Project Sleeping Giant: Inside the Chinese Mercantile Machine Linking Beijing’s Underground Banks and the Sinaloa Cartel

Former senior DEA official describes covert global financial ecosystem tying Chinese students, Sinaloa fentanyl sales, cartel cash collection, and PRC state-linked infrastructure deals.

U.S. surveillance image shows one of Sai Zhang’s top lieutenants crossing into Mexico with a money courier for the Sinaloa cartel. The photo revealed critical ties between Zhang’s transnational money…