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Xi Jinping claims an “overwhelming victory”

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against corruption.

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But that...is a lie.

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Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell.

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So, some people think the Chinese Communist[br]Party is a little bit corrupt.

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And I get it,

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a regime that kills people for[br]their organs and uses rape as form of torture

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might not seem like it’s made up of upstanding,[br]honest citizens.

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But this month, there seems to be some good[br]news:

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Xi Jinping says China has won an “overwhelming victory” against corruption!

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But while “overwhelming victory” sounds[br]like some kind of...overwhelming victory...

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it’s not that simple.

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Xi Jinping had declared something like this[br]before.

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In 2018, he declared an “overwhelming victory”[br]against graft

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—so basically one type of corruption.

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But obviously <i>that</i> victory wasn’t very[br]overwhelming,

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because he’s clearly been struggling against corruption

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in the four[br]years since then as well.

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And even now, Xi Jinping says more work is[br]needed to tackle the problem.

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He says that from now on, there should be[br]zero tolerance toward corruption.

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And there should be “policies to make sure[br]officials are not involved in corruption

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because they ‘do not dare to, are not able to and[br]do not want to.’”

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That’s a weird threat.

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It’s like if you wanted to go on YouTube[br]to talk about

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alien pedophile vaccine conspiracy theories.

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YouTube would immediately shut down your channel,

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so you don’t dare to.

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And therefore...don’t want to?

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At any rate, Xi Jinping is moving quickly.

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Earlier this month, he announced a new rule[br]to further rein in corruption:

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Monitoring the business activities of officials’ families.

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“Officials must report business activities[br]of their spouses and children

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and those who fail to do so or seek to skirt the rules

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will[br]be ‘dealt with seriously in accordance with

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regulations and laws.’”

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And officials now need to either get their[br]families to withdraw from these business activities,

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or they have to step down from their posts[br]as communist officials.

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This could affect dozens of high-ranking Party[br]officials,

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and potentially millions of lower officials.

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For decades, Party members have installed[br]family members in all sorts of positions,

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from state-owned companies, to foreign joint[br]ventures,

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to private equity, and more.

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This anti-corruption push is a big deal.

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But it’s also not about fighting corruption.

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I’ll explain after the break.

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Welcome back.

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Xi Jinping is talking big about fighting corruption[br]within the Chinese Communist Party.

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He claims to have won an “overwhelming victory.”

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But that’s just not true.

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From the very founding of the Chinese Communist[br]Party in 1921,

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it was based on corruption.

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Essentially, you had a group of thugs whose[br]plan

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was to kill rich people and take their stuff,

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and then take over the country.

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Mao Zedong talked about using the “lumpenproletariat”[br]for his revolution.

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That refers to the social outcasts—

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especially[br]criminals,

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including members of triads and secret criminal societies.

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Mao wrote in 1926 that the lumpenproletariat

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“can become a revolutionary force if given proper guidance.”

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And guidance, he gave.

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Mao specifically used the lumpenproletariat[br]to fight his communist revolution.

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Who else but criminals would be more willing[br]to kill rich people and take their stuff?

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And when the Communist Party finally came[br]to power in 1949,

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guess what kind of people were high ranking Party members?

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A lot of them were criminals.

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Even today, there’s a tight affiliation[br]between the Communist Party and triads.

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Check out our interview today on our China[br]Unscripted podcast—

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where our guest Sam Cooper talks about Party-linked triads

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running drugs and money laundering in Canada.

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The Chinese Communist Party is basically what[br]you get

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when a group of gangsters to take over an entire country:

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They control gang members

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they lock away so-called enemies,

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they take over other people’s territory,

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and they fight constant internal power struggles.

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Violence and corruption are how the Communist[br]Party stays in power!

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That’s why I said Xi Jinping can never truly[br]eliminate corruption

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in the Chinese Communist Party.

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But that’s not his real goal, anyway.

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His real motive behind winning a victory over[br]corruption

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is winning a victory over his political enemies.

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For example, former leader Jiang Zemin.

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Jiang Zemin’s son, Jiang Mianheng, is a[br]powerful businessman.

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He has his fingers in everything from state-owned[br]enterprises to joint ventures.

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In 2012, the Hollywood company DreamWorks[br]Animation began a joint venture in China,

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called Oriental Dreamworks,

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to create animated[br]and live-action entertainment for the China market.

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DreamWorks partnered with two Chinese companies[br]plus Shanghai Alliance Investment—

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which is an investment arm of the Shanghai municipal[br]government.

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Jiang Mianheng was chairman and CEO of Shanghai[br]Alliance Investment.

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Meaning, the son of Xi Jinping’s biggest[br]rival

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had a stake in a 300-plus-million dollar

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company controlling media and entertainment[br]in China.

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Side note: That American joint venture

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was[br]eventually bought out completely by a Chinese company

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—once it was no longer useful to[br]have the Americans on board.

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Anyway, the list goes on.

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The son of former President Hu Jintao, Hu[br]Haifeng,

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“once managed a state-controlled firm that held a monopoly on security scanners

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used in China’s airports, shipping ports

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and subway stations.”

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Former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai,

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who[br]got taken down by an internal power struggle in 2012,

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had his own network of family corruption,

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with at least $160 million in assets held

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by his close relatives.

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Basically, communist officials from top to[br]bottom are out to make money.

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And they often do it through corruption.

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That includes installing their relatives in[br]companies poised to make money,

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with the help of their Party contacts.

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The brilliant thing about Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption[br]campaign is,

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it’s actually a powerful weapon he can use to go after his political enemies—

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while[br]having the plus side of making it look like

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he’s going after corruption.

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But it’s selective.

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Xi Jinping never sought corruption charges[br]against his ally,

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former premier Wen Jiabao.

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Wen’s family members were worth hundreds[br]of millions of dollars, often through corruption—

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as you can see from this New York Times graphic.

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But with his friend Wen Jiabao, that’s a-ok.

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So for all my viewers in the West reading[br]these glowing articles about Xi Jinping fighting corruption

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—don’t be fooled.

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Xi Jinping is not really targeting corruption.

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He’s just struggling against his political[br]enemies.

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Like a good communist.

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But because the entire Communist Party is[br]based on corruption,

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Xi Jinping will never actually win an “overwhelming victory.”

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Just wait a few more years, and president-for-life[br]Xi Jinping

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will once again make an announcement

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declaring victory over corruption.

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