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Abducted in China

Stranded and helpless

This is the fate of Americans,

Britons, Canadians, and Australians

Who became pawns for the Chinese Communist
Party.

Welcome to China Uncensored,

I’m your host Chris Chappell.

Canada is feeling the consequences

of crossing the Chinese Communist Party.

After Canada arrested a Chinese businesswoman

at the request of the United States,

for violating sanctions on Iran…

...China promised retaliation with severe
consequences.

And for starters, they detained two Canadians...

saying those Canadians had somehow

“endangered national security.”

The US State Department may even issue a travel
warning

to US citizens going to China now...

just to be safe.

Because this is a tactic

the Chinese Communist Party has used before.

And will use again.

Here are 5 other times Chinese authorities

detained foreign citizens for no good reason.

Number 5

In 2015, a group of 20 British, South African,

and Indian tourists was arrested

in China’s Inner Mongolia region.

They were there with a larger tour group

as part of a 47-day sightseeing adventure.

But little did they know,

one of the sites they would see,

would be terrorism!

According to state-run Xinhua,

the group was arrested for “watching video
clips

that advocate terrorism and religious extremism.”

They spent several days in detention,

and according to state-run media,

admitted their crimes  and repented.

Then they were deported.

I know, you’re dying to see

which extremist video clip they’d watched

that got them into so much trouble.

It was...a BBC documentary.

“The only things watched by myself and the
group

was a short clip of the 10 best Western cowboy
films of all time

and a 40-minute BBC documentary on Genghis
Khan.”

Now, this looks like a case where the local
authorities in Ordos

made a Keystone Cops style mistake that

then turned into an international incident

because it’s impossible for the authorities
in China to back down.

The tourists said that no one admitted to
or repented anything,

and in the end no charges were brought against
the group.

After being deported back to the UK,

one of the tourists called for an apology

from the Chinese Communist Party.

I believe he’s still waiting.

Number 4

If you’re a Chinese citizen,

and you get on the bad side of the Chinese
Communist Party,

they’ll stop at nothing to get you,

even if that means holding your family hostage.

Even if your family members are American citizens.

Liu Changming is one of China’s most wanted.

He used to be the executive at a Chinese state
owned bank.

Until he was accused of playing a part

in a $1.4 billion dollar bank fraud case.

He fled China in 2007.

And so when his estranged wife and two children,

all American citizens, went to China to visit
a sick grandparent,

they were captured by Chinese authorities.

“[Chinese authorities] moved [the mother]
to a secret site,

commonly known as a black jail.

The children discovered at the airport

that they could not leave China.”

How could Chinese authorities hold American
citizens without cause?

Well, they shouldn’t be able to.

For one,

the Chinese government doesn’t recognize
dual citizenship.

So according to Chinese law,

Chinese citizens automatically lose their
citizenship

when they gain citizenship in another country.

And even more bizarrely,

one of Liu’s kids was born in America,

making him an American citizen from birth.

Which, according to Chinese law,

means he’s never been a Chinese citizen.

But once Liu Changming’s family were inside
China,

all that went out the window.

Because regardless of the law,

the Chinese Communist Party treats

ethnically Chinese people like pandas.

No matter where you were born in the world,

you belong to China.

Even if your passport says you’re an American.

Number 3

Here’s the story of another Canadian citizen,

who also happens to be a panda.

I mean ethnically Chinese.

Sun Qian.

She’s a successful businesswoman.

She and her husband co-founded

Beijing Leadman Biochemistry Co.

She became a Canadian citizen back in 2007.

She preferred to live in Canada, not China,

partly because she started practicing Falun
Gong in 2014.

That’s a spiritual practice that’s severely
persecuted in China.

Anyway, Sun found out that

her husband was having extramarital affairs,

and she was planning to divorce him.

So, according to Sun’s family,

when she was visiting China,

her husband called the public security bureau
and told them

his wife was practicing Falun Gong.

Chinese police came and arrested her.

Oh, and tortured her.

Sun’s sister said,

“[Sun’s] husband colluded with certain
individuals

in the public security bureau,

using the policy of suppressing Falun Gong

to bring about Sun’s illegal detention and
prosecution.

In the meantime,

Shen forged Sun’s signature and produced
a fake document,

thereby gaining 2 billion in assets.”

Wow, that’s cold.

Her husband reported on her to the police

for practicing Falun Gong,

knowing she’d be persecuted—

so he could take her money?

At least she’s probably not so mad about
his affairs anymore.

But look, Sun Qian is a Canadian citizen,

and didn’t actually commit any crimes.

So couldn’t her lawyer have at least gotten
her

deported back to Canada?

Well, she actually lost her lawyer, because,

“Partners in his law firm told him that
if he represents

Ms. Sun or any other Falun Gong case,

they ‘will cancel his contract to continue
working with the firm.’”

That was after the local Justice Bureau put
pressure

on both the law firm and the lawyer.

You know, the Justice Bureau.

Justice with Chinese Characteristics.

And then they did the same with

the next 10 lawyers Sun’s family tried to
hire.

The latest update on Sun’s case comes from
the Globe and Mail.

Sun has pled guilty,

but most likely under torture.

What’s really sad is how little the Canadian
government has done.

Sun has been held for almost two years.

Last year, when asked about Sun’s case,

all Canada’s ambassador to China

John McCallum had to say was,

“That doesn't always help, for the person
in detention,

If we broadcast their situation in public,

so I think for those cases,

almost all the time,

it is better to proceed in a low-profile way.”

You know, not high profile enough that it
would stop torture.

Number 2

What happens when you’re one of the world’s

biggest mining companies,

and you decide to renege on a deal with China?

Let’s just say,

you don’t want to have your people inside
China.

In 2009, Stern Hu,

an Australian citizen and General Manager
of Rio Tinto

was abducted by Chinese authorities

and charged with stealing state secrets.

The charge was later downgraded to bribery

and stealing commercial secrets.

I’m sure had nothing to do with Rio Tinto’s
decision

the month before “to scrap a planned $19.5
billion investment

in the mining company by Chinalco,

a state-owned Chinese company.”

A later Businessweek investigation

also exposed the fact that the Chinese regime

was hacking Rio Tinto at the time,

and that the arrest of Rio Tinto’s employees

may have been linked to the company’s attempts

to change their iron ore prices.

Stern Hu was another good target.

Because even though he held Australian citizenship,

he was born in China.

In the end,

Rio Tinto basically threw him under the bus,

and the Australian government also

didn’t really do anything to intervene.

But don’t worry,

Stern Hu was released only nine years later,

just this summer actually.

He was released two years early because of
good behavior.

Clearly this case was handled well.

And now,

Number 1

One thing you might be wondering about is
what is it like

for foreign citizens being detained by the
Chinese regime?

Well, here’s Peter Humphrey from the UK

to describe it in his own words.

From the very first moment you’re dropped
into a cell,

you’re there to be crushed,

you’re there to have your spirit broken.

During the 700 days I was in captivity,

I never slept with the lights off.

I sometimes think I never slept at all.

He, and his wife were abducted in 2013

and charged with “illegally acquiring personal
information”

about Chinese nationals.

Actually, he and his wife were fraud investigators.

“Humphrey, a former Reuters journalist,

and his wife were hired by pharmaceutical
giant GlaxoSmithKline

to conduct the company’s internal probe
in January 2013.”

The Chinese authorities liked to play

fun mind games with Humphrey and his wife

while they were in detention.

For instance, right before their trial,

police told him his wife’s brother had died.

So when Humphrey sees his wife for the first
time in ages,

at the start of the trial,

he offered his condolences.

“And I expressed my condolences to her,

believing that she knew.

And she didn’t.

They had lied to me.

So Ying broke down.”

Those police are such tricksters.

Humphrey was released in 2015.

And now he’s in a battle to get Chinese
state-run

CCTV’s license revoked in the UK.

That’s because they had broadcast

his forced television confession in the UK.

The one where he was forced to sit in a small
metal cage

and police read out his confession,

the one police had written for him.

Now this was just a small selection among
many,

many cases of the Chinese regime abducting
foreign citizens.

In most cases, their home countries could
do nothing.

In other cases, their home countries chose
to do nothing

for political reasons.

So what do you think?

Leave your comments below.

And now it’s the time you’ve all been
waiting for,

when I answer questions from a member of my
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Rodney Lee Hall asks,

“Chris, do you think we will go to war with
China?

If so, any thoughts on when or the casus belli?

Ah, the million dollar question.

In a way, the US and China are already at
war.

In 1999, two Chinese army colonels published
a book

called “Unrestricted Warfare,”

on how a country like China,

that couldn’t challenge the US military,

could win an unconventional war with unconventional
tactics.

This 2014 report from the US Army Special
Operations Command

details just a few of those warfare tactics
they’re already using

But actual troop on troop action,

right now, and for many years to come,

would be an embarrassing loss for the Chinese
military.

Hopefully, by the time the Chinese military

is on par with the US,

the Chinese Communist Party will no longer
rule China.

But, only time will tell.

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