briefly on Mao; fentanyl busts in Mexico

 Mao's Volunteer Army.   This week China is celebrating, with massive fanfare, the 70th anniversary of its intervention in what it calls “The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.”  https://asiatimes.com/2020/10/china-honors-human-wave-heroes-of-korean-war/

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Mao Zedong's "Order to the Chinese People's Volunteers"

October 1950    To leading comrades of the Chinese People's Volunteers at all levels:

1.  In order to support the Korean people's war of liberation and to resist the attacks of U.S. imperialism and its running dogs, thereby safeguarding the interests of the people of Korea, China and all the other countries in the East, I herewith order the Chinese People's Volunteers to march speedily to Korea and join the Korean comrades in fighting the aggressors and winning a glorious victory. https://china.usc.edu/mao-zedongs-order-chinese-peoples-volunteers-1950

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Mao in reality had many captured Chinese soldiers left from the Chinese civil war and he decided to dump them via human wave attacks against US forces in Korea.  He considered them unreliable.  -r

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2-2-2010   According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China.  Anyone who got in his way was done away with -- by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.

For Mao the No. 1 enemy was the intellectual. The so-called Great Helmsman reveled in his blood-letting, boasting,  “What’s so unusual about Emperor Shih Huang of the China Dynasty?  He had buried alive 460 scholars only, but we have buried alive 46,000 scholars.”  Mao was referring to a major “accomplishment” of the Great Cultural Revolution, which from 1966-1976 transformed China into a great House of Fear.    https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/the-legacy-mao-zedong-mass-murder

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9-18-20  MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities say seizures of the synthetic opioid fentanyl so far this year are 465% higher than in 2019, rising to almost 2,300 pounds (1,040 kilograms) from around 405 pounds ( 184 kilograms) last year.

Mexican Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said “Fentanyl is not produced here in our country.  It is put together here, the product, the raw material, the powder arrives, and pills are made from it here, but fentanyl is not produced.”  He said that labs found in the northern state of Sinaloa last year had only pills presses and finished fentanyl powder but not chemical production facilities.

Cocaine seizures in Mexico rose by around the same amount, hitting 44,000 pounds (20,069 kilograms) so far this year, as compared to 30,000 pounds (13,766 kilograms) in the same period last year.  https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexico-sees-fentanyl-seizures-quadruple-denies-making-drug-73097063