The War is Starting

Israel is banning Chinese cars for security reasons and China, Russia, and North Korea are running rehearsals for World War II. And more on this week's China news headlines. Welcome to China andensored. I'm Chris Chapel. This episode is sponsored by Surf Shark. Whenever you go online, you really should be using a VPN like Surf Shark to cover your tracks and protect your identity. I'll tell you more in a bit. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zalinski has warned that Russia and China are stepping up their military industrial cooperation. And no, you didn't accidentally click on a rerun. This is happening again. I'd hold up a newspaper to show you the date if the newspaper industry wasn't on its dying gasp. it. Zalinsky said in a post on X, because that's apparently how news gets around these days, that Kiev's intelligence services noted just how dependent Russia's companies and state system have become on Chinese investments, technologies, and political priorities and moral support, I assume. I bet they have a phone call every week where she calls Putin daddy's big boy. Zinsky also called out Russia for allowing China to use resourcerich lands and selling rare resources to China, saying in his nightly address, "In Russian history, no one has ever surrendered sovereignty to such a great extent to China or any other stronger nation. It's astonishing how much Putin is paying simply to avoid ending the war. Basically, according to Zalinski, Russia is going from resourcerich to resource colony. Who would have thought this war was a bad idea? Besides all the people shouting, "This war is a bad idea." Speaking of Chinese cooperation with Russia, both South Korea and Japan scrambled war planes in response to a joint Russia and China air patrol. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff noted that seven Chinese and two Russian warplanes entered the Korean Air Defense identification zone, which isn't the same as outright entering South Korea's airspace, but it's just one step removed. These warplanes remained for over an hour and flew as far as Tsushima in Japan, where the Japanese Air Force also scrambled jets as the aircraft rendevued with still more planes and flew around Japan. Of course, both the CCP and Russia insisted this was just a joint military exercise. How harmless. Who cares that some of the planes near Japan were bombers. And one was Russia's early warning and control craft, the A50. Also, coincidentally, this happened just around the same time that North Korea fired multiple artillery rockets into nearby waters. Isn't it nice to see the gang all back together again? And by nice, I mean terrifying. Given the stress of constantly wondering, "Oh, is this the start of World War II?" I'm shocked everyone in the region isn't bald. But wait, there's more. Japan is protesting after a Chinese military jet locked its radar on Japanese aircraft, which I guess is the dog fighting equivalent of, "I'm not touching you." Only instead of with hands, it's rockets. The CCP claims that Japan's self-defense force aircraft were severely obstructing their safe flight path. While Japan says that their aircraft were a safe distance from the Chinese aircraft, which they were following after the Chinese jets performed taking off and landing exercises on a carrier near Okinawa. The US and Japan did hold a joint air exercise right after this happened in hopes that it will deter any more aggressive moves like this. I'm not holding my breath. China has executed a former banker for taking over $156 million dollars not UN in bribes. If only he could have bribed his way out of it. Benei the ex-general manager for China Huaw International Holdings was sentenced back in May 2024. He allegedly took the money in exchange for offering favorable treatment when it came to acquiring and financing projects between 2014 and 2018. But apparently he's not the only one because Huaang has been a target of she's anti-corruption campaign. Many other executives have been targeted including former chairman Li Xiaoming who was executed for years ago on charges of taking 253 million dollars in bribes. All of which is part of Xi Jinping's wider anti-corruption crackdown on the Chinese finance industry because the Chinese economy is doing so well right now. The Israeli military is swerving away from Chinese cars, driven by worries about spies lurking in the auto technology. Pantastic news. Earlier this year, the IDF banned all Chinese-made vehicles from entering military bases over concerns that the vehicles could collect sensitive military information, which duh. But they kept a program where the Israeli government leased cars to higherups in the military and some of those cars were Chinese-made. That's being phased out. It's a good move. As one author and expert on state sponsored espionage notes, "With the IDF, you have known identities in the cars and every place those people have traveled. That's extremely useful intelligence. To know where top military officers are at any given time is gold for intelligence collection. On top of that, modern cars can do all sorts of crazy things like listen in on conversations. So really, the most shocking part of the story is that they ever use Chinese vehicles at all. And while we're on the topic of Israel, according to sources, Taiwan's deputy foreign minister recently made a secret trip there. 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