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China is offering training programs [br]for dictators around the world,

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molding them into the Chinese [br]Communist Party’s own image.

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Welcome to China Uncensored. I’m Chris Chappell.

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The Chinese Communist Party is [br]a brutal communist authoritarian

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regime that uses rape as a form of torture.

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Also… hello. I’m… not the best [br]at small talk or icebreakers.

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And they are more than happy to export [br]that model to the rest of the world.

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Behind closed doors, China’s [br]expanding political training programs

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that promote authoritarian [br]governance across the Global South.

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And it’s every bit as nefarious as it sounds.

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Niva Yau , an expert who specializes [br]in Chinese-Central Asian relations,

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obtained hundreds of files from [br]the Chinese Ministry of Commerce

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dating back to 2021 and 2022

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to [br]show what China’s been up to.

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The files she shared show [br]how, in China’s own words,

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the CCP’s aim is to encourage [br]sympathy to Chinese narratives

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and to help countries adapt Chinese practices.

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So… less an exchange of ideas

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and more organized propaganda.

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I get those two things confused all the time, too!

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As an example, this Seminar on National [br]Governance

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for Presidential Advisers of Developing Countries

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straight up says it aims to [br]“introduce the contents,

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principles and values of ‘Xi Jinping:

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The Governance of China’” [br]Volumes 1 to 3 to developing countries.

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In other words, China’s actual main export

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to these countries is indoctrination.

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It goes on.

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“The project aims to equip head-of-state senior [br]advisers

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and cabinet members of developing countries

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with a comprehensive understanding

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of China’s national governance practices and capacities,

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with a particular focus on practices [br]of <i>social mobilization and management.</i>”

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Which is a fancy way of saying

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lockdowns and anti-protest crackdowns.

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Why it takes three volumes to teach that,

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I have no idea.

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I just summarized it in one [br]sentence.

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Brevity is the soul of wit, you dolts!

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But what China really wants

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is what [br]communists always want: control.

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According to the report,

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the objective is “to expand the international influence

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of the [br]modernized governance system of China.”

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Yes. The very same “modernized [br]governance system”

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that commits genocide…

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Has built a massive surveillance state

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And bullies smaller nations with axes and knives.

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Sounds super modern.

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If we [br]were living in the dark ages.

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The ultimate goal, of course, is obvious:

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a Global South that does whatever [br]the CCP wants whenever it wants it.

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Another example of China’s training programs

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is this Seminar on New Media [br]for Belt and Road countries.

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It aims to analyze “China’s media integration [br]and innovation theories”,

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share “news writing, program creation, and material collection” [br]practices,

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and “promote common media development”.

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In other words, to teach other nations

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how to [br]become like the biggest jailer of journalists!

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There are lots of other concepts in [br]these training programs

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that sound eerily Orwellian

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when you think [br]about who’s doing the teaching.

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“introducing Chinese university governance [br]model –

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led by the CPC party committee”?

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Sounds like teaching how to have [br]direct party control over academia.

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“Intelligent monitoring” and “Smart [br]city infrastructure sensors”?

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Need I say more?

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This course is great for [br]anyone who read 1984 and thought, “Okay,

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but how can <i>I</i> become Big Brother?!”

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Good rule of thumb, whenever you see the word “management”

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for anything [br]connected to communism, think “control”.

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So when the seminar aims “to explore [br]population development and management”...

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Well, we can guess what they mean.

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What’s really interesting is that these [br]training programs

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don’t seem to be <i>just</i>

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about promoting Chinese authoritarianism.

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They seem to have another purpose:

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helping China spy on the countries it’s teaching.

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Which is shocking, I know.

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This program about how to spy on our [br]citizens is spying on us?

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How could I have seen this coming?

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I better finish [br]this program to help me figure it out!

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The worst part is, it isn’t even really [br]spying.

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Because the officials in these nations

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are personally handing the [br]information to China…in regular reports.

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“Foreign officials are asked to write about [br]current developments in their country

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related to the training subject,

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their country’s current [br]cooperation and partnership

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with other countries

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on that subject,

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and potential ideas for [br]collaboration with the PRC on that subject.”

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What an ingenious way to get people to [br]provide intelligence.

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Just assign homework!

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Beyond just receiving the inside scoop

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on current affairs in these countries,

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China can easily use these kinds [br]of reports

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to identify who would be most willing to work with it

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. And [br]even who might be the most bribable.

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That’s not all.

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China can also use these seminars

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to gain further access to sensitive information

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while teaching [br]participants about security sensitive topics.

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Oh, and would you look at that?

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China offers training on information security [br]technology and port management.

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This gives a whole new meaning to [br]teachers learning from their students.

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In the end, China’s number one [br]goal

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isn’t really to promote

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economic and social prosperity

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to [br]other countries like it claims.

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Its top priority is to promote CCP dominance

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and to make everybody bow [br]before it as the world’s role model.

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But as long as the CCP stays in power,

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even countries friendly with [br]China will get screwed over.

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The CCP hates it when I [br]scrutinize what China does abroad.

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That’s why Chinese state-run media

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has called [br]China Uncensored “disgraceful anti-China garbage.”

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And also probably why YouTube’s algorithm

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