Pandas!
Lovable?
Cute?
Or Loveable and Cute?
That and more on this week’s China Uncensored.
This is China Uncensored.
I’m Chris Chappell.
This week’s China news headlines!
Big news today folks.
A panda born in America is heading to China!
There’s nothing bigger or more important in China news!
“It's time to say goodbye to Bei Bei.
The National Zoo's beloved giant panda Bei Bei,
has reached the age of four years old and that means,
per tradition,
it's time to move from Washington DC to China.”
Oh hi Bei Bei Boy,
everyone loves pandas right?
They even made this special cake for him.
Course no one made a special cake for me.
Even when it was my birthday, Shelley!
Bei Bei even got to fly to China in first class on the Panda Express.
Yes, that panda got to fly better than you ever will.
And he’ll have a lot to look forward to back in China.
Like people smelling his poop.
Ha ha, golly!
Well, thanks for watching China Uncensored,
once again I’m Chris Chappell,
see you next time.
Okay, have the YouTube censors clicked off?
Good!
Stupid pandas.
Sorry everyone,
YouTube has been soft censoring all our critical China content,
so I’m trying to throw them off the scent.
With panda poop.
Oh, be sure to comment below about how much you love China.
The YouTube censor bots might check the comments, too.
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because viewers like you contribute
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If it weren’t for that,
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So if you can, and you’re like me
and you don’t really want to hear about pandas,
head over to Patreon.com/chinauncensored.
Okay, on to the real China news.
Guess what?
China isn’t all pandas.
The New York Times published 400 pages of leaked internal documents
about the crackdown on ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
Over a million people in Xinjiang, most ethnic Uighurs,
are in what are essentially concentration camps.
In an internal speech, which these documents reveal,
Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for an all-out “struggle against terrorism,
infiltration and separatism” using the “organs of dictatorship,”
and showing “absolutely no mercy.”
Yeah, Xi loves to whip out his organ of dictatorship.
That’s the kind of thing you won’t hear on Panda Uncensored.
Not only that, but documents instruct Chinese police
to tell children of detained Uighurs that if they speak out,
their parents will be kept even longer in those concentration camps.
I mean, um, training centers.
Obviously the Chinese Communist Party
was not too pleased about the leak.
Xinjiang authorities said,
“America’s New York Times has again fabricated
and concocted fake news about Xinjiang.
This is nothing more than getting up to its old tricks,
and is completely unworthy of refutation.”
Which is a great line.
Because they can’t refute it.
China is gearing up for America’s 2020 presidential elections.
They’re practicing by interfering in Taiwan’s 2020 presidential elections.
“China intervening in our elections is not something
that happens on one or two days, that's very clear.
This is more or less the consensus of Taiwan's people.
China is using various means to intervene
in Taiwan's election to damage our democracy.”
Taiwan’s elections are in January.
And the Chinese Communist Party wants to make sure
someone friendly to Beijing gets elected.
Just like it would like to make sure someone friendly to Beijing
gets elected in the US in November 2020.
So the Party’s just getting a little practice in ahead of time.
Last week, the US conducted a Freedom of Navigation Operation
by sailing a warship through the Taiwan Strait.
And I made a joke about it.
“The US has sailed another warship through the Taiwan Strait.
Which honestly is kind of a mixed signal.
It shows that the US is ready to defend their ally.
But it also means that if the US
can sail a warship through the Taiwan Strait,
China can too.”
Well, obviously China’s military does not understand jokes.
A few days later, they *did* sail their own warship through the Taiwan Strait.
This is exactly the kind of situation could spiral out of control.
But don’t worry, I know just what to say:
“Hey, Chinese military!
Wouldn’t it be funny if you didn’t try to invade Taiwan?
That would show ’em!”
This month marks 15 years since the publication of the book
the Chinese Communist Party hates more than anything:
The Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party.
It basically lays out all the dirty secrets of the Party’s rise to power
and the bloody grip it’s kept on China for the past 70 years.
The book was immediately banned.
And then it sparked a movement where millions of people inside China
have publicly severed their ties to the Communist Party.
It’s a fun read.
I’ve provided a link below to the English translation.
A phase one trade deal between the US and China
is looking pretty elusive right now.
But apparently, that doesn’t bother President Trump.
Look, China's going to have to make a deal that I like.
If they don't, that's it...
If we don't make a deal with China,
I'll just raise the tariffs even higher.
Thank you very much."
And Elvis has left the building.
Of course, the changes Trump wants—
no more theft of American technology, no more currency manipulation, etc—
the Communist Party is never going to agree to those.
I mean, if you’re a Communist regime,
you lie and cheat.
It’s what you do.
That’s why some people have said the US
should completely decouple the US and Chinese economies.
A lot of people already see that as inevitable.
But the Trump Administration has publicly said
that they do not want to decouple the US and Chinese economies.
Not that Trump would ever change his mind, or anything.
Another case of the bubonic plague has been reported in China.
This is only the third official case.
A hunter got it from eating a wild rabbit.
But people are concerned the problem could be much larger,
since China has a history of covering up epidemic outbreaks.
I mean, if you can’t stop the disease,
at least you can stop all that media coverage.
Australia is ending a multi-million dollar human rights partnership with China.
My first thought was,
Australia had a human rights partnership with China?!
But China sits on the UN’s Human Rights Council,
so I’ll just say, at least Australia wised up.
I hope Germany will do the same,
and stop aiding the Chinese military.
That’s another one of those things you wouldn’t think was happening,
but yes, it turns out there’s a lot of stupidity out there.
A spokesman for Germany’s Defense Ministry said,
“Our goal is to share our democratic values
with citizens of other countries.”
By training Chinese soldiers.
I...really don’t see how that works.
But at least it’s better than Greece.
China has been making big inroads in Greece.
Earlier this month,
Greek police detained Falun Gong practitioners
while Chinese leader Xi Jinping was in town.
Now to be clear, they were not protesting.
They were just meditating in a park,
because that’s what Falun Gong practitioners do.
I mean, Greece is a free country.
Except when Xi Jinping is in town.
The United States is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.
And now people are all like,
oh China’s going to be a world climate change leader!
And they’re right!
China is a world leader in climate change.
Not the good kind.
The kind that’s leading the world in CO2 emissions.
Yes, China is number one!
But just to make sure no one else catches up,
China is ramping up coal usage even more.
In fact, China’s new coal power plants
are equal to the entire capacity of the EU.
Now that sounds bad.
But wait, I heard that China has saved
hundreds of thousands of lives by reducing air pollution.
How does that make any sense?
Well, what the CNN headline neglects to mention is that study was done...
by Chinese scientists.
Awesome.
If you want to learn more about the Paris Climate Agreement,
watch the episode we did earlier this week on our other channel, America Uncovered.
And that does it for this week’s China News headlines.
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Once again I’m Chris Chappell,
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