Chinese organized criminal activity is surging in Mexico, with ties to drug cartels, fentanyl and a range of other underworld activities, including global money laundering and even illegal trafficking of exotic, often nearly extinct wildlife. Washington Times National Security Editor Guy Taylor sits down with longtime international organized crime expert and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown for a discussion on how these activities reach into the United States and the extent to which the Chinese government is exploiting them for leverage over Washington.

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