And fake Chinese vaccines could  even be spreading around the world.

Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell.

For a year, the world has been  suffering from the CCP virus—the  

coronavirus that spread because of the Chinese  Communist Party's initial lies and cover up. 

And now, the CCP will save the world by  exporting vaccines for the virus it spread.

Just like it saved the world by keeping  the coronavirus within its borders,  

which was an actual propaganda line Chinese  state-run media used back in February 2020.

And then when that stopped being true,  

the Chinese Communist Party saved  the world by exporting face masks.

Of course that also kind of backfired.

So now they've moved on to exporting vaccines.

I just pray to Mao those exported  vaccines are safe and effective.

Because a substantial number of the vaccine  doses being given out in China are fake.

And I don't mean fake, like  only effective half the time,  

like the official Chinese  vaccine being used now in Brazil.

That's not fake. That's standard.  Standard made-in-China quality.

No, by “fake,” I mean like how inside China,  “Fake vaccines had been made using saline  

to attract government subsidies for  clinics offering emergency vaccinations.”

Recently, more than 80 people were arrested in  a vaccine bust. They were part of a gang that  

made 3 million dollars from selling  water as COVID-19 vaccine shots. 

Authorities said the leader and his associates  

had sold nearly 60,000 syringes  with fake vaccines across China.

In a related case, another scammer shipped  600 doses of fake vaccine internationally  

via Hong Kong, for a profit of 140,000 dollars.

In other cases, counterfeit vaccines were being  sold at inflated prices in Chinese hospitals.

And “other criminals also conducted  inoculation programmes of their own  

and had 'village doctors' vaccinate people  with fake jabs in their homes and cars.”

My advice: If a guy dressed like a doctor pulls  up in a van and offers to stick a needle in you,  

walk away. In fact, run away. 

Now obviously the Chinese  Communist Party is concerned.  

Not because fake vaccines mean  more people could die from Covid.  

If the CCP actually cared about human life,  they'd stop killing people for their organs.

No, the CCP is concerned because,  as state-run media puts it,  

these fake vaccines being sent overseas  tarnishes the image of the country.

And tarnishing the image of  the country is Beijing's job!

Last month, the Supreme People's  Procuratorate—which is like China's  

attorney general—announced it would take action. 

It said it would deepen its crackdown  on fake vaccine manufacturing—and  

that there were more than 21 cases  of major vaccine fraud across China. 

Which is to say, if the top level of the  Chinese government is getting involved,  

fake vaccines could be a much more widespread  issue than state-run media will admit.

Here's another perspective: The  cofounder of one Chinese NGO said  

“the focus on criminal activity was a distraction  from the genuine threat to people's health from  

shoddy, out-of-date, and incorrectly  handled vaccines from legitimate sources.”

Great. So... you can't trust the  legitimate sources of the vaccine, either.

Sadly, there's nothing new about fake  and low-quality vaccines in China.

This article from five years ago talks  about how Chinese authorities pledged  

to crack down on the black market sale of  vaccines for meningitis and rabies. That  

was after a case was made public involving  nearly $90 million worth of illegal vaccines  

that were suspected of being  sold in dozens of provinces.

And that crackdown definitely happened, and  solved the fake vaccine problem forever.

Obviously, fake products are  sold all the time in China.

From silly things like knockoff Nike sandals,

and problematic KFC...

to more serious products like  fake alcohol—which can kill you,

and fake baby formula—which can kill your baby.

So fake vaccines are just another  item in a long list of fake products.

Why are fake products so common in China?  Well, criminals are going to be criminals. But  

it's hard to really crack down on them when the  government is also run by a bunch of criminals.  

Because sometimes criminals collude with each  other. The Chinese government might pass a  

bunch of regulations, but the system is so deeply  corrupt that enforcement is close to impossible.  

And a lot of times when the government announces  a big crackdown, it's only for political reasons.

They want to look like the good guy—and  

get Western media to write glowing articles  about how China is saving the world.

Meanwhile, Chinese state-run media  are doing whatever they can to  

discredit Covid vaccines that aren't from China.

As the Global Times says, the US “can  either continue to blame and malign China,  

or join it to help develop and distribute  life-saving vaccines around the world.”

I'm going to give that a hard pass.

Interestingly, Chinese state-run media started  on this kick of trying to discredit other  

countries' vaccines after that study came  out saying that the Chinese Sinovac vaccine  

was only 50 percent effective.

I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

But will China's vaccine propaganda  succeed? Well, a recent poll in Taiwan  

showed that only 1.3 percent of the population  would be willing to get a Chinese Covid vaccine.

And now that you've watched  this episode, you know why.

And now it's time for me to  answer a question from you,  

a viewer who supports China Uncensored on Patreon.

Barton Blackorby asks: “Hey Chris, I saw that  the CCP is broadcasting their propaganda even  

in Times Square!”—and here's a link with a  photo—“How much have they infiltrated our media?”

Good question, Barton. The answer is complicated.  An ad in Times Square probably doesn't accomplish  

much, aside from wasting Chinese taxpayer money.  I'd hardly call that infiltrating our media.

The main ways the CCP infiltrates Western  media is by pressuring them to self-censor.  

Take NBC, which has a multi-billion dollar  deal to broadcast the 2022 Beijing Olympics.  

It's a big risk for them to do too  much critical reporting on China.

Or take the Washington Post  and the New York Times.  

Until recently, they both took money in exchange  for having Chinese propaganda inserts like this.

But more importantly, the billionaire owners  of those companies have substantial business  

interests tied to China. Easier  to self-censor than anger the CCP.

Having been in the news business for a long  time, I can tell you that for every story  

you hear about, a dozen equally important  stories get left on the editing room floor,  

as they say. The CCP knows it's hard to  get media to directly publish propaganda,  

but it's easy to get them to simply  ignore certain critical stories.

That being said, the media in the  US aren't monolithic. There are  

some smaller media that are going a  great job covering China. And even from  

big media like the New York Times, you can get  individual reporters with good China stories.

But my point is, if there were  no influence from the CCP,  

American media as a whole would treat China  much more like we treated the Soviet Union—a  

serious threat, instead of an ally  we should be getting vaccines from.

Thanks for your question, Barton.

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Once again, I'm Chris Chappell.  Thanks for watching China Uncensored.