The CCP goes after political opponents abroad.

And how one Chinese city is predicting  the outcome of the US election.

That and more on this week's China news headlines

Welcome to China Uncensored I'm Chris Chappell.

This week's China news headlines.

It's something Beijing has  been terrified of for years.  

India and the United States are  signing a landmark military agreement.

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Okay, so this military agreement between India  and the US is a big deal. The agreement is  

called the Basic Exchange and Cooperation  Agreement for Geospatial Cooperation.

It's a mechanism for India and the US to share  military intelligence, particularly military  

satellite surveillance. Which might be useful  in, oh I don't know, the high mountain passes  

of the Himalayas, where Chinese soldiers  have been encroaching on the Indian border.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and  Secretary of Defense Mark Esper  

visited New Delhi this week. And Pompeo had some  strong words on the Chinese Communist Party.

“Our leaders and our citizens see with increasing  clarity that the CCP is no friend to democracy,  

the rule of law, transparency, nor to freedom  of navigation, the foundation of a free and open  

and prosperous Indo-Pacific.”

Speaking of the Indo-Pacific, the  US, Australia, Japan, and India  

will be participating in joint naval exercises  next month, held in the Indian Ocean.

These four countries make up what's known as the  Quad, an informal alliance basically aimed at  

standing up to the Chinese Communist Party. That  alliance was conceived more than a decade ago,  

but it did almost nothing because no one  wanted to challenge China at the time. But  

boy have things changed in 2020. Now all four  countries are doing joint naval exercises.

Meanwhile Secretary of State Pompeo continued  

his trip around Asia by bringing up the Chinese  Communist Party pretty much everywhere he went.

In Sri Lanka, he called the  Chinese Communist Party a predator.

In the Maldives, he said  that Beijing was illegally  

occupying territory and damaging the environment.

Pompeo also announced that the US will  be building an embassy in the Maldives.  

It's part of an effort to check  China's influence in the region.

In Indonesia,  

Pompeo said that the US would find new ways to  cooperate with Indonesia in the South China Sea.

He also called China's claims there “unlawful.”

In Indonesia, Pompeo also notably  brought up China's religious repression,  

especially their treatment of the Uyghurs.

"The Chinese Communist Party's  war against people of all faiths:  

Muslims, Buddhists, Christians,  and Falun Gong practitioners alike.  

The atheist CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has  tried to convince the world that its brutalisation  

of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang is necessary  as a part of its counterterrorism efforts,  

or poverty alleviation, depending on  which audience that they are speaking to."

Indonesia has the largest  Muslim population in the world.  

And Pompeo asked Indonesians to not look away  from what the Chinese Communist Party was doing.

"I know the CCP has tried to  convince Indonesians to look away,  

to look away from the torments  your fellow Muslims are suffering.  

I know the same CCP officials have spun  fantastic tales of happy Uighurs, eager  

to discard their ethnic, religious and cultural  identities to become more modern and enjoy the  

benefits of CCP-led development. When you hear  these arguments, I just ask you to do this:  

Search your hearts. Look at the facts. Listen to  the tales of the survivors and of their families."

I can see why the Chinese Communist  Party really hates Mike Pompeo.

The YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project did  a survey of 26,000 people in 25 countries,  

asking them about the coronavirus.

The results? “China appears to have  comprehensively lost the international battle  

for hearts and minds over its handling of  coronavirus with most people believing it was  

responsible for the start of the outbreak and was  not transparent about the problem at the outset.”

This was the widest survey of global public  opinion about China's handling of the pandemic.  

The Chinese Communist Party  was not happy about the survey.  

Mainly because they hate it when  anyone asks the people what they think.

Also bad news for the Party, they may have a  massive new coronavirus outbreak on their hands.  

In Xinjiang. Where they have  those concentration camps.

According to state media, there was one case  of the coronavirus in the city of Kashgar.

And so within two days, they tested everyone  in the city. All 4.75 million of them.

It's hard to know what to make of this news.

China has definitely exaggerated its  ability to do mass coronavirus testing.  

But it could also be that  the coronavirus situation  

might be much worse than the Chinese  government is telling people. Or both.

Officially, “The testing drive has so far  

identified 137 additional  cases—and all are asymptomatic.”

And when has the CCP ever lied about  coronavirus numbers? Don't answer that.

In July, there was an outbreak in  Xinjiang's capital Urumqi. That  

resulted in an insane lockdown, where officials  forced residents to take unproven Covid drugs.

Makes sense. If you're already  ethnically cleansing the region,  

might as well test out some  experimental drugs on them, right?

Speaking of crimes against humanity, organ  harvesting. It's a thing Chinese state-run  

hospitals do because selling dissidents' organs  to rich people can make you a lot of money.

Well, at a recent online press conference,  a journalist from Taiwan raised the issue.  

This was the US Assistant  Secretary of State's response.

“Well, I can't think of a  more horrific human rights  

abuse than stealing somebody's liver. We  have had consistent reports of this. We  

have actually looked into allegations  of it. And I encourage anybody who has  

information that we could use to nail  this down to please be in touch with us.”

This follows the final ruling earlier this  year of the China Tribunal. It found that  

“Forced organ harvesting has been committed for  years throughout China on a significant scale  

and… Falun Gong practitioners have been one—and  probably the main—source of organ supply.”

And “In regard to the Uyghurs the Tribunal  had evidence of medical testing on a scale  

that could allow them, amongst other  uses, to become an 'organ bank.'”

Why haven't you heard more about that?  

Well, according to former New York Times  journalist Didi Kirsten Tatlow who submitted  

testimony to the China Tribunal, her editors  discouraged her from reporting about the issue.

In her testimony, Tatlow says that her editors  believed that the Chinese state was no longer  

harvesting organs from prisoners. She was told  that there was “nothing new” to the story.

And that people who believed this was  happening to prisoners of conscience  

were “on the fringes of advocacy.”

I mean, why anger the Chinese authorities and  put your entire company's China bureau at risk,  

just to cover one story, right?

Ironically, the Chinese government eventually  expelled the New York Times anyway.  

For unrelated reasons.

Even today, the medical community is mostly  turning a blind eye to forced organ harvesting.

Well gosh, if they have a blind  eye, they should go to China!  

I hear you can get great cornea  transplants there, no questions asked.

And stay tuned after the break, because Chinese  leaders are deciding the future of China.

Welcome back!

China's Communist leaders met behind closed doors  this week to discuss their 14th 5 year plan.

That's when the Communist Party plans out the  next 5 years of the economy. Because China is  

still Communist and has a planned economy.  In case anyone tries to tell you otherwise.

In the leadup to the meeting, Chinese Chairman  Xi Jinping made a bunch of personnel changes.

That includes appointing new—and loyal—heads to  China's biggest state-run media organizations:  

Xinhua and People's Daily.

Wow, stop the presses! No,  seriously. Stop the presses.  

You need to make sure you're  following Party guidelines.

Ready for a story just dripping with  delicious irony? The Communist Party of the  

Philippines has ordered, “its armed wing to target  Chinese-owned companies operating in the country.”

Communists just can't seem to get along.  The Communist Party has been outlawed in  

the Philippines. But the communist guerilla  group says, “These [Chinese] infrastructure  

projects not only displace thousands of  peasants and minorities from their lands,  

they also wreak havoc [on] the natural  ecosystem of the country's remaining forests.”

I mean, they're not wrong. We did an  episode about how a Chinese-built dam  

in Malaysia could kill thousands. Check it out.

But even if the Chinese Communist Party  may not have allies in Communist Parties  

in developing countries, at least  it still has friends in Europe.

Officials at the European Parliament and  the European Commission have hired Hikvision  

to supply thermal imaging  cameras for their buildings.  

It's to test people's temperatures  to see if they have the coronavirus.

Hikvision is a great choice. They  have a long, proud history of using  

their surveillance equipment in those  Muslim internment camps in Xinjiang.

Hikvision is also tied to  China's People's Liberation Army.  

So good job EU. You literally have  installed PLA cameras in your buildings.

The FBI has indicted eight Chinese operatives  for harassing Chinese dissidents in the US.

These Chinese operatives were a part  of what's called Operation Fox Hunt.  

“The Chinese government claims [it] is an  international anti-corruption campaign,  

but the U.S. believes to be a plot to  target political opponents and critics.”

Makes sense. China's *domestic* anti-corruption  

campaign is also used to target  political opponents and critics.

As part of the FBI investigation, “At one  point, one of the defendants and an unidentified  

co-conspirator allegedly placed a note on  the door of [a John Doe's home] that said,  

'If you are willing to go back to the  mainland and spend 10 years in prison,  

your wife and children will be all  right. That's the end of this matter!'”

The Chinese Communist Party—it  always thinks of the children.

The Chinese city of Yiwu is predicting  the outcome of the upcoming US election.

Factories there make a lot of  cheap products for the US market.

And according to the New York Times,  “President Trump's campaign paraphernalia—hats,  

banners, mugs and practically anything else that  can carry a logo—has been selling briskly... 

By contrast, shop owners said during recent  visits, bulk orders for materials supporting  

former Vice President Joseph R. Biden  Jr. have been almost nonexistent.

This is how an almost unknown Chinese  city was able to accurately predict the  

winner of the 2016 presidential  election months ahead of time,  

when major American media still had  no clue on the day of the election.

We'll know next week if the  Yiwu Index, as it's called,  

is right again. At least I  hope we'll know next week.

And now, it's time for me to  answer another question from one of  

you, a fan who supports China Uncensored  on the crowd funding website Patreon.

Joesph Griffith asks, “Is  flood season over in China?”

That's a good question, because the  flood season this year was devastating.  

It's hard to get accurate figures, since  China downplays the damage and deaths in  

natural disasters, but at least 15 million people  were affected in a record breaking flood season.

There were 21 large scale floods this year. The  last time flooding was this bad was in 1998.  

At least according to my favorite Chinese  state run media, the Global Times.

That seems to be mostly over. Which is  good because the massive Three Gorges  

Dam had begun to deform under the  pressure of all those flood waters.

That would have been a black swan  disaster for the Chinese Communist Party.

But it seems like for this  year, that swan has flown.

Anyway, thanks for your question Joseph!

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