Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell.
Just 100 miles away.
That’s how close Chinese troops may be getting to the US.
To put that in context, 100 miles is 900 miles less than The Proclaimers are willing
to walk just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles to fall down at your door.
Only Chinese troops are coming with guns and missiles.
This is according to new highly classified US intelligence.
Current and former US officials told the Wall Street Journal that
China and Cuba are in talks to build a military training facility in Cuba.
The US isn’t sure how close to a deal China and Cuba are yet. If it goes through,
Chinese troops could be permanently stationed just 100 miles off the coast of Florida.
Although I’m not sure that scares Florida. They’ll get Mickey Mouse
to go down there from Disney World, look China dead in the eyes, and say,
“Thanks for all the money! Let me know if there’s anything else you’d like us to censor for you!”
According to US officials, the Biden Administration is trying to convince
the Cuban government not to go through with it.
But despite Biden’s promises of relentless diplomacy,
it seems the administration’s pleas have not been very effective.
Recently we covered the revelation that China is building a new spy base in Cuba.
China agreed to pay Cuba several billion dollars to do that.
The White House initially said those reports were inaccurate. A few days later they said,
“Actually, China has been operating spy bases in Cuba since 2019. And they have four of them.”
The White House has also declined to comment on this new military training base. But maybe in a
few days they’ll come out and say China already has a death star built in Cuba.
But don’t worry! Relentless diplomacy is at work!
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said “We’ve made our concerns known.”
Relentless diplomacy!
And this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a trip to China to speak with
China’s Communist dictator Xi Jinping, and one of the things they talked about was Cuba.
Here’s how Blinken described their Cuba conversation in an interview with CBS.
This is a serious concern for us. We've been taking steps over the past
couple years, diplomatically whereever we've seen China trying to create that
kind of presence, we've been in there pushing back against it and we've had some success.
Oh wow, some success! I mean, not enough success to actually stop China from building spy bases,
and now potentially a military training facility. But some success.
Wait, I know! Have you tried giving the Chinese Communist
Party everything it wants in exchange for nothing?
Let’s see, Blinken told Xi the US does not support Taiwan independence.
And he said we should quit talking about that Chinese spy balloon that
traveled across the entire continental United States.
Huh, and yet China hasn’t caved? Clearly we need to make more concessions.
Onward with relentless diplomacy!
Because as it stands, China’s military continues to expand its military and spy
presence around the world. I’ll tell you more after the break.
Welcome back.
China’s planned military training base in Cuba,
the spy stations—all of that is just the tip of the iceberg.
It’s all part of what China calls Project 141, “an initiative by the People’s Liberation
Army to expand its global military base and logistical support network” around the world.
One of the greatest advantages the US has over Communist China,
other than relentless diplomacy, is military bases all over the
world. Those bases allow the US military to essentially operate anywhere in the world.
The US military is kind of like Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego,
if the answer was always, “*Everywhere!*”
We first learned about Project 141 thanks to recently leaked Pentagon documents on Discord.
The goal of Project 141 is “to build a global military network that includes
at least five overseas bases and 10 logistical support sites by 2030”.
The Cuba facilities are the first in the Western Hemisphere—and of
course they’re right in America’s backyard.
But included in the leaked document was this image of potential Chinese
military bases throughout Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.
And if Covid is any indicator, China will say the
US is somehow responsible for the global spread of China’s military.
Officially, China has one military and intelligence gathering base in Djibouti.
But many others are secretly underway.
Satellite images revealed China has a secret navy base in Cambodia.
And the leaked documents say China is working on a military base in the United Arab Emirates.
Many other Chinese bases aren’t officially called military bases.
But remember, this is China we’re talking about. Everything of theirs might be a military base.
It’s kind of like playing
Is It Cake, but instead of cake, China’s building warehouses for future war crimes.
For example, after China signed a secret security pact with Solomon Islands
a Chinese state owned company won a contract to develop a major port there.
Just like how Imperial Japan used Solomon Islands as a staging ground in World War II.
Of course, the Chinese Embassy in Washington denied being aware of
any deal between China and Cuba. He said the US is an “expert in chasing shadows.”
And those shadows are just being cast from the moon in Cuba. That’s no moon!
China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said when asked about Cuba,
“We hope that relevant parties can focus more on things that
are conducive to enhancing mutual trust and regional peace and stability development.”
Mutual trust? Kind of hard when China sails a spy balloon across the entire continental US.
Sorry Blinken , I’m not closing that chapter!
However, there is still hope that the US won’t have Chinese troops at its
doorstep. According to a US intelligence official,
expanding security coordination between China and Cuba “is going to go slowly.”
That’s because, even though the US has relentless diplomacy with China,
the US can actually do something to Cuba, if it acts now.
Cuba is in the middle of an economic crisis.
There’s a record number of Cuban refugees fleeing to the US.
Cuba wants Washington to ease up on economic sanctions and travel
restrictions. The Chinese bases could be their bargaining chip.
That’s how you do diplomacy.
And keep China more than 1,000 miles from arriving at your door.
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Today’s question comes from Heginator. “I like the West Taiwan concept, but do you think the
Republic of China (ROC) should release its claims to Tibet and possibly Xinjiang too?
Maybe this is a way to progressively move towards an independent “East”
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It’s based on the idea that the current People’s Republic
of China has no more claim to Taiwan, than Taiwan has over mainland China.
In the 20th Century, many people in Taiwan, i.e. the Republic of China,
hoped to finally retake mainland China from Communist forces.
But at this point, so much time has gone by and so many things have changed, that when the Chinese
Communist Party falls, I’m not sure the solution is just for the government of Taiwan to take over.
So I think old territorial claims of the
Republic of China are essentially historical moot at this point.
However, it is a good question—what will happen to regions like Tibet,
Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Macau when the CCP is gone?
I think that will have to be a question for the people there in the future when it happens.
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