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'Globe and Mail Bestseller and #1 Bestseller on Amazon If you want to understand war in the 21st century, read this to get part of the story. Robert Spalding, US Brigadier General (retired) This book reads like a thriller and is stranger than fiction. Gripping, racy and exciting, it is difficult to put down. A tale of gambling, narcotics, tycoons, criminal gangs and Communists. And the shocking part is that it s not a novel, it is all true. Benedict Rogers, CEO Hong Kong Watch In 1982 three of the most powerful men in Asia met in Hong Kong. They would decide how Hong Kong would be handed over to the People s Republic of China and how Chinese business tycoons Henry Fok and Li Ka-Shing would help Deng Xiaoping realize the Chinese Communist Party s domestic and global ambitions. That meeting would not only change Vancouver but the world. Billions of dollars in Chinese investment would soon reach the shores of North America s

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Publié par	Ecw Press
Date de parution	20 mai 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780888903020
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Wilful Blindness
How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West
SAM COOPER

Praise for Wilful Blindness
“A triad boss flees Hong Kong for foreign refuge, joining his family who’ve been there for years. His ties to organised crime don’t desiccate; rather, they find new life in this land too trusting in the rule of law, with stunted bureaucracies that seem thwarted at every turn. This is a new market for thievery, people smuggling, drug trafficking and money laundering. An entrepreneurial law enforcement officer catches onto the situation. Digging into the case, she is stunned to find that the mob has skirted normal migration processes, and imported its ways of crime to foreign lands. Even more shocking, links to the Chinese Communist Party dance around the edges of the case. So do links to local political figures.
“This is the alarming pattern of activity exposed in Sam Cooper’s eye-opening examination of Chinese organised crime and the Chinese Communist Party. It’s a story elaborated on in Canada, but that could just as easily have centred on United States, Australia, Cambodia or the Philippines. Unlocking decades-old pockets of law enforcement knowledge that were boarded up in an era where the dark undertones of China’s rise were overlooked, the time is now ripe for Cooper’s investigation to have the impact it deserves.”
— Alex Joske , Independent Analyst

Worldwide Acclaim for Wilful Blindness
Foreword
Accountability First: Holding Governments to account, should not be conflated with Racism.
1 — The Whales
2 — Section 86
3 — Vancouver Model 1.0
4 — The Mission in Hong Kong
5 — Triads Entering Canada
6 — Project Fallout
7 — The Casino Diaries
8 — The PLA Whale
9 — The Illegal Gaming Unit
10 — Killing the Golden Goose
11 — Narco City
12 — Ockham’s Razor
13 — Silver and Gold
14 — Known knowns
15 — Compromised Nodes
16 — Strike Back Hard
17 — Afterword: Infinite Connectivity
Acknowledgments
Index
Appendix A — References
Appendix B — Sidewinder
Appendix C — FATF Report
Appendix D — Chinese Triad Societies
Appendix E — World Military Games Letter to participants
Copyright

Worldwide Acclaim for Wilful Blindness
One of the more useful methodologies in investigative journalism can be reduced to a simple maxim: “follow the money.” Journalists who undertake difficult and dangerous assignments of the type Sam has pursued in this book will sooner or later encounter an encumbrance to the purpose of revealing the truth that emerges from the work of uncovering facts, and it’s this. Among the political vices, the thing about corruption is that the more widespread it is, and the higher up it goes in the political establishment, the less people want to talk about it.
This book is a testament to Sam’s persistence and determination to follow the money - hundreds of millions of dollars in dirty drug money, trunkloads of $20 bills carried into casinos in hockey bags, money laundered from China by Beijing’s “whale gambler” princelings and their back-alley go-betweens in Metro Vancouver. It’s about the Canadian politicians who saw benefits in a seedy underground industry that outweighed whatever harm they noticed in sky-high real estate prices and the corpse heaps of dead fentanyl users.
It’s a shocking story, told by a brave reporter who has forced a public conversation about corruption in Canada, how widespread it has become and how high up in the political establishment it has spread. It’s also a ripping yarn.
Terry Glavin, National Post
Wilful Blindness reveals how Vancouver has become a global springboard for China into the world’s most lucrative drug markets, including New York, Miami, Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. These markets are supplied by not only Vancouver, but Richmond, Calgary, Winnipeg, and thousands of mini-drug labs in homes along the border of the US that are mixing illicit chemicals into pills for onward sale.
Tens of thousands of people die in these cities every year, from drug overdoses of illegal fentanyl, opium, heroin, ecstasy, and methamphetamines imported from Burma, through Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Macau, Hong Kong, and China, by violent Triad gangs like the Big Circle Boys, Shui Fong, and 14K. The Triad gangs were started in the 17th century in China, and have fanned out globally, using a willing or unwilling Chinese diaspora, as the water in which they swim.
Anders Corr, PHD, Publisher of the Journal of Political Risk
“The transnational organized criminal networks are flourishing in Canada and elsewhere. With archaic legal systems, political indifference, and absent national strategy with siloed structures and systems, nations will continue to wake up to more dead kids, corrupt politicians and the rise of this 21st Century’s most significant national and global security threat.
Vancouver and the rest of Canada have been a ‘convergence zone’ for Chinese, Middle Eastern, Mexican and Columbian Cartels for well over a decade as they sell and export their drugs, make their money and finance their related operations within Canada and the U.S.
Money laundering is merely a symptom of their crime and nefarious activities; the dirty money will find the cracks in the system just as water finds on all surfaces.
Sam Cooper has done what security officials have been hesitant to share until recently, Canada is a haven for nefarious national security and transnational organized crime networks, and our democracy is at risk”.
Calvin Chrustie Former officer in charge of major projects federal policing, RCMP, BC, Senior Advisor and Consultant, The Critical Risk Team
“This book reads like a thriller, and is stranger than fiction. Gripping, racy and exciting, it is difficult to put down. A tale of gambling, narcotics, tycoons, criminal gangs and Communists. And the shocking part is that it’s not a novel, it is all true. Based on meticulous research, this aptly titled book exposes the naivety and corruption at the heart of western democracies which for too long have kowtowed to the Chinese Communist Party regime and their crime syndicates and as a result put the free world in jeopardy. This book is a wake-up call, and a must-read.”
Benedict Rogers, co-founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch

Foreword
Charles Burton
Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, European Values Center for Security Policy
Surrounded by majestic mountain vistas, set on the Pacific Ocean with clean, fresh sea air and sandy beaches, Vancouver enjoys a moderate climate with no extremes of heat or cold, a ‘gardeners’ paradise of lush peonies and flowering trees. Who would not want to live in such a paradise?
Since its founding, Vancouver has been a favoured destination for immigrants from China. Today, Vancouver has a larger share of Chinese residents than all other major Canadian or U.S. metro areas. 40% of the southeast Vancouver residents identify as ethnic Chinese, with over 50% Chinese in Richmond and about 20% over the Vancouver metro area as a whole. Through hard work and persistence against decades of systematized racism, including draconian measures to limit Chinese immigration and integration into mainstream society, ‘ ‘Vancouver’s Chinese community today thrives and prospers as citizens of Canada. Hospital wings, university buildings and institutions of arts and culture all over Vancouver proudly bear the Chinese-Canadian names of generous donors. But racial discrimination, misunderstanding and separateness continue to exist behind language and cultural barriers. There is a lot of work still to be done to overcome the shameful legacy of anti-Chinese bigotry. And more and more misidentification of the Canadian Chinese community with the Communist Party-led brutal, repressive and corrupt regime in ‘China’s ‘People’s Republic today. This is no more evident than in its dissembling over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and ugly tactic of hostage diplomacy to intimidate and coerce Canada, which means anti-Chinese racism is again on the rise in Canada.
This book looks at the opaque relationship between the Chinese Communist political élite and criminal triad gangs who trade in fentanyl, methamphetamines and opioids, money laundering through casinos, the escalating price of real estate in Vancouver and the Canadian officials, lawyers and law enforcement who may be complicit in murky illicit highly lucrative underground transactions. But we should be clear that this book is not about the ordinary honest, and hard-working members of the Chinese-Canadian community in Vancouver who are primarily the victims of all this dark depravity.
Much of Wilful Blindness is written in the first person. In addition to its revelations of malfeasance leading up to the most senior levels of Canadian political power, this book is also a personal story of an investigative reporter’s quest over more than a decade, of the relentless painstaking work by journalist Sam Cooper to find the facts behind a complex web of circumstantial interconnection between the massive investments by families of ‘China’s Communist élite in Vancouver real estate, huge cash transactions in B.C. casinos and the recurring presence of senior officials of ‘China’s Communist regime and Canadian politicians photographed in the company of shadowy figures associated with transnational organized crime.
Vancouver is where the Huawei CFO, Meng Wanzhou, was arrested in 2019. She had seven passports in her possession when she was detained at the Vancouver Airport with indications that she had had an eighth official public purposes special PRC pass