January 15, 2025

by Miguel T. Tonnis

• The fires are still burning in Los Angeles
• FBI’s Chris Wray exit interview on 60 Minutes: China is ready to attack
• China Is Prepared to Shoot Down Musk’s Starlink Satellites (Asia Times)
• Navarro Warns: “That garbage you see in the air sometime might well be from China. What happens in China doesn’t stay in China. If you are a West Coaster, you may all too well know what I mean here.” (Peter Navarro’s Substack)

How bad can it get and who is to blame? Who started the fires? Was the torching of Los Angeles an act of criminal negligence, arson by foreign agents, government incompetence, downed power lines or was it something even more nefarious and evil?

The fires are still burning a week after they were started, yet this disaster was entirely predictable, even too predictable. Bad actors and arsonists could therefore count on the Santa Ana winds to start massive wildfires. If Santa Ana winds are in the weather forecast, expect wildfires that are intentionally set by arsonists, or perhaps Chinese agent-provocateurs.

This crisis won’t end when the fires are out. The once-great Golden State has been sliced, diced, filleted and auctioned off like pieces of meat by the Biden crime family, Governor Gavin Newsom and the communist Mayor of Los Angeles.

California and China are joined at the hip economically speaking. California is now feasting on a banquet of consequences, all of them predictable. Not only has California “set the standard” for the deep state DEI blob in Washington DC and California, the state has been infiltrated by bad actors from China.

The economic consequences of the fires will be enormous, and while current estimates of the fire losses exceed $250 billion, the cost of Chinese influence and infiltration in the state are incalculable. Wildfires and water are the least of California’s concerns. California has bet heavily on China and China is coming for California.

“The Chinese government is prepositioning on American civilian critical infrastructure to lie in wait on those networks to be in a position to wreak havoc & inflict real world harm at a time & place of their choosing.”

Wray described the CCP as “the greatest long-term threat” and the “defining threat of our generation” due in part to its state-funded cyber program that’s poised to “wreak havoc” on a whim – targeting water treatment plants, the electrical grid, natural gas infrastructure and other systems.

According to Wray, China has pre-positioned malware throughout American infrastructure.

He also says that Beijing has been listening to communications by high-level US officials.

We will assume the obvious by stating that Gavin Newsom’s office has also been tapped and infiltrated by China, as was the office of the late Senator Diane Feinstein who had a CCP spy for her driver for 20 years, as was Congressman Eric Swalwell who was captured by a honeypot CCP spy named Fang Fang.

Speaking of Diane Feinstein, Trump said at the time as quoted by CBS, “it’s just come out that the Democratic leader and the leader of the Russian investigation, Dianne Feinstein, had a Chinese spy as her driver for 20 years,” he told the crowd. “And she’s leading the Russian investigation, if that’s what you call it. How about it, no no, she’s leading the Russian witch hunt. A Democrat-inspired witch hunt.”

Indeed, the Russian Collusion Hoax was perpetuated and prosecuted by California’s Democrat power players who have been compromised by Chinese influence peddlers or infiltrated by CCP spies.

In November of 2023, four years after the breakout of the “China Virus”, Governor Newsom rolled out the red carpet and hosted the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, for a State visit. In fact, Newsom was gearing up for a run at the presidency just as the 2024 election season was kicking off and he wanted to appear presidential by hosting a dog and pony show for one of the greatest mass murderers of all-time.

Prior to evicting the homeless and drug addicts, Newsom called in the California National Guard and the California Highway Patrol to assist in interdiction and cleanup operations. This was, in force and effect, a declaration of martial law disguised as a local emergency declaration and is yet another example of Newsom’s political posturing with China.

China’s air and water pollution crisis is out of control, as Dr. Peter Navarro highlights in his latest article on Substack.

“Prolonged drought in China’s northern breadbasket, which is already facing a severe water shortage, is projected to dramatically cut China’s ability to feed itself.” – Dr. Peter Navarro

“China’s population is so big and its resources so scarce that if we continue to ignore our environmental problems, that will bring disaster for us and the world.” – Pan Yue, China’s Environmental Protection Administration

President Nixon opened the door to China’s market in 1972 and as a result of this trip, China gave the United States two pandas. In 2024, China recalled their Pandas and for the first time in 50 years, China effectively shut the door on the United States. This act wasn’t mere symbolism.

Today, China has modernized and is manufacturing the largest military machine in the world while planning to invade Taiwan. China is also challenging the Dollar as the world’s reserve currency through the creation of the BRICS currency system, which includes Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa as the largest blocks in a system that also includes Saudi Arabia. This is why they’re calling the BRICS currency to be end of the “petro dollar”.

There are many thousands of malicious foreign actors in California and they’re working undercover amongst millions of undocumented immigrants and hundreds of thousands of Chinese students and H1B tech workers. California’s economy relies on revenues from Chinese tourists and students. It’s also estimated that some 100,000 fighting age single men from China have crossed into the United States illegally via the southern border. The state’s economy is not only heavily reliant on illegal immigrant labor, Chinese millionaires have been flooding the state and buying real estate with their new-found wealth for years.

It’s not a coincidence that Chris Ray would use 60 minutes for his exit interview while warning us that China is prepositioned to attack at a time and place of their choosing. What happens when Trump imposes restrictions on travel from China after deporting Chinese nationals who have visas? The timing of Wray’s warning on China is obviously connected to the fires in Los Angeles. Has the FBI been called in to investigate?

Not so fast says Donald Trump. Tariffs of 100% will be meted out to Countries that chose BRICS over the Dollar if they want to trade with the United States. Trump has said that the word “tariff is the most beautiful word in the English language”. Trump knows that tariffs are all he needs to collapse China’s economy which is already on the brink of disaster. Trump also intends to end Newsom’s EV mandates.

“I will end the Electric Vehicle Mandate on Day One — thereby saving the US auto industry from complete obliteration and saving US customers thousands of dollars per car,” Trump said. Although Musk has said that Tesla doesn’t rely on tax credit subsidies for Tesla to survive, EV demand will shrink considerably.

Will China punish Tesla for teaming up with Trump? Musk knows that any labor arbitrage by Tesla will soon be subject to Trump’s tariffs. Surprisingly, Tesla recorded record sales of their EV in China during 2024.

Musk has said that Taiwan is a part of China. If China invades Taiwan, China plans to blow Elon’s Starlink satellites out of the sky according to a report in Asia Times today.

The Chinese have been in the greatest military expansion since World War Two, rapidly bringing their military assets to a war-time footing while encircling Taiwan and building weaponized islands in the South China Sea. In 2020, Military.com reported that China surpassed the U.S. Navy in the production of both numbers of warships and missile development:

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has already surpassed the U.S. in missile development and its number of warships and air defense systems under the Chinese Communist Party’s plan to achieve dominance by 2049, the Defense Department said in a sobering report Tuesday.

Under the national strategy pressed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the result has been that “China is already ahead of the United States in certain areas” essential to its overall aim of progressing from homeland and periphery defense to global power projection, the report said.

As reported by the New York Post in May of 2019, Chinese state media calls for ‘people’s war’ as US trade conflict escalates. This was just 4 months prior to the Wuhan lab leak and the Covid-19 pandemic beginning in January of 2020,

The following post includes a 45 minute video presentation by Brian Kennedy of the Committee on the Present Danger. In the video, he describes the nature of this war and how Communist China believes in “Unrestricted Warfare” (Stated in 1999).