China Demands IP Theft From Citizens Abroad - Episode #26

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Welcome to episode 26 of the ATV podcasts. We have a very important, as usual, episode for you today.

When is it not important? Yeah, well, we're going to be catching you up on a lot of things that have been happening in China first. So our “what’s new” segment’s going to be quite a bit longer today, and then we’re going to move into the main topic, which is all about how there’s the state-sponsored IP theft program that comes out of China.

Anyway, before we get started, you might notice that we’re a little red. I’m always red, but finally, I have an excuse.

Yeah, maybe I’m in pain. For those of you who aren’t familiar, you know we, of course, our main focus is always China throughout our channels, but we do have a car channel, and I finally kind of fixed up a car, and we decided we got and film them yesterday, and it was hard, hard, hard. I mean, take a look at the heat waves; you can just see how ridiculous it was. Anyway, when you drive around in an open, you know, the T-tops open in the middle of the day for three or four hours like we did yesterday, it tends to give you a bit of a sunburn. It certainly doesn’t… you know, it’s funny, it’s because it wasn’t that hot temperature-wise. Yeah, you actually don’t feel it, so you get home and then like after dinner you’re just like, “Do I have a fever?” Yeah, what’s your grab? But the funny thing is, you can see this part hasn’t and or gotten red, so I have that kind of like mask tan line.

Very period-correct.

Yeah, absolutely. The reason we had to wear masks is because our cars are wide open. So when you’re at stoplights and stuff, there’s people walking around.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. You can’t take a chance. We were going down by the coast, and you drive very slowly in there; a lot of cyclists, and you come to a stop very often, like you say, people walking past, and you have to wear a mask from that reason because remember someone’s this close to you and your T-top, if some homeless guy just runs up to us for change or something.

Xib, right in the face. Anyway, so that’s the reason we’re going to start with what’s new. We have to talk a little bit about what’s going on in China. They’ve been fresh outbreaks which don’t seem to make the news, but here we have a fresh outbreak. Where was it again? It’s… I’ll play it on the screen. Oh, I should probably bear in this first clip. It is the first.

Okay, cool. Just making sure. So first outbreak in Wuhan again. I would like to preface this by saying I get your Patreon messages and emails every day talking about the real figures coming out of China. There was something that we were able to contest with reliable data from people on the ground in China when it first came out, sure, but now it’s so tightly controlled. What I tell people is that all the citizen journalists are gone; they’ve been arrested; they’ve censored every word related to coronavirus.

Now at this point…

Yeah, and everything is so tightly restricted that you’re not getting reliable information out of adults. It’s almost impossible.

Yeah, occasionally we see little leaks. Anyway, this was May 12th, I believe. Is that correct?

Yeah. So what set this off was I saw in Harbin. And remember I went to Harbin?

Yeah, yeah. There’s full military on the streets because there’s so many cases right now; they’re just preventing anyone from going out. This one just came out very, very recently. This isn’t one… well, honey, what was a cold? We wrote it down, saying this was in the bottom here.

Yeah, there was unmeaning community.

That’s right, and they took away 180 people for quarantine, but that’s public data.

Yeah, for 180 people in quarantine. I also saw some footage of them tape, police taking people away from their apartments at night.

Yeah, so this is what they’re doing, efforts to control the narrative. Here’s, here’s the whole thing about this, right, though. It’s been since what was it, March 28th, that they banned foreigners from coming into China.

Correct. So they can’t blame it on foreigners anymore.

No, I mean, these new outbreaks that are happening, they can’t say, “Oh, it’s because foreigners have just come in again.” I mean, they couldn’t say that to begin with, but guess what they say they were a say when ninety-nine, ninety-something percent of all the cases that were happening in China that we’ve kind of reappearing in China were from Chinese people actually returning from abroad, not foreigners. So what they did is they didn’t ban Chinese people from abroad coming home, but they banned entry to all foreigners. For those of you who aren’t aware, but up until recently they’ve still been blaming all the new cases on foreigners. That’s why we had that huge xenophobic thing happen in Guangzhou, all the anti-African stuff: “No blacks allowed” and “No blacks being served,” “No foreigners allowed,” because that’s the narrative is that, “No, it’s not China; it’s not China’s fault; it’s a foreign issue.”

Yeah, I mean, you know that’s how the whole timeline, if we go through this, you can pull up the photo that we’re about to talk about. The whole timeline, you know, we went through was, yes, it was found in Wuhan. Let’s blame Wuhan. Yeah. Oh, actually, maybe it wasn’t, but we think maybe it was from wet markets. Ocean and wet markets. Oh, actually, no, it probably came from abroad. Let’s blame Italy. Oh, actually, probably Japan. Oh, actually, America. And then now France. Now the state kind of pushed the idea that it was from the American military and it was state-sponsored.

Yes. And then they told their citizens that, and we’ve cordially talked to people, dear friends of ours in China, that are not… you mad? The West’s are mad at us for that, for this happening.

Sure, but they fully believe, or at least entertain the idea, that it definitely came from the… it’s, it’s actually quite disturbing because I know lots of Chinese people who are saying, “Yeah, no, definitely came from the from America; it was found there first.” Now, but there are other people that, even though they’re super smart and intelligent, they’re like, “Yeah, well, we can’t prove it didn’t come from the US,” but they’re not consuming any other idea.

Yeah, so it leads to things like this, like this sign up in Wuhan at the market now saying, “In order to prevent catching or spreading the American pneumonia virus…” You can see the characters; they say, “Make war. It’s the American virus. You must wear masks,” etc., etc. So now the, even in the public, they are kind of labeling it the American virus, even in Wuhan, where it came from. So just to let you know that this is working incredibly well, the CCP’s narrative that this virus is not their fault and has nothing to do with China; it’s actually a foreign devil thing, you know. And originally it was like China giving a middle finger to the West with a rule for your diplomacy, saying, “No, it actually didn’t come from here,” but now the… we’ve been… I think a lot of people have been ignoring the actual soft power within China convincing their own citizens that has actually worked.

Yeah, it is sparked debate in the West, where I would say the majority of people are like, “That’s ridiculous; go screw yourself, CCP,” sure, whereas in China they actually worked; there’s only one news source.

Yeah, so it’s, it’s very well for the CCP.

Okay, cool. Let’s see what’s next on the list.

Yeah, we have a bunch of good… we have some funny stuff, too.

Yeah, I blew him… this is semi-funny, is kind of funny, man.

Yeah, you can explain what happened here. So this guy, he is a famous opera singer from China. He moved abroad; I mean, he goes back all the time. Well loved within China and abroad, very supportive of the CCP.

Yeah. So here’s a TikTok, right? This is Douyin. Okay, it’s the same thing. So he is the… he’s a prime example of a person in his 50s or 50s or 60s that is very supportive of his country, very…aguas, we say… national…

Yes, nationalist, but also happy-go-lucky and quite friendly-looking.

Sure. Like I said, he’s very well renowned; it was a good opera singer.

Yeah. And part of his repertoire when he sings in China is nationalist songs, or…in home good, as we say, which means red song.

Yes, pro-communist songs. So he gets contacted by some officials.

Yeah. Well, that went through Douyin to report his account based on his avatar and what… let’s ask the audience; we’ll give him five seconds. If you look at his picture, who does he look like?

Yeah, yeah. He looks like Xi Jinping. Yes. So he’s actually banned because his avatar… they, they said that he was basically using the avatar of Xi Jinping. You’re not allowed to because he looks so much like Xi Jinping; they banned him. But the really nice, kind of nice guy that he is…

Yeah. He didn’t blame anyone, and although he has a massive account…

Yeah. So he contacts the officials; he contacts Douyin as well, and he says, “You know what? If it’s not a big deal, I’m, you know, I’m clearly not using Xi Jinping’s avatar. Yeah, I guess I guess I look like him.” So a lot of people were… were looking into this. He’s never once claimed he looks like him; no one even pushes this narrative. Douyin and the officials went after him for this, and as far as I know, his account, as of right now, is still gone based on the fact that he looks like Xi Jinping. So China, the Chinese government is so insecure that someone may look like someone… you know, not on purpose, may look like someone that he may be mistaken for the dear amazing leader. And this is the head of Seoul. We’re looking at the… well, our leaders… put it into another perspective. Let’s just say that you, you look like Obama or you look like Trump or something.

Very… I think I resemble about…

Yeah, yeah. Okay. And you make your normal social media post, got nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with anything; it’s your own thing up and stuff, and the government comes and shuts down your accounts as you may not have an account because he looked like the president. I think it’s important to make that comparison because you got to understand how ridiculous that is. Yeah, everybody who is trying to support China and there’s the CCP, and when I say China, I mean the CCP government, you have to understand that these are the people you’re supporting: people that cannot even accept a look-alike right, having their own opinion online because it might somehow tarnish the great leader’s image.

In a devil’s advocate really quickly, actually, not even devil’s advocate, but the discussion around this on Chinese internet, people are baffled, and it shows you the disc… and there’s actually quite a big disconnect between the populace and the government here when the government… each… are ridiculous example. Yeah, you’re looking at something like this, and you look at the way ball post and people like, “Are you kidding me? This like nice opera singer that represents our country abroad, you know…”

Yeah, huge disconnect.

Yeah, but anyway, I don’t think I want to finish this up. I don’t think that this is gonna be a permanent ban.

No, sure. It’ll probably come back, but it’s just ridiculous.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay. Let me explain something. So if you guys have watched my last video, I covered the propaganda he’s popping in on TikTok.

Yes. Now I have to say this because a lot of people are not of the age demographic; there they will be on TikTok. Personally, if I weren’t dealing with Chinese media, I wouldn’t be on TikTok either.

Sure, but you have to understand how prevalent this app is around the world right now. It’s one of the most popular social media apps in the whole world, and Chinese propaganda, CCP propaganda, has infiltrated it so deeply that when you go on the “For You” page, which is kind of like the home page of YouTube, right, you will be inundated with soft power propaganda. So I cover… I covered that… we covered… I covered some white people that were doing it for China; I covered a lot of this stuff, soft power stuff, and there was this anthropology professor that he kept popping up, and I covered his circular reasoning. He basically goes out there to say like, “The CCP is great, and we should just, you know, always question…”

Like, what do you think I’m Chinese?

Mm-hmm. That’s a hard question to answer, isn’t it?

Yeah. So I wanted to give you guys a treat that had that video; I pulled up; I found another video that he did, and I hope you guys enjoy the circular.

Yeah. So we’re gonna play it and try and make sense of it.

[Music] Education… one of the art of education… an apology is to let you see there are alternatives; there are different people; there are different beliefs, and they really… they see the same thing differently. If you stay in narrow-minded cultural context, you tend to see things…

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So I mean, this guy’s name, Daniel… it could be… now he, he always says these truth bombs, and one of them, my favorite ones from my video was, “What you… but what you believe is not what you believe,” or something like that. This is… there are different people with different beliefs who see things differently. Now, do you remember when… so what was the initial question of this video? “Do Chinese people…” you know… it was that… that was everyone… this one is, “Is it right? Is it okay?”

Is it okay to… yeah. So this is what we’ve learned. Did we… did we answer the question?

No. Now you see that this is… this is a tactic I’ve seen employed by a lot of people to defend the CCP is when posed or given a presented with a question, a very simple question, they will go on these kind of like pseudo-intellectual lectures about, you know, “Think about this, and what about that, and put yourself in these shoes,” and… and it’s, it’s healthy to have a different perspective, and… and what would happen if you had to have an uncomfortable thought about something? And by the time they finished their garbage, they still haven’t answered the question.

No. But all they’ve made it… they try to confuse you, right? And try to make you feel inferior for asking the question, right? That’s the whole thing that they’re trying to do, to shut you down through this like ridiculous doublespeak.

Mmm. So yeah, and that’s this… all nerd. Anyway, the whole point is on TikTok; there are so many things like this, but I’ve uncovered… not to spoil in the next video, I have uncovered a much more sinister one that I’m going to cover next.

Sure. All right. And lovely truth bomb. Okay, we have to follow up. We’ve spoke about this in the previous podcast about how the CBC, that Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, made a hit piece on the Epoch Times, called them… said that they were spreading rumors and that they were racist and all this kind of nonsense. You did a follow-up video; we went more in-depth into it, but things have happened since then; we wanted to talk a little bit about it. So let’s give them a refresher.

Go for it. A refresher of the video.

Oh, okay. Watch this. But it did seem to allude to conspiracy theories, like, you know, “Maybe it was manufactured; this virus was manufactured in the lab.” Well, no, we know scientifically that’s just not true. The special edition of the paper explores the idea that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon in a lab by the…

Okay. Those of you who are here last time will remember our good friend with the very badly drawn picture of a horse in the background. I apologize if that was like a three-year-old daughter that drew it for her, but whatever, we can only… the question, “What is art?” Yeah, but in the article, as you heard, they said the article said that it was a bioweapon; they actually used that word, “manufactured in the lab” and a bioweapon, which is actually not in the article. Not only that, this woman… we called her Karen… yeah, this woman claimed the exact same thing. So that, that legitimately means that either she didn’t read the article because there’s not one mention of it in there, or she was reading off the script. Now we actually found out something about this woman; maybe you want to fill people in. What is it that she does?

So I… when I tried to contact her because I was… I was deeply concerned about this…

Yeah. And when they put out two of the exact same things like smearing the Epic… Epoch Times… yeah, we both of us were discussing, “Why would you put out the exact same video with different people in the same scenario? It’s too weird.”

Yeah. So we’re digging in, and we’re trying to make contact. We make contact with one of the male… men, which we’ll talk about later, but this woman… I tried to contact… she is a web designer.

Yes. And so I used her just public email for him, just one… asked her some questions, but she didn’t reply. What we did find out was a nice subscriber from the same area of Canada as this… it’s a very small, small town area; its primary investor is a CCP-backed wine company.

Yes. We… this person was doing web development for… building a website for this… right? And this… the tie here is a little suspicious; won’t make any claims obviously… look, the CCP comes and invests in the vineyards there because the ice… ice wine… it was eight million dollars.

Eight million dollars. So they invest the money in, and then they get her to build the website, and here she is parroting the CCP narrative. It sounds a little bit too good to be true; it’s a little bit… to… this… as far as we can go on; we’re not going to say it’s outright, but like, we did find that out, and that does make some sense.

So yeah, keep going.

Okay. Notice how you can’t read the article; we’ve pointed this out… exactly. But the rest of the video is quite clear. I mean, we’re gonna see that that horse picture in the… boy, in my video, and it to the FOP… actually, let the people read it.

Yeah, but so they’re saying that they did this hit piece and said, okay, the bioweapon thing, which is actually not true, right? And then after the box hearing thing…

Yes. So there’s not much we can tell you guys about this, but what we do know is that the postman that they interviewed and blurred out because they were just so offended… yeah, for handing out this newspaper that said bad things about the CCP; their claim was that it is racist to be against the Communist Party of China.

Yes, right. And I was actually under the impression that maybe these people were in fact told to say this…

Yeah. But it turns out that maybe I’m… again, not too much detail… maybe it was actually throwing opinions…

Sure. Which shocks me. Yeah, but there’s been a lot of backlash, and what happened was finally the CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, had to make every trial retraction. So they basically said, “Okay, your article didn’t say that it was by a weapon; you’re wrong, and maybe it was in poor taste to title this that…” Like Canadians are offended because if we pull up a little data here… yeah, take a look at the moment; this is what… how Canadians feel about China… how they view China… you know, look… at least from my understanding as an outsider, I’ve always seen Canadians as super like bleeding-heart liberal, love human rights and democracy, and you know, caring people. I’m not trying to say this in a condescending way; I’m trying to say the Canadians that I know, at least, all seem to sort of put the humanity above everything else, since you’re humane and you know, being good people and good Dudley Do-Right. So you know what I mean, your kind of thing. And so, of course, when things start to happen and you start to have these realizations on how China does deal with human rights and they captured those Canadians, one of them… our friends are the two Michaels, and they’ve done all these things in retaliation to the whole Huawei thing… of course, people’s public opinion of China is going to start changing. And in fact, it was very positive, but it can’t go to the next slide. But this is currently, you know, according to the Angus Reid Institute, 14 percent favorable. And don’t forget that a massive portion of the population in Canada are Chinese mainland Chinese, something like 5.8… it was 5.8 percent. So you can take that 5.8 percent and minus it away from the 14 percent…

Yeah. And the remainder that’s left over is probably going to be naturalized Chinese people that have become Canadian citizens.

I mean, in a huge pushback were from Chinese Canadians…

Naturally.

Yes, exactly, against this, and I say pushback against this stupid CBC thing that they did.

Yeah, they’re like, “That’s not racist.”

Exactly. Anyway, let’s look at the trend; it’s quite interesting, and it plays into your idea that Canadians have been quite open-minded. Look at 05… if you look at 2005 and between 2005 and 2008, 2009, that was China’s golden period that we talk about, right?

And yeah, it was fairly favorable.

Yeah. You know, the thing is that’s around about the time I got to China in 2006, so right in the beginning, like February of 2000… and Jenna was a different place.

Well, and the dealings China had with the world at that time was very different; things were changing rapidly. And so that’s why I think the world just altogether decided that they would forgive a lot of the sort of missteps of the past because they could see the promise for the… so it’s kind of like, “Oh, yeah, you screwed up; yes, you did have these horrible communist programs that killed your own people; people died and had to resort to cannibalism and stuff and all that kind of nonsense, but guess what? That’s in the past; you’re improving now; you’re opening up; everybody’s friends; we love you; you love us; let’s keep going.” And so that… look, 58 percent of any people in a room… it’s directly correlated with the way that Chinese people treated us in China as well.

Yeah, it was a very positive experience at that show, and that… because everyone was happy; they’re making money, and they knew that the cooperation with the Western world was a good thing.

Yeah, and so did we, right?

Yeah. See where it starts to really decline, though… it’s like, when did the whole… I think… starts happening… I mean, all these things… they’re… it’s best to know there’s all sorts of things have just started to come together all at the same time, you know… all these corruption scandals that worry… you know, when it comes to immigration scandals with Canada because Canada has got a very easy to exploit immigration system if you have a lot of money. So the thing is there are a lot of corrupt officials in China who have a lot of money and a lot of corrupt businessmen and stuff; those are not the kind of people you actually want going to your country, but those are the people that could exploit the system to go to Canada; those are the people buying up all the homes in your neighborhood and leaving them vacant and driving up the property prices. You know, that kind of thing, which doesn’t help people’s favorability.

Yes. If you look at immigration, and we’re not anti-immigration at all…

Do not… no… immigration if it’s done correctly. But listen… listen… so like if you have… if you take China out of the equation… if you’re talking about a country in Europe or Japan… let’s say Japan, okay? A Japanese immigrant, let’s say that they’re wealthy… yeah, there is a good chance that they are highly educated; there’s a good chance that they probably do some sort of business or something like that, right? There’s a good chance that if they’re choosing to immigrate to a different country… yeah, that their principles are correct, and they’re good, and they will integrate in some way, shape, or form, and they won’t be a corrupt criminal dictator in their own country.

Yeah. But when you put China into this, and that’s how most countries look at it, right? They want to attract talent, wealthy talent to their country; any country wants…

Sure, sure. When you look at China, the worst people tend to have the most money because they’re in the government, and they’re laundering money of… so that’s the problem with Chinese immigration when you’re talking about CCP officials moving abroad. Well, I mean, that’s… we had a good laugh because quite… if this is a number of years back, but you know, we… there’s a story, and we went through a whole lot because there was that huge… they uncovered that huge immigration scandal where what was happening was Chinese people wanted a Canadian citizenship so they could get the benefits of having a Canadian citizenship, so that means free schooling, free health care, all that kind of crap, but they didn’t want to live in Canada. So what they do is they do this…

Kind of scam where they go there, leave, then mail their passports back. And then, like an agent would pretend that they were receiving money—they’d obviously be paying for this—would like fraudulently make stamps, entry and exit stamps in their passport and stuff. And they’re possibly just stay there in Canada, and they’d use like all these little tricks to trick the system so the person could just carry on with their life in China. And then, after however many years, they would suddenly become a Canadian citizen because their passport had been there and being stamped all the time, but they would still send their children to get the free schooling and stuff, health care and free health care.

And then, like the one story that really like pushed me over the edge was the guy—like billionaire, right—so his daughters growing up in Canada, going to school. He claims that he’s low income, claims that he’s poor, right, and he’s in that bracket, so he starts actually receiving money from the state because he’s like, like, well, for, yeah, welfare. And then he goes and buys his daughter a brand-new Mercedes Benz, cash. And that’s what tipped him off. It’s like, hang on a second. So I mean, this guy’s a billionaire, sending his kids and taking money from the Canadian taxpayer. You know, that’s the thing is the people that are going to come and contribute to your country, these are not people that you want. These are the people that are going to come and exploit your system. And that’s obviously why you see such a decline. It sucks because that really detracts from the actual Chinese people that wanted to naturalize because they wanted to leave China. Who met many of their subscriber—me correct? I mean, we went, we met that guy not in Canada, but here in the state—MSM in Canada? Yeah. I mean, we met that guy in Las Vegas. Yeah, there. Yeah. And he’s been here for years and he’s also kind of naturalized; he works, he works in the casinos and stuff. But there are so many good, hard-working Chinese people that come through and actually try to do things legitimately, and they’re just undermined by these corrupt, rich, like unscrupulous and scrupulous people.

No, not like that, being harassed and their own Chinese communities in America and Canada by the mainland Chinese that don’t integrate and have all the money and power. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, sorry. Yeah, that’s our follow-up. Yeah, okay. Let’s continue here. That was to follow up from that, sorry. I think we did lose our stream for a second there. If we did, we apologize; we’re back now. Anyway, okay, so let’s take a couple of super chats before we move on to the main topic and tell everyone to refresh. Yeah, okay. Let us do that very thing, right? SC 1 3 3 8 says, “Have any more t-shirts with you punching the clown?” We do not. We may bring them back at some point, probably a good idea. Oh yeah, the way that merch works, it’s not like a permanent store; it’s like a two-week run. Yeah, so when we like release a t-shirt, it’s only out for 2 weeks, but we can bring them back at some point if…Yeah, I’d love to. I love that design. I mean, I need a new one anyway because I work on my cars and stuff, and again, yeah, get dirty. I’ve worn that thing to death. Sorry. Or JPN some dollar II dues, “A few of you guys’ back catalogue videos have provided valuable arguments online to the Vietnam is the new China and others are seeking traction with me or see interaction with me.” Yeah, I noticed that we’ve covered a lot of topics where we predict things and they intend to…I mean, it’s, it’s not like a prediction thing; it’s when you, when you understand there’s or a place well enough; it’s like if you understand a person well enough, if you’ve known a person, let’s just say you’re your sister or your brother or something here, and you know them for so long, or your best friend, you tend to know what they’re gonna do, and you tend to understand how they work. Yeah, so it’s kind of very easy to say, “Oh, they’re doing that because they want this.” Oh, why they suddenly like making me a tea in the morning and bringing me a biscuit and stuff, it’s because they want to ask me a favor, you know, that kind of thing. So you, you get to know a person, and because we lived in China for so long, and of course we have Chinese family, we know China quite well and speak the language and, and all that kind of thing, and I think that helps us predict a lot of what’s happening. Yeah, correct. I’ll do one more, sure. Jan fast car again, thank you. “Hi guys, I just bought a new shell, me my condolences. Does the CCP have spy programs on the phone that are sold in China? I bought a Huawei while in China and Google Play can’t be installed. Thanks, all the best of both your families.” Yeah, they are hard, they are hard locked. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I made a video where I actually went and bought one, and the guys in the shop actually hack—hack—didn’t side-loaded the Google Playstore onto the—it was an Oppo that I bought and gave away a while ago. Look, I mean, unfortunately, if you are in China and you’re using a Chinese phone, you’re definitely going to have some kind of spyway because it’s part of the whole ecosystem there. People don’t mind, and that’s why they’ve been so successful in tracking the covert—sorry, the Wuhan flu, you know, infections and stuff, is because people basically don’t have a choice. In fact, you don’t have a choice; if you want to gain access into restaurants and things, you need that QR code, in order to have that, you need to have an app on your phone that tracks you everywhere you go, and every time you go into a supermarket and get scanned or whatever, it tells Big Brother you’ve been there, you’ve been there, you’ve been there, and people accept it, and it makes their lives a lot easier, but at the same time, they sacrifice freedom. So Jenna’s not in China—that they were in China, they had bought that—but yeah, there’s a lot of security risks in buying a Chinese phone, and I wouldn’t recommend it. Yeah, if you can, if you can get, you know, that’s the thing, a lot of people have been contacting me and I, salsa personally right now, if we’re very unhappy with the way that the Chinese Communist Party has dealt with the whole situation and put us in this bad situation. So a lot of people are saying, “Look, we want a boycott made in China products, what can we do?” And everyone seems to think that it’s impossible, but it’s not because think about it: Korea makes Samsung and LG, and you know, of course Japan makes Sony in, you know, you’ve got these very big, good brands that you can buy which aren’t made in China anymore, but people keep forgetting the other big one, which is Taiwan, and Taiwan makes fantastic products—you know, Asus, if you’re a gamer, you know about Asus, Gigabyte, you know, all these big brands, Acer also comes from Taiwan, you know, you get phones, HTC, that kind of thing. So you know, you, you don’t have to buy made in China; you actually don’t. So if that’s a choice you’ve made, and you would like to boycott buying made in China, there are so many other options out there, so don’t feel like you’re trapped into only buying made in China. Do our research.

Yeah, exactly. And as far as that whole boycotting made in China’s stuff is concerned, I don’t want to see the average Chinese person hurt by anything like that, but at the same time, I think a clear message has to be sent to the CCP, and I firmly believe that it’s a, it’s a good thing to do. I, I will not force my wife or my Chinese friends to boycott Chinese goods, ’cause that’s stupid; that’s like, that they can, you know, support their country as much as they want, and that’s their right, but me personally, if I have a choice, I will stay away from buying maintained in China for now. And we’ve always been of the opinion that China will need an economic wake-up call to actually have some political change. Yeah, so yeah, that’s what it is, right? Shall we move on to our next data segment, which of course is—we forgot to do the whole what’s new little thing, so I’m just putting the slide up now. Nice. Just in case you guys missed it. Yeah, yeah. Okay, our main topic, of course, soft power, our everybody, and this is where we talk about how China is trying to change your mind and take advantage of the freedom of the West in order to, you know, put their dastardly little deeds out there. So we’ve got a big one today, and this one is the Thousand Talents Program, and so probably put that over there, so maybe you can give a quick gloss over of what the Thousand Talents Program is.

Well, if you guys see this picture, it’s quite interesting that star in the middle says bayi, and that isn’t the Chinese military. Yes. So the Thousand Talents Program is a program that has three branches, and I’ll just read the blurb here: There’s the Innovative Thousand Talents Program, which is long term or short term for Chinese scholars under 55 years old. Right, right. Then you have the Foreign Thousand Talents Program; this is for foreigners; this is to attract long-term foreigners into China if they’re under 55. Yes. And then there’s the Young Scholar Thousand Talents Program, or Overseas Young Talents Program, for those of under 40 years of age. And what this is, it’s basically the Chinese government released this press statement where they said the best talented Chinese students tend to go to foreign universities, and a lot of them afterwards tend to stay there. So how do we attract them back to China with the information that they’ve learned or gotten within, let’s say America? Yeah, right. Well, we, we come up with this program; we award them a million RMB—yes—is what, about $250,000 something, and then they come back with that information. And that was the guys, right? We’re gonna get our talent back in it, so we don’t, we don’t a brain drain. Sure. Unfortunately, this turned into a military effort as well. Yeah, so they were sending PLA, which is People’s Liberation Army, scientists abroad, predominantly in Australia, but a lot in America as well, and they would go there, and they would get ties; it would make connections, Quan Chi as we say in Chinese, and they’d learn trade secrets, they learn military secrets. Yeah, they’d get insight if companies worked there for a very long time and then come back to China with that information, and that’s where you see IP theft—not only it’s not a secret—yeah, IP theft comes from when China gets all this technology that’s stolen from abroad. You’re looking at a situation where China is actively rewarding and creating government initiatives for this thing. Absolutely. That’s a synopsis of it; it’s pretty crazy if you look at it from an outside perspective. The Chinese government will reward you if you manage to steal secrets from the US or from Australia or abroad. Basic correct. And we’re going to give you a couple of examples, but it’s not only they give you a million RMB back, they actually approach foreign professors or foreign professionals or people working in, in big companies or sensitive companies, like if you work in a military company that has contracts to the military or something, they will approach you, wine and dine you, offer you all sorts of rewards, money, and of course, if you’re ethnically Chinese, which is their main target, they’ll go for someone who’s maybe American but ethnically Chinese, maybe second generation, maybe just naturalized, and they will offer them a lot of rewards back home in China. Oh, if you get did information for us, we will set you up with your own lab in China; we will set you up with your own school or your own office or your own company and give you having many, many million RMB Xin grants and stuff if you get this stuff. And the unfortunate thing is that a lot of what we’ve uncovered and a lot of what’s coming to light these days is a situation where you’ll get something like a professor or a scientist who’s receiving grants from the government where they are currently studying or doing their things, right. So for instance, in Australia, they’ll be receiving taxpayers’ money, grants in order to do research on, say, a new drug, okay, but at the same time, they’re receiving the money from the Chinese government, the Thousand Talents Program, which they’re keeping secret, and a lot of these scientists and so on, people are actually part of the People’s Liberation Army, part of the army—Chinese army—but they’re there, and so they’re receiving money from Australia, from the US or whatever in order to develop something, but that thing that they’re developing ultimately ends up going back to China. Correct. So they, they, they were taking advantage of the situation is such a like a underhanded way, it’s not even funny. I mean, we’re dealing with a country that is opposed to our values in the West, right? Yeah. This is a tightly controlled thing. Now, an interesting thing that I came, I came to the conclusion of after reading all this stuff was when I talked about the foreign talents program, the idea was that you attract these top scientists and bring them to China, and then they stay there to contribute, but they’ve had absolute failure of trying to keep foreign professors and scientists within China. Yeah, and you guys have heard the word chop adora quite often; it means it’s like good enough. Yeah. What happens is they’ll get the reward money, but then the accommoda—they’re promised free accommodations on sometimes the green card, and they fail to deliver over and over again. So the foreigners that go over there, they’re still free to go back home. Yeah. The reason they’re so successful with these PLA scientists and people they send over abroad or these students—the reason—and when they’ve done research on this, they keep finding that they always come home on time after their contract is over—yeah, the reason being is that these foreigners are not tied up with a communist party in the most directive senses; they still have their passport from back home. Sure. So when they get this satisfied of this whole thing, they go home. Yeah. The Chinese people, on the other hand, imagine you’re this scientist and you joined the PLA, right? Yeah. You get accepted in this program, so your family gets this money, you get this money; you don’t have the luxury anymore to stay abroad; you can’t do that anymore because you are tied in all of your information with the CCP. Yet, if you don’t come back home, you’re done. You know, it’s not like a normal slip that goes to college at UCLA, yeah, decides to stay afterwards. Sure. You’re enticed by this program and the money, and then you are locked in; you have to go back to China with this information. Now, you know, I like idioms; is a SCI program? Yeah, it is a spy program, but you know, I love idioms and stuff, and the, the PLA, the People’s Liberation Army actually has a name for this whole program of theirs, and it’s called picking flowers in foreign lands to make honey in childcare. And that’s literally what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to send their scientists and influence—look, it’s not just scientists, right? Yeah. Chinese students studying abroad are also approached all the time if they’re in some kind of a sensitive university that’s studying a specific thing or if they have access to any kind of data or research or bio samples or any kind of thing like that, they will be approached and be like, “Listen, this is good for your motherland, and if you can get this, it’s good; you’re a good Chinese person.” It is not just saying the majority of them take that, of course not, but I’m saying this happens all the time because so many cases have been uncovered, and they told, “This will be good for your motherland; this is gonna be great, and we will reward you; you’ll have a million RMB when you come back, and you’ll have like all this kind of stuff.” And a lot of them take the bait, okay. And also a lot of them do these stupid things, like how many people have their code at that base in Florida trying to take photos? It’s the same thing where they like just go there to see if you can get some photos and stuff, and they keep catching, you know, Chinese students and tourists walking into this like military base taking photos because they just have this everyman approach you see. To be a spy in China doesn’t mean you have to like be a James Bond trained or anything. China treats every single one of its citizens abroad as a potential source of information. Hmm. And so that’s why you’ll find out in all these little Chinese student groups and in, you know, Chinese little groups all over the place, there’s always someone with some kind of connection back to the CCP, constantly keeping an eye on what’s going on, constantly sort of influencing the group and sending information back to…Yes. We were speaking to Chinese University students who are absolutely loving living in LA, yeah, and they keep talking about these—there’s always this one outlier that has some rich dad, the PLA or in the government stuff, and they always feel threatened around them; they can’t fully participate in the American education system because if they say the wrong thing, then they were report back. Yeah. How is that allowed? All of the Chinese student associations within the universities in America and abroad in Australia and stuff, all of them report back to the local consulate; all of them, okay. And the consulate helps them out because they give them funding for little programs and things to do, but it keeps the Chinese students fiercely nationalistic and also completely under the thumb of the CCP—that means I can’t step out of line. The other thing is now a good chunk of them are not nationalistic, but they dare not say otherwise. Yeah, you know, correct. That’s awful; it’s, it’s a terrible situation. So this doesn’t Ellen’s Program reaches out across the board—so board—sorry. I thought we’d give you like at least an example here showing it to you. Yeah. So to preface this, the Thousand Talents Program still, although the FBI calls it a secured national security threat, it’s not outright banned. So if you’re part of this Thousand Talents Program, it’s not like if you come to America you go to jail. Yeah. The problem comes when they’re gonna have eyes on you, right? If you’re part of this and you’re part of some sensitive thing, you can’t get access to that sensitive stuff anymore. So yeah, I’m in the PLA, I come over, I’m in the fellows Thousand Talents Program, but I’m not gonna be allowed into some like lab, no, that has like intellectual property, so they have to hide it. Yeah, they always hide it. No, this is a very, very interesting situation how this guy got caught, but basically he was receiving funding from NASA; he had like a half a million dollar grant from NASA and various other places to do his research etc., and I can say he, he was arrested because he failed to disclose his connections. Now that’s the thing, if you’re working with sensitive stuff like him, if you’re getting grants from NASA and so on, you will be asked outright, “Do you have ties to the Chinese government? Do you have ties to the, you know, talents program?” He said no; he lied; they caught him out, you know, there, they caught him out; he misplaced his hard drive, like an external hard drive; it ended up in the lost and found at the University, so someone checked it to see who it belonged to, and it had like an unconfident up PDF. Can you read what it said here? Okay, guys, all right. “Dear Researcher One, I want you to”—and this is what was onion Researcher One—they’ve redacted—“I want you to understand that I will do my best to support your stay here in Arkansas.” So he’s talking to a Chinese researcher. Yes. “There are things that are becoming very difficult for me recently because of the political climate. You can search the Chinese website regarding what the US will do…mm…talent scholars…him…not many people here know I’m one of them, but if this leaks out, my job here will be in deep troubles, plural. I have to be very careful or else I may be put out of a job from this University. I hope you understand my deep concerns. Please keep this to yourself as I trust you.” Yeah, so he, I mean, that’s the thing, he was only caught because he was good and well—no, he was only caught because he was stupid and misplaced his hard drive, right? How many people are operating as Chinese agents within your university and within your company? I mean, it’s just impossible to know because this is such a far-reaching thing, and again, it’s not an eight—it’s an eight problem, but it’s not illegal to be part of this talent program, but it’s illegal to be part of a talent program that’s funded by the Chinese government who reports directly to Beijing and then not disclose that because it gives you access to high-level information. Yeah. Now, before we continue, before people think we’re trying to profile like Asian people, it’s not just Asian people of, you know, foreigners are being targeted as well, like this Harvard University professor—maybe you can read about him; you’ve written something down there. Yeah, let me pull it up here. So that he was part of the, he was part of the foreign talent program. So this is a guy that was receiving funding from China. Yeah. The problem with that is not that he was receiving the funding—uh—that he was part of the talents program; it’s that he was working in high-level sensitive information, yeah, in brain technology, biotechnology, right? Yeah. So this guy, his name was Charles M. Lieber. It says, “The success of the program in recruiting the U.S.-trained scientists back to China has been viewed with concern from the U.S. intelligence council, declaring an underlying motivation of the program to be to be to facilitate the legal and illicit transfer of U.S. technology, intellectual property, and know-how to China. In January 2020, the FBI arrested Charles M. Lieber, the chair of Harvard University’s department of chemistry and chemical biology, for lying about his ties to the program.” So he outright said when the FBI questioned him, “No, I don’t have ties to the Chinese, you know, program,” because obviously he’s funneling information in America back to China, right? Sure. So yeah, people thor’s to have Sahai safe orange Americans get caught up in this as well. Yeah, people who are not Chinese. Yeah, don’t call yourself a foreigner; you’re not a foreigner anymore. Anyway, look, the fact of the matter is that it’s, it’s a difficult one because it’s not always monetary. There was the, the other Chinese guy who not that long ago—let me think, I want to get my facts straight here—but he basically stole information about submarine propulsion systems, yeah, and he was shipping it to China, and you would write CDs and then give it to his, his relatives who would visit him and stuff to take back to China, right? And when the, the FBI caught on to this and they tracked him, they realized that he wasn’t doing it for any money; he wasn’t receiving money for this; he was just doing it ’cause he thought it would be a good thing to do for China, for his own land, right? And when they actually sat down—because he actually worked for the Navy, I believe—and they asked him like, “Why would you do this?” It’s like, “Well, because it’s, I’m helping China, you know, I’m just helping them out.” It’s like, “Yeah, but do you agree that by helping them you’re actually hurting the Navy you work for?” And he was like, yeah, he had conceded that that’s what he was doing, but it’s, it’s a lot of this nationalist stuff as well, so it’s, it’s a very tough, tough thing to keep an eye on. We’re dealing with one of the most sophisticated and most widespread information networks in the world, and the problem is you will never be able to just figure out who it is because it could be anyone, right? And every time we find out a bust, like that guy who was putting things in the hotel as a dead drop, you just turned out to be an average, regular Chinese guy that you’ll see hanging around—Joe average Joe, your neighbor who’s an awesome person to hang around with, but he was actually acting as a very high-level, it likes espionage guy. It’s a tough thing to deal with because we all know China does IP theft, but you have to understand that it’s the scale as to which it’s being done is unprecedented; no other country in the world has ever done anything like this.

Guess the issue that we have to deal with is that there shouldn't—it sounds like it's the promotion of paranoia against the Chinese people or something. And this is just not what we're talking about. We're talking about is trying to make a more robust system that vets people that have connections to the Chinese government. Because yes, when you have connections to the Chinese government, it's not like dealing with someone that has connections to the German government and the or Canadian government. You're talking about a very corrupt, very evil system that is built on screwing people over, right? In in deception, right? And that's the problem. It's not Chinese people, but it's Chinese people with very close ties to the CCP are dangerous to have in Western nations.

I also hope that by exposing some of this stuff, the, you know, the people that are falling victim—and by by victim I mean that the Chinese people that are coerced into doing this kind of stuff—we won't have to be in the future as much. Because a lot of the times the reason people get talked into—the students at citris—because they they are fearful, right, of what will happen to their families back home if they don't comply. Correct. And this is a very bad system. If we can somehow topple the system or at least put it out in the sunlight so that everybody can see what's going on, perhaps it won't be—they won't be able to threaten these students and threaten these people anymore with harm to their families. You know, because the rest of the world will see it for what it is and not accept it anymore, right? You know, correct. That's a tough, tough one to go on. So cool, just to do some massive jets. I think we should—I think we've talked enough about this. You can do a little bit of research into the Thousand Talents Program.

Right, actually, want to throw another thing in here before we finish, and that is one more story. And it's got to do with the Confucius Institute. Now the Confucius Institute, you may know of it if you are a university student or you have ties to university. A lot of the universities around the States and in other countries have a Confucius Institute. And it's supposed to be a cultural exchange program. And for all intents and purposes, it actually is. They've got free Mandarin lessons; they kind of put on these shows where they have traditional Chinese music and clothing and things, which is all very nice. And that's why it's so attractive to both students and universities because they're like, "This is wonderful." It's funded by the Beijing government. You know, of course, the universities provide funding; they provide facilities, offices, classrooms, things like that. So it's kind of a half-and-half thing. But the underlying force behind the Confucius Institute is propaganda. And I—what I actually witnessed, that an experienced it firsthand, and I've told the story before—I'm gonna tell it one more time for those of you who may not have heard it before, because it ties into all of it. Make yourself big. Yeah, okay, there we are.

So when I came for my first road trip through America, which was in 2016, I was invited to speak at the University of Arizona in Tucson by a subscriber and a very nice guy who runs the journalism department. I had just completed—with you—conquering southern China. Go watch that if you hadn't—haven't, which is a fantastic documentary. Just see—please put a link, yeah, if you can. So anyway, I had some clips and I had like the advert, you know, the sort of preview of the show. And I was actually went to show them—I think the first episode of the show—is like a way for everyone to see. So I went there, and the classroom was kind of packed, right? And then I noticed a whole bunch of sort of Chinese middle-aged women and stuff came in there and like normal students and things. And then when they all came in, some of the Chinese students that were there actually left. And I was like, "This is a bit weird," but whatever. They all went in there, and I showed a bit of the show, and I was talking about it. And this one woman in particular seemed to be the ringleader, kept taking down notes the whole time as I was talking. And she constantly interrupted me, which is really annoying because I was explaining. And one part that really stuck out in my mind: I was explaining we drove through rural Guizhou, which has some of the worst roads I've ever experienced in my life. So I'm trying to explain how bad the roads were, and she would constantly stop me and say, "Yes, but China is advancing so fast, and all the roads are really good. You just came across one bad road or something like that," you know? And she kept—exactly every time I was trying to describe something which she thought put China in some kind of a negative light, she would interrupt me and try to correct me in front of everyone. I was like, "Who is this woman? What's going on? Why—I'm not in China, but why do I have basically Xi Jinping in my classroom here telling me what I can and can't say about China?" And then I found out that her and all the other people that came with her are part of the Confucius Institute. And that's what they do: they keep an eye on all of the Chinese students before they left or—it—yeah, that's—that's why the initially those Chinese students left. They obviously felt very uncomfortable; they can't be anywhere where they are. So they keep an eye on all the Chinese students; they make sure that they cannot have any "wrong think" about China. Okay? And anyone who tries to present anything about China like—like I did—which is not glowingly positive and what they think is what it should be presented, they will try to shut you down; at least they try to intimidate you. And you know, they are the kind of people that if the Dalai Lama is gonna have a chat or, you know, someone wants to do a Free Tibet, you know, thing or whatever, they will sabotage it. You know, those are the guys who ensure that everything's sabotaged. They are heavily connected to the government—government in China, in Beijing, through the consulates and stuff. And this is in your school, in your university. So I want everybody to just see it for what it is. I'm not saying like, "Oh, don't go take the Mandarin class." You want to learn Mandarin, and that's fine, but don't buy into the propaganda, and at least be aware of what they're doing there. You know, you know. And I'd like to keep harping on: if the Chinese students are uncomfortable enough to leave to know what's going on, yeah, then you should probably be looking into this.

It's gotten so bad at the point where Sweden completely got rid of the Confucius Institutes. They were like, "Get the hell out of here! Yeah, you're infiltrating with wrong think; it's bad CCP tactics; communist sex in a free country; yeah, you can't do that; harasses people that leave China to have a free education." This is not education-related, but I want to refresh your memory. I don't know if we were told everyone this when we did our premier for Conquering Northern China, which is the sequel to our first document—we actually added in the theater—in a theater, sold-out seats; it was amazing. So that was so cool. And then it was just so cool, we—but we were able to talk to everyone. Yeah, and afterwards—after it's kind of filtering on—taking photos with us. Yeah, it was just fans, you know. There are some other YouTubers there that showed up. Yeah, what's his name who showed up? Share—you know, shares son. Yeah, sure, like Sonny and Cher. Yeah, her son showed up. Mhm. But anyway, we were sitting or standing there; everyone's super chill, taking photos; it was actually really heartwarming. Yeah. And we were approached by Chinese state media, CCP officials in LA. Yeah, in our—they were in there; they were obviously tasked to go watch our show. Yeah. And they basically walk up to us and they're like, "We'd like to chat at some point; we'd like to talk about some future opportunities." And we were like—but it was such a bad vibe. Yeah, there are so like condescending, and they're like, "Please let us add your information"—that I think I gave him a fake WeChat. Yeah, you did. Yeah. And they're like—"We get your phone number." I was like, "No," you know. WeChats fine to give him like a fake WeChat or whatever. And I—we got out of there. They thankfully didn't follow us to the post-party at the bar. But even in LA, yeah, in my own country, we were chased down by CCP officials. And this is how bad it's gotten. It's much worse in countries like Australia. But if we're seeing that first—I'm like you did in Tucson or us at this Meetup—I mean, how far is it gone? You know, it's gone too far. And the problem is because the Western world is too open and too nice, they they can't see the the wood for the trees. Sure. So you know, when you've got people—basically government agents—running around freely on the campuses of your university, shutting people down, intimidating the students, and all you do is like, "Oh, they're so nice; they're just bringing culture." And I think—you know—I know that the language barrier is one of the main reasons why they get away with this because they can actually put up signs on notice boards and stuff saying, you know, like anything that they want, and nobody will know because like the main administration and stuff walk past it; it just looks like Chinese; they don't understand what it says. But they could say stuff like, "Down with democracy," and put it up there, and you know, nobody will be able to tell what they're saying or what they—all think—you do that anyway. Various things—they get incredibly bad things up; they like, "If you talk about—you think we will kill you," right? You know? But that's one thing that I'm planning to do when this all—Co—everything goes over is I'm gonna be driving around the country with you, and we're gonna go to all the like Asian supermarkets, Asian areas where they got those billboards. Because last time we went to an Asian supermarket, the stuff we saw posted up there—it's—they're basically just putting illegal stuff out there in the open. And we're gonna translate this; we're gonna blow the lid off this crap because we're tired of this nonsense going on beneath our noses.

And I think the biggest change—at least in the education sphere—that this could come from is not even from us; it's definitely from the students—that are Chinese students who are being harassed. Yeah, although their families might be like under stress basically, and they're worried about everything back home. If more of them would stand up, I think universities and American people would actually pay attention to it. Yeah, because if they're being undermined and threatened by CCP officials basically within their own university, there would have to be an investigation of sorts. They can't stay silent. You guys have to speak up. Yeah, please speak up, because that's not how the Western world works. You know, in China, you can't do it; you can't even buy an American flag in the soil of China; they'll, you know, take it away; you can't—you can't have a George Washington Institute in the Beijing University—then that puts up American propaganda because that's literally what they're doing, right? You know, this straight up—you can't do it in China; it's this double-standard thing. So we have to be aware. Anyway, it's time for some super chats before we move on to our next drought. Cool.

Zack Miller Koren says, "Let's have a good one. Great to finally catch you live." Thank you for being here live; it's very nice to have you. Dwayne Hunter: "It's getting hot, haha." Yep. Vishal Anand: "Silver bullet for once only for you a pair." Thank you. Oh yeah, because I know you don't need that; you need warm beer. John Weiland: "Read against intellectual property by patent attorneys Stephan Kinsella at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, free online." Wow, look, alright. Vishal and Niccolo: "Four-seam." Oh, very, very much, Vishal. Mm-hm. Semi El Alto: "Oh, I know that guy; it's a patron." Buy some beer now. We will have some beer tomorrow. Absolutely. Tomorrow's our drink; we—we drink on Fridays, you know. That's the way we can keep things under control. Yes, you know. Friday is only—not during the week. Steve, that's the only way; otherwise, you know, we'd get nothing done. -beeps- Yeah, it'd be—feather. Yeah. Steve Taylor: "Think you're in for info on COVID has put me so far in front of the news." Thank you. Thank you. Salute. Pleasure. Anonymous says some silly words; he says, "Ice ice China" from—from—yeah, where—why is this always got a snap like this? Okay. And I'll do—Luis Estrada, thank you. And Olli Olli: "Thanks for continuing to release great content; loving worthless whip." So what's your opinion on NTD China InFocus news? I think it's pretty good in the way that they actually have some contacts within China; they speak Chinese, which is invaluable; so much better than something like CNN, right? Always remember that there's gonna be some sort of bias there; it doesn't mean it's not factual, though. So yes, you know, take it for what it is. And we're gonna move on to—yes. Next, of course, is Guanxi Corner, where we talk about everything to do with relationships, whether they are romantic, business, or otherwise. That is correct. And I'm going to pull up our Guanxi Corner from a patron and supporter forum, and I'll leave the names out just in case. I don't think they care a bit. "Hey, good morning. I hope you and your family are doing well. I'm struggling with our something-year-old son; he's starting an apprenticeship; he's been waiting for two years. So I think it's just a matter of time before my husband and I and our son—or one of us—get sick; then all of us are scared. I'm scared. I was wondering, is China rethinking the strange foods they eat? Is the CCP making changes in the dietary sections of the web markets? Are they teaching people to stay away from exotic things that make you sick?" And I promised that we would talk about this. No, I know, I know, I know. The wild animal trade has just moved to the Internet. Yeah, it's—they just caught 15,000 very rare turtles coming from Mexico going to China, I believe, today—a cargo ship. Yeah, that is one of many that probably have not been caught. Yeah, the education outside of—Danner's—you know, being held up saying, "Don't eat wild animals," pretty much stops there at that point. All—what markets are still open? There's been very, very few changes to that. Yeah, I got another one here where there are just boxes—you can't really see—but this was from Namibia; those are boxes of scorpions. Hmm, you can see that—right? There's like millions of scorpions—all so busy being so mean. You know, the thing is that the wildlife populations are being decimated, and it's all for this like insatiable hunger for this—these weird animals. It's not stopping; it's not going to stop; it's too profitable. Yeah, it's like a few billion dollar business. Way—and again, you know, whenever they crack down on something, is it—was just about face, right? So yeah, face. So when the Chinese government says, "Yes, we banned everything," well, then why do we not see the ban in action? No, it's—absolutely will not change. And at the very—the most positive thing that can come out of this is that it'll slow down because it's gonna be harder. Yeah, I said that's just ridiculous. I know I said that's the most positive; it's not what's going to happen. I mean, you can go on Baidu, and there's people—there's Wuhan forums; they're like, "Oh, crap, we have this normal wet market; we can't buy the wild—the game," and then they have lists of other places and streets they meet on to trade wild game. Exactly. It's kind of like we said, they, you know, things like prostitution are illegal, yet there are adverts for prostitution on the—the poles. Correct. And you know, like, put under your door and stuff. But it's illegal, but just because it's illegal on paper makes people breathe easy, so everyone in the rest of the world can think, "Oh, yeah, Chinese editions illegal, so they're a very moral country," meanwhile, it's the most rampant country for prostitution I've ever been exposed to. You know, human traffic and stuff like that—you just happen to go—anyway, then there's prostitution on offer everywhere; everybody does it; it's just very normal, yet it's banned and illegal. So you'll find the same thing with these so-called wildlife bans. Mmm, happening. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I'm sorry for the bad news. Yeah.

Derp Sebby: "Hmm, I finally stayed up to catch you live. Guess here's one beer on me. Stay well; keep doing what you're doing. Greetings from Marburg, Germany." Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. The Indian dude—India just revealed that Chinese COVID-19 tests have a 90% fail rate, I believe. Canada found an 80% fail rate as well. Yeah, and that's not—that's my quote. And they are doing this to a country with a worse healthcare system than China. Thank God for South Korea. Yeah, it's—we were so worried about India because if there's gonna be a country ravished by something like—especially in the rural areas—or because, you know, I've been in the rural areas of India and—well, that's what happens when you cover something up for a government face. Yeah, look, if the 90 percent of the test kits have failed, what about the ones in China? What if they're all failing? What if they—they can't get positive numbers because they're all failing? Right? Not only will they hide the numbers, they don't even have them. Yeah, exactly. It's a tough one, man. Look, just stay safe. And look, like yesterday when we were driving around in the cars wearing masks, a lot of you guys like, "Why do you have to do that?" It's always better safe than sorry. The—it's so easy to just step out of your comfort zone—I mean, get into your comfort zone and do something like, "Oh, I'm gonna go check my post; I'll just go check the post." When you check your post, put some damn gloves on, you know? Wear a mask, you know? Go to the post box, take your thing out, you know, disinfect the mail before you actually touch it with your bare hands. So just open it all outside and throw away what you don't even—keep watching and then disinfect, then wash your hands. Like you have to—it's gonna be a hassle, but if you want to totally avoid any chances—or at least most chances—take those extra steps. Totally agree. Yeah, it's not embarrassing to do so; just—you just do it. Figures out, you know. Yeah. SC 133: "Is the same thing; you solve the kalam project easier maybe in the future." Ellen Williamson: "Thank you." Thank you. What was that question? I'm just curious; it seems to disappear. Moderator deleted it. I'm sorry about that; so I could have been bad; who knows. Hopefully we can answer your question through different means. Yeah. How is Emma Fernandez Barreras? Huh? As a—sight again—as a cyclist yesterday, almost died going up in the mountain with a mask, but security is first. Cheers. Do you always tell permission? I don't know how you do that, man. That's crazy, right? We were dying in the car. Yeah, I mean, look, if you're cycling and stuff, I don't see why you have to wear the masks the whole time; it's all about if you get a populated—if you're close to people. So I'd be like, you know, keeping it around about here, and then as soon as I even see a person on the horizon, you know. But if he's like—yeah, in a very popular Cairo—what drone to use for photography? Phantom. Thanks for the hard work. That is a—well, the many—it doesn't remit—remember at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what drone you use; it's how you use it to get the shot. But—abuse—everything from a Phantom 3, right? In the beginning, then I had a Phantom 4; I personally had a Phantom 4 for the longest time. And we use the—your Mavic—the original Mavic; we have a Mavic Air, and we have a Spark. We used a Spark a lot because that's crap; it's only 1080p; we can still get great shots. Some of my best shots are shot on the Spark—but amazingly enough. And we recently—because when we went to Vegas, on the way our drone died—just had a firmware error; just wouldn't work. So we bought the Mavic Mini—that little one—now—not was it mini—Mini Mavic Mini. And that—I love it so fire. It's not my favorite drone; doesn't have to be registered because it's a 50—it doesn't have all the features of the other drones like auto-tracking and stuff, and it doesn't have sensors. That's fine, but the thing is it's cheap enough that if you crash it, you won't worry that much. And it's still brilliant; the footage—if you saw the footage of when we went to that Tiananmen Square Monument—yeah, check that—yeah, I filmed it all on that drone. Case closed. 93: "Do you think China controls TikTok to promote divisive content, particularly regarding race and racism? Because I know that stuff bleeds into our mainstream news." Yeah, for sure. I mean, they—they're protecting themselves, really. That's why they push on the—40-page—they push propaganda so much. And also they've—like that one girl that wanted to talk about Uyghur activism, and she did that in an eyelash tutorial. Mm-hmm. They deleted that post, but that was in America. Yeah. And then they denied doing that, but it's a tough one. I mean, look, TikTok—eyestrain—I don't watch TikTok; I think it's dumb. I know a lot of people are gonna disagree with me because I still have like my other social media; I got Instagram and—and Reddit and stuff. But for me, TikTok is for just like chewing gum for the brain—rapido—just bored out of their mind, just flipping through rubbish. But don't forget the—TikTok is—Dalian—TikTok is a Chinese company; TikTok is wholly, fully owned by China. And so they kind of let—they've got this kind of situation where they allow sort of semi-freedom of speech to exist on it, but they're still keeping an—an eye on what's going—if someone—even if someone tries to step over a line, they'll still find a way to get rid of it, you know. So just remember you are supporting the Chinese Communist Party if you are supporting TikTok. Just keeps reading mine. It's a tough one because I do it to monitor. Yeah. And you liked it when you like something and you find out that it's bad for—you know, it's kind of like if you—I don't know—eating pistachio nuts and then you find out that little kids in Honduras or something is suffering because I have to peel it with their—with a little toe or something. I mean, you like—but I really like the stationery. And I think you're like, "What am I gonna do?" It's a moral dilemma; it is. So just think about the bigger picture, guys. Are you gonna continue to support TikTok? You know, probably not such a good idea. Okay. I will make a TikTok account that only criticizes the CCP; that unmasks—let's do it. Yeah, you know, doesn't make it TikTok—tick—now that's an anti-CCP approach. I needs people. So it's time for World View, and this is where we talk about things going on in the world, but mainly to do with China. Is absolute correct because this just shows kind of just about China mostly. Well, I mean, we like to talk about other things too, but mainly we have a little update here from the UN. So let's listen to some of it, and we'll interrupt along the way. "COVID-19 does not care who we are, where we live, what we believe, or about any other distinction. We need every ounce of solidarity to tackle it together. Yet the pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia; scapegoating and scare-mongering, and the anti-foreigner sentiment has surged online and in the streets." And that means the—holy—different things—me—aunty—foreigner sentiment. Now I would like to point out that this guy's going on about like what's going on here, guys. There's so much hate happening here; there's so much xenophobia happening here; there's so much anti-foreigner sentiment. But all he's basically saying is stop asking questions about—stop saying it came from China; that's what he's doing. The thing is you could flip this around because exactly what he's saying is what's happening in China. He said anti-foreign sentiment; for me, I'm like, "Huh, oh, that's because—"

Let's let's face it, here. People aren't saying like, "Hey, look, the virus came from Mexico." People are not saying, "Hey, the virus came from Nigeria." Actually, they are saying China. Oh yeah, that's a thing. Sorry, but there's my dearest su China. Yeah, they say elephant penises are crazy, but you know the thing is, when you've got the UN coming out here and saying all these things about, "Look, let's just let him continue." Yeah, yeah, continued Semitic conspiracy theories have spread, and COVID-19 related and the Muslim attacks have occurred. Migrants and refugees have been vilified as a source of the virus and then denied access to medical treatment, with all the persons among the most vulnerable. Contemptible memes have emerged, suggesting they are also the most expendable. And journalists, whistleblowers, as professionals, IT workers, and human rights defenders are being targeted simply for doing their jobs. We must act now to strengthen the immunity of our societies against the virus of hate. We just lost all the young community with this pronunciation of memes with a min. Anyway, no seriously, what are you saying here? It's commendable. I like this idea that we should, course, you know, hate. Hate is not something you don't need, okay, in the world, if it's at all possible, but you know, we need to work together here. But this is a smokescreen that's being thrown up. The UN is coming out and basically throwing up the smokescreen and trying to say, "Oh, there's anti-Semitic, there's anti-Muslim, santi, there's empty. Let's stop pointing fingers at stopping xenophobic." I don't see people running around saying like, "You're Muslim, you you you know responsible for the virus," or, "You know, like, Oh, Jewish, so you're responsible." I haven't seen nice a ticker of how many anti-Muslim racism that's been going on because of coronavirus, yeah, or anti-Jewish. I mean, I guess it's probably out there, but this is a smokescreen, yeah, for China, yeah, because he talks about these minority communities, right? Like, "Oh, these might art there's particularly until it's all runner sentiment." What does that even mean? So Chinese people are foreigners now, right? Hmm, yeah. But who is he talking to here? Just the Western world, obviously, right? I mean, this is this would fly completely under the radar if China wasn't disappointed to the UN Human Rights Council. Correct. This is just it reeks of like tone deafness, and it looks too suspicious, like there was some directive from China. I was like, "Listen, we're really under attack right now because, you know, it totally didn't come from here, and people are being mean. We're, you know, look at the stink they made up because Australia wants to have an inquiry into like where it came." Yeah, they're like fanning, like, you know what they actually did know is I've actually like blocked imports of Australian beef, you know, which is 30% of their marketers are wanting to know where it can wanting to know where it came from. So because the questions are starting to mount up, and you know, it for the longest time, I think the whole world has been kind of like, "Look, just we're not going to push it, just kind of admit it. Come on, like, let us let us know what happened. You know, we're not gonna we're not gonna be mad at you, just kind of tell us what this the deal is. Can you give us some proper information? Can you be a bit more transparent?" And all they do is fight back with, "You're racist. We're gonna not export your import your stuff. We're not gonna do business with you if you keep doing this. You will damage the relationship between China and New Zealand or China and listener." They're keeping so bloody belligerent that has got to a point where the rest of the world is like, "Listen, no, screw you. Tell us what the hell you did, right? And let us know." You're seeing a lot of governments and actually news outlets that are like, "Okay, okay, okay. There's a chance that it came from China," not just directly saying, "Yeah, yeah. There's a chance," but, "Now is not the time. Let's work together as a community," which is fine. You know, China's not part of that community right now if it's run by the CCP, right? Yeah. And they go, "Let's put it on the back burner. We'll look into this later." No, no, no, no, no. We need to figure this out now. Yeah, we absolutely do have to figure out what's going on. And so you've got this guy who whose advice I would direct to China or the CC need to because what's happening in China is anti-foreigner and xenophobic and anti-everything. I mean, there's super anti-Muslim, you know, obviously, yeah, but like all of this advice should not be out there to protect China with a smokescreen. It should be directed towards China. Yeah, so you know what? That's what we'll do. Yeah, this message that from the UN, this was towards China and only and only China internalized that. That is why I'm appealing today for an all-out effort to end hate speech globally. I call on political leaders to show solidarity with all members of their societies and build and reinforce social cohesion. I call on educational institutions to focus on digital literacy at the time when billions of young people are online and when extremists are seeking to prey on captive and potentially despairing audiences. I call on the media, especially social media companies, to do much more to flag and, in line with international human rights law, remove racist, misogynist, and other harm. I gotta ask, what is misogyny have to do with this virus? And I do I mean, no, I think it's like he said a smokescreen. He has to link it back to a much bigger anti-hate picture. Sure. I mean, the thing is like, I'm not saying I'm for misogyny or anything, but it's absolutely not related to this whole virus thing, cuz he's talking about hate speech and xenophobia based on the origins of the virus. So he said that right in the beginning. What does misogyny have to do with that? Did anyone ever say this is a woman's virus and it belongs in the kitchen? I never heard that. Probably 19, make me a sandwich now. Quite seriously though, the fact that he's put racist and misogynist together means it's just like every other like do scapegoat garbage. You want somebody to shut up, you just call them a racist, misogynist, bigoted, bla bla bla. Put a string these things together and it's like a gold standard to win an argument, or it's a gold standard to make people shut up and not question you. You know, effed me up was him calling on governments to flag in social media to flag concept. Stop moderating our content, guys. We don't need more that you know what that is. It's Chinese soft power censorship. It is calling on all social media, please be Chyna and block everybody that disagrees with you. Well, that's what they want. So that is no listen. When he started the video by saying we're talking about the origins of COVID-19, that means everything he says after that is related. Yeah, it does. It does. So he wants anyone who questions or asks like, "Does it come from China? Or it's a China virus?" They have to be flagged and censored on social medias every school from the UN. Yeah, this is what is happening, and people don't read between the lines because they don't understand what's going on, but apparently, you know, you can't be misogynist towards the origin of this virus. Oh, yeah, I did because someone that someone that wrote wrote a paper on the research of it might have been a woman, then you disagree with her, maybe that's what it is. But I mean, come on, this is ridiculous. Shut up, grandpa. Yeah, and learn how to say memes to content. I call on civil society to stress an outreach to vulnerable people and religious actors to serve as models of mutual respect, and they ask everyone everywhere to stand up against hate, treat each other with dignity, and take every opportunity to spread kindness. Perfect. That's it. It's Regina. That's a great message for China. Stop the hate. Wait, they don't have religious leaders. Enjoy. You're not allowed to jail. You know, that's that's the thing is, when you've seen what's been going on in China towards foreigners, and you if you watched our videos a minority, yeah, and the Chinese minorities, you'll understand that this message is perfectly suited to the heads of the CCP. And you know, I like the words that he has a sure about spreading kindness and stuff, and I agree with her, clever this, but don't you dare try to lecture me on this. Don't you dare try to make me stop questioning where the virus came from, and don't you dare try to tell me that it's racist and misogynist and hateful to talk about facts or to blame the Chinese Communist Party. Yeah, woo. Interesting. We just get shut down, maybe topic you. This is very interesting. Do we actually get shut down? This could be the first time this we pull it up in another window. Yeah, please do. I'll pull it up over here. Guys, bear with us because it looks like we've been shut down, which is it going to be interesting. Okay. All right, guys, please bear with us. If you are there right now, it looks like for all intents and purposes, we are not streaming on our side, which is kind of interesting if we have been shut down. YouTube's not loading. Let me try like Red Air something. Okay, please hang ten. Yeah, that's fine. Wikipedia is fine. How about we try from one of our phones? Yeah, different data. Yeah, turn off Wi-Fi. Sorry, guys. Just in case people are out there, maybe you can entertain a newer Lovering. Well, right now, all the little stories what's actually happening right now. Mm-hmm. We are now dealing with YouTube's maybe gone down. That's actually what we should check is YouTube done? No, I think yeah, yeah. There's a problem with the service. Try a different video, dude, like a random video. No, no. I think I think we're up. Let me let me see. No, yeah, we are interesting. Well, we apologize cuz there's some kind of a weird thing going on here. I don't if the comments is working or what's going on. So let's we're blind. Let us just pretend that everything is okay. In case you run it on your phone in the background, silence just to make sure. Okay. Yeah, comments are down terms of what I'm seeing. Yeah, interesting. Wonder what happened here. Yeah, it's it's but I don't lose the super chat now. Don't do that. Just open another window if you can. Okay, this is ridiculous. I wonder what has caused this. Yeah, it just looks like YouTube's being a bad boy. I think you look at this. Hmm. Date is currently unavailable for our video. Well, if anyone is still watching this, we appreciate you hanging through with this, and I think it's a we can just let's just continue just in case. Yeah, no, I agree, and I want you to have the what's it called in the background just to make sure we're still up. I'm trying now. My phone's having issues even on data. Interesting. Yeah, so maybe YouTube's actually having issues. Okay, I am bringing it up here and audios. I mean, there's I can't see any any kind of comments or anything, but yeah, it looks like it's still guy. Yeah. Okay, so there's potentially okay. So guys, sorry, sorry for that long thing. We're just gonna continue anyway. Yeah, okay. So after this guy has a little bit along to delighted nation strategy and plan of action on it speech to announce United Nations efforts against the scourge as we combat the pandemic, we have a duty to protect people and stigma and prevent violence. Let's defeat hate speech and COVID-19 together. All right. So anyway, speaking about hate speech and and whatnot, can you tell everybody what the Global Times is just released now for all those uninitiated? China in Taiwan are separate countries, but China believes that it's its rightful territory to take back from democratic Taiwan. Now, what happened? This is what triggered this was Taiwan formally relinquished the idea or relinquished the law that says we are the rightful rulers of China. Actually, we're just gonna have Taiwan. We have our own democracy, our freedom, everything. Yeah, in China actually got mad. It sounds, you know, the uninitiated would be like, "Why wouldn't they be happy about that?" Show no. Is the reason is is because the Republic of China, the one that kind of had status quo with mainland China, the PRC, they're not in power anymore. The independent parties in power, and that's China's worst nightmares for Taiwan to be on the global stage and recognized as a country because then they formally lose the territory. So many people in our countries are starting to wake up and yeah, the Taiwan is actually the the reasonable person to deal with that part of the world because, you know, they first will dealt with this pandemic fantastically better than most countries, every country, yeah, and they are the best. They know exactly how to deal with it. They had a fantastic right. They've been donating good quality masks to places like Canada and the US and Australia. Yeah, they've been helping people with actual aid where China's been doing this kind of like, "I will only donate if you praise us" kind of thing. And then when they do donate, they either ask for payment or it turns out that all the masks and stuff are faulty and and bad quality. Anyway, so the Chinese Communist Party is always, you know, basically AIESEC, you say every month threatened war against. I want to take it back. Yeah, it's all a puff piece. There, a paper tiger. They won't do this because it could potentially lead to a much bigger global crisis. China has no formal military allies. America is allied with Taiwan as our bunch of countries basically that would be able to back them up. So the Global Times just points us out and keep in mind the CCP, you might think of it as an evil dictatorship, but they like to promote this international image that they're a peaceful nation. Sure, doves flying in the air. Yeah, we only care about international stability, they say. Landing exercises and this is the Communist Party by the way. Landing exercise is aimed at taking over Islands have become the hashtag PLA. That's must be a trending tag. Yeah, regular training sessions. Dong shopping. Woo. And Taiwan are all Islands, and if Taiwan's secessionist insists on secession, secession military exercises can turn into action any time. Well, that's so peaceful, isn't it? I mean, so they're basically saying, "We're training to take you over, and if you don't shut up and do what we say, we're gonna take you over." Yeah, so what they say. Yeah, yeah. And there's gonna be a lot of heat, and we'll cover this probably on the next podcast when the presidential inauguration happens when sanguine actually gets inaugurated. America, the U.S., actually sent over military ships around Taiwan just in case. Yeah, which is good because that very well might sure. Yeah, sorry, this is a terrible way to wrap up today cuz we can't, but we're gonna still, you know, we can do what does it. I will export all of these super chats, and either we can do a separate video, mm-hmm, about that or we can put them into the next one as well. It's up to you because we don't know it could they could be wasted if we talk about yeah. So we don't know if anyone can see this. Okay, let's do that. So I'll export all of your super chats. They did not go to waste. We will definitely answer them. Yeah, if it's not on video, check our community post. Actually, why don't we answer them on community post? Yeah, wait a min. We can do that. No, we won't. Oh, okay. So go to the ADV podcast community tab, mm-hmm, and click that probably tomorrow. You put out a little video where we answered all these. Sounds good. And then you guys can watch it. That sounds perfect. Yeah. All right, thank you very much everyone for watching. We apologize for these last-minute problems. Obviously, this is not our fault. This is a YouTube thing, but it sucks that we had to kind of cut it short like this. We have a lot more to discuss on the solidus, guys, but it's it is what it is, what it is, and we will definitely answer your questions tomorrow. Don't worry, it'll be a keep track everybody of what's going on in China and especially with these the people infiltrating perhaps your university, perhaps your business. Just be mindful, and this kind of thing could be going on tomorrow. I will be doing a live stream on my channel if, of course, it works because who knows, and I will be discussing, you know, a very sort of obvious question is China actually our friend? You're gonna find out. That's good. Anyway, I'll speak to you all tomorrow, and until next time, you know the drill, as always, stay awesome, guys.