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  • On this episode of China Uncensored,

  • can we trust China to honor its promises?

  • Hi, welcome to China Uncensored,

  • I'm your host Chris Chappell.

  • China.

  • What else can you say about it other than...

  • "I love China because they buy my apartments,

  • they spend, you know,

  • fortunes in Manhattan they give me millions and millions of dollars for these apartments

  • and they're great."

  • Yes, China is great!

  • So much different from the Communist Party of even 15 years ago,

  • when people could just get "disappeared."

  • You see China is a major global player now.

  • One that you can trust to honor its commitments.

  • Take the "one country, two systems" policy for example.

  • When Great Britain handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997,

  • they called on the Communist Party to honor Hong Kong's core liberties and way of life,

  • which include freedom of speech and an independent judiciary,

  • things denied in Mainland China.

  • And the Communist Party said it would,

  • at least for a while.

  • Its promise was "50 years, no change."

  • And it's only been less than 20 years,

  • so you'd think everything would be going pretty well.

  • Except for some reason,

  • Hong Kongers are unhappy.

  • No, that footage is from 2003,

  • when half a million Hong Kongers protested Article 23.

  • It would have allowed police to,

  • among other things,

  • search and arrest Hong Kong citizens without evidence.

  • It didn't pass.

  • No, this is from when I was in Hong Kong in 2014 covering the Umbrella Movement.

  • Hong Kongers were unhappy about the Communist Party's interference in their elections.

  • No, that's Hong Kong McDonalds' delicious taro pie that for some reason they feel should

  • be denied to American consumers.

  • Ah, that's what I'm talking about.

  • The protests this month.

  • They're over the mysterious "disappearance" of five booksellers who sold political books

  • critical of the Communist Party.

  • "I would say that this is a turning point for suppression of our freedom."

  • Hong Kong is full of these kind of bookstores.

  • In fact, that's the first thing I saw in the Hong Kong airport.

  • All sorts of books criticizing political figures:

  • Xi Jinping.

  • Jiang Zemin.

  • Guo Meimei?!

  • Wow, that's hard-hitting politics.

  • Anyway, these kinds of books are banned in Mainland China.

  • But because of the one country two systems policy,

  • they can be freely sold in Hong Kong.

  • That's why the main clientele of these bookstores are Mainland Chinese tourists.

  • "Where are most of your customers from?"

  • "I can say like 80-90% are from Mainland, Mainland visitor, yeah."

  • "So they come here and buy the books and take them back, illegally?"

  • "Haha, yeah, they try. "

  • Now surely, the Communist Party must be frustrated by this.

  • But since it made a commitment not to touch Hong Kong's freedoms till 2047,

  • it would never do something like, say,

  • kidnap the people who run these bookstores, right?

  • Because if they did...

  • "I think you are spelling the death knell for one country two systems.

  • You can forget about it.

  • Nobody would feel safe in Hong Kong simply by speaking up."

  • And the Communist Party would never want people to not feel safe speaking up.

  • It's just...a coincidence that in the course of 3 months,

  • five people from Causeway Bay Books disappeared

  • and that it came ahead of the publishing of a book that allegedly exposes an extramarital

  • affair of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

  • So how about this, my China Uncensored super sleuths:

  • Let's piece together the chain of events,

  • and see if we can't figure out who's behind it!

  • The game is on!

  • Let's start with the latest,

  • the Case of Lee Bo.

  • He disappears on December 30,

  • after telling his wife he's going to his warehouse to fetch some books.

  • He leaves his Mainland travel permit at home,

  • which means he couldn't have entered the Mainland--voluntarily.

  • It also means there'd be no official record of him leaving Hong Kong.

  • But, about a week later,

  • he calls his wife,

  • telling her that in fact he is in the Mainland, "assisting with an investigation."

  • He also speaks to her in Mandarin,

  • even though the couple usually speak Cantonese together.

  • So let's see what we have so far:

  • A 65 year old man,

  • who said in recent interviews he hasn't been back to the Mainland in two or three years

  • because he feared for his safety,

  • is on a secret mission in China,

  • but won't say where he was or when he'd be back.

  • I'm sorry gang,

  • this case is unsolvable.

  • And even though Lee was also a British citizen,

  • China doesn't recognize dual citizenship.

  • "This person in question is first and foremost a Chinese citizen...it is not necessary for

  • anyone to make groundless speculations."

  • "Hong Kong's affairs are purely China's internal affairs, (in which) any foreign country has

  • no right to interfere.

  • So basically they're saying no other country can say who China can and can't kidnap.

  • Not that they kidnapped anyone, mind you.

  • Lee went to China to help with that investigation.

  • As for the other four, well, if you really think about it, anyone unscrupulous enough

  • to be willing to publish slanderous tales about the great and glorious leaders of the

  • Communist Party, probably were also involved in some other shady things.

  • Oh, hey this just in!

  • One of the guys who disappeared,

  • didn't disappear at all! Gui Minhai,

  • who also has Swedish dual citizenship,

  • just so happened to show up for a conveniently timed,

  • tearful confession on Chinese state-run TV.

  • You see, he didn't disappear in Thailand in October after all.

  • He voluntarily turned himself in to Chinese authorities after being on the run for killing

  • a young woman in a car crash back in 2003.

  • And it's not important that there are some discrepancies in the case.

  • For example, according to a CCTV report from 2005 on the crash,

  • the perpetrator Gui Minhai was 46 years old.

  • But this book publisher Gui Minhai was only 39 back then.

  • And his name is written like this,

  • but that CCTV report used a different character with a similar sound.

  • It's also not important that Gui's daughter never even heard about any accident or manslaughter

  • charge.

  • What matters is that in his confession, he specifically says it's unnecessary for the

  • Swedish government to get involved.

  • "I don't want any individuals organizations

  • including the Swedish government,

  • to get involved or intervene in this matter.

  • Though I hold Swedish passport,

  • I still feel I'm a Chinese."

  • So now we know that of the five missing booksellers,

  • one is clearly helping with an investigation,

  • and the other is clearly a very bad man.

  • So in conclusion...

  • we should just stop asking questions about the other three.

  • Because at the end of the day,

  • China honors its commitment to one country, two systems.

  • And anyone who disagrees,

  • won't for long.

  • So what do you think?

  • Can China be trusted?

  • And there's only one correct answer to that.

  • So leave your "yes" comment below,

  • and subscribe for more episodes of China Uncensored.

  • Once again I'm Chris Chappell, see you next time.

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