Stephen Mosher's new book on Mao Zedong is out now. It's called "The Devil and Chairman Mao and Chinese Communism" and it's a must-read for anyone who's interested in the life of the man who discovered the one-child policy.
00:05:31.460Because there are no private companies in China.
00:05:33.860Everything, every company in China is run by, controlled, or influenced by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:05:40.560So when you're doing business with Timu, you're basically in business with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:05:48.480All companies in China, like Alibaba and Pinduoduo team, have to transfer their data to the servers run by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:05:58.360There's a law, actually, that says, it passed in 2017, the intelligence law, that says all information that's vital to national security must be handed over to the Chinese Communist Party's intelligence agencies.
00:06:12.780Well, companies in China understand what that means.
00:06:16.000It means that you have to turn over all your data to the state in real time.
00:06:21.260So your data is not just going to a private company, it's going to the Chinese Communist Party, which is collecting massive amounts of data on people all around the world, and they do not have good intentions.
00:06:34.900Now, when you buy these goods, you have to understand, if you're buying anything, let's say, out of cotton, right?
00:06:40.820The socks, cotton socks, you're buying goods that are made by slave labor.
00:06:48.020The cotton comes from eastern Turkestan, what the Chinese Communist Party calls Xinjiang, the new border.
00:06:53.940And it uses, they use slave labor in China, I use that term deliberately, because it's the Uyghur minorities, which is out in the cotton fields, picking cotton with their hands, and processing the cotton, and working in the cotton mills, and then working to produce these cheap socks that people think they're getting for almost nothing.
00:07:16.080So, you don't want to participate in slave labor.
00:07:20.520The factories in China, I mean, there are garment factories in China, where the young women who are working there make four cents a garment.
00:08:23.660They aren't free to engage in slowdowns.
00:08:25.900They aren't free to strike for higher wages or demand better working conditions.
00:08:30.220If they do those things, the police are called out because the police are not on the side of the workers.
00:08:36.200Remember, the factories run by the Chinese Communist Party, directly or indirectly, the police are on the side of the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese state.
00:08:45.560And so they put down, using thuggish methods, any sort of labor unrest in China.
00:08:53.500And the final thing is, the factories are dirty, filthy, polluted.
00:08:58.260You know, anybody who's worried about the environment, you know, you're buying things that are made in factories in China that are not just unsafe for the workers, but they're unsafe for the planet as well.
00:09:12.780So there are many, many reasons why I avoid buying any goods made in China, and I am not going to be downloading Timu or any other app made in China anytime soon.
00:09:26.360In my view, all of these Communist Party apps ought to be banned in the United States.
00:09:31.720Things like Timu, things like TikTok, TikTok, of course, which is busy corrupting our youth.
00:09:39.340And people need to know that TikTok in China and TikTok in the West, in Europe, in the United States, are two different social media apps.
00:09:50.200Yeah, they use some of the same software, but the content is totally different.
00:09:54.220Did you know that in China, the kids are not allowed to be on TikTok more than a couple hours a week, a week?
00:10:01.980Kids in China are not allowed to see transgender nonsense, gender-bending nonsense, pornography, all of these TikTok challenges where kids do these ridiculous challenges and wind up dying in the process.
00:10:20.300Xi Jinping, China's dictator, said openly he didn't want girly men on the social media sites in China, and they're banned.
00:10:30.760Well, all of that stuff is not just allowed here.
00:10:33.880It's encouraged here, and a lot of it comes from China in what I believe is a kind of PSYOP, psychological operation, warfare to destroy the moral fiber of our families,
00:10:46.120to confuse young kids about their gender, to encourage them in the direction of using drugs and pornography and other things that, over the course of time, wind up ruining the lives of millions of young people here.
00:11:00.120I think all that is quite deliberate, John Henry.
00:11:04.340You know that here on LifeSite, we love to tell amazing stories.
00:11:11.440There are a few so heroic and amazing as the story we're about to tell you that's coming soon.
00:11:18.740When I was in seminary, I was reading a book by Henry Nowen.
00:11:25.160He talked about a nuclear man, you know, and people who grew up in the 1980s were kind of formed by that immediate and constant threat of nuclear annihilation.
00:11:37.700My generation has grown up, you know, under the specter of priestly sexual abuse.
00:11:43.780I think that for many of us, that has also been all-encompassing, you know.
00:11:53.040I mean, I entered the seminary in January of 2004, and it's basically been there for me from the beginning.
00:12:02.760One priest's sacrifice for many priestly sins.
00:12:07.600So, what is the end game here for China?
00:12:20.520I mean, why are they collecting this data in the first place?
00:12:24.020Well, you know, it was often said by leftists 50 years ago that a truly totalitarian state is impossible to achieve because you don't have enough police to watch everybody all the time in real time.
00:12:43.520You don't need to have human actors, human operators watching everybody all the time.
00:12:49.360You can use artificial intelligence, you can use supercomputers, you can use surveillance cameras, you can use people's smartphones, collecting all the data from them in real time.
00:13:03.420You don't need to have a policeman in front of the home of every family in the country because you can police people now using modern technology.
00:13:14.920China has more surveillance cameras than any other country in the world.
00:13:19.360It's densely placed on telephone poles and power poles throughout the cities and towns of China.
00:13:26.980China has supercomputers, some of the fastest in the world, huge databanks containing information on all the people in the country.
00:13:36.500They have artificial intelligence now that we help them develop.
00:13:40.220Remember, the cameras, the surveillance technology, the genetic testing that they do on everyone in China, the artificial intelligence, all of that is technology that we developed that they are now using to surveil all their people in real time.
00:13:58.620The example I like to use is someone jaywalking in the capital city of Beijing.
00:14:03.900You jaywalk in Beijing, the surveillance camera picks up your criminal action.
00:14:09.120The face recognition technology, which we developed in the United States, is used to identify you.
00:14:15.620The artificial intelligence deducts the fine for jaywalking from your bank account without any human intervention necessary.
00:14:24.360That is totalitarianism, cyber style, which is happening in China right now.
00:14:30.820We hear about the social credit system in China, which may be coming here to the United States.
00:14:36.080Social credit means they're monitoring all of your social media posts, all of your searches, all of your communications, all of your telephone calls, all of your travel, your location in real time.
00:14:46.720And if you appear to be engaging in suspicious activity, visiting the wrong websites, saying the wrong things, communicating with the wrong people, your social credit score plummets.
00:14:58.060And if it drops too low, you can't ride on a plane.
00:15:04.780You can't get a loan to buy a home or a car.
00:15:07.180And basically, if your social credit score drops too low, they zero out your bank account and you can't access any funds you may have, basically putting you in prison without really having to send people to lock you up.
00:15:27.080And I'm afraid when we talk about things like digital currency, when we see that the Biden administration is working with social media companies, with Facebook and others to monitor people in this way and to control debate on the Internet, I'm afraid that there are people in the United States who see what's happening in China and who don't draw back in horror because of the violation of freedom and human liberty.
00:15:54.740They actually think it's a good system.
00:15:58.220The World Economic Forum people, for example, would be drawn to this model.
00:16:05.460And so I think the ultimate goal here is we thought 40 years ago that when we opened to China, that if we simply traded with China, if we invested in China, if we showed China the way to a modern democracy that respects human rights and human rights,
00:16:24.740that the Chinese Communist Party, that the Chinese Communist Party would gradually evolve into a party that would allow perhaps respect for human rights and would allow competing political parties, perhaps even elections.
00:16:42.360Instead of China becoming more like us, we are becoming more like China day by day.
00:16:48.620And I'm actually someone who spent the last 40 years of his life following the brutal one party dictatorship that rules China with an iron hand that is responsible for 100 million deaths in China, in purge after purge, in occasional famines, which is responsible for the killing of 400 million unborn children.
00:17:14.380The prospect of us becoming more like China is, quite frankly, is, quite frankly, terrifying.
00:17:22.620And I would presume that was some of the same thought that went into the Vatican's deal with China, try to appease them and work with them so as to kind of bring them along or at least, you know, live there peaceably or whatever.
00:17:34.280And, in fact, of course, the same result has been obtained.
00:17:42.140We have found, we, the United States, have been drained of capital by the trillions of dollars.
00:17:51.100Some of it was invested by companies like BlackRock in China.
00:17:54.440Some of it was stolen by China in terms of the theft of intellectual property.
00:18:01.000But our trade and investment with China has been used to strengthen China and weaken us.
00:18:07.400So the Sino-Vatican agreement, which was supposed to allow the pope to appoint new bishops for the 40 or so empty seas in China, where the people did need Catholic shepherds, has not resulted in the appointment of new bishops.
00:18:28.100Just a handful of new bishops have been appointed.
00:18:30.240The last couple, of course, have been appointed by the Chinese Communist Party, which only later said to the Vatican, oh, by the way, we put in a new bishop in Shanghai.
00:18:41.240You need to approve him because he's there, whether you like it or not.
00:18:46.840The Sino-Vatican agreement has been used by the Chinese Communist Party, as was planned all along, to crush the underground church in China,
00:18:55.920to force priests and bishops and laity to join the Catholic Patriotic Association, which is run by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:19:06.060And it has not served to either provide new bishops for the church in China or to provide a kind of safe space for Catholics in China because the walls are still closing in.
00:19:18.000There were new regulations just announced a few days ago, and the controls on religious activity in China are getting tighter and tighter and tighter.
00:19:32.280The end game in China is to replace all religion with faith in the Chinese Communist Party,
00:19:40.060to replace the legitimate bishops of the Catholic Church with individuals who are beholden to and serve first and foremost the Communist Party and its leaders.
00:19:53.320That is said explicitly in the new regulations, that the leaders of religions in China have to serve the party.
00:20:04.480They have to serve the party's leaders, Xi Jinping and others, and they have to promote the party line.
00:20:11.660That's what the, unfortunately, the Sino-Vatican agreement, which is now a dead letter, has produced only rotten fruit.
00:20:23.320Hey, my friends, now is the time to stand up and fight.
00:20:26.260We are just about to have the Synod on Synodality, and everything that you've seen indicates that it's going to be an absolute disaster.
00:20:35.880We have Fr. James Martin as a personal appointee of the Pope speaking at it.
00:20:53.320And at these times of great crisis, the Church, especially those called in the laity to work for the glory of Christ and His Church, are called to gather and strategize.
00:21:07.460Back in 2014, LifeSite launched something called Rome Life Forum.
00:21:11.440It was a gathering at that point of some 75 life and family leaders from all around the world to strategize as to what we could do.
00:21:19.780And when we gathered, the majority of people were most concerned about what?
00:21:24.300About Pope Francis, about what was going on in Rome.
00:21:30.140But the life and family leaders saw it first.
00:21:33.240Now, a decade on, we are confronted with some of the most severe challenges the Church has ever faced.
00:21:41.860And so, our tradition at LifeSite is to continue with Rome Life Forum, which has continued every year until we had to take a break over COVID because we weren't permitted.
00:25:53.680The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, people need to understand that these are not people who are selflessly serving the people of China.
00:27:46.340They consume a lot of the wealth of China that is produced by ordinary people is consumed by the top tier of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:27:56.300So if you want to talk about hypocrisy, these are people who talk all day long about equity, about leveling the population so that everyone is equal.
00:28:09.680And yet they live better than aristocrats did live in the Middle Ages in Europe.
00:29:36.560They want the rest of the world to be suppliers of raw materials for China's factories.
00:29:42.680And they want the rest of the world to be helping to feed China's workforce.
00:29:47.020So that's the world of the future, where the manufacturing base of the world, at least in the view of the Chinese Communist Party, the world of the future would be one in which the manufacturing base of the world would be in China, and the rest of the world would be in a kind of semi-colonial status.
00:30:04.480But I think the goals go beyond that, because if you read the Chinese strategic literature, they would like to see the rest of the world depopulated.
00:30:16.760They would like to see the populations of Europe and North America reduced, perhaps by using various bioweapons, and then replaced with immigrants from China.
00:30:34.480That seems like a wild thought, and yet when you read a book by the former head of the National Defense University of China, who wrote a book called The New High Ground, he talked about the development of bioweapons that would target specific ethnicities.
00:30:58.280That would target China's historic enemies, perhaps the Japanese, or that would target Africans, or that would target Caucasians, broadly defined.
00:31:09.200So we know that the Chinese bioweapons research is focusing on these kinds of weapons.
00:31:17.480Whether or not they'll be able to develop them in the future is still an open question, but the fact that there are secret biolabs in the United States, run by organizations that, again, there are no private companies in China.
00:31:33.860Remember, there are companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party directly or indirectly.
00:31:38.520We found a biolab just a few weeks ago in Reedley, California, not very far from the town where I grew up in the Central Valley of California, which had up to 1,000 humanized mice capable of carrying a coronavirus or perhaps another virus and spreading it throughout the population.
00:32:02.740That's a very worrying thing for me, and one thing I do am concerned about John Henry is we've known about secret Chinese police stations in the United States now for a number of years.
00:32:18.600We recently shut down a secret Chinese police station run by the Chinese Communist Party inside the borders of the United States in violation of our sovereignty in New York City.
00:32:33.240But we know of, I know of, a half a dozen other police stations that are being run by China in the United States that have not yet been shut down.
00:32:45.640Where are the counterintelligence groups, the counterespionage groups that were set up over 25 years ago to target these kinds of Chinese operations in the United States?
00:33:00.580I know they used to exist because I worked with them in 2000 and 2001.
00:33:06.060I was going around to the FBI headquarters, to the headquarters of the FBI in New York City, and scheduled to go to other places, other major FBI offices in the United States to talk about these Chinese spying efforts and to help stand up these counterespionage units in the FBI offices around the country.
00:33:26.400I don't know what they're doing these days.
00:33:31.400Are they all targeting people who demonstrated outside the Capitol on January 6th?
00:33:36.400Are they all going to Catholic masses to see who's an aficionado of the traditional Latin mass?
00:33:44.400Are they all attending school board meetings to see who's speaking out against the effort to indoctrinate our children in new gender identities?
00:33:53.400I don't know what they're doing because these secret police stations are still in existence.
00:33:58.400We only discovered the secret biolab by accident because the Readley local health officer was concerned about the use of a supposedly empty warehouse.
00:34:11.400We need to be aware that there are efforts by the Chinese Communist Party across all domains, the biological domain, cyberspace, across our porous southern border, to put in place agents and operations that are intended to weaken us over time.
00:34:37.400So I think the 2049 plan that Xi Jinping talks about, that they have been working on now for decades, is clearly being pursued, being actively pursued by China against its principal enemy in the world, which it regards as the United States.
00:34:58.400Now, the good news is that, according to the latest Gallup poll, about 85% of Americans now see China as a threat.
00:35:07.400About, you know, about 12% are asleep and 3% don't know.
00:35:19.400The problem is Wall Street has been in business with the Chinese Communist Party for decades and has profited vitally, even as Main Street has been destroyed.
00:35:29.400The K Street lobbyists who work for Wall Street are still lobbying for China, lobbying against getting tough on China.
00:35:37.400The politicians, the leading politician in the United States, has taken tens of millions of dollars from around the world, some of which comes from, a lot of which comes from China.
00:35:51.400So a lot of our politicians have been bought off by China, aren't effectively in bed with China.
00:35:58.400So we have a real problem in this country addressing the threat that comes from China, because China, quite frankly, has been so effective at elite capture, at capturing the elites who run the financial sector, who the elites in Washington, D.C., who write our laws.
00:36:17.400I'll tell you why, Timu, going back to where we started, is so successful in the United States.
00:36:25.400It's because a couple of years ago, as we all know, President Donald Trump put tariffs on Chinese made goods in order to help bring manufacturing back to the United States and to punish China for cheating on trade, for cheating on currency.
00:36:44.400What has the Democrat Party done to undermine the tariffs?
00:36:51.400Well, President Biden has not formally stopped the tariff regime, because that would be a public acknowledgement, basically, that he was working not just for the interests of America, but for the interests of China.
00:37:04.400So he's not done away with the tariffs.
00:37:07.400But what the Democrats have done is this.
00:37:10.400They have exempted all shipments from China worth less than $800 from inspection and from tariffs.
00:37:21.400So all these packages come from China, and there are millions of packages each year that are worth $100 or $200 to $300.
00:37:35.400They didn't dare do away with Trump's tariffs because that would be an admission that they were working not for the interests of the United States and the American people, but for the wrong side.
00:37:45.400So what they did was they created a huge loophole, a loophole through which Alibaba and Timu and Shine and all of the other apps that ship goods directly from China can drive their truck through, can ship billions of dollars in cheap goods to America bypassing the tariff regime.
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00:38:58.400If someone were to say to you, come on, China's really going to try and depopulate the earth, they're willing to employ viruses and things like that on the world population?
00:39:16.400I would respond that they need to read a book that was published in 1999, written by two senior colonels in the People's Liberation Army, called Unrestricted Warfare.
00:39:29.400And Unrestricted Warfare is a book about exactly what the title suggests.
00:39:35.400And that is that the Chinese Communist Party is determined to use any and all means at its disposal to enhance its power and control outside, not just inside of China, you see, but outside of China to encompass the entire world.
00:39:54.400And unrestricted warfare includes biological warfare.
00:40:01.400Remember, we have just seen in the release of the coronavirus deliberately on the world by the Chinese Communist Party leadership, one example of biological warfare.
00:40:17.400There were, in 1958, 1967, and 2002, viruses that arose naturally in China, that China allowed to escape outside of its borders.
00:40:29.400So coronavirus is not just the first time that the Chinese Communist Party has allowed a virus or promoted a virus or deliberately spread a virus around the world.
00:41:58.400Remember that communism is the biggest engine of destruction that has ever been visited upon the world.
00:42:06.400And it is an ideology that has its own catechism.
00:42:14.400It has its own rituals, and it has its own goals.
00:42:18.400And its goal is power and control of all the kingdoms of the world.
00:42:25.400And China now, through the Chinese Communist Party, is one of the vehicles, I believe, that the evil one is using to accomplish that end, his end of destruction and control.