Ahead of a major Party meeting,
a series of mysterious explosions.
What’s going on behind the scenes?
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So China is kind of a black box. The Chinese Communist Party has total control
over the internet and media inside China. It makes getting news out very difficult.
Especially during politically sensitive events. And China just had a big one.
At the beginning of the month, there was a major meeting of top Party officials
called the sixth plenum of the 19th central committee.
I know, it just rolls off the tongue.
The Party wouldn’t want anything to disturb
such an important meeting. Especially not some explosive news story.
Especially not some *explosive* explosive news story. And definitely not 10 of them. And yet...
Have you heard of this? Blasts in China. You may not have because Beijing is making sure most media
don't report it. It is hiding high intensity blasts, explosions across the country. At least
10 of them we can report all within a week. 10 explosions, 10 bomb blasts in less than a week.
Yeah, that’s explosive.
Made in China has a reputation for bad quality,
but even for China, 10 explosions in a week is a little much.
Now it’s always hard to confirm stories like this and there’s no evidence yet to suggest that these
were anything more than accidents. But rumors are flying. Because 10 explosions in a week,
right before a major meeting of the Chinese Communist Party? A little suspicious.
I’ll go through them right after this quick commercial break.
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Demonetized! I think talking about mysterious explosions will likely be treated the same.
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it's just that, if we can’t afford to keep making China Uncensored,
that helps the Communist Party cover these stories up.
And this is something that shouldn’t be covered up. This massive explosion happened here
In Shenyang, Liaoning province.
According to official figures, five people were killed and more than 40 injured.
That was on October 21. This was blamed on a gas leak.
The next day, there was an explosion at a chemical plant that killed 4.
That happened in Inner Mongolia.
Then there was an entire day without explosions!
Which was followed by 2 explosions on October 24. Those blasts happened in Nanjing
And Dalian
In Nanjing, it was a laboratory explosion.
In Dalian, the explosion happened at a residential building.
Another explosion struck China the same day. Two
people were killed and 7 others injured in the northeastern city of Dalian on Sunday.
That was blamed on a gas leak as well.
Explosion number 5 happened the next day on October 25, in Qingdao City, Shandong.
The blast happened on a street full of food vendors in the Huangdao District.
According to Chinascope, the explosion was “outside the Huangdao Campus of
Shandong University of Science and Technology”.
So an explosion at a lab, and an explosion at a tech university. Interesting.
On October 26, an explosion happened at a chemical plant in Zibo City, Shandong
Another explosion was at a residential building in Nanchang City, Jiangxi,
And finally, nine fishing boats caught fire in Zhuhai City, Guangdong.
The 9th and 10th blasts happened on October 27.
On the 27 of October another blast rocked Guangdong. Now we don't know very much about
where it happened or how many people were injured or killed if at all,
but we do know that on the same day, a blast ripped through the city of Tianjin,
so that's 10 blasts that we've counted so far. 10 blasts, 13 deaths, and many more injuries
in just 7 days in China and that's just on paper. It's hard to tell how much worse the story is.
And that’s the thing with China—we have no clue
what the full picture is. That’s what happens when an authoritarian regime controls the press.
For example, officially, China has reported less than 5,000 deaths from Covid—total.
The country where Covid began has one of the lowest death counts? Yeah, that’s a coverup.
What about these explosions? I did show several state-run media articles about them.
But while state-run media has reported some of these explosions, it isn’t giving answers.
And so this leaves everyone speculating what really is going on with these explosions.
Especially because this all happened right before a major meeting of the Communist Party.
And now it’s time for me to answer a question from a member of the China Uncensored 50-cent army,
fans who support the show on the crowdfunding website Patreon,
or on the subscription platform Locals.
A person who opposes the CCP asks on Patreon., “Dear Chris, What would happen if Taiwan shot
down one of the PLA planes violating their airspace? Presumably the CCP would spin
it as them being attacked unprovoked but would the rest of the world believe them?”
Well that’s a terrifying question! Taiwan says tensions with China are the worst in 4 decades.
China has been sending record numbers of military aircraft near Taiwan.
So far they haven’t actually breached Taiwan’s airspace. But Taiwan scrambled their jets
to meet Chinese forces when they crossed Taiwan’s air defense identification zone.
Any time that happens, there’s a risk of a deadly confrontation. China is playing
a dangerous game. They want to keep harassing Taiwan like this to exhaust their forces. The PLA
is also using this to gather information about Taiwan’s radar systems and military practices.
But if Taiwan actually killed a Chinese pilot?
Very likely there would be an outcry in China and a demand for military aggression.
But I don’t think the Chinese Communist Party wants to be pressured into a war that would
involve the US, Japan, possibly even India and Australia. Right now, China could lose that war.
They would prefer not to get into a full on conflict until they feel ready.
But sooner or later, the Chinese regime will be ready for a war.
And if that’s not prevented, the whole world would be drawn into the conflict.
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