Did China sink a ship in the South China Sea?
Trump bans investment in companies linked to the Chinese military.
And Henry Kissinger is back—and he wants us to “cooperate” with China.
That and more on this week’s China news headlines.
Welcome to China Uncensored. I’m Chris Chappell.
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The US military may be changing its operational calculations if
new reports about Chinese missiles are true.
Back in August, China launched a barrage of medium-range missiles into the South China Sea.
It was viewed as retaliation for a US spy plane
that flew over a Chinese naval drill just days before.
Those missiles are what China calls aircraft-carrier killers.
It’s all part of China’s peaceful claims to the entire South China Sea.
According to US defense officials, those missiles landed somewhere here,
between China’s Hainan Island, and the disputed Paracel islands.
At first, it was believed those missiles just hit water. But now, according to a PLA insider
speaking to the South China Morning Post, those missiles may have actually hit a target ship.
If that’s true, it’s the first time China has
actually demonstrated its anti-ship missiles can actually hit a ship.
Of course there’s still a lot of unknowns. We don’t know how many missiles were fired, whether
the target ship was moving or how fast, and whether we can believe the former PLA colonel who
said this happened. Because maybe he’s just trying to scare the US military. Good luck with that.
But one thing is clear,
despite the Communist Party’s calls for US China cooperation instead of decoupling...
their aim is to dominate the United States by any means necessary.
And the US needs to adjust its strategy accordingly.
Wait, I know how the US can fight against China’s anti-ship missiles...with giant jaeger robots!
But economic decoupling is probably a better route than military conflict.
Speaking of the US and China decoupling, despite the Trump Administration having...a
lot on its plate right now, experts say the administration
is still moving forward with plans to decouple the US and China’s economy.
Trump recently issued an executive order
that will ban US investments in several companies tied to the Chinese military.
Raising the question—why were US companies investing in companies tied to China’s military?!
The Executive Order says China “is increasingly exploiting United States capital
to resource and to enable the development and modernization of its military,
intelligence, and other security apparatuses.”
That includes “weapons of mass destruction, advanced conventional weapons,
and malicious cyber-enabled actions against the United States and its people.”
According to White House trade adviser Peter Navarro these 31 Chinese companies
represent at least half a trillion dollars in market capitalization.
Wow, that’s a lot of money! Maybe I should invest in companies tied to the Chinese military!
And if that sounds stupid, don’t worry, there’s a lot of stupid going around.
Despite everything we know about the Chinese Communist Party,
US companies just can’t seem to quit the China market.
This is the actual first line to that article.
“For some American businesses, having an office in China
may help them weather the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.”
Think about that. They’re looking to the Communist
Party to help them deal with the economic hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic,
which was caused by the Communist Party’s lies and cover up.
At least that’s slightly better than this: German companies saying we’re better off thanks to China.
In what world could that possibly be true?
But with the US presidential election outcome still...in
progress, many US elites are hoping that Biden wins...and that Biden would reset US
China relations to what they were before the Trump Administration.
Which is why the specter of Henry Kissinger
has risen once again, calling on Biden to restore relationships with China.
I mean, if the state-run People’s Daily is praising Kissenger,
his ideas must be great! For the Chinese Communist Party.
Kissinger made his remarks at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum.
Fun fact, you can join the conversation on the New Economy Forum using WeChat,
a Chinese mobile app that the US government has called a national security threat!
Anyway, Henry Kissinger said, unless China and the US can
cooperate, “The world will slide into a catastrophe comparable to World War I.”
Which...is insane. America’s engagement with and investment in China are precisely what have
enabled China to fund its militarization—which at this point, could lead to World War III.
And who was it starting in the 1970s that kept pushing for closer US-China engagement? Hmmm...
Hey, if there’s another World War, I wonder which side Germany would be on.
This week was the one year anniversary of when
Hong Kong police laid siege to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Police were trying to arrest hundreds of protesters who got trapped inside the University.
The police greeted unarmed protesters with brutal force.
And they turned the school into a war-zone.
At one point, protesters had to rappel out of the campus
to be picked up by volunteers on motorbikes.
Just one more reason why school can be a dangerous place for young people.
The Chinese regime’s crackdown on Hong Kong is a stern warning about what might happen in Taiwan
if the Chinese Communist Party seized power there.
And a growing US-Taiwan alliance is making such a scenario less and less likely.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the unprecedented move
to come out and say Taiwan is not part of China.
China responded by warning of action, whatever that means.
Only Henry Kissinger can save us!
But there is some good news for relations between China and the UK at least. A British diplomat
saved a Chinese college student from drowning. This is British consul-general in Chongqing
Stephen Ellison, jumping into the water to save the woman. Someone throws in a floatation device,
and then Ellison swims her to that, and they’re both safely pulled out of the water. The woman
later recovered. This video went viral in China, and the 61 year old is being hailed a hero.
Unfortunately, all that goodwill between China and the West has since been wiped out,
after Beyond Meat launched their plant-based minced pork in China.
Not going to end well.
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