Exclusive: CCTV Caught Faking News Footage of Xi Jinping - Do Body Doubles Exist?

Hello, everyone! Welcome to Inconvenient Truths. I am your host Jennifer Zeng. Today, I will share some of my exclusive findings on several intriguing topics. First, I'll discuss how the CCP has faked news footage of Xi Jinping's meeting with the President of Timor-Leste. I'll also delve into the rumors about whether Xi Jinping has used a body double to meet with the Italian Prime Minister and explore how we should perceive political rumors in China. Following that, I'll touch on how the decline in newborns has led to some kindergartens being repurposed as senior homes. Lastly, I will cover the CCP's plans to implement an Internet ID Number and ID card. So, make sure you stick around until the end. On July 29, Xi received Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta, both of whom were visiting China. This was Xi Jinping's first public appearance since he appeared at the Vietnamese Embassy in China on July 20, nine days after he went into hiding. The official media also reported on these two events. In theory, such a high-profile public event should have been enough to dispel rumors that he had suffered a stroke. Surprisingly, many Chinese netizens continued to spread the rumor that he had a body double and that the one who came out was just a body double. I didn't really believe it, but since some people were so persistent in spreading this rumor I decided to do some investigation myself. I found four photos first: one of the Italian Prime Minister and the other of Timor-Leste President both taken on July 28 with Chinese Premier Li Qiang. The other two are photos of the same two persons with Xi Jinping, taken on July 29. Then, I did a comparison. I was surprised to find out that, when using the group photos of Li Qiang with Giorgia Meloni and Jose Ramos-Horta as a comparison standard, the photos of Xi Jinping with Giorgia Meloni and Jose Ramos-Horta do indeed show different heights. To rule out the possibility that the difference was due to Giorgia Meloni wearing different high heels when meeting Xi Jinping and Li Qiang, I specifically looked for full-body photos showing the height of her heels. The photos indicate that the height of her high heels was similar during both meetings. So, there are only two possible explanations for the significant difference in Xi Jinping's displayed height. One is that Xi Jinping himself was wearing so-called height-increasing shoes when meeting Giorgia Meloni. These shoes look like ordinary shoes on the outside but have an inner layer that increases the wearer's height. The other possibility is that the person who met with Giorgia Meloni and Jose Ramos-Horta was not the same individual. Another exclusive discovery I made is that the video of Xi Jinping's meeting with the President of Timor-Leste released by China Central Television，CCTV, was falsified. Please see these screenshots I took from CCTV's news. The first second of the video shows a wide shot, revealing a tripod behind Xi Jinping. I'm not sure what's on top of it, so let's just call it a tripod. At the fourth second of the video, and in several close-up shots of Xi Jinping that follow, the tripod is missing. In the shot of CCP's Foreign Minister Wang Yi sitting next to Xi Jinping, the tripod is also missing. This image shows that when the camera pans across the five Chinese officials on Xi Jinping's left, the tripod reappears. Additionally, this video is as long as 4 minutes and 49 seconds. Yet, it features only the announcer reading a script, with no live audio whatsoever. For me, it is very strange for a TV news report. You know, I once worked in a TV station. We paid a lot of attention to including the original sound of any news events. Therefore, my conclusion is that the video was filmed in at least two separate sessions. The close-up shots of Xi Jinping were either reshot or filmed in advance, and not during the actual meeting. Interestingly, after I published the above evidence of fabrication on the X platform, a follower revealed to me that CCTV used close-up shots of Xi Jinping from his meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 26 to fake the close-up shots of his meeting with the President of Timor-Leste on July 29. So I investigated this claim again, and this is what I found out. Look at these two screenshots. The one on the left was captured from the video of Xi Jinping's meeting with the President of Timor-Leste on July 29, and the one on the right was captured from the video on June 26. In the two screenshots, even the height of the water in the glasses is the same, exactly the same. The only difference is the tie: one has a pattern, and the other does not, but the color is the same. It is easy to remove the pattern on the tie using Photoshop; even I can do it. So my conclusion is that the close-up of Xi Jinping is indeed fabricated. What's more interesting is that I found that the video of Xi Jinping's meeting with the Vietnamese PM was also faked. Look at this, there is a tripod behind Xi Jinping in the opening wide shot, but it's not in the close-ups. Is CCTV faking a habitual practice? My guess is that Xi Jinping's voice or image was not good enough during the meeting, so they always needed to reshoot or shoot in advance. But this time, they didn't reshoot or shoot in advance, but used the June 26th video instead. Why? Somebody told me that for safety reasons, Xi Jinping may always use a double for occasions where he only needs to read from a script. Then he personally does close-up shots separately. These close-ups are then edited into the main footage to fool the audience. I myself don't want to draw any conclusions here. I think that even if Xi Jinping does have a double, or many doubles, it doesn't mean anything. Maybe he has been using doubles for a long time and people just didn't realize it before. Moreover, if there really is a double, or doubles, it is more likely that he or they have been there for a long time, not just recently, otherwise, how can they get proper training? Therefore, even if there is a stand-in, it is not necessarily related to the recent situation, nor can it be used to prove the various rumors about him. After all, if the CCP can control the appearance of the stand-in, it means that the machine is still working. Until the CCP's machine collapses, it makes little difference who is in charge. Do you agree? Looking closely at China's political situation, apart from the drastic reduction of Xi Jinping's exposure in the official media, which we talked about last time, there are some other changes that are worth paying attention to. One is that, as one of Xi Jinping's hardcore inner circle, China's Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong made a speech during his inspection in Guizhou Province from July 22-25. In that speech, he did not mention Xi Jinping at all, but only said that "we should study and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee". On July 19, the day after the Third Plenary Session, the Ministry of Public Security, under Wang Xiaohong's control, also failed to mention Xi Jinping and Xi Jinping Thoughts when it organized a meeting to so-called study the spirit of the communiqué of the Third Plenary Session. This was absolutely inconceivable before. On July 4, June 26, and June 17 of this year, when Wang Xiaohong made speeches on various occasions, he always first emphasized Xi Jinping's instructions first, then went on with his requirements for public security officers. He never failed to mention Xi Jinping first. In addition, in the past, after a major meeting like the Third Plenum, all departments had to organize a study of the spirit of the meeting at the first opportunity to show their loyalty to Xi Jinping. However, this time, the military's meeting to study the spirit of the Third Plenary Session was not held until July 29, as long as 11 days after the Third Plenary Session ended. This was also very much out of line with past practice. The People's Liberation Army Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Military Commission of the CCP, published an article on July 27th, stating that "some people put himself above the Party, engaging in family-style management and only allowing one voice." Now in China, who can put himself above the party? Isn't it only Xi Jinping? So, from all indications, after the Third Plenary Session, something unusual did happen around Xi Jinping, there could be three possibilities. One is that people around Xi Jinping are forcing him to hand over some of his power, reduce his personal dictatorship and return to the so-called 'collective leadership'. The second is that he may really have some health problems and has to show up less often and take on fewer major responsibilities. The third possibility is that he has seen that the situation in China is so bad that he does not want to take up the responsibility alone and therefore deliberately downplays his presence. Whichever the case may be, I think the CCP has reached the end of its road under Xi Jinping's rule, and it is not going any further. Many parts of the CCP's broken machine have gone awry, and it is possible that one day it will collapse due to a small problem in one part of the machine. In China, when rumors about current affairs are flying around, they are often at historical points when public sentiment is surging and people are expecting a big change or a change of dynasty, whether it is in the long history of ancient China or the contemporary society under the rule of the CCP. Many rumors eventually become facts, and many other rumors reflect public sentiment and people's wishes. It has been said that under the CCP's rule, rumor is also a weapon, a weapon against power. The opaque political environment of the CCP is the fertile ground for generating rumors. Therefore, those who observe the political situation in China, if they do not understand this point, and just go on accusing someone of spreading rumors, they actually do not really understand the public sentiment and the people's minds in China. Next, Let me briefly talk about 2 more news items. China's declining population has raised concerns. Now the problem has been reflected in the number of kindergartens. According to statistics from the CCP's Ministry of Education, the number of kindergartens across China was 274,400 in 2023, down 14,800 from the previous year, a drop of more than 5 percent. Many kindergarten teachers lost their jobs due to the closure and collapse of kindergartens. And some kindergartens have had to turn into nursing homes in order to save themselves. For example, in Jining City, Shandong Province, a man named Yu Bo and his wife opened a kindergarten in 2003, through 20 years of operation, their kindergarten became a local brand, the number of their kindergartens gradually expanded from 1 to 11, the cumulative number of graduates reached 17,000 kids. However, by 2023, some kindergartens could no longer recruit children, and classrooms had to be left empty. Yu Bo also learned that three of the dozen kindergartens in the surrounding neighborhoods had been closed one after another, and there were "only about 20 newborns" in the entire community. So he had no choice but to turn one of their kindergartens into a "daycare center", providing daytime activities and services for seniors between the ages of 60 and 75. Sadly, in reporting their story, the mainland media portrayed them as pioneers of "successful transformation," touting how bright the future of China's elderly care market will be, with the total number of elderly people exceeding 300 million, and the market for the elderly reaching trillions of dollars, and so on. From the perspective of the country as a whole, if the number of newborns keeps decreasing, who will support so many elderly people in the future? Isn't this very worrying? Recently, the news that the CCP intends to issue an internet ID for everyone has aroused widespread concern. Experts say that the CCP is under tremendous pressure to maintain stability and is using high technology for prevention and control. This is a disguised form of the real-name system for the Internet, imposing electronic surveillance upon everyone. The CCP's Ministry of Public Security and Cyberspace Administration of China announced on July 26 that they would provide natural persons with the opportunity to apply for an internet number and an internet ID card, and to conduct identity verification. An "internet number" consists of letters and numbers and is bound to each person's identity information, but does not publicly display personal information. An "Internet ID Card" is an online identity authentication certificate that carries a "Cyber ID". According to the announcement, natural persons holding valid legal identity documents may "voluntarily" apply for an Internet number or Internet ID Card from public service platforms. The official media explained that this program was implemented to "reduce the risk of information leakage" and to curb the excessive collection of personal information by the platforms. However, some critics believe that the online certificate is a product of comprehensive monitoring and control during the pandemic, and the technical route is linked to the health code system during COVID. It is a come-back of the Health Code with a different name. This "internet number" is bundled on the phone, equivalent to the cell phone tied to an identity card, or an electronic certificate. Just like in George Orwell's 1984, now the electric screen, the device with a remote monitoring function, is implanted into the cell phone. What George Orwell didn't even think of has come true in China. The CCP created its one version of 1984 in 2024. Well, that's all for today. Please like this video and subscribe for more. 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