US China Trade War—No End in Sight

President Trump slaps new tariffs on China while the Treasury Department labels China a currency manipulator in the ongoing US China trade war.

Human rights become the secret weapon against the Chinese Communist Party.

Chinese students attack Hong Kong protesters in New Zealand.

The US withdraws from the INF treaty, meaning Cold War 2 now has an arms race.

And much more on this week's China news headlines!

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No end in sight for the trade war

Human rights become America's secret weapon

And China makes threats to... well, everyone

That more on this week's China Uncensored

This is China Uncensored I'm Chris Chappell.

This week's China News headlines.

The US-China trade war looks like it's going to be a long one.

Earlier this week President Trump announced new tariffs on China.

And the Chinese regime responded by devaluing its currency

So the US Treasury Department declared China

a currency manipulator,

which we all pretty much knew they were for years

but hey now it's official.

And then the Chinese Communist Party responded by

calling the currency manipulator label

totally wrong

which proves something I believed for a long time,

the Communist Party honestly doesn't know what WRONG means.

It explains so much.

Chinese companies have also been ordered to stop buying US agricultural products

According to a trade advocacy group,

Trump's tariffs have cost US businesses 3.4 billion dollars

But according to US Treasury data,

over the past 12 months,

the US government has collected 63 billion dollars in tariffs

about half of that is due to the increased tariffs on Chinese goods.

Meanwhile, a lot of Chinese companies are struggling.

They've resorted to issuing more than 200 billion dollars in I.O.U.s

Wait, where have I seen that before?

What is this, where's all the money?

That's as good as money sir.

Those are I.O.U.s

Brilliant!

The Trump administration is going nuclear on human rights.

This week Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

said: "China is home to one of the worst Human Rights crises of our time.

It is truly the stain of the century.

And here I thought my roommate's old couch had the stain of the century.

Vice president Mike Pence said the US

is also considering punishing Chinese officials for human rights abuses

Vice president Mike Pence has signaled that the Trump administration

is open to using the global Magnitsky act to sanction

top officials in Xin Jiang, China.

The global Magnitsky act is basically targeted sanctions.

Rather than hitting an entire country

it targets specific officials involved in crimes.

It prevents them from traveling to the US

ceases any property they own in the US

and punishes companies and banks for doing business with them.

It basically cuts these officials off from the high-end lifestyle

they typically enjoy in the Western world.

No more sipping espresso martinis in Miami

tragic.

Pence also met with representatives of religious groups persecuted in China

including Christian

Uyghur Muslim and Falun Gong representatives.

In response, the Chinese Communist Party couldn't decide

whether to condemn the meeting

or just pretend the persecuted groups didn't exist.

Tough choices.

And late last week

a Uyghur man was detained in Qatar,

they were going to deport him back to China

so he made an impassioned plea over social media.

I need the world's help.

After story spread on social media,

he was put on a plane to the US.

Yes the US State Department rescued a Muslim refugee

and confused a lot of Americans.

But if human rights aren't enough of a weapon

against the Chinese Communist Party.

There are always actual weapons.

The US has withdrawn from the INF treaty.

That's the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty.

The reason the State Department says

is the Russian Federation's continuing violation of the treaty.

Another reason is China.

According to the treaty,

the US couldn't flight test or possess intermediate-range ground-launched missiles.

China never signed on to the INF treaty.

And guess what China has been building.

Now that the US is out of the INF treaty

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has said

the US plans to deploy non-nuclear INF range missiles in Asia

"sooner rather than later."

The Chinese counties party is not pleased

and has warned it will not stand idly by.

Which is fantastic.

The CIA already said a year ago we're in Cold War II.

And now we have a right proper arms race going on.

You know what that means?

James Bond movies will be good again.

The real question is...

will she be a trigger-happy womanizer like the previous 007?

But it's not just US missiles China has to worry about.

Taiwan is developing a new supersonic cruise missile

but from a certain point of view

doesn't that really just mean China is developing a new supersonic cruise missile?

What's that Shelley?

No?

Okay.

Taiwan is reportedly building 20 of the Eun Fung missiles

as well as 10 truck based launchers.

This would give Taiwan the ability

to hit many of the Chinese military bases

that would potentially be involved in an assault on the island nations.

And even NATO was getting involved,

the secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg

says NATO needs to address

quote "the rise of China"

specifically how China is "investing heavily in critical infrastructure in Europe"

it's increased presence in the Arctic

and also increased presence in Africa

and in cyberspace.

Of course,

the real question is whether NATO will actually do anything.

Meanwhile,

China is threatening India.

In a few months, India will be starting trials for 5g systems in the country.

But the Indian government has yet to make it clear

whether or not

they'll let the Chinese telecom company Huawei join.

Countries around the world have been joining the United States call

to ban Huawei over national security concerns.

But it's a good thing the Communist Party is so good at diplomacy.

They know just how to soothe any fears India may have

with threats.

Chinese officials told the Indian ambassador in Beijing

that there could be reverse sanctions on Indian firms

engaged in business in China

should India block Huawei.

In other words,

if India bans Huawei,

China will make Indian private businesses operating in China suffer.

Hopefully those private companies will

then pressure the Indian government

to put their short-term profits ahead of national security.

So clearly things aren't going well for China.

And now New Zealand is even getting upset.

The Chinese consul in Auckland

praised a group of Chinese students

at a New Zealand University for a demonstration of spontaneous patriotism.

See, students had put up a Lennon wall

at the University of Auckland to support Hong Kong protesters.

Of course,

the Chinese consul wasn't referring to the people

who put up the Lenin wall as patriots,

it was these guys who were the patriots.

Hong Kong is different from China

Hong Kong is part of China.

And if you don't like China, get out of China, ok?

Hong Kong is part of China.

I tell you that

because you are not human *** that's stupid pig.

I'm pretty sure she fell on purpose

but it made international news ...so good on her.

Of course that didn't stop mainland Chinese students

from allegedly wrecking the Lennon wall.

The good news is the New Zealand government

has rebuked China over its recent comments and actions

where it sought to suppress freedom of speech

and voice support for violent opposition

to Hong Kong protesters in New Zealand.

Meanwhile, in the land down under.

A Chinese student clearly not a patriot

joined a local protest in support of Hong Kong protesters

A few days later,

Chinese officials visited his parents in China

and they warned them not to let

the student participate in any more protests.

so that his family could stay safe

Also, his parents had to reassure the officials

that their son was loyal to the Communist Party.

Which proves again that Chinese Communist Party

influence in liberal democracies is nothing to worry about.

Oh and then masked men destroyed a Lennon wall

at another university in Australia.

And with the destruction of that Lennon wall

the Hong Kong protesters have been defeated

Right.

By the way, school is starting soon and if you're a university student

why not set up your own Lennon wall?

Be sure to take lots of pictures and video of what happens

and send it to me on the China Uncensored Facebook page

or my Twitter account @Chinauncensored.

And showing that the Communist Party is really losing its grip

it has banned Chinese movies and actors

from going to one of the biggest movie award ceremonies in Asia

because it's in Taiwan.

And thus Taiwan fell and became a part of mainland China once again.

Wow such good strategies the Communist Party comes up with.

And that's it for this week's China news headlines

And now, it's time for me to answer a question from one of you

a fan who supports China Uncensored with a dollar more per episode

by contributing through Patreon.

Largezo asks:

do you think that the PRC will conduct a military intervention

in Hong Kong in the near future?

Well that is certainly the question everyone is asking.

Certainly the Chinese Communist Party has been hinting about that

and let's not forget the PLA garrison in Hong Kong

making videos showing them fighting unarmed protesters.

But currently top communist leaders are

at the annual Beidaihe meeting.

And guess what?

Jiang Zemin, the 92 year old former president and a heavyweight among party elders

is expected to attend the conclave this year.

And if you've been watching the show

you know Jiang Zemin is behind a faction

trying to undermine Xi Jinping.

And I'm sure he'd love for things to go Tiananmen in Hong Kong

because that would be very bad for Xi Jinping.

But probably nothing concrete will happen until that meeting wraps

and secretive party meetings are so secretive

so who knows what will come out of it.

Thanks for your question

And thanks everyone watching.

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So thank you for me and everyone on the China Uncensored team

Once again I'm Chris Chappell see you next time.