China challenges the US to an Air Duel
New weapons to invade Taiwan
And China’s new “patriotic” scientists
That and more on this week’s China news headlines
Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell.
A grim warning from a top official in the Chinese military. People’s Liberation Army
Deputy Air Force Commander Wang Wei is challenging the US Air Force, saying
“I can only say, if they are not scared, let us meet in the sky.”
I say if you really want to challenge the US Air Force,
you should have said let us meet in the sea.
The PLA commander’s comments are a response to something US
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said last month. He wants to scare China.
Scare China? That’s easy to do. Just show them this photo.
Now the PLA commander didn’t actually mention Kendall by name.
He just referred to him as “a counterpart of mine who is from a major country”.
He also said, “The Chinese navy is capable and confident to ensure national security
and defend integrity, as well as make a contribution to world peace.”
And by ‘defend integrity,’ he meant China will take over Taiwan.
Since China considers Taiwan part of its territory. Even though it's
an independent country. And by ‘contribute to world peace,’ he meant...starting a war.
And China is getting the gear it needs to start that war.
Later this year, China plans to roll out a fighter jet
capable of launching from their aircraft carriers.
What? China’s aircraft carriers will soon be able to carry aircraft?!
China has two carriers built,
and a third on the way. The first two have what are called ski-jump ramps.
But the third will have a catapult launch system,
like US aircraft carriers. It makes it possible for heavier aircraft to take off.
Of course, since China’s new catapult aircraft carrier will be made in China,
the quality might be somewhat lacking.
And in addition to building a new jet,
China is apparently trying to buy Russian assault helicopters.
Which would be very useful if China decided to invade,
oh I don’t know, an island nation. Named Taiwan.
According to experts, China’s current assault helicopter isn’t capable of
the amphibious and island landing role the Russian assault helicopters are.
Which means in the long run, Chinese assault helicopters would be capable of that too,
because “The PLA has historically worked
to reverse engineer the superior Russian military technologies it has purchased.”
But there’s one weakness the Chinese military is rapidly trying to solve.
I’ll tell you what it is after the break.
Welcome back.
The Chinese military has a major weakness: Its reliance on people. You see, people have
a conscience. Sometimes they don’t want to carry out crimes against humanity.
Enter the new Chinese drone, ‘loyal wingman.’
It won’t have any problems opening fire on heavily populated civilian cities, like Taipei.
Now the interesting thing about this Chinese drone is that it looks almost identical to a US drone.
I’m sure that’s a total coincidence and not because it's stolen tech.
The US, Britain, Australia, India and Russia have similar drones,
“which are cheaper and more expendable than crewed fighters”.
But the Chinese Communist Party has even cheaper, more
expendable drones than this. The average Chinese soldier.
But to the Chinese regime, warfare doesn’t always mean boots on the ground, troop on troop fighting.
A French research institute affiliated with the French military has released this new report.
It warns about the massive scale of Chinese influence around the world.
They detail key strategies the Chinese Communist Party is using to undermine the West , as part of
its Three Warfares. That’s Psychological warfare. Public opinion warfare. And Legal warfare.
“Psychological warfare seeks to demoralize the enemy;
public opinion warfare seeks to shape the hearts and minds of the masses;
legal warfare seeks to use systems of law to deter enemy attacks.”
The report also talks about a special branch of the Communist Party itself,
the United Front. According to the report, it has two main functions—infiltration and coercion.
“Infiltration aims to slowly penetrate opposing societies
in order to hinder any inclination to act against the interests of the Party.”
“Coercion corresponds to the gradual expansion of
‘punitive’ or ‘coercive’ diplomacy to become a policy of systematic sanction against any state,
organization, enterprise or individual threatening the interests of the Party.”
I’m glad this new report has been submitted to the French military.
They’re not ones to surrender without a fight.
Have you ever wished science could be a little more patriotic?
That’s certainly what Chinese presitator Xi Jinping wishes for.
He says he wants to nurture patriotic scientists.
Specifically, he wants scientists and intellectuals with the “correct
political inclination”.
And don’t worry, he left that so intentionally vague that it's incredibly threatening.
Maybe now Chinese scientists can answer the big questions, like:
What causes all that fog in Beijing? Is it steam
released by the struggle of the proletariat against Western capitalist running dogs?
Why does Chinese milk powder taste so delicious? Is it because the melamine
plastic they put in it helps mold children into ideal socialists?
And of course, why does Communism work everywhere it's been tried? The answer to that should be
obvious. Anywhere it historically hasn’t worked, they burned all the history books.
And after the break, good news if you want to visit China. You...might...be ok.
Welcome back.
Now I’m sure after watching China Uncensored, you’re dying to visit China.
Well, good news if you’re Canadian! You probably won’t be kidnapped by Chinese police! Probably.
Yesterday I told you the story of two Candians who were released after being kidnapped by
Chinese police. It was political retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a Chinese businesswoman.
This week, a CBC reporter asked the Chinese ambassador to Canada
why any Canadian would travel to China if they risk being arbitrarily detained.
The ambassador responded, “They should not be afraid of anything like that.”
“But of course if a very, very small number of people engage in those
criminal activities...it’s quite reasonable and justified for us to take
relevant measures. But I think for the vast majority of people, they should not be worried.”
The vast majority won’t be kidnapped. I don’t think you can ask for better odds.
Especially when you have the chance to start your Chinese vacation off
relaxing in a new 5,000 room quarantine center China has built for foreigners.
This is absolutely not part of the kidnapping process.
In fact, the quarantine center “took less than three months to be built from scratch.”
And the vast majority of China’s hastily built quarantine centers
do not collapse and kill people.
In this new quarantine hotel for foreigners, “Each room is fitted with a video chat camera and an
artificial intelligence-powered thermometer, with three meals a day delivered by robots.”
I hope it’s not the loyal wingman.
Good news, though. China will not be needing those quarantine hotels for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
That’s because they’re banning foreign spectators.
This is of course completely due to the coronavirus.
It has absolutely nothing to do with being a convenient way to stop potential Olympic boycotts.
An update to a story we ran a few weeks ago, about top US General Mark Milley’s secret call to China.
Milley has confirmed he made the call! Except it wasn’t secret. Milley
said Trump’s Defense Secretary Mark Esper actually asked him to.
Milley’s comments are consistent with reports we told you about previously. About how the
Defense Department was worried that the Chinese regime was getting bad intelligence and thought
the US was about to attack. So they told the Chinese regime the US was not going to attack.
Milley also confirmed he did tell his Chinese counterpart
that he would call if the US attacked...sort of.
“When pressed on whether he told Li he would notify him should the U.S. choose to plan an
attack on China, Milley replied: ‘I said, General Li, there's not going to be a war, there's not
going to be attack between great powers. And if there was, the tensions would build up,
there'd be calls going back and forth from all kinds of senior officials.
I said, hell, General Li, I'll probably give you a call,
but we're not going to attack you. Trust me. We're not going to attack you.”
Milley also said he was certain Trump was not going to attack China.
That is substantially different from how that call
was portrayed in the book Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
They framed the story as Milley going behind Trump’s back to call China
and say he would warn them if the US was planning to attack, because he was so
worried Trump would attack. So it seems like that’s not true.
Bob Woodward is of course the famous Washington Post reporter who exposed the Watergate scandal
that brought down President Nixon. Woodward is controversial. There have been
allegations that in past books, he hid important context, or even made up facts to fit a narrative.
So I hope this will make you all think twice about how you
judge whom I consider the greatest US president of all time—Richard Nixon.
And now it’s time for me to answer a question from a member of the China Uncensored 50-Cent Army,
a viewer who supports our channel on the crowdfunding websites Patreon and Locals.
Bitter Comments asks on Patreon, “Sounds like China has a strong hold on the world’s rare earth
elements. Is this a major problem for the rest of the world, and if so what can be done about it?”
Yes, China has a firm grip on rare earth metals.
It “controls around 80 per cent of global rare earth elements processing.”
And we’ll talk about this in an upcoming episode of America Uncovered, about the dangers of Chinese
made solar panels. China often gets these rare earth metals from countries like the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Which, you know, likes to use a dash of child labor in their mines.
But China also has huge deposits of its own rare earth metals. These are critical in a
lot of the modern technology we use. Like smartphones, electric cars, tamagotchis.
But there is some good news. In 2018, Japan found a huge deposit of rare earth metals.
Which they immediately blew making a life size Gundam.
But there are other ways the US can put pressure on China. By leveraging rare earth metals the US
has that China needs. Or the US could limit the exports of semiconductors, which China also needs.
And President Biden’s new infrastructure plan
is partially about increasing US processing of rare earth metals.
So you can see Bitter Comments, there’s reason to be hopeful. And even if China
does control rare earth metals, the US still has China beat on heavy metal.
Thanks for your question and your support, Bitter Comments.
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