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The Quiet Invasion: China's Collusion with the Islamic State

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Exclusive investigation from Hels Goethe. Read part 1.


According to homeland.house.gov, “Encounters of Chinese nationals in March 2024 increased over 8,000 percent compared to March 2021.” The Department of Homeland Security reports more than 3,000 encounters with known “special interest foreigners” at the southern border last year.

I saw first-hand evidence for this working with The GOAT Initiative on the California-Mexico border.

Easily described as a repository for sensitive national security items, the GOAT Initiative houses hundreds of Chinese national ID cards and passports from special interest foreigners detailing various travels to countries of "particular concern" before reaching the U.S. border.

Is this massive influx of Chinese nationals and Middle Eastern men a mirror of immigrants from other countries simply taking advantage of Biden's incompetent border policies? Or, is there a possibility that the border crisis did not spawn out of incompetency and their invasion onto US soil is a result of something far more nefarious? A strategic collusion? 

There is no denying the flurry of diplomatic activity between China and the Taliban. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) undoubtedly has a domestic interest in protecting order and security as the two countries share a 57-mile-long border. However, international, or geostrategic projections are almost indisputable as the country was prepped and ready to step in just days after the United States' abrupt abandonment of Afghanistan, in August of 2021.

A photocopy of a Chinese national ID card found at the southern border. One of hundreds kept in binders housed by The GOAT Initiative.

 On September 2, 2021, a plane carrying 150 Chinese nationals landed in Bagram Airfield, outside Parwan Province. Two weeks after their arrival marked the beginning of a steady flow of incoming Chinese nationals to the airfield.

 In January of 2024, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with the Taliban-appointed Afghan ambassador in a formal ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, accepting and recognizing the ambassador's credentials. Likewise, the CCP has set up shop in Kabul sending their own ambassador, who has been equally recognized by the Taliban.

Since that time, former CIA intelligence analyst and targeter, Sarah Adams, has blown the whistle on Islamic terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. These camps are unique in that they are training and housing multiple terror organizations.

It has also been discovered that China, who is widely recognized for their global lead in communication technology, has been providing and operating comms protection to the Taliban and the training camps. Their support doesn't end there.

Chinese nationals line up along the California-Mexico border.

For over a decade, China has been providing hundreds of scholarships for Afghan students to study in China, as well as training to thousands of Afghan professionals in various fields, counterterrorism, anti-drug trafficking, agriculture, and diplomacy. China has helped promote economic independence within the country through the framework of the Silk Road Economic Belt strategy and has sent billions in yuan and pledged millions more.

China has been actively assisting in helping build the Taliban's military division. Chinese defense company, Norinco, a weapons manufacturer, sanctioned in 2003 by the Bush administration for selling missile-related goods to Iran, has been holding meetings with the Taliban's defense ministry. Norinco, known for its "arms for minerals" deals, has provided the Taliban with the installation of over 100,000 state-of-the-art surveillance cameras in Kabul alone, through Huawei. Huawei, a Chinese global provider of communication and technology infrastructure, was placed on the U.S. "entity list" and flagged as a national security threat in 2019 by the Trump administration, restricting suppliers from selling U.S. goods and technology.

Cory Gautereaux of The Goat Initiative and his team launching multi-tracking systems to follow and identify illegal crossings.

We have long known, along with our adversaries, that direct or kinetic military confrontation alone against the US would not result in success for opposition. Senior military advisors of the CCP have openly admitted that the only way for China to defeat the US is by deploying multiple levels of unconventional warfare. We are currently seeing this play out in intoxicant warfare through fentanyl production, weaponized mass migration with the border crisis, government infiltration with Chinese nationals holding US government seats, and information and psychological operations. 

The Chinese government cannot do this alone. Their success is contingent on both foreign and US cooperation. Keeping in mind that over $40 million per week of US tax dollars were being sent to the Taliban by USAID and in 2023 former US Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, ordered border patrol agents to reduce the number of security questions asked to Chinese nationals, from 40 to 5 in order to ensure US entry.  The more I research, the more apparent our own U.S. government's involvement in this foreign collusion becomes. This is far more than an immigration or humanitarian crisis or a political grab for votes, this invasion is an act of war. 

Hels Goethe

Investigative journalist with a background in OSINT and humanitarian aid in both government and non-government sectors.

Free State of Florida

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