China is collecting mass amounts of Tibetan DNA.
The government claims it’s for solving crimes, But there could be a more sinister reason.
Welcome to China Uncensored. I’m Chris Chappell.
The Chinese Communist Party is terrified of its own people.
China spends more on controlling its 1.4 billion citizens than on its entire military.
That dark blue line is how much the government spent on public safety,
compared to its defense budget.
Obviously, the CCP views its own people as the greatest threat to its power.
Especially because they tend to protest when the government does things like,
lock people up in their apartments to literally starve to death in the name of fighting Covid.
But the Chinese Communist Party is especially terrified of China’s ethnic minorities.
That’s because these people aren’t like the rest
of China. And being different means you’re harder to control.
Like the Tibetans in Tibet, and the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
The Uyghurs in Xinjiang are a Turkic ethnic minority. Many of them are Muslim,
which is technically one of China’s legal religions. They have their own language,
writing system, and their culture is also very different.
Tibet is similar. Tibetans are mostly Buddhists and they speak Tibetan,
which also has a completely different writing system. Their music, food,
and clothing are also different from most of mainland China.
Wow, so these people from a different cultural background face discrimination? Luckily,
only white people can be racist, so I’m sure they’ll be just fine!
Now, supposedly, China is all about diversity. Xi Jinping rolled out a
“global civilization initiative” in March…
…that “advocates for the respect of the diversity of civilizations”.
Awww now that does give me warm fuzzy feelings inside. Xi Jinping really
*is* a man of the people, just like state run media always said he was.
But if you look at what the Chinese Communist Party is actually doing, you can see that what
the Party is really after is quashing any and all diversity inside Chinese borders.
I’ll tell you more after the break.
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Ethnic cleansing. With Chinese characteristics.
That’s the only way to describe what the CCP is doing to China’s minorities.
The Communist Party is making a systematic effort to wipe out ethnic culture,
and often the ethnic minorities itself.
When the Party built state-run boarding schools to ensure a “fairer” education in rural Tibet.
The result was Tibetan children being forcibly removed from their parents, getting stripped of
their language and culture. (source:
https://www.youtube.com/live/7VIJwL1RMrE?app=desktop&feature=share)
Tibetan herders have been forced off their ancestral lands into government built houses.
The Party said it was a voluntary program meant to lift them out of poverty.
But Human Rights Watch spoke to herders who said no one has the ability to refuse.
The program is not voluntary, and it’s not about poverty either.
Because they’re encouraged to “leave their religious beliefs behind”
Cause, you know, who needs religion when you’ve got money, amiright?
Things aren’t much different in Xinjiang.
The government claims it’s providing
vocational training there to prevent Muslims from turning to terrorism.
But these centers are essentially glorified concentration camps, where Uyghurs facetorture,
rape, and I cant believe i’m saying this, things even worse than that!
Because this is the Chinese Communist Party we’re talking about.
I’ll get to what that is in a moment.
But while their parents are imprisoned,
children are sent to state-run boarding schools, to be indoctrinated.
Chinese authorities have also offered cash incentives for interethnic marriages.
That is between *Han Chinese,* which is China’s dominant ethnic group, and another minority.
Apparently the government’s not interested in promoting marriages between minorities,
only assimilating them into the Han gene pool.
And for Uyghurs who aren’t interested, there’s always the forced abortion and sterilizations.
That was one of the reasons an independent Tribunal in the
UK called China’s treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang “genocide.”
But at least they’re not white. Because if they were, this would sound kind of racist!
Now I mentioned earlier, there’s something going on that’s possibly even worse than the torture,
rape, and systematic destruction of culture.
If you’re brave enough to find out—stay tuned after this quick commercial break.
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Sometimes they get a little funny about exposing genocide in China.
The Chinese Communist Party is sucking out the soul of its minorities’ vibrant culture
and replacing it with a Disney version that it can parade in front of tourists
to make them think it has diversity. It wants you to walk on the streets
of Lhasa and think that seeing Tibetans walking around means they’re free to do what they want.
But for ethnic minorities, China is one big prison.
But just because the Chinese Communist Party hates
them and their culture, that doesn’t mean minorities can’t contribute to society.
You see, China has a problem.
As state-run media explains it, “Chinese are much less willing to donate their
organs compared to other countries, with the ratio being only 6 out of 10,000,000.”
The reason, it says, is cultural differences.
Many Chinese believe that their body should remain whole, even after death.
That’s why when China Daily asked netizens what they thought of organ donation…
One Chinese person responded saying she wouldn’t
donate her organs because if she did, how would she survive in the afterlife?
Wait, we need organs in the afterlife? In that case, I want to be the first-ever
deceased organ recipient. I’m going to heaven with *extra* spleens!
But Communist Problems require Communist solutions.
When you have entire populations locked up, they become the perfect source for
organ donations! They’re donations, okay. Don’t ask any questions.
The first volunteers where Falun Gong practitioners,
a peaceful meditation practice that became popular in China during the 90’s
That the Party obviously needed to crackdown on because they were so dangerous.
The thing is, the ideal organ donor is around 28 years old. And after so many years,
the Party was running out of Falun Gong volunteers.
And so, “As early as 2016, authorities required local [Xinjiang] residents to supply DNA samples
when applying for travel documents. A region-wide annual ‘Physicals for All’
public health program begun in 2016 . . . also reportedly included collecting DNA samples.”
And what do you know, after that, Xinjiang became a very popular destination for organ transplants.
There are even separate lanes in several Xinjiang
airports for people flying in to get organ transplants.
Remember, China Daily said the official organ donation ratio is 6 out of ten million.
Now some people can do math. And are beginning to ask questions about where all these organs
are coming from. Here’s Congressman Chris Smithduring a recent hearing.
“Indeed the most nefarious misuses of DNA collection, collected has been to find
matches for organ recipients from unwilling healthy innocent people. There is a mountain
of evidence that this is what is being done in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region against
the Uyghurs and other Central Asians such as the Kazakhs and Falun Gong practitioners.”
Thank goodness American company Thermo Fisher was selling DNA kits to Chinese authorities there!
Don’t worry, they said they stopped.
Oh wait, no they didn’t.
In fact it seems now that authorities in Tibet are also buying Thermo Fisher DNA kits.
Yes it seems they’ve been collecting DNA from Tibetans too.
According to the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab , between 2016 and 2022, police
in Tibet potentially collected over a million DNA samples. That’s about a third of the population.
This is the creepiest collection of DNA I’ve seen since the last time someone
shined a blacklight inside a hotel room. But the police are doing the DNA collection,
so surely it must be to stop criminals, right? Well, according to the Australian Strategic Policy
Institute, “Unlike the managers of other forensic databases, Chinese authorities are deliberately
enrolling tens of millions of people who have no history of serious criminal activity.”
They seem to just be collecting DNA for the sake of collecting DNA,
even from children as young as 5.
So if a Chinese Communist owl asks your kid how many licks it takes to get to
the center of a Tootsie Pop, they’re just trying to collect their saliva.
I think it’s time
for a China Uncensored mental health break. Awww, look at those puppies. They’re so
young and healthy .. and still have all their organs. What cutie pies.
We recently spoke to Ethan Gutmann, who basically broke the organ harvesting story.
He says because the Party is basically running out of their previous Falun Gong and Uyghur
volunteers, they now need to find others. “And there’s also signs of an uptick at the
same time of Tibetan organ harvesting, and even to some extent Christian organ harvesting. They’re
casting around for different other types.” It’s basically door to door organ harvesting.
Which sounds like the plot to “Death of a Salesman” if Death of a Salesman was
a horror movie. I’d actually want to see that if it wasn’t, you know… real life!
There’s a lot more in that bombshell interview, so check it out. I’ll put a link below.
Now the US is doing something about this.
The US House of Representative recently passed
a bill that goes after anyone involved in organ trafficking.
The bill applies to all countries, but the sponsor of the bill,
Congressman Chris Smith , has made it clear that China was the inspiration.
The Chinese Communist Party—truly inspirational.
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the China Uncensored 50 Cent Army, I answer their questions at the end of each episode.
Today’s question comes from
Mark E. “Chris, did you write the music for China Uncensored? It's catchy.”
Great question! Let’s roll it.
So even though I did get a Masters degree in music composition, I did not write this.
It was written by a friend of mine for the show and was later updated by Shelley’s sister in fact.
But it's been with us since the beginning.
In fact, on Patreon if you join the 50-CENT ARMY MUSIC TROUPE, you’ll get a download for that and
other great China Uncensored exclusive music that will get your toes tapping and heart pumping.
Just make sure it's your own heart and not a “volunteer’s” from China.
Thanks for your question Mark and thank you for supporting the show.
And thank you for watching. Once again I’m Chris Chappell, see you next time.