China Just Sent Warships to the Philippines

Xi Jinping purges a top nuclear official. China's bullying in the South China Sea steps up a notch. And China says it can arrest anyone, anywhere in the world. That and more on this week's China news headlines. Welcome to China Uncensored. I'm Chris Chappell. Purge! And also hi. This time on the people's favorite communist soap opera, General Hostility. Xi Jinping is out for blood. He's getting more paranoid every day. And this week, he's purged yet another top official, Bian Zhigang. Bian became deputy head of China's defense industry just two years ago. Now, Xi Jinping's anti-corruption watchdog is investigating him for, quote, violations of party discipline. What did Bian really do? Is it connected to the space program or nuclear weapons research he oversaw? Stay tuned for more General Hostility. Well, that was fun. Not for the guy who got purged, obviously. That was about as fun as getting your teeth pulled, which might happen to him. But Xi Jinping's recent purges across the Chinese military don't seem to be slowing it down. This week, China and the Philippines had a rare naval standoff near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, which is here, close to the Philippines, and very far from China. China sent four warships to confront a Philippine naval vessel. Why was China so aggressive? Besides, you know, being China. Was it in response to the Balikatan joint military exercises the Philippines just held with the US and five other allied nations, where they prepared to defend themselves in the coming war with China? Was it because the Philippines asked them to remove this, quote unquote, temporary research facility from the island? Nope. The CCP sent four naval warships because they were protecting the turtles. No wonder Mitch McConnell loves them so much. Yes, you see, by total coincidence last week, Chinese researchers had just discovered a large gathering of endangered sea turtles on Huangyang Island, which is what China calls the Scarborough Shoal. And like all the other endangered minorities in territories the CCP claims, the CCP needs to protect them by taking over their territory. TBD if we're going to wind up seeing turtle labor camps. I mean, re-education centers. So that was the pretext for China sending four, yes, four warships to the Scarborough Shoal, meaning they care more about the environment than Greta Thunberg. Get off your flotilla and get an armada for the environment, Greta. The Philippines responded with the Diego Silang frigate, which was on patrol in the area. Philippine media showed footage of both sides radioing each other, telling each other, this is our territory, get out. The Philippines then launched a helicopter to show they meant business. And after that, the incident fizzled out with any further conflict. But rest assured, China will be back. If only to protect the minorities, those delicious, delicious minorities. Just kidding, it's not that grim. Well, not usually. China just wants to occupy the Scarborough Shoal so it can build another military base right off the coast of the Philippines. They won't be happy until, like Hong Kong, the Philippines are just a shell of their former selves. But if the CCP is unable to claim other countries' territory, it has a backup plan. It will claim rights over the people in other countries' territory. It sounds like a joke, but it's already begun. China says it has a right to target people overseas with its new Ethnic Unity Law that goes into effect on July 1st. China's law says that people anywhere in the world can be held legally accountable for undermining ethnic unity and progress or inciting ethnic separatism. What this means is, let's take for example Hong Kong activist Nathan Law, who I interviewed a few years ago. He wants freedom for people in Hong Kong. The CCP considers that inciting separatism, even though he's not actually calling for Hong Kong independence. But hey, their feelings don't care about facts. Nathan Law lives in the UK now, where he has asylum. So while the CCP can't actually arrest him on UK soil, under this new law, they can arrest him if they ever manage to get him to China. Which would make for some extra targeted advertising. And just because Nathan Law lives in the UK, that doesn't mean he's necessarily safe. Rights groups have also complained that China has tried to use Interpol Red Notices to try and get foreign governments to arrest people abroad. Under this new law, the CCP can also arrest anyone who helps Nathan Law. Like, for example, the handsome guy who interviewed him. And the CCP is getting pretty serious about expanding its global enforcement. A UK border official and a former Hong Kong cop, both ethnically Chinese, have been sentenced for spying on China's behalf in the UK. The CCP had them conducting surveillance on Chinese people living abroad, including former Hong Kong lawmaker Nathan Law and other activists they refer to as cockroaches. Which is actually a compliment, if you think about it. Because it means that no matter how hard the CCP tries to squash them, they keep fighting. Go cockroaches! I don't have cockroaches in my house because I'm a slob, it's because I'm an ally. As for the bad people, Bill Yuen and Peter Wai, the UK has sentenced them to 8 to 10 years in prison. Which, honestly, is not very harsh at all. Prison in the UK is like a luxury spa compared to what Nathan Law would face if they got him to a prison in China. That'd be like pulling teeth, probably literally. Remember how Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been trying to sell more advanced chips to China? And how he's lobbied the Trump administration to make that happen? Well, as anyone with a middle school level skill of pattern recognition could have told him, it was always going to turn out badly. And now it has. China's planning the world's largest single AI infrastructure project in history, a massive AI data center grid at a cost of 295 billion dollars. And they've just locked Nvidia out by requiring that the vast majority of chips be domestically produced in China. So in other words, Nvidia sold chips in China, China learned how to make them, and then started producing chips on its own. Huang pleaded to be allowed to sell even more advanced chips in China, and China knocked those off too. Then China threw Nvidia under the bus that they probably learned how to build from some bus company they screwed over. Because China's plan effectively writes Nvidia out of the largest new computing procurement in the world. Nvidia shares fell 2.4% after that was reported. I know Jensen Huang is probably shocked that the CCP is so ungrateful for his help. It's amazing how smart people can be so stupid when it comes to China. For the record, I've been warning Jensen Huang about this for a long time, but I don't think he watches China Uncensored. Speaking of smart people who are stupid when it comes to China, American billionaire Ray Dalio. He's one of those guys who has traveled to China dozens of times over the decades, and wants to tell you that he's a real China expert. Which he is. The way someone who only eats at McDonald's is a real hamburger expert. And now, after a recent 10-day trip to China, he's pushing the idea that America doesn't have what it takes to fight to maintain its empire. And that China is on the rise. And that we should all just capitulate to the CCP because they're the future. Aged wagyu burgers just don't have what it takes to stand up to the deliciousness of Big Mac's grey beef. Ray Dalio has been hoodwinked by the CCP. He's being incredibly stupid. But he can't see it, because the CCP rolls out the red carpet for him. And because he's so prominent, his stupid ideas on China are going to influence a lot of politicians and business people to make the wrong choices. I'm working on an episode now about how rich elites keep jumping on the bandwagon of stupid pro-CCP ideas like this, and how that's going to screw over the average American. People like you. So stay tuned for my episode that comes out on Monday. Until then, play off the Mickey D's. But honestly, YouTube probably doesn't want you watching that episode. Because Google, which owns YouTube, makes billions of dollars from Chinese ad sales. And YouTube is constantly pushing videos that promote the CCP's narrative— that modern China is clean, safe, and very, very high tech. But those YouTubers are only giving the tour the CCP planned for them, and Chinese companies often cover their travel expenses. That's like thinking Jared Fogle is a great guy after only seeing his Subway commercials. Well, me and the China Uncensored team are working every day to bring you the news the Chinese Communist Party tries to censor. The CCP is against us. Big tech is against us. The billionaire elites are against us. And that's why we created the China Uncensored 50-Cent Army. I want you to be part of my mission to uncensor China. So subscribe to our website, ChinaUncensored.tv. You'll find a community of like-minded China watchers, livestreams with me, Matt, and Shelley, plus special episodes that I don't put on YouTube. With your help, we can bring the uncensored truth to millions of people and help them see the CCP for what it is. Click the link below or this button. Once again, I'm Chris Chappell. See you next time.