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China is offering training programs
for dictators around the world,
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molding them into the Chinese
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
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
at small talk or icebreakers.
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And they are more than happy to export
that model to the rest of the world.
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Behind closed doors, China’s
expanding political training
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programs that promote authoritarian
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
in Chinese-Central Asian relations,
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obtained hundreds of files from
the Chinese Ministry of Commerce
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dating back to 2021 and 2022 to
show what China’s been up to.
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The files she shared show
how, in China’s own words,
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the CCP’s aim is to encourage
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
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
Governance for Presidential Advisers of
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Developing Countries straight up says it aims to
“introduce the contents, principles and values
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of ‘Xi Jinping: The Governance of China’”
Volumes 1 to 3 to developing countries.
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In other words, China’s actual main export
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
advisers and cabinet members of developing
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countries with a comprehensive understanding
of China’s national governance practices and
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capacities, with a particular focus on practices
of *social mobilization and management.*”
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Which is a fancy way of saying
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. I just summarized it in one
sentence. Brevity is the soul of wit, you dolts!
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But what China really wants is what
communists always want: control.
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According to the report, the objective is “to
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expand the international influence of the
modernized governance system of China.”
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Yes. The very same “modernized
governance system” 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. If we
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
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
for Belt and Road countries.
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It aims to analyze “China’s media integration
and innovation theories”, share “news writing,
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program creation, and material collection”
practices, and “promote common media development”.
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In other words, to teach other nations how to
become like the biggest jailer of journalists!
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There are lots of other concepts in
these training programs that sound
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eerily Orwellian when you think
about who’s doing the teaching.
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“introducing Chinese university governance
model – led by the CPC party committee”?
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Sounds like teaching how to have
direct party control over academia.
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“Intelligent monitoring” and “Smart
city infrastructure sensors”?
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Need I say more? This course is great for
anyone who read 1984 and thought, “Okay,
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but how can *I* become Big Brother?!”
Good rule of thumb, whenever you see
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the word “management” for anything
connected to communism, think “control”.
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So when the seminar aims “to explore
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
training programs don’t seem to be *just*
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about promoting Chinese authoritarianism.
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
citizens is spying on us? How could I
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have seen this coming? I better finish
this program to help me figure it out!
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The worst part is, it isn’t even really
spying. Because the officials in these
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nations are personally handing the
information to China…in regular reports.
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“Foreign officials are asked to write about
current developments in their country related
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to the training subject, their country’s current
cooperation and partnership with other countries
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on that subject, and potential ideas for
collaboration with the PRC on that subject.”
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What an ingenious way to get people to
provide intelligence. Just assign homework!
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Beyond just receiving the inside scoop
on current affairs in these countries,
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China can easily use these kinds
of reports to identify who would
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be most willing to work with it. And
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 to gain further
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access to sensitive information while teaching
participants about security sensitive topics.
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Oh, and would you look at that? China offers
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training on information security
technology and port management.
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This gives a whole new meaning to
teachers learning from their students.
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In the end, China’s number one
goal isn’t really to promote
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economic and social prosperity to
other countries like it claims.
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Its top priority is to promote CCP
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dominance and to make everybody bow
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
China will get screwed over.
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The CCP hates it when I
scrutinize what China does abroad.
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Once again, I’m Chris Chappell.
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