By John Cassara, Crisis Magazine, March 13, 2023
John Cassara is a retired U.S. Treasury Special Agent. His area of expertise is anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. His most recent book is China – Specified Unlawful Activities – CCP Inc, Transnational Crime and Money Laundering. …
A few years ago, I taught a course focusing on Chinese transnational crime and money laundering. During class discussion, I was asked by one of the students: “If you could wave a magic wand that would transform the People’s Republic of China and correct its criminal trajectory, what would you do?” My short, and probably surprising, answer: “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in desperate need of morality.”
I am not referring to the CCP’s current sense of morality. Rather, I am referring to a higher, one true God-given standard of morals and ethics. These are universally recognized values of good that most of us of whatever age and culture know innately. In the case of the CCP, most of these precepts have been rejected or twisted into unrecognizable form. Communist morality is whatever is best for the party. …
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