Lies, Lies, and more Lies | Trump's Call with Xi Jinping

The Trump she call has a bigger fallout than you can imagine. Assan [ __ ] is at it again and China causes trouble in the Middle East. And more on this week's China news headlines. Welcome to China Uncensored. I'm Chris Chapel. It's that time of year again. We end up funneling money into China's military by buying made in China junk as Christmas presents. This year, don't. I'm putting together the first ever unmade in China Christmas shopping catalog. It'll be full of products made in the US of A and other friendly countries that are also standing up to the CCP. This catalog is for you and everyone you know. So you can use the magic of consumerism for good this Christmas. To fund this catalog, I need your help. Join Operation Takeback Christmas on my Give andGo page. Become a revolutionary retail shopper, an anti- big tech patriot, or a soldier in the American Liberation Army to get exclusive benefits. And most importantly, you'll be part of the work we do at China Uncensored to stand up to the CCP. So click below. So remember, Tanping or lying flat. It's a social movement in China that involves doing just the bare minimum to get by. It's pretty popular with China's youth who are fed up with always rushing to get ahead in China's hyperco competitive culture. And now it's been turned into a contest by a mattress company in Inner Mongolia's Baoto. We're definitely living in the silliest timeline. Participants were not allowed to leave the mattress, even to go to the bathroom, but they could read, use their phones, and even order food as long as they ate it lying on their bellies. About 240 participants started, but most dropped out after the first day, or stood and walked out, I guess, since they already started off as dropped. Some chose to wear diapers to deal with the uh bathroom problem. The contest was live streamed with about 10 million viewers. The winner was a 23-year-old man who managed to stay lying flat for 33 and a half hours. Congratulations for having the endurance and physicality of a corpse. Well done. For this grand feat, he won $420, which might not seem like a ton, but considering that the lying flat phenomenon is seen as resulting from financial hardship, well, I guess the prize is appropriate. Also, you try getting paid for doing literally nothing. Socialist streamer Hassan [ __ ] recently traveled to China where he got hassled by Chinese police for having a Mao meme on his phone. And he learned an important lesson about the stifling oppression of communist China. I'm just kidding. He says the US should become more like the CCP's China. >> Is there a country that's done socialism the way that you like? >> I would say if that's the point of good governance, and I think you guys might agree with me on that, I would say China is probably the closest, and there are still plenty of failures within uh the Chinese system as well. plenty of issues within the Chinese system as well. But that's probably the closest I would say to an example that we should follow and and lessons that we should learn from. >> Yes. Finally, someone sees all the things we can learn from a regime that threatens its neighbors and rounds up whole ethnicities into concentration camps. I guess he would say that the American national embarrassment that was the Japanese internment camps was a good thing then. And I know how much socialists like Hassan [ __ ] loves strong police forces. I would like to know what part of China's socialist system he thinks works and which parts don't. But [ __ ] isn't the only one seeing the benefits of China system because three Chinese nationals were just charged with smuggling Nvidia and HP chips to China. Wonder what they said when they got caught with those chips. I swear I thought they were Doritos. Beginning in September 2023, the three along with one American citizen allegedly exported these chips using shell companies in third countries like Thailand and Malaysia in order to get around American export bans. In total, hundreds of these chips ended up being sent to China with kickbacks for the smugglers. And now the smugglers get the greatest kickback of all, prison. And now the main event. On Monday, President Trump spoke on the phone with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. And it was Xi Jinping who called Trump. This was the first time since 911 that a Chinese leader has initiated such a call with an American president. You can tell how strained a relationship is. When you think about 9/11 as the good old days, according to one of Trump's truths, topics on the phone call included Ukraine and Russia, fentinil, and soybeans and other farm products. Trump also said that the relationship with China is extremely strong and says that he accepted an invitation from Shei to visit Beijing in April while also inviting Shei to the US. Seriously, what was on that piece of paper? Was it a mind control expression like the one they used to control the Winter Soldier? Chinese reports, meanwhile, claimed that she emphasized the importance of Taiwan being under its control and reiterated that both China and the US fought side by side in World War II, which is true, but there's just one teeny tiny problem with she's point. It wasn't the CCP that fought by America's side in World War II. It was the Chinese nationalists who lost to Maadong and had to flee to Taiwan after a bloody civil war. Something Taiwan was more than happy to point out. But regardless, the US stayed allies with everyone they fought alongside with in World War II. That's why that whole several decade cold war thing never ever happened. But some reports suggest that she sees the phone call as an opportunity to influence Trump on the Taiwan issue and that he chose not to raise this topic in their meeting last month in South Korea because he preferred not to discuss it in a third country and the two leaders had a busy agenda. This, of course, was pure speculation. Trump said nothing about Taiwan being mentioned in the call, but Taiwan is apparently pleased that the president didn't reference the island publicly after his call with Xi and said that this is the best result for Taipei, which sounds like a small victory. But if you know Trump, him not talking is as close to a miracle as we're going to see. But according to anonymous sources talking to the Wall Street Journal, after the call with Shei, Trump called Japanese Prime Minister Takahuchi Sai and told her to lower the volume on the Taiwan issue. Big win for the CCP, Trump is just China's puppet. The only problem being that according to Japan's chief cabinet secretary, it's not true. Once again, how people feel about Trump affects how they feel about anything. China's restrictions on rare earths recently continues to backfire as everyone tries to figure out how to break China's crippling monopoly. The UK is launching a critical mineral strategy to reduce its dependency on China. Prime Minister Kier Starmer says that for too long Britain has been dependent on a handful of overseas suppliers, leaving our economy and national security exposed to global shocks. H I wonder who he's talking about. His new critical minerals initiative includes over $65 million in boosting production of tungsten and lithium mines in Cornwall, which has Europe's biggest lithium deposits. The initiative aims to ensure that by 2035, no more than 60% of any one critical mineral is coming from a single partner country. You know what that means? Time to put all those Minecraft kids to work. The children yearn for the mines. This could end up helping the European Union as well. The EU only has small amounts of critical minerals and they're talking about possibly giving financial support to the Cornwall lithium mine. So, this could potentially help the EU become less dependent on China as well. Despite Brexit and all, maybe the Chinese Communist Party is managing to bring the EU and the UK closer together again. Saudi Arabia. Can anyone say anything bad about them? I don't think so. After Trump's meeting with the crown prince, the White House has agreed to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia pending congressional approval. But some US military officials are worried that the sale might put F-35 tech in the hands of the CCP. One former Air Force general says that while the Saudis are unlikely to leak F-35 tech, China could exploit this anyway through intelligence gathering, which is kind of a strange concern given that China already does that with the US. Here's China's J35 H. Speaking of the Middle East, according to US intelligence, the Chinese military was hosted at a base in the United Arab Emirates. There's a reason the Saudis are getting the jets and not the UAE. Back in 2020, during the Biden administration, two anonymous former intelligence officials were denied access to part of the base. So, naturally, US intelligence started keeping an eye on it. And that's when they discovered the reason for the snub was that members of the PLA were there. Thank goodness the US officials weren't given access. I can't imagine a worse hotel neighbor than the PLA. They'd constantly break into your room and claim it's always been theirs. But seems China has been very busy in the Middle East. Remember that whole October 7th massacre thing? China may have had a role. Chong Pong Xiao, the founder of Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has been accused of knowingly facilitating payments to Hamas and Hezbollah. The lawsuit comes from family members of victims of the October 7th attacks. Binance and Jiao have already been accused of providing a funding mechanism for Hamas in the years before October 7th, basically triggering the entire crisis. Which goes to show whenever you think something can't get any worse, just give it a minute. The lawsuit claims Binance sent money to not just Hamas and Hezbollah, but other Iranian sponsored terrorist groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad and even the Islamic Revolutionary Guard itself. And that Binance sent the equivalent of more than $300 million to designated wallets on the blockchain before the attacks and more than $150 million after. Naturally, lawyers for the company and CZ as he's known are denying all these allegations. What's interesting is that back in October, Trump pardoned Jiao for an unrelated case involving moneyaundering that also may have helped terrorist groups. He was asked about it on 60 Minutes. >> Okay, are you ready? I don't know who he is and I heard it was a Biden witch hunt. >> Trump further said he's highly respected. He's a very successful guy. Very. He also may have boosted Trump's crypto company. >> I don't know who he is. >> It's actually a very complex story. Let me know if you'd like me to do a deep dive into it. And finally, some sad news out of Hong Kong. At least 44 people have died so far in a building fire at a high-rise housing complex called Hung Fuk Court. Three have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and accused of quote unquote gross negligence. The fire raged through seven out of eight buildings at this public housing development where thousands of people lived. About 279 people are still missing and rescue efforts are underway, but it's believed that many are still stuck in the top floors. This is a horrible tragedy that sadly couldn't have possibly been prevented. Just kidding. Some nizens think that one of the causes of the fire was the fire retardant rating of the fencing used for the building's maintenance. scaffolding didn't meet regulations at all or even didn't have any fire retardant function. But we'll probably have to wait at least another week to get some more details if the CCP makes any available. It's senseless catastrophes like these that make you just want to bang your head against a wall or maybe a floor at the next lying flat competition. And remember, support Operation Takeback Christmas for my Unmade in China Christmas shopping catalog. Click below. Once again, I'm Chris Chapel. Thanks for watching China Uncensored.