Category: China

Four Henan rural banks froze 40 billion RMB ($6 billion) of retail deposits in April 2022. Chinese homeowners threatened to halt mortgage payments on development project apartments within three months. Though unrelated, many people associate the two events. The mortgage boycott began so soon after the rural banking crisis, which fears about frozen savings may have spurred, and both incidents were disproportionately focused on Henan; this huge, agriculturally important, landlocked province in central China’s

Could China stop the flow of deadly fentanyl that killed more Americans last year than car accidents? Some say yes, and that China’s not even trying to because fentanyl is part of its chemical warfare strategy aimed at weakening the US. In this episode of China Unscripted, we talk about China’s use of chemical warfare as part of its unrestricted warfare stratefy, the US recognizing China as an adversary, and how China could use TikTok to its advantage. Joining us in this podcast is Cleo Paskal, a senior fel

This is a scene from a high-speed railway station in Nanchang, a provincial capital city of China, on November 12th, 2022. At 20:00, a transformer on the side of the road at this station caught fire and made explosive noises. One day before the fire at Nanchang West Station, on November 11th, 2022, an explosion occurred in two subway cars on Shanghai Metro Line 11. From the video, you can see the trains emitting sparks, smoke, and a loud explosion. The accident happened in the morning, during work hours. T

The clown show in China continues!

For decades, China has dominated the market for rare earth elements, an essential ingredient in a lot of modern technology. Today that stranglehold on the market is slipping, thanks in part to China’s own actions, recent scientific discoveries, and increasing demand. The US Military is Using Chinese Parts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtpXf…

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According to a Radio Free Asia report, China is closely monitoring citizens who are attempting to take a trip abroad. —————– #SpotlightOnChina #China #ChinaInsights

Chinese spies know that most people won’t trust them if they know they’re spies, which is why they pose as artists, businessmen, academics and any other number of other things. In this episode of China Unscripted, we talk about the tactics Chinese spies use to lure in their victims, what they do after they wine and dine them, and how one man was lured in but didn’t fall for their charm offensive. Joining us in this episode is Alex Joske, the author of “Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations

It’s a dumpster fire in China right now!

Bill Clinton pushed for China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. The Clintons were also getting a lot of money from China. Chinese spies know that most foreigners would be suspicious of anything told to them by China’s premier intelligence agency. Which is why they go to great lengths to cover up their true identity, posing as academics, thinktank scholars, artists and so on. Then they use this one genius trick to get the biggest critics of Beijing to becomes the CCP’s biggest champion—and it works.

Chinese spies know that most foreigners would be suspicious of anything told to them by China’s premier intelligence agency. Which is why they go to great lengths to cover up their true identity, posing as academics, thinktank scholars, artists and so on. Then they use this one genius trick to get the biggest critics of Beijing to becomes the CCP’s biggest champion—and it works. In this episode of China Unscripted, we talk about the Ministry of State Security’s 12th bureau, how they trick critics into being