China’s Navy Has Done Something It’s NEVER Done Before

Did Donald Trump decide to lift 
Iranian oil-related sanctions on China?

Xi Jinping is somehow even 
more furious with Taiwan!

And the UK just made a huge 
mistake on the Chinese Embassy.

That and more on this week’s China news headlines!

Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell.

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The United Kingdom  

is about to make a huge mistake. And 
I’m not just saying that as an American  

because July 4th is coming up and we 
always treat the British with an FAFO  

mindset this time of year.
No, I’m saying it because…

a Chinese mega-embassy is set 
to be approved within weeks. 

The mega-embassy would be located at…

Royal Mint Court,

near the Tower of London,

the UK’s financial hub in the City of London,

and critical communication cables.

Which has raised concerns by British 
Intelligence about hacking, espionage,  

or sabotage—all of which the CCP 
has, of course, promised not to do.

The property was sold to the PRC by 
the George Soros-affiliated Delancey  

Estates in 2018 after they bought 
it from the government in 2014.

The Labour Government’s Housing Secretary…
is expected to wave through the approval of  

the new, controversial building within weeks, 
with a formal rubber stamping before September,  

although that might trigger 
a judicial review process. 

This decision comes after 
Xi Jinping himself lobbied  

the UK government for the building to be approved.

I’m sure it weighed heavily 
on their minds. Specifically,  

weighing lots and lots of pounds.The new 
embassy is controversial for several reasons,

The most obvious being…well, have 
you been paying attention to what  

happens with these embassies and 
consulates across the globe? If not,  

*how many times have I told you 
to like, share, and subscribe?!*

In Canada, the Chinese consulate allegedly ran 
election interference campaigns in 2019 and 2021,

in New York City, the consulate runs influence 
campaigns in the Big Apple and Boston,

and there are calls for sanctions as a Philippine  

probe accused the Chinese embassy 
in Manila of an influence campaign.

They’re more obsessed with influencing than a 
22 year-old on social media who doesn’t realize  

once their looks fade it’s all gonna be over for 
them since they never developed a personality.

Due to incidents such as these and China’s 
many, well-documented human rights abuses,

there have been protests in 
London and elsewhere in the  

UK against approving this mega-embassy project,

and many lawmakers have raised 
concerns or objections to doing so, 

Including the Conservative 
Party leader in Britain,

And President Trump.

So this is gearing up to be a tough fight 
that will take some time to resolve.  

A spokesman with the Royal Mint 
Court Residents Association,  

which represents people who live and work in 
properties next to the proposed embassy, said…

“this has been a David versus Goliath battle 
since the beginning, and we are not giving up now.  

Most of us fully expected this outcome, and 
we are now crowdfunding a legal challenge.”

It truly is a David vs Goliath battle, only 
if Goliath was on the same team as David  

and David was trying to prevent Goliath 
from doing something gigantically stupid.

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Some analysts have grown concerned that…

Trump might be granting an Iranian oil option 
to China.
The concern comes from a post Trump  

made on social media — because of 
course it does — where he wrote,

“China can now continue to purchase 
oil from Iran. Hopefully, they will  

be purchasing plenty from the US, also. It 
was my great honor to make this happen!”

So what’s going on here?

Is Trump doing a quid pro quo with China after…

The US called on China to prevent Iran 
from closing the Strait of Hormuz…

And they did so?

Most likely not.

The CCP responded to the post by 
saying it “will take legitimate  

measures to safeguard its energy security 
based on its own national interests.”

And since oil from Iran is a big 
part of China’s energy security,  

the CCP probably didn’t do or 
say anything as a favor to Trump.

Trump’s statement could have just 
been a snarky acknowledgment that  

the CCP has found some ways to skirt 
sanctions and still get Iran’s oil,

Such as this new railway corridor that 
runs back and forth between Iran and China,

reaching Iran in just 15 days,  

far quicker than the 40-day sea route 
and free from US naval interference.

Trump is a master troll, after all.

Even people on Bluesky are admitting he’s 
hilarious. Cryatollah is an all-timer nickname.

One senior White House official 
said that Trump’s statement…

“merely acknowledged that oil from the 
Strait of Hormuz won’t be disrupted,  

and is not a signal of sanctions relief.”
Or a signal of relief for future equally  

brutal nicknames. Leave your comments below 
about what nickname Trump should use for Xi. 

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And after the break,  

China’s tensions with Taiwan 
are reaching a breaking point. 

Welcome back.

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Taiwanese President  

William Lai is urging unity in 
protecting Taiwan from the CCP threat. 

At an important speech earlier this week,

President Lai called for solidarity among 
many of the island’s different factions and  

urged different parties to find 
common ground in challenging the CCP.

At least while their ground is common before 
China launches an invasion and tries to snatch it.

Lai reiterated that the CCP’s stance 
on Taiwan is based on expansionism

and stressed that it is up to the Taiwanese 
people to determine their identity and future.

This was just one of a series of 
ten speeches aimed at rallying  

support for Taiwanese security. And 
obviously, the CCP was not pleased. 

Meanwhile, China and Taiwan 
are also clashing over history,  

with China saying it can’t invade 
what is already its own territory.

So by China’s logic, if they try to 
invade Taiwan and get pushed back,  

would that just be China screwing itself?

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A 26-day Chinese dual  

Pacific carrier deployment has just wrapped up.

This truly was a historic drill, with a huge 
amount of warships going farther than ever,

and the Liaoning aircraft carrier 
going the farthest it ever has!

The Shandong aircraft carrier was 
also present in the deployment.

Shocker, the ships also infringed on 
Japan’s exclusive economic zone, or EEZ,

which prompted Japanese assets, 
such as ships, to shadow the PLAN. 

Considering how often China 
enters other nation’s space,  

I can’t tell if they’re growing more bold or 
are just the crappiest navigators on the planet.

This isn’t just about intimidating 
Taiwan or other countries in the  

region. It’s about demonstrating how 
capable China’s military has become…

and that it still wants to become a blue-water  

navy capable of projecting 
power far off of its shores.

So, the CCP is putting Japan, Australia, and the 
US, along with other strong rivals, on notice. 

And I guess that notice is, 
“Hey, we’re still pricks,  

but now we can be pricks at 
an even *greater* distance!”

But not everyone is standing idly by.

The UK sent the…

HMS Spey, an offshore patrol vessel, 
to transit through the Taiwan Strait.

This is the first time in four years that Britain 
has conducted such a transit through the area. 

A statement from the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs in Taiwan said,

“through this concrete action, the United Kingdom 
further defended freedom of navigation in the  

Taiwan Strait and demonstrated its firm position 
that the strait constitutes international waters.” 

Now if they would just cancel that mega embassy, 
the UK would have a solid win on their side.  

And me saying that, as an American this close to 
the fourth of July, is already a pretty big win. 

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But China has even more kung pao beef with Taiwan!

It’s vowing forceful measures 
after Taiwan’s Huawei export curb. 

Last week, Taiwan joined Washington’s years-long 
campaign to hamper the technological rise of the  

Chinese Communist Party. The island started 
by adding two companies to its entity list,  

which stops Taiwan’s firms from doing 
business with them without a license.

The companies in question? AI and 
chip-making champions Huawei and  

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.

This is the first time ever 
that major Chinese businesses  

have been placed on Taiwan’s entity list!

Apparently, years of spying, shady business 
practices, and threatening military drills  

make people think, “Yeah, I think I’d rather 
do business with literally anyone else.”

I’m sure the US is pleased, 
although China, of course,  

has called the move despicable. I don’t know 
why, though. By their logic, Taiwan is China,  

so this is China putting sanctions 
on itself. Quit criticizing yourself.

A spokeswoman with China’s Taiwan 
Affairs Office on Wednesday said that,

“we will take forceful measures to 
resolutely safeguard the normal order  

of cross-strait economic and trade exchange.”
While she didn’t elaborate any further on what  

that meant, she did suggest that 
the CCP would push forward with  

its efforts anyways and that such a move 
will only harm Taiwan’s competitiveness.

Which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, given 
Taiwan’s recent semiconductor investments in the  

US. This would be like saying that cutting 
calories and hitting the gym more often is  

only going to make you heavier.
Whatever the case, the CCP will  

just use this as an excuse to continue its 
regional aggression. And the more they do,  

the more influence they’ll lose. 
And that’ll be sad, because like a 

50 year-old former social media influencer, 
they never developed a personality.

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