1 00:00:01,640 --> 00:00:04,618 Xi Jinping claims an “overwhelming victory” 2 00:00:04,618 --> 00:00:06,433 against corruption. 3 00:00:06,759 --> 00:00:09,110 But that...is a lie. 4 00:00:28,486 --> 00:00:30,415 Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell. 5 00:00:30,415 --> 00:00:33,352 This episode is sponsored by PC-Doctor Toolbox. 6 00:00:33,352 --> 00:00:37,099 Monitor your PC for software crashes, hardware failures, 7 00:00:37,099 --> 00:00:40,427 and the kind of glitches that make your life miserable. 8 00:00:40,427 --> 00:00:46,286 So, some people think the Chinese Communist Party is a little bit corrupt. 9 00:00:46,685 --> 00:00:48,177 And I get it, 10 00:00:48,177 --> 00:00:53,170 a regime that kills people for their organs and uses rape as form of torture 11 00:00:53,170 --> 00:00:58,760 might not seem like it’s made up of upstanding, honest citizens. 12 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,175 But this month, there seems to be some good news: 13 00:01:02,175 --> 00:01:07,404 Xi Jinping says China has won an “overwhelming victory” against corruption! 14 00:01:08,171 --> 00:01:13,910 But while “overwhelming victory” sounds like some kind of...overwhelming victory... 15 00:01:14,306 --> 00:01:16,020 it’s not that simple. 16 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:18,159 Xi Jinping had declared something like this before. 17 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:22,815 In 2018, he declared an “overwhelming victory” against graft 18 00:01:22,815 --> 00:01:25,661 —so basically one type of corruption. 19 00:01:25,661 --> 00:01:29,404 But obviously that victory wasn’t very overwhelming, 20 00:01:29,404 --> 00:01:31,927 because he’s clearly been struggling against corruption 21 00:01:31,927 --> 00:01:34,843 in the four years since then as well. 22 00:01:34,843 --> 00:01:39,547 And even now, Xi Jinping says more work is needed to tackle the problem. 23 00:01:39,547 --> 00:01:44,479 He says that from now on, there should be zero tolerance toward corruption. 24 00:01:44,479 --> 00:01:49,192 And there should be “policies to make sure officials are not involved in corruption 25 00:01:49,192 --> 00:01:54,880 because they ‘do not dare to, are not able to and do not want to.’” 26 00:01:55,807 --> 00:01:57,702 That’s a weird threat. 27 00:01:57,702 --> 00:02:01,260 It’s like if you wanted to go on YouTube to talk about 28 00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:03,979 alien pedophile vaccine conspiracy theories. 29 00:02:03,979 --> 00:02:06,563 YouTube would immediately shut down your channel, 30 00:02:06,563 --> 00:02:08,796 so you don’t dare to. 31 00:02:08,796 --> 00:02:11,383 And therefore...don’t want to? 32 00:02:12,658 --> 00:02:15,430 At any rate, Xi Jinping is moving quickly. 33 00:02:15,430 --> 00:02:19,569 Earlier this month, he announced a new rule to further rein in corruption: 34 00:02:19,569 --> 00:02:23,442 Monitoring the business activities of officials’ families. 35 00:02:23,815 --> 00:02:27,466 “Officials must report business activities of their spouses and children 36 00:02:27,466 --> 00:02:30,995 and those who fail to do so or seek to skirt the rules 37 00:02:30,995 --> 00:02:33,709 will be ‘dealt with seriously in accordance with 38 00:02:33,709 --> 00:02:36,326 regulations and laws.’” 39 00:02:36,326 --> 00:02:41,311 And officials now need to either get their families to withdraw from these business activities, 40 00:02:41,311 --> 00:02:45,944 or they have to step down from their posts as communist officials. 41 00:02:45,944 --> 00:02:48,902 This could affect dozens of high-ranking Party officials, 42 00:02:48,902 --> 00:02:52,019 and potentially millions of lower officials. 43 00:02:52,019 --> 00:02:56,838 For decades, Party members have installed family members in all sorts of positions, 44 00:02:56,838 --> 00:02:59,529 from state-owned companies, to foreign joint ventures, 45 00:02:59,529 --> 00:03:02,029 to private equity, and more. 46 00:03:02,029 --> 00:03:05,029 This anti-corruption push is a big deal. 47 00:03:05,029 --> 00:03:07,807 But it’s also not about fighting corruption. 48 00:03:07,807 --> 00:03:09,617 I’ll explain after the break. 49 00:03:10,933 --> 00:03:12,332 Welcome back. 50 00:03:12,332 --> 00:03:16,649 Xi Jinping is talking big about fighting corruption within the Chinese Communist Party. 51 00:03:16,649 --> 00:03:20,362 He claims to have won an “overwhelming victory.” 52 00:03:20,362 --> 00:03:22,605 But that’s just not true. 53 00:03:22,605 --> 00:03:26,700 From the very founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, 54 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:29,709 it was based on corruption. 55 00:03:29,788 --> 00:03:33,464 Essentially, you had a group of thugs whose plan 56 00:03:33,464 --> 00:03:36,700 was to kill rich people and take their stuff, 57 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:38,816 and then take over the country. 58 00:03:38,816 --> 00:03:42,796 Mao Zedong talked about using the “lumpenproletariat” for his revolution. 59 00:03:42,796 --> 00:03:44,931 That refers to the social outcasts— 60 00:03:44,931 --> 00:03:46,960 especially criminals, 61 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,195 including members of triads and secret criminal societies. 62 00:03:51,195 --> 00:03:54,319 Mao wrote in 1926 that the lumpenproletariat 63 00:03:54,319 --> 00:03:58,416 “can become a revolutionary force if given proper guidance.” 64 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,799 And guidance, he gave. 65 00:04:01,799 --> 00:04:06,930 Mao specifically used the lumpenproletariat to fight his communist revolution. 66 00:04:06,930 --> 00:04:12,649 Who else but criminals would be more willing to kill rich people and take their stuff? 67 00:04:12,649 --> 00:04:15,675 And when the Communist Party finally came to power in 1949, 68 00:04:15,675 --> 00:04:19,536 guess what kind of people were high ranking Party members? 69 00:04:19,536 --> 00:04:21,948 A lot of them were criminals. 70 00:04:21,948 --> 00:04:26,730 Even today, there’s a tight affiliation between the Communist Party and triads. 71 00:04:26,730 --> 00:04:29,913 Check out our interview today on our China Unscripted podcast— 72 00:04:29,913 --> 00:04:34,121 where our guest Sam Cooper talks about Party-linked triads 73 00:04:34,121 --> 00:04:38,317 running drugs and money laundering in Canada. 74 00:04:38,317 --> 00:04:40,890 The Chinese Communist Party is basically what you get 75 00:04:40,890 --> 00:04:45,062 when a group of gangsters to take over an entire country: 76 00:04:45,062 --> 00:04:47,100 They control gang members 77 00:04:47,100 --> 00:04:49,444 they lock away so-called enemies, 78 00:04:49,444 --> 00:04:51,993 they take over other people’s territory, 79 00:04:51,993 --> 00:04:55,694 and they fight constant internal power struggles. 80 00:04:55,899 --> 00:04:59,220 Violence and corruption are how the Communist Party stays in power! 81 00:04:59,814 --> 00:05:03,100 That’s why I said Xi Jinping can never truly eliminate corruption 82 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:05,274 in the Chinese Communist Party. 83 00:05:05,274 --> 00:05:07,470 But that’s not his real goal, anyway. 84 00:05:07,470 --> 00:05:10,080 His real motive behind winning a victory over corruption 85 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,490 is winning a victory over his political enemies. 86 00:05:13,490 --> 00:05:16,888 For example, former leader Jiang Zemin. 87 00:05:17,512 --> 00:05:22,690 Jiang Zemin’s son, Jiang Mianheng, is a powerful businessman. 88 00:05:22,690 --> 00:05:26,427 He has his fingers in everything from state-owned enterprises to joint ventures. 89 00:05:26,427 --> 00:05:31,590 In 2012, the Hollywood company DreamWorks Animation began a joint venture in China, 90 00:05:31,590 --> 00:05:33,820 called Oriental Dreamworks, 91 00:05:33,820 --> 00:05:37,728 to create animated and live-action entertainment for the China market. 92 00:05:37,728 --> 00:05:42,706 DreamWorks partnered with two Chinese companies plus Shanghai Alliance Investment— 93 00:05:42,706 --> 00:05:46,873 which is an investment arm of the Shanghai municipal government. 94 00:05:47,088 --> 00:05:52,390 Jiang Mianheng was chairman and CEO of Shanghai Alliance Investment. 95 00:05:52,390 --> 00:05:56,068 Meaning, the son of Xi Jinping’s biggest rival 96 00:05:56,068 --> 00:05:58,470 had a stake in a 300-plus-million dollar 97 00:05:58,470 --> 00:06:02,417 company controlling media and entertainment in China. 98 00:06:02,417 --> 00:06:04,280 Side note: That American joint venture 99 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:07,638 was eventually bought out completely by a Chinese company 100 00:06:07,638 --> 00:06:11,401 —once it was no longer useful to have the Americans on board. 101 00:06:11,401 --> 00:06:13,180 Anyway, the list goes on. 102 00:06:13,180 --> 00:06:16,725 The son of former President Hu Jintao, Hu Haifeng, 103 00:06:16,725 --> 00:06:21,555 “once managed a state-controlled firm that held a monopoly on security scanners 104 00:06:21,555 --> 00:06:24,390 used in China’s airports, shipping ports 105 00:06:24,390 --> 00:06:26,783 and subway stations.” 106 00:06:26,783 --> 00:06:29,287 Former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai, 107 00:06:29,287 --> 00:06:32,595 who got taken down by an internal power struggle in 2012, 108 00:06:32,595 --> 00:06:34,976 had his own network of family corruption, 109 00:06:34,976 --> 00:06:38,060 with at least $160 million in assets held 110 00:06:38,060 --> 00:06:40,241 by his close relatives. 111 00:06:40,478 --> 00:06:45,579 Basically, communist officials from top to bottom are out to make money. 112 00:06:45,579 --> 00:06:47,535 And they often do it through corruption. 113 00:06:47,535 --> 00:06:51,510 That includes installing their relatives in companies poised to make money, 114 00:06:51,510 --> 00:06:54,074 with the help of their Party contacts. 115 00:06:54,074 --> 00:06:57,113 The brilliant thing about Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is, 116 00:06:57,113 --> 00:07:02,036 it’s actually a powerful weapon he can use to go after his political enemies— 117 00:07:02,036 --> 00:07:04,220 while having the plus side of making it look like 118 00:07:04,220 --> 00:07:06,385 he’s going after corruption. 119 00:07:06,385 --> 00:07:08,053 But it’s selective. 120 00:07:08,053 --> 00:07:11,485 Xi Jinping never sought corruption charges against his ally, 121 00:07:11,485 --> 00:07:13,719 former premier Wen Jiabao. 122 00:07:13,917 --> 00:07:18,015 Wen’s family members were worth hundreds of millions of dollars, often through corruption— 123 00:07:18,015 --> 00:07:20,864 as you can see from this New York Times graphic. 124 00:07:20,864 --> 00:07:24,530 But with his friend Wen Jiabao, that’s a-ok. 125 00:07:24,530 --> 00:07:28,872 So for all my viewers in the West reading these glowing articles about Xi Jinping fighting corruption 126 00:07:28,872 --> 00:07:30,340 —don’t be fooled. 127 00:07:30,340 --> 00:07:33,018 Xi Jinping is not really targeting corruption. 128 00:07:33,018 --> 00:07:36,282 He’s just struggling against his political enemies. 129 00:07:36,282 --> 00:07:38,164 Like a good communist. 130 00:07:39,099 --> 00:07:42,756 But because the entire Communist Party is based on corruption, 131 00:07:42,756 --> 00:07:46,545 Xi Jinping will never actually win an “overwhelming victory.” 132 00:07:46,545 --> 00:07:49,738 Just wait a few more years, and president-for-life Xi Jinping 133 00:07:49,738 --> 00:07:51,290 will once again make an announcement 134 00:07:51,290 --> 00:07:53,947 declaring victory over corruption. 135 00:07:53,947 --> 00:07:56,397 Don’t be fooled that time, either. 136 00:07:56,397 --> 00:07:59,493 And this episode is sponsored by PC-Doctor Toolbox. 137 00:07:59,493 --> 00:08:02,233 There are many reasons your computer crashes 138 00:08:02,233 --> 00:08:05,000 —like buggy software, hardware failures, 139 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,174 and general slowdowns with older computers. 140 00:08:07,174 --> 00:08:11,477 And the worst part is, your computer always seems to crash at the worst time— 141 00:08:11,477 --> 00:08:14,367 like when you’re about to give a presentation, or when you’re on the road, 142 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