What Happens When China Falls?

Maybe we should start preparing for the fall of Communist China. Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell. Before we get started, I know you're looking at my amazing, for legal reasons I can't call it LEGO, Tank Man. Want one? Stay tuned to the end and I'll tell you how you can get your hands on it. Ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting, Xi visited India for a BRICS summit. There were loads of rumors going around that Xi had taken ill, that a coup had erupted, and that maybe Xi was dead. At the time, I called those rumors out as sheer nonsense. And when Xi and Trump did in fact meet a week later, I was once again proven correct. If you're wondering why I have such muscular shoulders, it's because I constantly carry the weight of always being right. But it seems rumors of Xi's deteriorating health keep coming back, because during the meeting, according to sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal, quote, unusual rest breaks for Xi Jinping sucked hours out of the summit. Reportedly, Xi had a special room reserved just for him and his wife. They called a hold room, and no one else was allowed to enter. What was he doing? And I know what you're thinking, and no, that usually happens in the Lincoln bedroom. Was he still recovering from eating Indian food the week before? Was he sneaking off to play Hearts of Iron 4 with Barron? No one knows. According to the Wall Street Journal, Xi's own team was building a schedule around how long he could stand, how far he could walk, and when he would need to stop. Now let me put a big asterisk next to this Wall Street Journal article. Mostly because I'm a professional. If I weren't, it'd be a poop emoji. It was written by Lingling Wei. And Xi has a long history of using nameless sources to write her stories, such as people People close to Chinese policymakers. People familiar with matters. And people who consult with Chinese officials. Lingling has even outright pushed narratives that are false. And worse, her fiction isn't even entertaining. If you're going to make stuff up, at least make it fun to read. For example, she used people close to internal discussions to push the idea that China's goal is now defensive. How's that looking right about now? I guess the best defense is a good, brutal, unprovoked, repeated offense. Wei is also the granddaughter of a senior military officer in China. But I'm not sure you can hold that against her. But still, if you met a super nice guy and his name was Mike Hitler, you'd at least go hmm. Still with the persistent and false rumors from questionable sources about Xi's failing health that have been swirling for so long now, I find it very suspicious that Xi's pushing this message. But the story did get me thinking. Xi Jinping is 73 years old. In dog years, that's super dead. And although he and Putin can talk about living to 150 years old by stealing people's organs, Father Time may be catching up to Xi Jinping, ready to turn him into a good Communist. And what happens when it does? Xi has absolute control of the CCP, having made himself quote, the chairman of everything. And so far, Xi has not anointed a successor. There's a good reason for that. Successors are a threat. You never know when they might want to accelerate their rise to power. And Xi can't risk getting murked when he's merely a spry 139. That happened before in China. Take Lin Biao. He was Mao Zedong's right hand man. He's his anointed successor, always shown next to him in propaganda posters. Lin was Mao's guy for purging anyone who questioned him. Lin also put together Mao's Little Red Book. But eventually, Mao saw him as a threat. So Lin fled, only to die in a mysterious plane crash over Mongolia. Mysterious, of course, for anyone that can't add 2 plus 2. Then the CCP claimed that Lin had been trying to assassinate Mao. Mao purged him. Yes, he purged a dead guy. Pictures of him were censored. And Mao even started a campaign called Criticize Lin Biao, Criticize Confucius. How did Confucius get involved? the 70s were a weird time, man. But Mao held onto power till the day he died. Xi Jinping might do the same. And what happens next? It's kind of an important question. Not just for the Chinese people, but for Americans as well. After Mao died, the guy who succeeded him, Hua Guofeng, was sidelined in a matter of years, and Deng Xiaoping took over. As far as transitions of power in a communist state go, that was pretty smooth. What if the death of Xi Jinping causes the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. With no successor, China could descend into chaos as rival factions vie for power. It's kind of like what happened in the Middle East on...actually, pick a year. Who would take control of China's vast arsenal of nukes? Or all those fun biolabs, like the one that gave us Covid? Not to mention all the financial institutions and debt. Or the various supply chains that run through China. China has the largest standing army in the world. What would happen to those soldiers when no one's given orders? A bunch of armed young men with no prospects? Somehow I don't think they'd take up poetry. At least I hope they don't. Millions of slam poets suddenly showing up at every cafe in the world? I might actually prefer them as hired goons. Also, what happens when all those happy, dancing, ethnic Uyghurs suddenly stop dancing? Does Xinjiang declare independence? Is there a wave of killings against Han Chinese after the decades of rape and genocide? What about Tibet? Hong Kong? Does Taiwan come in and take over? Who gets all the honey? Who gets all the honey? This really isn't some far-off future or outlandish thought experiment. When the Soviet Union fell, it fell fast. First, six communist governments collapsed within six months in 1989. The Berlin Wall, the symbol of communist oppression, came down almost overnight. Thank you, David Hasselhoff. Two years later, there was no more Soviet Union. That was unthinkable. It might not even take Xi Jinping dying to spell the end of the CCP. The economy is terrible. Young people can't find jobs. The whole thing is basically a Jenga tower just waiting to collapse. The US has spent years planning on how to counter the Chinese Communist Party. Shouldn't we plan for what happens when, you know, we win? Besides fighting communism, we apparently also have to fight low self-esteem. Well, this is the question Dr. Miles Yu asks in this article for the Washington Times. Why we must prepare for the Chinese Communist Party's collapse. He was the principal policy and planning advisor to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And he's the director of the China Center at Hudson Institute. Yeah, but I make a silly YouTube show about China. I'm not threatened or anything. My self-esteem is great. The biggest. Anyway, he argues, we were very lucky that after the Soviet Union fell, the transition was relatively stable. And the reason it was relatively stable was that even if the US hadn't planned it out, many former Soviet bloc countries did. Poland had an organized civil society capable of becoming an alternative center of political legitimacy. Solidarity had spent years building networks of intellectuals, workers, economists, lawyers, clergy, and political activists. Czechoslovakia had Charter 77 and a network of dissidents who had spent years thinking about human rights, political responsibility, historical truth, and the moral foundations of government. He gives a bunch more examples. I'll put a link below so you can read it for yourself. It's very interesting. Though, I mean, not as interesting as a roughly 8 minute YouTube video about China. I'm not threatened. How many pithy puns does he have in his work? Yeah, that's what I thought. But essentially, a bunch of former Soviet countries had planned out a post-Soviet world, and they became democracies. Notably, one country that didn't plan for a post-Soviet world was Russia. For obvious reasons. Now, Russia is run by the same Soviet communists, and it all kinda sucks. So where does the US fit into all this? Yu argues that America has a special responsibility and a unique capacity to prepare for the fall of the CCP. Not to dictate China's future, or impose an American government on the Chinese people. China's future belongs to the Chinese people. But to help guide the post-CCP world. And again, he points to history. You know that thing your YouTube algorithm assumes you're obsessed with ever since you turned 40? After the Allied victory in World War II, the US played a critical role in the reconstruction of Germany and Japan. And one of the most important things that happened was the Nuremberg Trials, where the history and crimes of Nazi Germany were put on full display. Something like that needs to happen for the CCP. All the crimes, the brutality, everything they did to the Chinese people and tried to cover up, needs to be exposed and put on trial. Bad things need to happen to CCP officials, police, the torturers. I'm doing my best for the first part, but I can only do so much for the second, because I don't have legal jurisdiction. And I look silly in judges' wigs. That's in the future. But there is so much the US needs to be doing right now to prepare. Elon, if you're watching, get those Starlink satellites over China. Also, take a break from being on X 26 hours a day. That isn't good for your mental health. Like seriously, China's got a lot of nukes. We need a plan to secure those. and some kind of plan for how to keep the lights on and water running so China doesn't become a humanitarian crisis. Again. On top of that, how do the ill-gotten gains of CCP officials get back into the hands of the Chinese people? And what about all the YouTube ad revenue they've stolen from me? I need reparations. After all, once the CCP falls, I'm going to be out of a job. Oh, I haven't thought this through. Again, this is not the US taking over China. These are all things the Chinese people would be immediately grateful for that would set them up for success so they can finally build a free China. Hopefully one with a good social safety net for a former China YouTuber with very muscular shoulders. Now, you want a, for legal reasons I can't call it, Lego tank man? Let me tell you how you can get one. First, I've been getting a ton of messages from you saying you've been secretly unsubscribed. Others get no results when you search for China Uncensored. Or YouTube asks you to confirm your age because the results may be inappropriate for some users. 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