Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - December 28, 2022


EPISODE 353： THE CHINA FILES - THE PEOPLE'S DYNASTY OF HORROR


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Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese communist revolutionary who served as the second Chinese leader under Mao Zedong. He is best known for his role in the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, but also for introducing market reforms and opening up China to the West.

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00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard. Thank you for joining us. Today is part three of
00:00:15.660 The China Files. Today's title, Kongbu de Renmin Wangchao, The People's Dynasty of Horror. 0.63
00:00:25.300 Where we last left off in our tale, Chairman Mao had just passed away. It was the height of the
00:00:32.340 Cultural Revolution. Purges were happening all over the party and all over the country.
00:00:38.080 Millions of people were dying. The pressure was on that if you weren't considered a true Maoist,
00:00:42.820 you could be killed, be persecuted to the point where you might even want to commit suicide
00:00:48.860 before they came for you and your family. In the midst of all of this, Chairman Mao himself, 0.72
00:00:55.020 the great helmsman, passes away. His body is later put on display at the mausoleum.
00:01:02.520 A new leader emerges to become the paramount supreme leader of the party, the supreme leader of China,
00:01:09.580 even though he never takes the title himself officially. That man is the minuscule Deng Xiaoping.
00:01:17.500 Now, Deng Xiaoping, he had been around in the CCP from the early days. He was a member of that long
00:01:25.660 march. He fought with the Red Army. But one thing that was different between Deng Xiaoping and Mao,
00:01:32.400 as there were many differences between Deng Xiaoping and Mao, was that Deng Xiaoping had had foreign
00:01:39.480 experiences as a young man. Chairman Mao only ever left China once that we know of in order to go to
00:01:47.560 Moscow to attend a meeting with Joseph Stalin in the 1940s. Deng Xiaoping, on the other hand,
00:01:53.620 had spent time overseas. Deng Xiaoping, in his very early years, had an opportunity to travel to
00:02:01.140 France as an overseas worker. In fact, many Chinese traveled overseas as workers in the late 1800s,
00:02:06.660 of course, famously building the railroad in the United States, the Transcontinental Railroad.
00:02:12.680 And then in other chances, he had, he worked in France. And so at 16 years old, Deng Xiaoping
00:02:18.060 traveled steerage class on a working ship to France as an overseas worker, where he worked
00:02:24.460 in a steel factory, an iron factory. He was given a job as a fitter. And actually years later, during the
00:02:31.060 Cultural Revolution, when he himself was purged by Mao and by the party, he was sent to a factory.
00:02:37.400 This is 50 years later. He's sent to a factory to work yet again as a fitter. And it turns out that
00:02:44.020 he still knew trade. He was still a master of the craft. So Deng Xiaoping has this European background.
00:02:52.520 He studied in France for a little bit, at least in middle school that we know of.
00:02:57.560 And then he then comes in. He's one of the people that during the Great Leap Forward,
00:03:03.220 the party looked to, and he had risen through the ranks. And they looked to him to establish some
00:03:08.520 kind of economic reform, to find some kind of way to peel back from the hardline communism and hardline
00:03:15.900 commune policies of Chairman Mao that led to the mass starvation. So Deng Xiaoping began injecting market
00:03:22.880 reforms and introducing market reforms, both after the Great Leap Forward and then later when Mao died
00:03:30.800 and Deng Xiaoping became really his successor. That's when he introduced a new policy into China.
00:03:38.260 He called it Gaige Kaifang, reform and opening up. And essentially what he did, now keep in mind,
00:03:44.800 this is after the meeting with Nixon, after the meeting with Kissinger, Zhou Enlai is still around.
00:03:49.400 He's one of the premiers of China. But Deng Xiaoping starts opening China to the West and he allows 1.00
00:03:55.300 specifically foreign direct investment to come into China, realizing that communism has been a failure
00:04:02.420 in terms of economics, but then not wanting to lose power over the entire country from a political
00:04:09.760 perspective. And so we knew he had to say something about Chairman Mao. And there's a famous saying
00:04:14.840 from Deng Xiaoping, he's a famous for being a pragmatist. And one of his famous sayings about
00:04:22.040 Chairman Mao, and they asked him was, was Mao good? Was Mao bad? Of course, he knew that he had to
00:04:27.260 acknowledge the failures of Chairman Mao, but he also had to find a way to maintain Chairman Mao's standing
00:04:32.620 as the leader of China, the leader of the CCP, really the initial, if not formal founder, but certainly
00:04:40.700 the original main leader. And so Deng Xiaoping comes up with a statement of saying, Mao was seven parts
00:04:47.500 good, three parts bad. And that's still essentially the official narrative from the party when it goes
00:04:54.580 to Chairman Mao. And then when Mao had passed away and Deng started introducing these market reforms
00:05:01.100 into China. He said, they asked him about this once and they said, you know, isn't this, isn't this a form
00:05:06.700 of capitalism? Isn't this the, the opposite of communism? What are you doing? And, uh, later on this, this system is,
00:05:13.660 is known as socialism with Chinese characteristics, uh, and Deng responds, it doesn't matter if a cat
00:05:28.940 is white or black. It only matters if the cat catches mice. And so again, the same type of pragmatism that
00:05:37.700 you would see as opposed to the ideological dogmatism of Chairman Mao, whereas Deng Xiaoping
00:05:43.380 wanted China to become richer, wanted the party to become more powerful. But here's the difference.
00:05:50.300 Here's the difference between him and say, a Khrushchev. Here's the difference between him
00:05:55.500 and a Gorbachev was that Deng never wanted the party to lose power. And so as this, the country
00:06:06.100 and as the CCP opened up more and reformed more, the 1970s rolled into the 1980s and the, and throughout
00:06:13.860 the 1980s, remember the USSR at this point, it's beginning to crack. The communist block is beginning
00:06:20.460 to open thaws are happening between first, obviously between the CCP and the United States,
00:06:26.520 but then also between the Warsaw nations, Berlin wall, more and more protests all throughout
00:06:35.020 the 1980s. Reagan becomes president, Reagan and Thatcher, Pope John Paul, the second they're
00:06:40.200 fighting. They're going behind the Berlin wall. Pope John Paul, the second goes to Poland,
00:06:45.060 holds massive rallies. Worldwide communism is beginning to fall. And the power of communism
00:06:53.160 over these areas is beginning to weaken. All of this comes to a head. And at the same time,
00:07:00.360 Deng Xiaoping, he's out there preaching reform, opening up reform, reform, reform. Well, students
00:07:06.600 and youth throughout China start hearing this and they say, we don't just want economic reform.
00:07:13.120 We want political reform. We want social reform. We want the freedoms that we've seen in the West.
00:07:20.840 We want the freedoms that we've seen in the United States. We want the freedoms that are being denied
00:07:26.120 to us. And this sparks off a movement as well. And in fact, some party leaders of the CCP
00:07:33.980 back this new movement of political reform. One of those leaders ends up passing away.
00:07:43.120 And a funeral is held for him in a place called Tiananmen Square in April of 1989.
00:07:51.300 And the students flooded the square. They stayed there for months.
00:07:56.520 And when we come back, I'll tell you what happened next.
00:07:59.260 So it's April 1989. There's massive movement for social change across all of China, every major city.
00:08:11.980 And one party leader in particular, not Deng Xiaoping, but a pretty high leader named Hu Yaobang is championing
00:08:19.160 these reforms. But Deng Xiaoping and the hardliners, the long marchers, they don't want this.
00:08:24.760 They don't want any social reform. They don't want any reform at all like this, because they want the party
00:08:31.260 to always be the unchallenged head of all of China.
00:08:38.380 So Hu Yaobang is forced to resign. But not long after his forced resignation, he suffers a heart attack and dies.
00:08:46.400 Many of his supporters, many of the students wonder, could he have been killed?
00:08:54.580 Could something have happened to him? Like something happened to Lin Biao?
00:08:59.180 What's really going on?
00:09:01.700 So those students flood.
00:09:04.700 Not just Tiananmen Square, but Shanghai, Chongqing, hundreds of thousands in Hong Kong,
00:09:10.940 all over China. I remember Hong Kong, by the way, had not been under Chinese rule at this time,
00:09:18.440 not under the CCP rule at this time. It was still under British rule.
00:09:21.580 Hong Kong never went communist. Hong Kong was always a British enclave.
00:09:26.240 The same way that Taiwan never became communist, because it was always under the nationalists after 1949.
00:09:32.560 So you have to remember this. Hong Kong and Taiwan always stayed outside of communist China
00:09:37.920 until later on with Hong Kong. So, here we are.
00:09:44.780 The students don't leave Tiananmen Square.
00:09:49.420 The protests get bigger and bigger. They go on for weeks.
00:09:54.320 The weeks turned to months. Now it's June, and it's still going on.
00:10:00.560 And everybody remembers what happened.
00:10:02.880 June 4th, 1989. The tanks rolled.
00:10:05.920 In full view of Western cameras.
00:10:09.320 Because Deng Xiaoping and the leaders of the CCP
00:10:12.640 saw a potential for a new civil war and a new revolution on their hands.
00:10:18.660 And they themselves knew, as revolutionaries,
00:10:22.400 what would happen if they allowed that movement to get off the ground.
00:10:26.180 Instead of giving it space, they crushed it.
00:10:33.780 And they killed thousands of students, workers, and everyone else in that square
00:10:40.860 of the gate of heavenly peace, which is what Tiananmen means.
00:10:45.320 The same gate where Chairman Mao, just 40 years before, exactly 40 years before,
00:10:52.040 had commemorated the founding of the People's Republic of China.
00:10:58.020 But in fact, at this point, their People's Republic had just become a new dynasty.
00:11:04.260 A sort of red dynasty.
00:11:07.920 One that was not willing to relinquish power to anyone.
00:11:14.240 Now, an interesting story about all of this.
00:11:17.100 Premier Zhao Ziyang.
00:11:19.260 So CCP Premier Zhao Ziyang, at this point,
00:11:23.040 actually became a supporter of the students.
00:11:26.880 He went down into the protests himself as a high-ranking member of the party
00:11:33.280 and showed support to them, showed respect, listened to them.
00:11:39.620 And for this, Zhao Ziyang was purged, of course, in the midst of these protests.
00:11:45.680 However, because of his background, because of who he was,
00:11:50.000 because of his legal service to the CCP in the past,
00:11:52.840 because he had so many internal supporters,
00:11:54.900 he was put on house arrest.
00:11:58.120 He was not executed.
00:12:01.200 Zhao Ziyang spent the rest of his life 1.00
00:12:05.180 recording 30 audio tapes
00:12:09.340 that were then smuggled out of his house between 1999 and 2000.
00:12:17.080 He actually had children's cassette tapes for his kids
00:12:21.540 on an old audio player.
00:12:23.280 And he would record over them
00:12:26.700 with the little battery-operated radio that he had at his house.
00:12:32.480 And the CCP guards never noticed what he was doing in there.
00:12:35.780 What was he actually doing?
00:12:37.620 He was secretly recording his memoirs.
00:12:41.760 He was secretly recording what actually happened
00:12:45.780 inside the CCP just prior to Tiananmen Square,
00:12:50.060 as well as his take on everything that had gone on prior to it.
00:12:54.980 He said in terms of that,
00:12:57.440 I refused to become the general secretary
00:13:00.180 who mobilized the military to crack down on students.
00:13:04.920 In the final chapter of the book,
00:13:06.860 which was later released in 2009
00:13:09.320 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square,
00:13:13.100 Zhao Ziyang praised the Western system
00:13:16.520 of parliamentary democracy
00:13:17.520 and said that it is the only way
00:13:20.140 that China could solve its problems of corruption
00:13:22.320 and a growing gap between the rich and the poor.
00:13:26.300 On Tiananmen Square, he said,
00:13:27.880 By insisting on my view of the student demonstrations
00:13:30.660 and refusing to accept the decision
00:13:32.340 to crack down with force,
00:13:33.480 I knew what the consequences would be
00:13:35.160 and what the treatment I would receive.
00:13:37.600 I knew that if I persistently upheld my view,
00:13:40.060 I would be ultimately compelled to step down.
00:13:42.620 On the night of June 3rd,
00:13:44.040 when sitting in the courtyard with my family,
00:13:46.300 I heard intense gunfire.
00:13:49.020 A tragedy to shock the world had not been averted.
00:13:52.340 And what was happening, after all?
00:13:54.460 That's one of the only acknowledgements
00:13:59.200 that's ever come out of a high-ranking CCP official
00:14:04.280 actually admitting that the Tiananmen Square massacre
00:14:08.220 did take place.
00:14:10.560 And he had to smuggle it out
00:14:12.280 through his kids, his grandkids' cassette tapes.
00:14:19.820 On Deng Xiaoping, he wrote,
00:14:22.100 Deng has always stood out among the party elders 0.99
00:14:24.200 as one who emphasized the means of dictatorship.
00:14:27.640 He often reminded people of its usefulness.
00:14:34.180 And so people need to understand
00:14:35.880 that when you look at Deng Xiaoping,
00:14:38.640 when you look at these years of reform
00:14:41.500 and opening up in China,
00:14:43.420 that doesn't mean they were willing
00:14:46.840 to relinquish power.
00:14:48.320 Far from it.
00:14:49.060 Because this still was the CCP.
00:14:53.340 Now, the difference between Tiananmen Square
00:14:55.540 and what happened with the Berlin Wall
00:14:57.080 and what happened in Moscow
00:14:58.080 was that in Moscow,
00:15:00.080 the soldiers refused to fire
00:15:01.900 on their own citizens,
00:15:03.940 on their own people.
00:15:05.740 The People's Liberation Army,
00:15:07.260 which is what the Red Army had become
00:15:08.560 to be known as,
00:15:11.780 they brought in units from outside Beijing.
00:15:13.800 They told them that the whole thing
00:15:16.820 was a Western plot
00:15:17.880 and that they were there to take down China
00:15:20.800 and that the only way to save China 0.98
00:15:22.560 was to destroy the students
00:15:24.800 and destroy the movement where it stood.
00:15:27.080 And that's exactly what they did.
00:15:29.480 But that image of the Tank Man
00:15:31.680 that did come out,
00:15:33.600 Cover Time magazine,
00:15:34.560 that led protesters
00:15:37.360 and gave them hope.
00:15:39.580 And it sent hope
00:15:40.460 behind the Berlin Wall
00:15:42.180 to East Germany,
00:15:44.100 to Poland,
00:15:45.380 to Russia,
00:15:46.920 all over the communist world.
00:15:49.520 And it was following the events
00:15:51.260 of Tiananmen Square
00:15:52.100 that communism itself fell
00:15:54.800 across the entire globe.
00:15:59.680 So after Tiananmen Square,
00:16:02.240 the bloody cobblestone streets
00:16:04.360 communism is withering and dying
00:16:08.040 across the world.
00:16:09.340 But that's not what happens in China.
00:16:11.380 No, not at all.
00:16:13.120 Because just one month
00:16:14.700 after the Tiananmen Square massacre,
00:16:17.680 the President of the United States
00:16:18.520 at the time,
00:16:19.660 George H.W. Bush,
00:16:21.940 sends his national security advisor,
00:16:24.680 General Scowcroft,
00:16:26.180 on a secret mission to China.
00:16:29.300 Now, George H.W. Bush,
00:16:30.740 prior to becoming president,
00:16:32.080 had been the CIA director.
00:16:34.360 But prior to that,
00:16:36.580 he had also been
00:16:37.760 America's special envoy
00:16:40.140 to China.
00:16:41.380 It's true.
00:16:44.700 And he'd always had
00:16:46.060 big plans for China.
00:16:48.820 He saw what was going on
00:16:50.240 in the 1970s,
00:16:51.340 and he looked at it
00:16:52.480 through the lens
00:16:53.200 of business and realized
00:16:56.940 why knock over
00:16:59.180 the Chinese Communist Party
00:17:01.120 when you could make them
00:17:04.360 make a deal.
00:17:07.260 Because the United States
00:17:08.240 and the Western system,
00:17:09.120 the Western world,
00:17:10.540 could have destroyed the CCP
00:17:11.900 at that instant.
00:17:14.500 They had no power.
00:17:15.620 We could have cut off trade.
00:17:16.540 We could have done everything
00:17:17.300 that we did
00:17:18.060 to Russia
00:17:19.200 when they invaded Ukraine,
00:17:21.420 and China would have been finished,
00:17:22.540 or at least the CCP
00:17:23.220 would have been finished.
00:17:24.880 They'd been done for.
00:17:26.520 But no.
00:17:29.040 Because
00:17:29.480 what George H.W. Bush
00:17:30.960 and his successor,
00:17:32.260 Bill Clinton,
00:17:32.760 did
00:17:33.060 throughout the 1990s
00:17:35.840 was to form
00:17:36.900 a new deal
00:17:38.380 with the CCP,
00:17:40.600 a secret pact.
00:17:41.600 The CCP would
00:17:45.520 continue opening up,
00:17:46.980 and they would continue
00:17:48.500 to be
00:17:49.720 the leaders of China,
00:17:51.460 and the West
00:17:51.820 would support them
00:17:52.460 the same way the West
00:17:53.300 had supported the USSR
00:17:54.760 in its early days
00:17:57.020 and helped to industrialize
00:17:58.160 the nation.
00:17:59.300 The West would continue 0.94
00:18:00.420 to industrialize China
00:18:01.600 through their finances,
00:18:04.400 through foreign direct investment,
00:18:06.580 and in exchange,
00:18:08.440 they would provide
00:18:09.540 slave labor. 0.73
00:18:11.600 In exchange,
00:18:12.960 Western firms
00:18:13.860 would be allowed
00:18:15.220 to supply the capital,
00:18:18.140 supply the intellectual property,
00:18:19.680 but the goods
00:18:21.900 that would be made
00:18:22.780 would be made
00:18:24.340 for slave wages
00:18:25.320 and sent
00:18:26.440 all around
00:18:27.840 the world.
00:18:30.880 This
00:18:31.600 was the birth
00:18:32.500 of a system
00:18:33.140 that today we call
00:18:34.500 globalism.
00:18:36.960 Globalism
00:18:37.680 was born
00:18:38.380 from the bloody
00:18:41.020 cobblestones
00:18:41.760 of Tiananmen Square.
00:18:44.920 This is what
00:18:45.680 the United States
00:18:46.400 elites did
00:18:47.200 as a response
00:18:49.100 here.
00:18:50.620 Now,
00:18:51.120 there were a few
00:18:51.700 things
00:18:52.220 that the CCP
00:18:53.160 asked for
00:18:53.940 in return,
00:18:54.540 one of which
00:18:56.720 was tough,
00:19:00.820 and it wasn't
00:19:01.480 directly
00:19:01.880 to Washington
00:19:03.460 that they asked
00:19:03.960 for this.
00:19:04.360 it was to
00:19:05.400 London.
00:19:07.000 Because remember
00:19:07.840 before I was
00:19:08.460 talking about
00:19:09.100 Hong Kong,
00:19:10.440 that massive,
00:19:13.140 powerful,
00:19:14.300 sprawling
00:19:14.800 metropolis,
00:19:16.400 it's actually
00:19:18.520 a series of
00:19:19.180 islands
00:19:19.620 at the mouth
00:19:21.700 of the Pearl
00:19:22.120 River.
00:19:23.780 The British
00:19:24.520 had started,
00:19:25.060 it had been
00:19:25.360 nothing before
00:19:25.880 the British
00:19:26.240 came,
00:19:27.820 but Deng
00:19:28.680 Xiaoping 0.85
00:19:28.980 wanted it
00:19:29.460 back.
00:19:29.780 he said,
00:19:31.320 if we're
00:19:31.860 going to get
00:19:32.160 this thing
00:19:32.720 done,
00:19:33.700 if we're
00:19:33.900 going to get
00:19:34.120 this whole
00:19:34.500 deal done,
00:19:35.060 we want it
00:19:35.420 back.
00:19:35.680 And they had
00:19:35.880 already been
00:19:36.180 in negotiations
00:19:36.880 even before
00:19:37.860 Tiananmen Square
00:19:38.440 for this to
00:19:38.920 happen.
00:19:40.340 Deng Xiaoping
00:19:40.780 said,
00:19:41.380 we want to
00:19:42.660 continue the
00:19:43.240 negotiations,
00:19:43.960 we want it
00:19:44.320 back.
00:19:45.580 And there
00:19:45.860 were people
00:19:46.220 who even
00:19:46.640 said at
00:19:47.060 the time
00:19:47.560 that because
00:19:49.760 Hong Kong
00:19:50.440 had stayed
00:19:51.160 capitalist
00:19:51.920 throughout
00:19:53.000 its entire
00:19:54.220 existence,
00:19:55.240 had never
00:19:55.500 gone communist,
00:19:56.700 that perhaps
00:19:57.500 if Hong Kong
00:19:59.040 were introduced,
00:20:00.600 reintroduced
00:20:01.440 to China,
00:20:02.560 they called
00:20:03.140 it one
00:20:03.620 country,
00:20:04.160 two systems
00:20:04.720 under the
00:20:05.080 one country,
00:20:05.800 two systems
00:20:06.380 model,
00:20:07.360 that all
00:20:09.280 of China
00:20:09.760 would open
00:20:11.180 up,
00:20:11.480 that China 0.93
00:20:11.780 would become
00:20:12.200 democratic and
00:20:13.040 capitalist and
00:20:13.740 everything would
00:20:14.180 be free.
00:20:15.720 When in fact,
00:20:17.040 it was the
00:20:17.460 exact opposite
00:20:18.180 that happened.
00:20:19.480 The West
00:20:20.260 handed over
00:20:21.040 Hong Kong,
00:20:22.300 which the West
00:20:23.160 had built.
00:20:25.940 And where
00:20:26.660 are we now?
00:20:28.460 Hong Kong
00:20:29.140 has been
00:20:29.440 subjugated.
00:20:31.120 Hong Kong's
00:20:31.960 freedoms have
00:20:32.520 been stolen.
00:20:34.400 People
00:20:34.920 trampled in
00:20:35.540 the streets.
00:20:36.840 Protesters
00:20:37.360 disappeared.
00:20:39.400 And the
00:20:40.020 CCP has
00:20:40.540 taken complete
00:20:41.200 control and
00:20:41.860 reneged on
00:20:42.340 every single
00:20:43.460 deal they 0.74
00:20:44.620 made with
00:20:45.060 the West.
00:20:46.560 Because
00:20:47.080 understand,
00:20:47.540 when they
00:20:47.720 make a deal
00:20:48.080 with the
00:20:48.340 West,
00:20:49.140 it's not
00:20:50.140 worth the
00:20:50.420 paper it's
00:20:50.860 printed on.
00:20:52.220 Because the
00:20:52.900 CCP doesn't
00:20:53.760 see Westerners
00:20:54.760 as people.
00:20:55.600 they see
00:20:57.280 them as
00:20:57.780 lesser.
00:20:59.220 They see
00:20:59.900 them as
00:21:00.720 merely a
00:21:02.020 means to
00:21:02.380 an end.
00:21:03.580 And the
00:21:03.800 CCP teaches
00:21:04.760 that the
00:21:07.440 hundred years
00:21:08.240 between the
00:21:09.900 opium war
00:21:10.620 of 1949
00:21:12.220 to the
00:21:13.980 founding,
00:21:14.480 excuse me,
00:21:14.980 the opium
00:21:15.280 war of
00:21:15.620 1849,
00:21:16.500 all the way
00:21:18.340 up to the
00:21:18.720 founding of
00:21:19.240 the People's
00:21:19.680 Republic in
00:21:20.540 1949,
00:21:21.560 that was
00:21:22.540 called the
00:21:23.540 century of
00:21:24.700 humiliation.
00:21:27.120 And that
00:21:27.540 is why
00:21:27.860 now,
00:21:28.760 when the
00:21:29.440 CCP has
00:21:30.100 their target
00:21:30.620 set on
00:21:31.800 2049,
00:21:33.440 they want
00:21:35.320 the following
00:21:37.220 century to
00:21:39.020 be the
00:21:39.320 century of
00:21:40.380 CCP
00:21:41.000 ascendance.
00:21:42.980 Not just
00:21:43.920 in China,
00:21:44.940 but around
00:21:46.120 the entire
00:21:46.980 world.
00:21:49.080 And so
00:21:49.260 Deng Xiaoping
00:21:49.740 passes away
00:21:50.600 in February
00:21:51.640 of 97,
00:21:52.960 doesn't
00:21:53.640 actually get
00:21:54.080 to see it.
00:21:54.700 But on
00:21:56.000 July 1st,
00:21:57.240 1997,
00:21:59.220 the British
00:22:00.500 flag goes
00:22:00.980 down on
00:22:01.920 Hong Kong.
00:22:05.080 And the
00:22:05.840 CCP's flag
00:22:06.800 goes up.
00:22:08.440 A CCP
00:22:08.900 garrison
00:22:09.520 is then
00:22:12.380 formed and
00:22:12.980 stood up
00:22:13.420 of the
00:22:14.240 People's
00:22:14.560 Liberation
00:22:14.980 Army,
00:22:16.280 right down
00:22:17.380 in Admiralty
00:22:18.120 in central
00:22:18.960 Hong Kong.
00:22:21.300 The Chinese 0.89
00:22:22.220 Navy begins
00:22:22.880 patrolling the
00:22:23.480 waters.
00:22:24.280 They take
00:22:25.280 sovereignty of
00:22:26.180 Hong Kong.
00:22:27.120 And then
00:22:27.640 their eyes
00:22:28.000 turn towards
00:22:28.540 Taiwan.
00:22:29.560 And they say
00:22:30.280 they want that
00:22:30.780 back too.
00:22:31.740 Even though
00:22:32.460 it had never
00:22:33.280 been part of
00:22:33.840 the CCP.
00:22:34.380 It had never
00:22:34.800 been part of
00:22:35.440 CCP control.
00:22:36.360 people.
00:22:38.900 But this was
00:22:39.740 the deal.
00:22:41.000 The deal
00:22:41.740 was the
00:22:42.680 West and
00:22:43.800 Western
00:22:44.080 elites
00:22:44.520 wanted to
00:22:45.440 continue to
00:22:45.980 maintain their
00:22:46.620 slave wages
00:22:47.380 and these
00:22:48.860 deals so
00:22:50.360 that cheap
00:22:50.880 TVs,
00:22:52.660 big screens
00:22:53.940 could be
00:22:54.920 sent over.
00:22:57.120 Manufacturing
00:22:57.800 would be
00:22:58.440 outsourced
00:22:59.140 to China.
00:22:59.980 China.
00:23:00.780 Who cares
00:23:01.600 what happens
00:23:02.720 to Detroit?
00:23:03.360 Who cares
00:23:03.740 what happens
00:23:04.180 to the
00:23:04.440 Midwest?
00:23:04.920 Who cares
00:23:05.240 what happens
00:23:05.640 to the
00:23:05.960 South?
00:23:07.120 We're all
00:23:07.660 going to
00:23:07.840 be rich.
00:23:10.540 And sure,
00:23:10.940 we'll let
00:23:11.580 the CCP,
00:23:12.360 we'll make
00:23:12.660 them rich
00:23:13.060 as well.
00:23:13.780 It doesn't
00:23:14.040 matter.
00:23:15.060 Because at
00:23:15.600 the end
00:23:15.800 of the day,
00:23:16.660 that's all
00:23:17.020 we care
00:23:17.440 about,
00:23:18.400 is selling
00:23:18.800 products to
00:23:20.160 gullible, 1.00
00:23:21.200 stupid 1.00
00:23:21.660 Westerners 1.00
00:23:22.640 with their
00:23:23.900 consumer mindsets.
00:23:24.960 And so
00:23:26.300 the CCP,
00:23:27.160 in a sense,
00:23:28.460 abandons
00:23:29.020 communism,
00:23:30.320 at least in
00:23:30.800 terms of
00:23:31.100 economic
00:23:31.480 principles,
00:23:32.620 but they
00:23:33.760 maintain
00:23:34.340 power.
00:23:35.800 And they
00:23:36.420 came up
00:23:36.940 with a new
00:23:37.980 strategy.
00:23:39.280 And the
00:23:40.000 new strategy
00:23:40.620 would be to
00:23:41.740 join with
00:23:43.420 the West
00:23:43.960 to build
00:23:45.040 a global
00:23:45.620 empire.
00:23:46.920 But then
00:23:47.720 once the
00:23:48.260 West had
00:23:48.980 built it,
00:23:50.700 the CCP
00:23:51.780 would take
00:23:53.180 over.
00:23:53.480 And just
00:23:55.060 such a
00:23:55.420 man,
00:23:56.260 with that
00:23:57.260 ambition and
00:23:57.880 vision in
00:23:58.280 mind,
00:23:59.580 came and
00:24:01.000 took over
00:24:01.680 the CCP
00:24:02.740 in the
00:24:04.020 2000s.
00:24:05.380 We'll talk
00:24:06.160 about him
00:24:06.540 tomorrow.
00:24:08.020 His name
00:24:08.520 is Xi Jinping.