FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, I’M BEGGING YOU! DON’T GO TO CHINA!!!

Foreigners are trapped in an impossible situation in China. And I mean trapped literally. Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell. China is absolutely paranoid of espionage. Kind of in the same way cheaters are paranoid about getting cheated on. Even after creating an Orwellian surveillance state that's capable of constantly tracking even the most minute detail of what people are doing, and brutally punishing people who so much as look at the CCP the wrong way, China is still terrified of any sort of information leaking out, and it certainly doesn't get any better when they see the CIA's ads for Chinese recruits. This might be the first time in history a commercial actually helped humanity. And more recently, the Washington Post's reporting about the Pentagon building a new next-generation deep cover spy program to confront China. The program is reportedly led by the senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary of War, a 39-year-old CIA veteran who was once the CIA's deputy director of operations. That's one of the most important positions in the CIA that runs global covert operation programs and oversees spy recruitment in China, Russia, and elsewhere. It's not even Halloween, and China's already being bombarded with jump scares like they're at Halloween Horror Nights. Of course, it's really hard to say what's going on here. This story is coming from anonymous sources, including former agency officials, And those sources say the program is just in the planning phase and not operational. So like, assuming the GTA 6 release date won't be pushed back yet again, I wouldn't get my hopes up. The Pentagon itself, meanwhile, is publicly claiming that this spy program doesn't exist. Either way, China's already working on the assumption that anybody and everybody is a potential spy. China just jailed a Japanese businessman on espionage charges. And it's because China's so deathly afraid of intelligence getting out, including data on how Chinese supply chains work, these fears are why the CCP is cracking down hard by threatening to trap everybody, both Chinese and foreigners, inside China. That's like a sequel to Zero Covid. Which I guess would make it One Covid? Let me explain. Remember these guys? It's the Uyghurs, currently China's favorite group to persecute, exploit, and harvest organs from, the world is waking up, forcefully and against their will, to the ways China's using Uyghur forced labor to make everything, from fashion to quote-unquote Italian tomato purees. That's a spicy modern-day slavery. The US and Europe have responded to this atrocity by passing laws to crack down on slave labor. These laws now require companies to check that they don't have forced labor in their products. Not something you'd think you'd have to check in your spaghetti sauce, but China is creative with their evil. How is this supposed to happen? Well, companies need to audit where and how their products are produced. And in order to do that, companies need to gather information. And this is the exact opposite of what China wants. If US and European laws make it so a business can't operate in China, that's bad. So China has just issued new regulations that make conforming with U.S. laws illegal according to Chinese law. And you don't want to be a foreign businessman or businesswoman in China when you run afoul of nebulous Chinese law. The regulations are State Council Decrees 834, 835, and 841. Decree 834 is known as the Regulation on the Security of Industrial and Supply Chains. It prohibits any information gathering, including due diligence, on Chinese industrial and supply chains without state approval. In other words, Decree 834 makes it illegal to uncover operational realities inside Chinese factories and forced labor supply networks across Xinjiang, where the Uyghurs live. So basically, it's throwing a giant tarp over the whole operation and saying, nothing to see here, move along, ignore those screams, and pleas for help coming from under the tarp. But this kind of investigation is what these companies are required to do according to US law. Decree 835, meanwhile, also known as the Regulation on Combating Improper Extraterritorial Jurisdiction of Foreign States, complements 834 by basically saying, no, you can't obey a foreign country's law if we don't like them. And Decree 835 gives Beijing the legal justification to pursue criminal charges against individuals who expose or act upon those findings in any way. If you're thinking, this sounds like they're criminalizing the truth. True. Which is illegal. Get under the tarp. Even if you don't live in China, you're not safe, as long as you're doing what has a quote unquote appropriate connection to China. This puts companies all around the world in catch 22. If they obey Western laws and go hunting for Chinese slave labor in their supply chains, China will punish them. If they obey Chinese laws and don't bother to find Chinese slave labor in their supply chains, they will face legal consequences from the West." Makes you just want to move north. Though Santa uses slave labor too. There's no winning. Now here's where things get really scary. Decree 841, also known as the Regulations on Exit and Entry Administration. I actually did a whole episode on it a while ago, but coupled with the other two decrees, it's even worse than how I described it back then. It's already Halloween Horror Nights worthy scary. Industry commentators described the Regulations on Exit and Entry Administration decree as the biggest overhaul of China's border framework since the Exit and Entry Administration law arrived in 2013, for very good reason. With it, the CCP greatly expands the government's power to impose exit bans on people accused—not charged, merely accused—of engaging in overseas activities deemed to threaten China's national security or interests. Yes, they're literally going to ruin people's lives based solely on vibes. The government doesn't even need to inform the accused that they're being exit banned in the first place, or explain why. China even gave itself the authority to withhold information about certain exit bans if doing so could impact national security or an ongoing criminal investigation. And if you think foreigners are safe, congrats. Because that's not true, so you won't be immediately thrown under the tarp. Your tarp time will come. A separate statutory provision called Article 28 of the Exit and Entry Administration Law is in full force. and it provides a number of reasons to exit ban foreigners, including a beautiful catch-all clause that allows exit bans on foreigners for other circumstances in which laws or administrative regulations prohibit exit. It's vague by design. And it means that China can keep coming up with new legal reasons to exit ban foreigners without amending the exit and entry administration law itself. It's the legal jargon version of your parents saying, because I said so. but for violating your civil liberties. Or as China calls civil liberties, we don't do that here. So put it all together, and you start to see what I'm getting at. If your company tries to gather any kind of information on China's industry or supply lines, including due diligence required by US and EU laws, you are violating China's laws, and China can charge you and keep you from leaving China. Even if you're not a Chinese citizen. This massive mechanism is designed to tackle so many different things all at once both inside and outside of China, on top of cracking down on international scrutiny, it's great for cracking down on human rights activism. Or as China calls human rights, we don't do that here. Because anyone caught violating China's ethnic unity law and progress promotion law, such as by criticizing China's treatment of the Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong, Christians, and others, can also be held liable for promoting quote unquote separatism, extremism, and terrorism them, and be exit banned. Because what incites more terror than politely saying, hey, genocide is bad? Chinese laws are also tightening control over sensitive Chinese technology, as seen with China's exit bans on Manus's founders, top AI talent at Alibaba and DeepSeek, as well as the family members of top AI talent. China does not want information getting out, and it will do anything it needs to do to prevent it. Which is why the best option is just not going to China at all. Because China is Halloween Horror Night scary. China Uncensored is dedicated to pulling off the tarp and exposing the CCP's horrible true face. But we need your help. If you want to support China Uncensored so we can keep making more episodes, click this button here to subscribe to my website ChinaUncensored.tv. The link is below. And for a limited time only, people who subscribe with an annual premium or VIP membership subscription will get this, for legal reasons I'm not allowed to call it LEGO, Tank Man. But you won't sign up just for this truly amazing one-of-a-kind free gift. You'll also come for the fun events. So click below to learn more. Once again, I'm Chris Chappell. See you next time.