{"id":142070,"date":"2025-12-09T23:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142070"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:21:36","slug":"us-senators-warn-of-china-cartel-links-forming-a-global-silk-road-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142070","title":{"rendered":"US senators warn of China-cartel links forming a global \u2018Silk Road of crime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLawmakers from both parties are warning that Chinese criminal groups have helped build what officials call a \u201cSilk Road of crime\u201d, a global network that launders Latin American cartel profits and supplies the chemicals used to make fentanyl bound for the United States.<br \/>\nAt a Senate hearing on Tuesday, members of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control said Chinese money brokers and Latin American cartels have merged their operations into a system that blurs the line between trade and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/diplomacy\/article\/3335821\/us-senators-warn-china-cartel-links-forming-global-silk-road-crime?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLawmakers from both parties are warning that Chinese criminal groups have helped build what officials call a \u201cSilk Road of crime\u201d, a global network&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142070"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}