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China is trying to divide the US [br]and Europe on Ukraine!

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Meanwhile, Donald Trump is making an offer India [br]could find hard to refuse.

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And is the US changing its Taiwan policy?

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That and [br]more on this week’s China News Headlines.

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Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell.

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US President Donald Trump is [br]making a lot of folks angry.

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The good news is, if you make enough people angry,

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you’re bound to make at least some of the [br]right people angry.

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Because a change to the State Department’s website regarding Taiwan

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has sparked a fiery rebuke from Beijing.

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Previously, on the State Department’s U.S. [br]Relations with Taiwan fact sheet,

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it said “we do not support Taiwan independence.”

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That line has been removed.

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Does that mean the US now supports Taiwan [br]independence?

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Who knows. Certainly not Beijing.

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At a regular news conference on Monday,

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson

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Guo Jiakun urged the US to immediately [br]correct its mistakes

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or risk further damage to Sino-US relation

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s and said the [br]US should act with the utmost caution.

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Yes, I’m sure King Donald Trump is worried about

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potentially upsetting people with [br]wild things posted to a website.

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In response, the State Departmentclaimed [br]that the update to the website is routine

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and pointed out that the US’ “one [br]China policy” is still mentioned there.

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A spokesperson for the department has [br]clarified

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that it doesn’t support any unilateral changes to the [br]status quo from any side,

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which also now appears on the fact sheet.

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This isn’t the first time this has happened.

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In fact, that line was also cut back in 2022,

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although it was added back a month later.

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Will the [br]change hang around this time?

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Only time will tell.

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But Taiwan is considering a multi-billion [br]dollar arms purchase from the US.

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The talks are ongoing, but three sources [br]said on Monday that the package would

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include coastal defense cruise missiles and [br]HIMARS,

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with one source saying “I would be very surprised if it was less than $8 billion.

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Somewhere between $7 billion to $10 billion.”

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The US might want to send Guo Jiakun an edible [br]arrangement as a thank you,

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because his tirade was the best sales pitch possible

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to make [br]Taiwan want to buy a bunch of weapons.

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The package is intended to demonstrate the US’ [br]commitment to defending the island,

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especially after National Security Advisor Mike Walt

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z said [br]he wished to speed up arms deliveries to Taipei.

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HIMARS, in particular, has provento be [br]effective in Ukraine against Russian forces,

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and Taiwan–like the CCP–has closely been observing [br]that war to see what works and what doesn’t.

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But Taiwan isn’t the only Asian country looking [br]for US weapons to defend against China.

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President Trump and Indian Prime Minister [br]Narendra Modi are discussing a trade route

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through Israel, along with a [br]boost in arms sales to India.

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So I guess maybe Trump should send [br]Guo <i>two</i> edible arrangements

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The proposed trade route would run from [br]India through the UAE, Saudi Arabia,

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Jordan, and Israel to Europe,

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basically [br]circumventing the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative.

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This plan builds on one initiated [br]by former President Biden in 2023.

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In addition, Modi and Trump discussed an [br]expansion of US military sales to India

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starting in 2025.

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India wants to modernize [br]its military, and, since 2008,

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the country has agreed to buy more than $20 billion in US [br]weapons

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, but these talks would expand on that.

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Trump also said that the US would eventually [br]provide India with F-35 stealth fighter jets,

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although he didn’t say exactly when.

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It looks like BRICS might have some upcoming [br]trouble with internal cohesion and partnership.

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But Trump has even more to offer India!

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Like mediation to ease India-China tensions.

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in 2020, Trump offered his help in…

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Mediating India’s border disputes with China.

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And during his joint press briefing [br]with Modi, Trump restated the offer.

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Trump: “And I look at India, I do see the [br]skirmishes on the border,

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which are quite vicious, and I guess they continue to go on.

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If [br]I could be of help, I'd love to help,

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because that should be stopped. That's [br]been going on for a long time”

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Why is Trump so confident he’d [br]be a good mediator?

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I mean, what does he know about the art of the deal?

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Modi himself didn’t react to the offer

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. But the Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misriin a [br]later press briefing rejected the offer.

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He said the issue was a bilateral one [br]between Beijing and New Delhi.

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It’s a shame.

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I think Trump could have gotten [br]a gold toilet thrown into the deal.

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China is set to build its first [br]deep-water station under the sea!

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Yes… Under the sea, under the- that’s as much as

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I can do before Disney hits [br]us with a copyright claim.

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The facility is expected to become operational by [br]2030

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and will be housed in the South China Sea.

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Which, I’m sure, has nothing at all [br]to do with cementing the CCP’s illegal

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claims to the area!

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This would be like [br]me building a treehouse on my neighbor’s

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property and yelling, “Get off my lawn, invader!”

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The station will focus on researching the

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deep sea and exploration for methane [br]hydrates and other energy resources.

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No doubt they’ll share the information [br]with other countries in the region!

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This facility is meant to make China

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look like a [br]major scientific power when it comes to deep sea research

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, particularly compared to the US and [br]Russia.

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Because while artificial intelligence

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can help with this facility

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, it’s also meant to [br]sustain teams of scientists for several weeks.

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Fortunately, the scientists already [br]have lots of experience being locked

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in claustrophobic conditions for weeks on end.

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And after the break, just what [br]is China’s position on Ukraine?

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Welcome back.

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China is sending mixed signals [br]regarding the war in Ukraine.

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In the past, China has offered to be a [br]mediator in the conflict.

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And last week, according to anonymous sources [br]cited by the Wall Street Journal,

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they made the offer again,

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trying to [br]play the role of peacemaker in Ukraine.

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The WSJ reports that “part of [br]the proposal involves Beijing

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acting as a ‘guarantor’ by sending [br]peacekeeping troops to the region.”

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The White House didn’t say if they had received [br]such an offer but rejected it out of hand,

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possibly because any mediation [br]done by China

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would completely exclude Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy .

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Although some say Trump is [br]kind of doing that already.

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And Europe also expressed skepticism,

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citing China’s aid to Russia during the war.

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China’s desire to get involved in Ukraine

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might have something to do with [br]the country’s mineral wealth.

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According to the National Interest, “the [br]combination of Russia’s military presence in Ukraine

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and China’s economic

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might give [China, Russia, and North Korea]

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a window of [br]opportunity to exploit the minerals with

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far-reaching implications for global [br]security and global power dynamics.”

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And anyone who has a problem with it,

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Russia’s gonna toss them right [br]out that window of opportunity.

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So, last week, China said it wants to [br]be involved in the peace negotiations.

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But then, earlier this week,

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Beijing [br]responded to a US proposal for

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Chinese peacekeepers in Ukraine.

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With a resounding “no comment.”

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In response to the proposal, Foreign Ministry [br]Spokesperson Guo Jiakun,

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he’s had a busy week said

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“we don’t comment on a hypothetical question.

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China always upholds a just position on the issue of the Ukraine crisis

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, and we’ve made [br]this very clear on multiple occasions.”

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I couldn’t agree more!

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China has [br]made its position very clear!

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But not just.

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It seems clear that all of this is part of some [br]kind of grand game

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between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump,

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but what are the plays? That’s unclear.

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Some say China is seeking to [br]exploit the growing US-Europe

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divide amid Trump’s foreign policy shifts.

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After all, at the Munich [br]Security Conference recently,

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where the new US administration [br]clashed with European leaders,

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China tried presenting itself as [br]a stable and cooperative partner.

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Despite being about as stable as [br]a house of cards on a see-saw.

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Perhaps China hopes that by [br]stepping into a European conflict,

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they can make a deal that will reduce [br]or even remove European and US tariffs.

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“Some analysts even suggest that China could [br]exploit gaps in US-EU coordination

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on economic policies,

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making it easier for Beijing [br]to navigate Western trade restrictions.”

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Which is stupid because China isn’t [br]going to dump loads of money into EU security.

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China is not going to step [br]in and fund all the things the US used to fund.

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They’re actually strategic about [br]how they use their foreign investments.

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