China’s past arms proliferation activities have included providing Pakistan with nuclear warhead designs, selling advanced cruise missiles to Iran and providing North Korea with mobile intercontinental ballistic missile launchers. Recently China has begun selling unmanned aerial vehicles — one of the cutting-edge weapons used by foreign militaries and even adopted by some terrorist groups for attacks. The drone can fly for up to 30 hours and carry a payload of up to 110 pounds. The cost? A YZ-8 can be procured for $250,000 and can be purchased using a Visa or Mastercard credit card or through Western Union. The YZ-8 appears to be a civilian version of China’s Harrier Hawk II Air Sniper, a military drone that is equipped with a synthetic aperture radar for radar imaging missions. “You need go no further than the Alibaba webpage to see how easily China proliferates drone technology that could easily be converted into a medium-range cruise missile,” said Rick Fisher, a China military affairs expert. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/25/mark-kelton-chinas-us-intel-theft-unprecedented/
Two deaths in Akron in seven days made assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Cronin wonder where all the fentanyl was coming from. The target of an investigation, a low-level drug dealer, had the answer. Matt Cronin: The target said that he can get any drugs he could ever imagine over the internet from China. Cronin's investigators went online and discovered overseas labs offering most any illegal drug. Matt Cronin: We just said, "Hey", according to the source's instructions, "we're interested in buying fentanyl." And the result was, to say the least, surprising. We have dozens, probably over 50 different drug trafficking networks reaching out to us saying, "We have fentanyl. We have even more powerful fentanyl analogs. Whatever you want, we'll get it for you for cheap. We'll get it for you in bulk. Scott Pelley: And all of these came from where? Matt Cronin: It was universally China. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deadly-fentanyl-bought-online-from-china-being-shipped-through-the-mail-60-minutes-2019-09-15/
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