Year: 2022

China’s zero covid policy has zero chance of succeeding, which is why they’ve changed the definition of zero covid. You know how it is when you stake your reputation on a policy that just doesn’t work. In this episode of China Uncensored, we discuss the extreme measures China is taking to prevent the covid from spreading, why it’s so hard to report positive cases in China, and what Beijing is doing to protect the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Have you heard people say China has lifted millions of people out of poverty? How about that China is a “developing” country? Or that the CCP has never invaded another country? In this episode of China Uncensored, we debunk some of the most common lies that China has told the world.

Distress with properties is mounting when it comes to China’s offshore debt market. Credit stress climbed to its highest level in December, according to Bloomberg’s Credit Tracker. Bloomberg’s Rebecca Choong Wilkins reports on “Bloomberg Markets: China Open.”

China’s human rights record has come under increased scrutiny ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, but critics of the regime in Canada and elsewhere are accusing China of harassment and intimidation. #China #Beijing #BeijingOlympics

Chinese authorities locked down after discovering two cases of omicron in Anyang, a city of 5.5 million people about 300 miles outside Beijing. It’s the third Chinese city now in lockdown and comes less than a month before the Beijing Olympics. These lockdowns are tests of China’s zero-COVID policy, which authorities have called a success. But critics ask: at what cost? Nick Schifrin reports.

China has been telling the world that its brutal lockdowns in service of reaching zero covid cases have largely been effective. But China is also changing the definition of the “zero” in zero covid to better align with the uncomfortable reality that covid-19 cannot be arrested or suppressed into extinction. In this Just Us episode, we also discuss Elon Musk’s relationship with China, a new Xinhua propaganda spoof making fun of the US and UK, Wall Street waking up to China investment risks, Chinese backing o

The U.S. says it won’t be deterred by China’s latest sanctions. Beijing recently penalized four American officials serving on a religious freedom commission. The move came after the U.S. levied its own sanctions. China plans to keep a steep tariff in place for at least another year. The tax impacts a certain U.S. product–and dates back to the Trump era. Stay away from Chinese meats. That’s the suggestion Germany’s Anti-Doping Agency made to athletes, as they venture to Beijing for the Winter Olympics. T

Xi’an is a city of 13 million people located in the west of China. Since December 22, the city has been locked down because of a new round of covid outbreak. The Chinese authority claimed victory this week in its fight to contain the community spread. They used a new method called societal zero out that means the government moves all close contacts to the infected people to quarantine centers outside the city, thus those left in the city will be safe and a zero-covid status can be reached. In this episode,

China’s Taihu Tunnel, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars and took years to build, is now the longest underwater tunnel in China. The brutal covid lockdowns in the city of Xi’an continue, but now the CCP has a new method for dealing with positive cases—outsourcing. Is Wall Street finally starting to wake up to the threat that the CCP poses to their investments (and the world!). Some previous cheerleaders of investment in China are now warning it’s too much of a risk. Watch this episode of China Uncen

After withdrawing from the Beijing Winter Olympics, North Korea has joined the ranks of nations like Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the US that have already announced a diplomatic boycott of the event. China’s economic crisis has made the communist nation a pariah of the world. Watch the video to know more.

The shares of the embattled real estate giant rose as much as 15.8% on December 22. And investors were surprised. The company had officially defaulted in December. So, how could its shares resurrect to life all of a sudden? Was Evergrande making a grand comeback that no one would have expected it to make? Watch the video to know more.

Looking at China, it is easy to assume that it is a country of big companies. I mean tech giants like Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei became globally popular very quickly.

A little red mansion in Shanghai turned into a house of horrors after one entrepreneur turned it into a brothel full of sex slaves. How did he keep it running for 20 years? Blackmail, abuse and a lot of broken promises. Watch this episode of China Uncensored for the empire pimp Zhao Fuqiang built on the backs of his victims, how he evaded law enforcement for so long, and how it all came tumbling down.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is so obsessed with the Soviet collapse that it almost implicitly gives away its fears of a similar collapse in China.

China is tracking you online—or potentially tracking you if it deems you a target. China’s censorship doesn’t end at the great firewall that circles the Chinese internet, it goes all around the world. It mostly targets ethnic Chinese, but not always. Watch this episode of China Uncensored for the intimate details China might have on you, what Xi Jinping means by giving China a more “loveable” image, and how Chinese state-run media are part of the censorship apparatus.

How can a small strait threaten a global powerhouse like China🇨🇳? And why is the Malacca Strait so important for China and the rest of Asia and the World? 🌏 Through the Malacca Strait passes around 80% of Chinese oil, and that’s also true for other Asian countries, like Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Therefore, this chokepoint is the most direct way from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean, and any blockade of this would spell disaster for the global economy. For these reasons this checkpoints holds a huge geopo

Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a new mobilisation order for the training of armed forces. Xi’s order focused on developing an elite force capable of “fighting and winning wars”. In his first order of the year, Xi called on the PLA to adopt latest technologies so it can win future wars. #China #PLA

The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t like critical thinking or asking questions, which is why two teachers were punished for doing just that. Watch this episode of China Uncensored for what they said, what happened to them, and why the CCP felt so threatened by their independent thinking.

China has a web of influence organizations operating in the US, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it by looking at their names or their mission statements. This has created a problem for all levels of government, which might not be aware of the subversive nature of these groups. in this episode of China Unscripted, we discuss how these influence organizations operate, what can be done about them, and how China is using these organizations to change the US. Joining us in this episode is Emily de la Bruyere,