Trump Forces China Into a Lose-Lose Situation

The US is investigating its own allies for helping China. Trump's Beijing trip has turned into a crisis for Xi Jinping. And now, we know the extent of the CCP interfering in our elections. And more on this week's China news headlines. Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell. This episode is sponsored by Surfshark. Whenever you go online, you really should be using a VPN like Surfshark to cover your tracks and protect your identity. I'll tell you more in a bit. US President Donald Trump's upcoming trip to Beijing is running into some hitches. Just minor hiccups. You know, like Trump delaying the trip for quote unquote five or six weeks, while the US focuses on pummeling China's friend in the Middle East. Which I'm sure is in no way embarrassing for Xi Jinping. Nope, not at all. On top of that, Trump has apparently decided that the visit will be limited to just Beijing, instead of including a trip to Shanghai due to tight schedule and security needs. So not only is it going to be delayed, it's also going to be rushed. But no one can troll like Trump. Which is why US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to go along on the trip with Trump. Why is that a troll? Well, you see, the CCP sanctioned Rubio and banned him from entering China years ago because of his criticism of the Uyghur genocide and China's Hong Kong crackdown. They're not careful. Emperor of China might soon be added to little Marco's resume. So now China has a decision to make. Refuse entry to Rubio and insult Trump. Or let Rubio in and look weak. And they've chosen, drumroll please, option B. It would seem since Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said China's sanctions were aimed at Mr. Rubio's China-related words and deeds when he served as a senator. Yeah, they only banned Rubio the senator, not Rubio the Secretary of State. They're totally not caving. Also, according to Chinese media, Rubio admitted his mistake. Which, well, let's just say if he did, I couldn't find any other source for that. Now, what's really interesting about this whole thing is the difference between the Trump and Biden administrations. The Biden administration entered the White House saying the adults were back in charge and diplomacy would be the name of the game. And so the CCP cut off access, dangling talks with the regime as a carrot to get the Biden administration to do what it wanted. Remember that spy balloon? The Biden administration tried to cover it up so it wouldn't risk then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken's planned trip to Beijing that they spent months trying to get. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Trump is completely unpredictable. And China literally has no idea what he wants. They are desperate to talk to him. And now Trump is the one dangling talks as a carrot. Iran is offering to permit oil tankers to cross the Strait of Hormuz if they trade using Yuan. Something tells me that plan will work out as well as M. Bison's plan to replace the world currency with bison dollars. Meanwhile, Trump has asked China, along with a number of other countries, to help secure the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. Which kind of puts the CCP in a pickle. They need that oil. But do they help and make it look like they're obeying Trump, even supporting the US actions in Iran? Is the Chinese military even capable of something like that? Or do they say no and put their oil supply at risk? What does Trump want? I almost feel sorry for them. Almost. But the Trump administration is also putting the screws on its allies over using Chinese forced labor. 60 countries in total are part of the probe. The big concern is that some of these countries might rely on goods produced by Uyghur slave labor. The old, I turned a blind eye to ethnic cleansing in China and all I got was a slightly cheaper t-shirt. Available on ChinaUncensored.tv. No forced labor involved. It's not humanitarian concerns driving the probe. The US Trade Representative said, For too long, American workers and firms have been forced to compete against foreign producers who may have an artificial cost advantage gained from the scourge of forced labor. Which, sadly, might be a more effective argument. Crimes against humanity? Meh. Oh, it's hurting my pocketbook? Ok, now it's war. And now on to the Chinese spy of the week. According to a London court, two British men spied on Hong Kong dissidents in the UK for China. The two men in question are 65-year-old Cheng Biu-Yuan and 38-year-old Cher Leung Wai. Yuan was once a Hong Kong police officer and worked at Hong Kong's Economic and Trade Office, while Wai was a British Border Force officer and part-time London police officer. And the two are currently gigantic idiots. Both deny the charges, but allegedly helped Hong Kong intel agents find dissidents, including breaking into a residence for a bounty of 130,000 dollars issued by the Hong Kong government, i.e. the CCP. China obviously denies all of his accusations, because when have they ever done something like this? Aside from all those times I've covered it. Literally every single week. South Korea is edging ever closer to the CCP. Korea now lists Taiwan as China Taiwan on its e-arrivals. So as a beautiful piece of petty revenge, Taiwan has renamed Korea in its immigration systems to South Korea. You know, to distinguish it from the glorious true Korea. Congratulations on your re-election, Kim. I'm not sure this is going to result in any big changes for the South Korean government, but it's still satisfying since it combines my two favorite things. Governmental procedure and pettiness. And sometimes those are both the same thing. Speaking of Taiwan, the CCP has made an energy security reunification offer to the island country. Which goes something like this. You reunify with us, and we'll give you energy security. Here's an artist's rendering of that offer. The CCP is trying to show Taiwan how peacefully joining China will benefit them, especially since Taiwan gets a third of its energy from Qatar. But Taiwan rejected the offer, saying that they've already made arrangements to deal with the current energy crisis with other nations like, say, the United States. Maybe China sending even more military assets around the country wasn't such a good negotiating tactic. US intelligence has revealed that it is holding secret evidence that the CCP accessed voter files. A heavily redacted memo points out that Chinese officials studied several US states' voter registration data and conducted analysis of the US election in 2020. Why so heavily redacted? Is Epstein in there somewhere? This data could potentially include driver's license information and social security numbers. So it might be even easier for the CCP to interfere with American elections moving forward. And US intel revealed that Iran and Russia also played a part in similar interference efforts. All of this is happening just as the US is debating passing the SAVE Act. It also comes as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is testifying in front of Congress. And then there's the UN, which the US hosts and funds more than any other country. Even though China and its global authoritarian friends use the forum to undermine the US and its allies at every turn. Well, it's finally running out of money, thanks to Washington's spending cuts. The Secretary General has, as you know, repeatedly made clear the problem both of non-payment of Jews by member states and the related problem of the UN being forced to repay member states for budget expenses that it does not, budget money that it does not spend. And so those two factors have put us on an unsustainable trajectory. This is like when a kid runs away from home, then comes back half an hour later because they didn't think about how much they rely on their allowance. The typical talking points from so-called experts suggest that the US should keep paying the UN so that the CCP doesn't usurp our position and influence there. Except that it already has. So the US might be better off leaving the CCP with the financial burden. And did you know that every time you go online, everything you do is potentially compromised? That's why the people at Surfshark created a VPN that keeps your internet activity private and secure. You may have noticed that phishing scams are on the rise. Scammers send 3.4 billion phishing attacks every single day, trying to convince you to sign in somewhere and enter your password. And a lot of these emails look legit. That's why Surfshark created the Email Scam Checker, with one click, you can check to see if an email is probably a phishing attack. This could help you save yourself from having your identity and your hard-earned money stolen by scammers. You'll also get the Web Content Blocker, which allows you to block adult sites, drugs, gambling, and other harmful content on every device in your household. It lets you block the bad stuff without actually having to monitor what your family members are browsing. I've been using Surfshark for a long time, and it just keeps getting better. A lot of other VPNs just hide your internet activity. Surfshark does that, too, and very well. And it also goes the extra mile with add-ons that keep you and your family safe from all the malicious things that come through the internet. Plus, Surfshark has servers you can connect to in more than 100 countries, more than any other VPN. So stay safe, and get Surfshark. Go to surfshark.com slash uncensored, and use the code UNCENSORED to get up to 4 months extra. The link is in the description below. Once again, I'm Chris Chappell. See you next time.