With Four Policy “Red Lines”

Plus, China's dangerous monkey business

That and more on this week's China news headlines

Welcome to China Uncensored,  I'm Chris Chappell. The Chinese  

Communist Party has drawn some red  lines for the Biden Administration. 

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So as I said, China has drawn some red lines  for the US. Four red lines, to be exact. These  

are demands the Communist Party is making  of the Biden Administration. As my favorite  

Chinese state-run media, the Global Times, calls  them, “'the red lines' that can't be crossed.”

Those red lines were drawn by Chinese  Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi  

at a video conference earlier this week.

And it's kind of confusing. Because they're not  really red lines that can't be crossed. They're  

actually four things that the Chinese Communist  Party demands that the US government do. 

The US must end support for Taiwan,  Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet;  

resume the U.S.-China dialogue on all levels;  end the tariffs on Chinese products and  

sanctions on Chinese enterprises; and remove  all restrictions on China's state-run media  

and cultural entities such  as the Confucius Institutes.

First, I feel like this is cheating.  This is way more than four things.

Second, this sounds like when kids write a  Christmas list for Santa and they put four  

ponies on the list. They know they're  not going to get four ponies. But maybe  

they could get one pony. Or  at least a My Little Pony.

So will Biden make Xi Jinping  a Brony? We don't know yet. 

The reason that the Chinese regime can come  out and make these red-line demands now  

is that Biden has only been in office for  a month, and he hasn't clarified where he  

stands on a lot of these issues. And it's not  just China that wants to know. For instance,  

the Ugyhur rights group, the East  Turksitan Government in Exile,  

has called on Biden to clarify his  stance on the genocide of Ugyhur Muslims.

That was in response to these comments  Biden made on a CNN town hall. 

I point out to him: No American President  can be sustained as a President if he doesn't  

reflect the values of the United States.  And  so the idea I'm not going to speak out against  

what he's doing in Hong Kong, what he's doing  with the Uyghurs in western mountains of  

China and Taiwan, trying to end the One  China policy by making it forceful — I  

said — and by the — he said he — he gets  it.  Culturally, there are different  

norms that each country and they —  their leaders — are expected to follow.

Those comments caused a lot of controversy.  Conservative media had a field day.

For more on that, check out this  episode of America Uncovered.

And former President Trump is also calling into  question Biden's resolve on China. Here he is  

in an interview with Newsmax, responding  to a question about the Biden Town Hall.

“His family's involved with the  Chinese, certainly, a long time and  

a lot of money. The whole thing is ridiculous:  We had China exactly where we wanted them.”

Biden has not clarified his China policy yet.  But is it as bad as some people make it seem?  

More on that after the break.

Welcome back.

So some people are concerned  about Biden's China policy. 

However, Biden might just keep  Trump's China tariffs in place. 

And Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken  has been critical of the Chinese regime.  

He's called out the genocide of Ugyhurs  in Xinjiang. And in a recent interview,  

he also said China needs to come  clean on the coronavirus pandemic.

He said, “It requires countries to be transparent;  

it requires them to share information; it requires  them to give access to international experts at  

the beginning of an outbreak—things that,  unfortunately, we haven't seen from China.”

And State Department spokesman Ned Price  expressed concern about a new Chinese law  

that “explicitly allows its coast  guard to fire on foreign vessels.”

Price said, “We are further concerned  that China may invoke this new law  

to assert its unlawful maritime  claims in the South China Sea.”

So at least as far as talking points go, the  Biden Administration doesn't seem to care  

too much about China's four red lines. But it's  unclear what kind of actions they plan to take. 

But the good news is that right now standing  

up to the Chinese Communist  Party has bipartisan support.

This week, US Senate Majority Leader Chuck  Schumer said he wants a bill to counter China. 

Specifically he told lawmakers “to  start drafting a legislative package  

to out-compete China and  create new American jobs.”

That sounds nice and all, Mr. Schumer. But  with a tough on China stance, have you ever  

thought about all the wealthy Americans  who might lose their investments in China?

Meanwhile, it turns out China gave US  Diplomats anal Covid tests “in error”.

In error?! A butt dial is an error. A butt  swab isn't something that just happens.

“Sorry, I was going for your  nose but then I slipped.”

The US State Department has now  assured everyone that it is “committed  

to preserving the 'dignity' of American diplomats  

and their families, consistent with the  Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”

And I'll be back with more probing  news after this final commercial break.

Welcome back. 

According to an Israeli cyber firm, a Chinese  hacking tool was modeled on NSA spyware.

It says that the Chinese tool was a copy of a tool  used by an NSA group called the Equation Group.  

So China essentially pirated  a hacking tool from the NSA.

“The Tel Aviv-based firm  hypothesized that Chinese spies  

may have obtained the code during an Equation  Group operation against a target in China,  

captured it while monitoring an Equation  Group attack against a third party,  

or acquired it during a Chinese  operation against the Equation Group.”

So basically everyone is terrible in this story.

And speaking of everyone is  terrible, UK Prime Minister  

Boris Johnson is rejecting a boycott of the  Beijing Olympics despite all the genocide.

According to the BBC,  

“Mr Johnson said the UK was 'leading international  action in the UN to hold China to account.'”

International action in the UN? So, Boris  Johnson is planning to accomplish nothing. 

Sure, his government is demanding  China give the United Nations  

“urgent and unfettered” access  to Xinjiang to investigate.

But China is treating that about as seriously  as Johnson is treating the Olympic boycott.

While we're on the topic of getting  the UN to investigate stuff,  

let's talk about the World Health Organization.

Everyone's favorite international health  organization just got a bit scummier. 

The Guardian recently obtained an internal  World Health Organization document that admitted  

China did little to hunt for  the origins of the coronavirus.

That's the kind of information  that would have saved lives.  

And yet the WHO spent months praising  the Chinese Communist Party publicly. 

“If I had Covid-19, I'd want  to be treated in China.”

I'm so glad Biden announced he wants to  keep the US as the WHO's biggest funder.

Now this will shock you, but the Chinese  Communist Party has betrayed the Vatican.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Is probably something that  the Pope would never say. 

You see, the Vatican and the Chinese Communist  Party have argued for years over who has the  

right to appoint Catholic Bishops in China. The  Vatican thinks it's a job for the Catholic Church.  

The Chinese Communist Party thinks it's a job for  the atheist Chinese Communist Party. Makes sense. 

But after careful negotiation, the Pope  agreed to a deal with the Chinese regime.  

What was the deal? Well, the  details were never made public. 

But I'm guessing the Chinese regime  has broken whatever agreement they had.  

According to new rules that  will take effect on May 1,  

“China's state-run Catholic Church and  bishops' conference will select, approve,  

and ordain episcopal candidates—with no mention  of the Vatican's involvement in the process.”

You'd think the Pope, as the head  of the Catholic Church, would  

know that deals with the Devil  usually work out in the Devil's favor.

But I guess the Holy See didn't see it coming. 

Last week, the Chinese Communist Party admitted  that at least 4 Chinese soldiers died during a  

border clash with India last year.    

And this week, China detained 6  people for insulting those soldiers.

And by insulting, they mean they did things  like questioning China's official death toll.  

And they're getting up to 15 days in jail for it.

But they're getting off  easy. Because back in 2018,  

China passed a law that bans people from  “insulting or slandering heroes and martyrs”.

At the time, it was a civil law. But next  month, it will become a criminal law.  

And the penalty goes up to three years in jail.

So don't try to sell Chairman Meow merchandise  in China. The penalty could be cat-astrophic.

A great US weakness has been  revealed by the coronavirus pandemic.

We were unprepared for it. Not only  did the Chinese Communist Party hide  

the severity of the coronavirus in  order to hoard medical supplies...

but they also ensured a shortage  of test subjects for coronavirus  

research. And by test subjects, I mean monkeys.

Yes, China banned the export of monkeys and other  wildlife just when the world needed it most.

You see, as the New York Times  says, “The world needs monkeys,  

whose DNA closely resembles that of humans, to  develop Covid-19 vaccines. But a global shortage,  

resulting from the unexpected demand caused by  the pandemic, has been exacerbated by a recent ban  

on the sale of wildlife from China, the  leading supplier of the lab animals.”

Wait, China is the world's leading supplier  of lab animals? Not only do they dominate  

the medical equipment market. They  also dominate the monkey market!

This ain't no monkey business. Okay, it  technically is. But the US is taking it seriously.

“The latest shortage has revived talk  about creating a strategic monkey reserve.”

So this is how it starts.

But this is actually very similar to how the  US has an emergency stockpile of oil and grain.

In other words, President Biden:  Build that strategic monkey reserve!

Strategic Monkey Reserve will also  be the name of my new rock band.

And now it's time for me to answer questions from  a member of the China Uncensored 50 Cent Army,  

fans who support China Uncensored on  the crowd funding website Patreon.

Bill Hanna asks, “Hi Chris, love your channel.   China was the first recipient of a Tesla Giga  

factory outside of the US and competes directly  with local Electric Vehicle manufacturers...Xpeng  

is one such competitor that has a  law suit pending about IP theft.   

What is the "Un-censored" view of the CCP's  real long term view of this relationship.??

Yes Elon Musk seems to have  a rather rosy view of China.

And guess how that's working out for him?

That was from earlier this month. And  this is pretty typical of what happens  

to big foreign companies when they go to China.  

The Communist Party opens the door, welcomes them  in, and then steals their intellectual property,  

makes a Chinese knockoff, and then uses  regulation to crush the foreign company.

Now I don't know if that's what happened  with the Tesla factory. But I wouldn't  

be surprised if Elon Musk someday finds himself  cursing China's sudden but inevitable betrayal.

Thanks for your question Bill.

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Once again I'm Chris Chappell.  See you next time.