Peking, and other major cities, as well creating the U.S. Navy China Force, comprised of submarines and shallow-draft riverine patrol craft, amongst other vessels – to open and maintain clear maritime paths from the interior of China to the sea.
By the late 1920s, relations between Japan and China had deteriorated to the point that troops from both sides had clashed more than once, and by the 1930s, Japan had seized Manchuria and was actively fighting Nationalist forces.
Ostensibly, Japan remained a part of the alliance which had won the Boxer Rebellion, but in reality and as a nation, Japan was beginning to go its own way separate from the West. Later in the 1930s came the air attack upon the U.S.S. Panay, which almost triggered a war between Japan and the U.S. and around that time, the infamous Rape of Nanking, by marauding Japanese soldiers.
The occupation of China due to the Boxer Rebellion was ended by WW2, but immediately after, U.S. Marines returned to that nation to safeguard U.S. and other personnel still inside China as the communists and nationalists re-started their dormant civil war which had been on hold since WW2 began. Ultimately, of course, the communists triumphed and forced the Nationalist government to flee to Taiwan, formerly Formosa.
Today’s communist Chinese government in recent decades has used a steady stream of anti-foreign propaganda at home to whip up sentiment against the West and the U.S. in particular ~ even as it maintains the facade that all is copacetic with the U.S. and other trading partners.
President Xi Xinping and his associates call it “The Century of Shame,” i.e., that era during which foreign military forces were stationed on Chinese soil. The century runs from the 1850s and the start of the “Opium Wars” with China, until 1949.
The massive, well-funded and highly-coordinated effort by the Chinese government and that of North Korea, to flood the U.S. with highly-potent and dangerous fentanyl derivatives and other designer narcotics is in part retaliation for the “century of shame.” The fact that this alleged insult to China occurred a long time ago does not seem to matter to them and no one seems to have told President Xi that it was the British and not the Americans responsible for the “Opium Wars,” but Chinese “face” and honor are at stake, so all bets are off.
The political leaders of one nation-state creating and then feeding the fires of nationalism to unite the population at home is a political ploy as old as humankind, but this particular variant is the spin the PRC government is putting on it.