China is on the attack
Blaming all its problems on the US
But how far will the Chinese Communist Party go?
Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell.
Before we start, an important announcement.
I have to issue a correction. On the show, I’ve repeatedly talked about how the Chinese
Communist Party has spent the last 70-plus years brutalizing the Chinese people and
undermining the national security of just about every other country on the planet.
But I was wrong. Turns out everything is actually America’s fault!
I found out my error thanks to a recent speech by Chinese Communist Party leader
Xi Jinping where he made it clear—all of China’s problems are America’s fault.
Now for the most part, Xi has kept his public speeches a little more measured and vague when
talking about the US. “Certain” countries are doing this. “Some” countries have a Cold War
mentality. “One” North American country with a red, white, and blue flag is a fugly hegemony.
I know. I can’t believe they threw so much vague shade… at Cuba.
But at a recent meeting in Beijing, Xi Jinping got a lot more aggressive.
He said, “Western countries—led by the U.S.—have implemented all-round containment,
encirclement and suppression against us, bringing
unprecedentedly severe challenges to our country’s development.”
Notice he used the word containment. That’s big Cold War era rhetoric right
there. Containment was used during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism,
A lot of officials from the state-backed national chambers of commerce were there.
You see, the Chinese economy is kind of struggling right now. Because of America!
The Chinese economy would be doing much better if the US hadn’t pushed sanctions on China,
just because of some piddly little genocide.
How mean of the US!
Or the fact that Xi Jinping just had to implement
a Zero Covid policy that shut down big parts of the Chinese economy.
Totally America’s fault!
After all, as China keeps saying, Covid totally came from a US military base.
So it came from a US military base, traveled halfway across the world and landed in Wuhan
without infecting anyone else along the way, just to make China look bad.
And if only the US wouldn’t make such a big deal out of
all the theft of American intellectual property.
Sure it “costs the U.S. between $225 billion and $600 billion each year”...
But it makes China money! I wonder if it's racism that makes the US want to hold China back so much?
Because anytime you’re mad that someone is robbing you, it’s definitely racism?
“You're mad I took your wallet? What a bigot!” But seriously, in his speech, Xi Jinping reassured
the private sector that the Communist Party would protect them from America.
Xi said, “[The Communist Party] ‘has always regarded private enterprises
and private entrepreneurs as our own people,’ and would provide them with
support whenever they run into difficulties.”
Yeah, like how the CCP totally backed off the massive government-led crackdown on
the tech sector after it really started to hurt the economy.
And how the real estate market is totally not in a crisis.
The Communist Party just pumped more debt into the system to keep the bubble
inflated. And that bubble will never burst, because you can trust the Communist Party.
And if the bubble does burst… it’s America’s fault.
But speaking of bubbles that did burst, why is
the US hyping up that totally civilian spy balloon to attack and smear China?
You didn’t see China get so angry when Covid obviously came from the US,
didn’t infect anyone else along the way, and landed in Wuhan just to make China look bad.
Anyway, I’m sure at this point in the speech, all the officials from the economic sector were
feeling very reassured that the Communist Party would protect them from America.
Especially when Xi told them in his speech “to bear in mind his
push for ‘common prosperity’—aimed at redistributing more of China’s wealth.”
Because if anything reassures the private sector, it’s the promise of wealth redistribution.
I just hope America doesn’t somehow spin
that into something that would actually hurt China’s economy.
But it doesn’t matter, because as Xi said in another speech in November, “Suppression
and containment will only strengthen the will and boost the morale of the Chinese people.”
I’m pretty sure this is the only type of containment that
would strengthen the will and boost the morale of the Chinese people.
Because that speech was around the same time these Chinese people were saying,
“CCP, step down, Xi Jinping, step down!”
Sorry, those weren’t the real Chinese people. Those were hostile foreign forces.
Because *real* Chinese people would never speak ill of Xi Jinping.
Probably because they’re too afraid of getting tortured to death.
But this new propaganda line Xi and the rest of
the Communist Party is taking is actually quite dangerous.
As a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council said,
for Xi, “It’s either take the blame or shift it.”
And how far will Xi be willing to go to shift the blame? Well, in October he said,
“External attempts to suppress and contain China may escalate at any time.”
Why can’t the CCP just commit genocide, spy, steal intellectual property,
create a worldwide pandemic, and threaten to conquer Taiwan
without other countries — looking at you, America! — getting all upset over it?!
And if you go by what China’s new foreign minister Qin Gang also said
in a speech this week, things could get messy.
I’ll tell you more after the break.
Welcome back.
So just days after Xi Jinping took direct aim at the US,
Another fiery speech by China’s new foreign Minister Qin Gang warned that “‘conflict
and confrontation’ with the United States is inevitable if Washington does not change course.”
Meaning, unless the US just lays back and lets the Chinese Communist Party do whatever it wants.
And somehow I don’t think that will happen.
The CCP is like an emo teen who thinks the world is out to get them, without realizing that they’re
the problem. Also, with this haircut, Xi looks like the lead singer of My Chemical Weapons.
Now Qin Gang used to be China’s ambassador to the US. Clearly his
time here left him with a lot of good will towards America.
He warned of, “‘catastrophic consequences’ of what he
described as a ‘reckless gamble’ by Washington.”
“If the United States does not hit the brakes, but continues to speed down the wrong path,
no amount of guardrails can prevent derailing, and there will surely be conflict and confrontation.”
Why won’t the US just let China do whatever it wants?
I bet because they’re racist.
And there were some very specific red lines that Qin was telling America not to cross. Like Taiwan!
Which is not actually a very specific red line. What does that mean? Recognizing Taiwan as an
independent country? Or selling weapons to Taiwan—the US has been doing that for years.
In fact, Qin Gang said, “Why does the US talk up respecting sovereignty and
territorial integrity on the Ukraine issue, but does not respect China’s
sovereignty and territorial integrity on the issue of Taiwan? Why does the US
ask China not to provide weapons to Russia while [it] keeps selling arms to Taiwan?”
Wow. Okay, well there is a slight difference. One is an
independent country at risk of being invaded by an authoritarian regime,
the other is an authoritarian regime currently invading an independent country.
I feel like Qin is thiiiiiiis close to having a
“are we the baddies?” moment.
Also, is he saying China is going to sell weapons to Russia?
That’s something Secretary of State Blinken warned about.
And it would be a pretty big step toward World War 3. Look, I know China’s economy is in the
toilet right now, but would Xi actually prefer World War 3 to having to face the consequences
of his own bungled policies? You know what, I don’t think I want to know the answer to that.
But Qin is doubling down on Sino-Russian ties. He said, “The more unstable the world becomes
the more imperative it is for China and Russia to steadily advance relations.”
And those relations are what’s making the world so unstable. Vicious cycle. That’s like saying,
the more upset you are about gaining weight, the more funnel cake you’ll need to eat.
And Qin finished off with another use of Cold War
containment rhetoric. “Containment and suppression will not make America great.”
Is that swipe at Trump? Dude hasn’t been in office for years now. Forget him.
Which CNN apparently did when it wrote, “China has become increasingly
authoritarian…And Washington has pushed back. Under the Biden administration.”
I feel like they’re forgetting something. That’s the only thing CNN doesn’t blame Trump for.
Ah well. So what do you think? Are we edging closer to World War 3? Or is the Chinese Communist
Party just terrified the US is finally pushing back? Leave your comments and a like below.
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I answer their questions at the end of each episode.
Today’s question comes from Donald st George (Xavier). At what point does china get off
the milk money and not be classified as a developing country? This is just crazy.
Now that’s an excellent question. Yes, China is still considered a developing nation,
despite being the second largest economy on the planet. That allows the Communist Party to
claim a bunch of benefits that give it an unfair advantage. For example, in this recent episode,
Why You Can’t Compete with China I mentioned that because of it’s developing nation status, the
Universal Postal Union gives China lower postal rates than developed countries. That’s resulted in
the bizarre situation where it's cheaper to ship something from Shanghai to San Francisco, than
it is to ship something from Los Angeles to San Francisco. And US taxpayers help subsidize that.
But it’s not just the Universal Postal Union. The World Trade Organization says
there are “special provisions which give developing countries special rights”.
Since the WTO gives certain advantages to developing countries, surely the
WTO has a strict set of criteria to make this distinction, right?
It turns out, nope!
The WTO has no official definition. Members announce for themselves whether
they are “developed” or “developing” countries.
So basically, the Chinese Communist Party would have to decide to no longer
label itself as a developing country. And since that means losing a bunch of perks
that help it kill competition, I doubt that will be happening.
Which means China is a developing nation with a space station.
Probably only because they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, though.
I bet Burundi could do the same if they just worked harder.
If that sounds ridiculous to you… that’s America’s fault.
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