President Donald Trump must completely purge the State Department (DOS) to prevail in the inevitable confrontation between his America-first movement and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Trump’s appointees will respond to him, but the permanent bureaucracy will undermine him—delighting the CCP—to help globalist tyrants retake the presidency.
The CCP’s attacks on Hong Kong’s liberty show the slogan “One Country, Two Systems” is a lie. Tyrants cannot tolerate and will always seek to extinguish liberty. One of the two systems will prevail. The other will disappear.
US author and China expert Gordon Chang describes the zero-sum game in Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America: “The CCP views the United States as an existential threat not because of anything Americans have ever said or done but because of who they are and what they stand for … There can be only one survivor: either the People’s Republic of China or the United States of America.”
Chang lists some of China’s current weaknesses: “continuing debt defaults, accelerating capital flight, a failing currency, crumbling property prices, worsening food shortages, a deteriorating environment, and failing local governments.” CCP boss Xi Jinping’s increasing totalitarianism has contributed to the worsening situation. His solution of further tightening state control will only exacerbate China’s problems.
In addition to these problems, a falling population and societal pessimism shorten Xi’s window to make China the dominant world power. The CCP, however, is not yet ready to directly confront the United States. Instead, it is actively subverting the United States from within and using proxies to create chaos and distract and weaken the United States.
Xi gave Putin the green light to invade Ukraine and has supported Russia since. Xi supported attacks on Israel through Iran’s proxies and has provided funds by purchasing Iranian oil. DOS permanent bureaucrats agreed with the Joe Biden regime’s Ukraine war policy and favored Iran. Elements of DOS have opposed Israel since before its founding.
Joseph Humire, executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society, has said that China has made US$450 billion in loans and investments in Latin America this century. Venezuela has received $60 billion, and Humire says China is buying the country’s sovereignty. Dictator Nicolás Maduro has remained in power there because of China’s support.
As in Europe and the Middle East, China leads Iran’s and Russia’s activities in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. The pair provide disruptive services so that China can pretend to have only commercial interests. Humire makes the case that China’s real interest is military.
Humire explains that China, with Iran and Russia, is creating crises or capitalizing on them “to catalyze for change in terms of control” of resources, trade, and maritime security. The anti-US coalition is creating chaos throughout the world as part of an agenda to change the world order, which Xi plans on dominating.
The “crisis on the US southern border and the fentanyl and cocaine crisis inside the United States” are part of this strategy. The disorder is “intended to … weaken the social fabric of the United States … and [make] Latin America become an area of non-permissiveness for the United States to operate in.”
The Biden regime policy of flooding our country with illegal immigrants and drugs aligns with Xi’s strategy. DOS permanent bureaucrats have eagerly executed this policy because it also fits their collectivist, anti-US ideology. They have installed or supported US enemies across Latin America who align with China.
I recently wrote that the “International Narcotics Control Strategy Report” by DOS’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau (INL) released in March 2025 covers for the CCP. The report asserts the CCP “does not, as a matter of government policy, encourage or facilitate illicit drug production or distribution.”
An April 1 Epoch Times report counters that “China remains the primary source of fentanyl precursors, which are shipped to Mexico, where they’re manufactured into the illicit drug … then smuggled into the United States.”
Former Peking University law professor Yuan Hongbing has, according to the report, insider access to senior CCP leaders: “It is precisely due to Xi’s directives that we are now seeing a dramatic increase in both the production of fentanyl precursors in China and the export of these chemicals, fueling the ongoing fentanyl crisis in the United States.” Yuan adds that Xi’’s Belt and Road Initiative is “aimed at expanding communist totalitarianism around the world.”
Gordon Chang says “America has not changed China’s regime.” Instead, “China’s regime has changed America.” Chang says there must be a hard break from China.
Latin America is critically important if we want to move supply chains there from China. Meanwhile, Humire says we have ignored Latin America.
Maybe policy makers have ignored Latin America, but DOS permanent bureaucrats have not. They have actively betrayed the United States. To reestablish US prominence in our hemisphere and oust the CCP, Trump must prosecute those responsible and overhaul DOS—sooner rather than later.
The article first appeared in BizPac Review.
