It’s the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. And China is worse than ever.
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On this day in 1989, Chinese tanks and soldiers under the direct command of the communist dictatorship attacked thousands of pro-democracy protesters who had gathered in Tiananmen Square. According to the British Embassy, at least 10,000 people were murdered.
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Hello, my Rebels. It's June 4th, which is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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I think things are worse in China than they were back then politically.
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I think things are worse globally in terms of diplomacy and China's place in the world.
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You know they're going to have them again next year.
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Tonight, it's the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and China is worse than ever.
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It's June 4th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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On this day in 1989, Chinese tanks and soldiers under the direct command of the communist dictatorship
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attacked thousands of pro-democracy students who had gathered in Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing.
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Tiananmen means heavenly, peaceful gate, but of course it was just another communist slaughterhouse that day.
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According to the British Embassy, at least 10,000 people were murdered that day.
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This man was the symbol that day for many, at least to the West.
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A brave young man literally standing in front of a column of tanks and staring them down.
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Maybe it worked for a moment, we caught on tape, but the thing about passive resistance
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that Gandhi used to such powerful effect against the British Empire in India
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is that it only works against an enemy whose values you're appealing to, an enemy that's pretty gentle.
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So in the case of the British Empire, values like fair play, the rule of law, limited government,
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civil society, non-partisan, police and the military, and of course the free media to document it all,
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Even Hitler or Stalin would have just shot anyone trying Gandhi's tactics and no one would have even seen it.
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So that young man in Tiananmen Square surely died.
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And after some huffing and puffing, well, the world moved on.
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After all, China was opening up its economy and there was plenty, well, plenty of people
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who wanted to make a buck or two billion, including Canada's own Jean Chrétien.
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His son-in-law is a senior executive of a power corporation, a massive Chinese company.
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Weeks after he finished being prime minister, he went to work for China in China.
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And by the time the 2008 Olympics rolled around, China was ready to once and for all whitewash itself.
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I mean, wasn't it proof that it was fully welcome in the family of nations?
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There were boycotts of the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.
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There were boycotts of the Soviet Olympics in Moscow in 1980.
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But everyone was there for China's debut, weren't they?
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I mean, ask John Cena, the wrestler and actor who dared to say Taiwan was a country.
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I must say now, in Sudduyu Gijin Joe, I have a lot of interviews.
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I must say now, it's very, very, very, very important.
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I must say now, it's very, very, very, very important.
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You must say now, it's very, very, very, very important.
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Fear of losing big endorsement deals and big money and big box office hits in China.
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The biggest NBA basketball stars, they smear America as a racist jail every day.
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Even as China sets up concentration camp style compounds for their Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang province.
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It's ethnic cleansing of Muslims on a massive scale.
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Disney filmed part of their big movie, Mulan, literally in Xinjiang province, near those concentration camps, work camps.
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And they actually gave a thank you to the Xinjiang secret police in their movie credits.
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They actually lobbied against a U.S. bill that would address the Uyghur genocide and crackdown on doing commerce in Xinjiang.
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And literally today on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, look at this.
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In English, from one of China's propaganda websites, this one's called Global Times, published on Twitter, which is banned in China, by the way.
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Tiananmen Square embodies Chinese people's confidence in China's politics.
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The Chinese public's understanding of the June 4th incident has fundamentally changed.
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We laugh at those posturing commemorative activities orchestrated by outside forces.
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Now, they've always laughed, but just in private until recently.
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In public, maybe they were ashamed or at least pretended to be, but now they know they don't have to pretend.
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If they can get John Cena to blubber like that and Nike, the brand of Black Lives Matter, the brand of Colin Kaepernick,
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if they can get the take a knee guy to support Xinjiang, to lobby for genocide commerce, why not laugh?
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In fact, if you click on the link in that tweet, they're positively proud of it.
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Tiananmen Square embodies Chinese people's confidence, pride.
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If the incident 32 years ago, I love that, the incident, they won't even say what it is.
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If the incident 32 years ago has any positive effect, that is, it has inoculated the Chinese people with a political vaccine,
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helping us acquire immunity from being seriously misled.
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China underwent a color revolution, but wasn't brought down by it.
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The leadership of the Communist Party of China has saved the fate of the nation at a critical juncture.
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Imagine rubbing it in with that metaphor, the vaccine virus metaphor.
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Here's the editor of Global Times, that Communist Party mouthpiece that we were just reading from.
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Reading from, here's what he asked today, he says, the conclusion on June 4th incidents will never be reversed in Chinese history
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because its political outcome played a role in shaping socialist path with Chinese characteristics, which has led China to success.
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The longer the time, the more resolutely the incident will be rejected, the incident.
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So to be clear, they're not ashamed anymore, if they ever were.
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In fact, they believe that in time, the incident will be seen, really, as a bunch of terrorists trying to take down China.
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And I bet they'll get plenty of Westerners to repeat that for them for free.
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I mean, like Peter Harder, a senior Trudeau appointee, ran Trudeau's transition team, now a Trudeau senator.
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Let me read this tweet from Steve Chase of The Globe.
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Senator Peter Harder, an ex-civil servant who later ran the Canada-China Business Council, told senators Thursday,
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it's self-righteous to pass a motion urging a boycott of the Beijing Olympics over repression of Uyghurs, given Canada's cultural genocide of residential schools.
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He literally stood up in Canada's Senate and said, it's self-righteous to criticize China.
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In fact, China's pushing forward, pushing on Tiananmen Square.
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It's a laugh that anyone would support them, don't you know?
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And they're pushing back on the virus origin story, too. Look at this.
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Just in, China accuses the US and Japan of running a secret biological warfare development program. Take a look.
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After coming down the war, the European Union in many years, the European Union軍 in the United States will send the military crew to Japan,
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So who will push back against this, not Senator Harder?
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Joe Biden's son worked for China, did billions of dollars in China.
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there. So he's compromised. So who's going to push back against China?
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There's a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic
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dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.
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Welcome back. Well, I remember a year ago comparing how China's dictatorship responded
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to the coronavirus to how the Soviet dictatorship responded to Chernobyl. I had just seen the HBO
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miniseries called Chernobyl. And by the way, if you haven't seen it, you absolutely must. I resisted.
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I thought, well, I know the story. I don't want to be bored by a documentary. It was absolutely
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gripping. It was riveting. And even though I knew how the story ended, to have it recreated and to
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see how the first instinct of the Communist Party was to deceive and to not lose face,
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I thought it was a powerful analogy, except for one thing. Chernobyl mainly hurt people in the
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Soviet Union, in Ukraine itself and Belarus. But in the Soviet Union, its deadly radioactivity did
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much less harm outside the Soviet Union. I think that's the opposite of China's coronavirus. But
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a new essay in an online magazine called American Greatness, amgreatness.com, is called,
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The Chinese Coronavirus is This Generation's Tiananmen Test, as in Tiananmen Square. And I have to agree,
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that's actually the better analogy than the Chernobyl one. And joining us now via Skype is the author
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of this essay, our old friend Ben Weingarten, who joins us now via Skype. Ben, very, very thoughtful
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piece, as always. And it comes on the anniversary. Well, today is the anniversary of Tiananmen Square. Of course,
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you wrote this a little bit earlier, but the points remain. Make your case for how this is analogous to
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the Tiananmen Square moment in 1989. Yeah, and let me just preface by saying, you know, we're talking
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today on the anniversary of the apex of the Tiananmen Square massacre, ultimately. And this piece
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that I wrote is actually from a year ago, but it could just as easily have been published today. I'm sorry
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to say, unfortunately. And really, what the argument of this piece is that, unlike Chernobyl, to your
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point, in this case, we're all victims. And it's the same thing relative to the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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There, it was a distant, far away, brutal purge of dissenters by the Chinese Communist Party. The shot was
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caught, of course, by purported reformer and liberalizer, Deng Xiaoping. So even under the most
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moderate so-called communist leader, we saw its true face when it actually had to grapple with
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college students simply demanding their most basic natural rights. That should have taught us
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everything we needed to know about the nature of the Chinese Communist Party and its willingness to
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be as brutal and deceptive as every other communist party, if not more so than any other communist party
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in the history of mankind. And what I said was that we failed the Tiananmen test the first time around,
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in that Tiananmen did not even serve as a speed bump, really, to China's ambitions to become a dominant
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economic, military, and technological power. On the contrary, we engaged in this project to integrate,
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effectively, the Chinese Communist Party into every aspect of the Western world. And it used that to its
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huge advantage. All of the benefits of engaging with the West accrued to communist China. And yes,
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we got cheap products and purportedly access to massive open markets to ourselves. It hasn't
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exactly played out that way. But at the consequence of our national interest, and I would argue our
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national soul, quite frankly, and you can broaden that to the entire West, not just America, for that
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matter, as you well know. And so the long-winded point that I'm getting to is that this time around,
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we were all victims of Chinese Communist Party tyranny, brutality, lies and deception, callousness,
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not caring about, and in fact, probably in some ways, using to its advantage, the knowledge in
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the West that they were willing to deal effectively to help foist on the world this pandemic, which has
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resulted in hundreds of thousands, if not millions of deaths. So our test this time is how do we respond
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when we are directly impacted by Chinese Communist tyranny? And the Chinese Communist Party has
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the blood of the West on its hands. It's sapped our treasure. We've sacrificed our liberties as a
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consequence of it. And so it is of the utmost importance. It might be the most important thing
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in geopolitics for us to hold the Chinese Communist Party absolutely to account. And the fact that we're
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talking now over a year since that piece came out, and only now the lab leak theory is even being
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entertained by the establishment, I think speaks volumes about the failure of our so-called ruling
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class to pass this Tiananmen test. Yeah, you know, I want to emphasize that you did write this last
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year, and I'm sorry, I didn't actually quite, I was reading it because it feels like it was written
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today. But I noticed that you were a very early analyst to get this right. Let me read what I
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think is the key paragraph in your essay. Again, it's called, The Chinese Coronavirus
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Is This Generation's Tiananmen Test? And here you spell out what that test is in a paragraph.
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The test is as follows. With the Chinese Communist Party inflicting incalculable losses in blood and
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treasure through its unique role in spreading the coronavirus and its related menacing behavior,
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will we demand reparations or will we let the regime off scot-free, emboldening it and encouraging it
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to act with impunity and still more reckless abandon in its quest for hegemony going forward?
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We failed this test in 1989. Well, you know, I was thinking about how the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
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was their ultimate proof to the world, the outside world, and proof to their own citizens that everything
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was forgiven from Tiananmen Square. They could say with great justification, look, the entire world
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is coming here to pay homage to us. They're bending their knee, they're saluting our anthem.
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This is proof that we were right to crush them 19 years ago because look at the normalization. Well,
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can you believe it? Beijing is getting the Olympics again next year, the Winter Olympics, and it serves
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the exact same purpose to tell the world and domestic Chinese citizens, hey, we're the boss. Who else has
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had two Olympic games in 14 years? Nobody but China. I think it's incredible how it's not even a speed,
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like Chanaman Square, not even a speed, but at least Chanaman Square, you had some squawking about it
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in some quarters of the West, as opposed to now, when if you even dispute the origins of the virus and
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suggest maybe we should ask China a few more questions, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter will silence
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you. It's incredible. It's happening all over again, Ben. The individuals inside the US government,
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national security, intelligence, foreign policy establishment will suppress dissenting views with
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respect to the Chinese coronavirus. The WHO will get rewarded with re-entry by the United States when
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it's a China-controlled entity that helped participate in the cover-up of the origins and then the spread of
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the coronavirus as well. It's really an exceptional point that you make, an analogy to draw, and I remember
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in 2008, there were these triumphalist symbols of Marxism, of the Chinese Communist Party, and I watched
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it and I'm just disgusted in real time, fuming as I'm watching that as a college student, thinking this
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is a regime with the blood of tens of millions of people on its hands. And here it is. And how many
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people in the West even comprehend of the propaganda effort that this is, that we're witnessing?
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Like you said, fast forward to today and we have John Cena groveling because he dared to have the gall to
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say that Taiwan was a country. And look at what China's done this time. I mean, move beyond
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Tiananmen Square now, it of course operates Uyghur gulags. It has swallowed Hong Kong whole. It crushes
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Christians and Falun Gong and the Tibetans and the Mongolians run down the list. It threatens to subsume
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Taiwan, which is a living representation of what China could be, were its people to be free of the
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clutches of the Chinese Communist Party. And then of course it has our blood on its hands and it
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threatens to expand its sphere of influence everywhere and ultimately be the hegemonic world
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power. So to your point, they are laughing at the fact that they can literally get away with murder,
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including the murder of us and be able to then host the Olympic games as if they're a legitimate
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member of the family of nations. It's absolutely sickening and in good conscience, no representative of
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any Western country should give the privilege and the honor to the Chinese Communist Party to host those
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games. You know, Hillel Neuer of UN Watch pointed out that no country controls more United Nations
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agencies than China. Chinese nationals run four key agencies and of course they installed Tedros,
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Dr. Tedros, the Ethiopian boss of the World Health Organization. So they effectively control five.
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During the Cold War, I don't think the Soviet Union ever had that kind of sway over global diplomacy.
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I mean, I could be wrong on that, but I don't think they ever did. But the thing is, that's the only
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forum they were relevant. There wasn't an enormous amount of commerce between the Soviet Union
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and the West. There was some, but it was limited. I think that's one of the reasons why Chernobyl
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didn't morally destroy the West as much as the coronavirus did, is because the Soviet Union was
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so cut off economically, scientifically, in terms of media. This really was a problem in their own house.
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It was one of the reasons the Soviet Union fell because they bore 90%, 99% of the economic burden
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of fixing it. With coronavirus, China is so ingrained. I mean, you note in your piece that
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so many supply chains in the West are rooted in China, including about 95% of our medicines, by the way.
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You can't buy medicine at a pharmacy that's not made in China. I mean, good luck finding, I mean,
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just basic medicines, complex medicines, it's all made in China. The linkages, it's almost impossible
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to untangle that mess. Yeah, it's a great point. If you look around whatever room you're in to viewers,
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can you imagine any product that you have sitting around your office or your living room or the like
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that doesn't have components made in China in it or raw materials coming from there or the like?
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It's almost impossible, like you said. And that, I would argue, is the brilliance of the Chinese
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Communist Party's strategy in contrast with that of the Soviet Union, which is that unlike the Soviet
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Union, which was intransigent and had to fight against the Western imperialists, China said,
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no, let's not resist. Let's open ourselves up to the West. Let them capitalize us. Let them shower
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us with all the benefits of its labors in terms of technology and the financial markets and the trade
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architecture and all the and entree to all the Western led institutions. And then let's take advantage
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of all of these benefits to the maximum extent possible. It was a brilliant, brilliant strategy
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executed to perfection. And as a consequence, we're stuck in a bear hug today, which is that,
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you know, and it's sort of represented in physical form by these supply chains that lead to these
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products around us. How do we get ourselves out of this inextricably intertwined relationship? And it
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would have been significantly easier in 1989, of course, before this massive trade and diplomatic
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relations and the like took place and manifested itself. Now, unfortunately, we face a far richer,
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far stronger, far more powerful, far more brazen Chinese Communist Party that is no longer biting
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its time in the words of Deng. You know, I think sometimes of rivals or enemies or opponents or
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competitors to the West. I think of Iran and I think of China and both of them have been engaged in
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diplomacy and military strategy for literally thousands of years, for millennia. And I think that there's a
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there's a snobbery, there's a self-delusion, there's an ethnocentricity in the West that says
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we're much more sophisticated than the Persian Empire or the Chinese Empire because we've got,
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you know, Instagram influencers, we have woke this and vegetarian that and we're just the absolute
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height of fashion. And I mean, I think of John Kerry, and I think of his obsession with climate change. And
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I think of how the US military is now, you know, emphasizing its wokeness. And I'm and we think that
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that signs of sophistication, and that we're going to run circles around Iran or China. I think they're
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beating us at things that we think we're better at. I think they're more strategic than us. I think
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they're more skillful diplomacy than us. I think they think more long term than us. I think they're
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more disciplined than us. I think that they look at a buffoon like Joe Biden and his son, or John Kerry
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or Anthony Blinken and say, these guys, their arrogance, let them think they're in control.
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They're not. I don't know. I just think that they're they're absolutely cleaning our clock in the West.
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Yeah. And the thing that's most depressing about it is that we're doing it to ourselves.
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If the West mustered all of its energy, talent, creativity for all of the warts on our societies today,
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I still firmly believe we can triumph over anyone, no matter what adversary. But we are hanging
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ourselves right now. And then you add to that the fact that to your point, these are these are
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strategically oriented nations regimes that are much longer term oriented than we are that are
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willing to deal with substantially more sacrifice than we are, and also that understand us, we better
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than better than we understand them. So they're able to take advantage of our avarice or self interest,
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our short term thinking. And then you add on to it, the signs of decay and decadence and lack
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of moral clarity or really even belief that we ought to survive in any traditional sense as Western
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civilization that's inherent in this wokeness that we see. And you have a sick Western world right now.
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And of course, our adversaries are going to take advantage of that. And I think that's one of the
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reasons they don't even need to really directly attack us or engage in any sort of traditional,
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conventional warfare at this point, because we're doing it to ourselves. And they can watch and
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build up and bide their time. And almost organically, they're positioning themselves to be dominant.
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You know, it's incredible. I mean, I was saying earlier in the show today,
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they're not even pretending on Tiananmen Square. I mean, the Global Times, one of the English language
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propaganda arms of the Chinese dictatorship, they literally say they're laughing at criticisms of
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Tiananmen Square. So I don't even think they would have been that brazen about that in the past.
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But they don't need to be their best defenders because they've got the John Cena's of Hollywood.
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They've got the NBA and the LeBron James. They've got so many businessmen willing to go woke
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to get into that lucrative market, so they think. I just think that they are, I hate to say it,
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I think they're winning. I think had Donald Trump being reelected, that might not
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be the case. But I think they're roaring back. To me, the ultimate image of that was New Year's Eve.
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In Times Square, the iconic apple falling, sorry, you know, the clock, rather the countdown,
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didn't happen. There was no one on the street other than Bill de Blasio dancing
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with his wife by themselves, just that cringe image. Whereas in Wuhan, no masks,
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huge parties, huge fireworks. Wuhan, China had the New York City New Year's celebration,
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and New York was a ghost town. To me, that's the symbol of where we are. Last word to you, Ben.
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Yeah, it's a sorry, but very apt image to part ways on. And what I just say is, doesn't it tell you
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everything you need to know about the Western world, that our ruling class, and this goes beyond the U.S.,
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but really internationally with respect to most of the West, and China, were all on the same page
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in terms of wanting to do everything they could to see Donald Trump fall. I think that tells you
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everything you need to know about ultimately what side our ruling class is on, and the fact that it
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was Donald Trump that stood as the greatest bulwark against these tyrannical forces.
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Yeah. We've been talking with Ben Weingarten. His article from last year in The American Greatness
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is called The China Coronavirus is This Generation's Tiananmen Test. Thanks, Ben. Great to see you.
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Hey, welcome back. Your feedback, Calvin writes,
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let's fool everyone and elect an independent. Yeah, I just don't think it's going to work that
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way. You know how premiers and prime ministers are chosen in the parliamentary system. It's whoever gets
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the most MPs or MLAs to support them, typically the party leader who wins a majority. So it just
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won't work to have an independent, unless you mean an independentist, someone who wants to separate
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from Canada. And there's starting to be rumblings like that in Alberta.
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Ina writes, do the conservatives have a death wish? Doug Ford at least does not behave as badly as Jason
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Kenny, although he no longer leads us. We're now led by unelected health specialists.
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I don't know if Doug Ford behaves as badly as Jason Kenny. I suspect that Doug Ford doesn't follow
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any rules. In fact, we sort of have evidence that he doesn't. It's just that I don't think he's quite
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as ostentatious. That sky palace is so, it's the greatest lightning rod for wasteful, luxurious living
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politicians in Alberta, to go to that patio of all places and break the lockdown rules you're enforcing
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and others at the same time. The layers of arrogance there, there's just so many. I'm sure Doug Ford has
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a layer or two at any one time, but to do that, men need things on top of each other. And the photo, and
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then defending it by saying, oh, you know, it was only a $35 bottle of whiskey. It wasn't luxurious.
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I just don't know. I mean, I don't think they realize the trouble they're in. I think they're
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going to lose the next election. That's our show for today. That's our week that was. We'll have
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videos over the weekend, of course. We'll see you on Monday. Until then, on behalf of all of us here
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of Rebel World Headquarters to you at home. Good night. Keep fighting for freedom.