Valuetainment - ＂They’re In Big Trouble＂ - China’s Top General Accused of Leaking NUCLEAR Secrets

00:00:00.000 There's something going on right now that it's problematic.

00:00:03.200 This is two years in a row, back to back,

00:00:05.960 China's leaders are being accused of leaking secrets.

00:00:09.140 Did you see this one story, Tom?

00:00:10.540 Okay, so check this out.

00:00:11.540 China's top general, accused of giving nuclear secrets to the U.S.

00:00:17.100 Rob, do you have the clip on that?

00:00:18.360 Yes.

00:00:18.740 Great haircut, by the way.

00:00:21.040 China's most senior general is under investigation.

00:00:24.680 Its defense ministry said on Saturday

00:00:26.660 in what is Beijing's highest-profile purge of the top brass to date.

00:00:33.080 Zhang Youxia is being probed over suspected serious violation of discipline and law,

00:00:38.200 the ministry said.

00:00:39.320 He has not been seen in public since November

00:00:41.840 when he held talks with Russia's defense minister in Moscow.

00:00:47.440 The veteran modernizer was widely seen as President Xi Jinping's closest military ally.

00:00:54.160 The 75-year-old was Xi's second in command

00:00:57.960 as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.

00:01:03.080 Foreign diplomats and security analysts are watching developments closely,

00:01:08.000 given Zhang's closeness to Xi.

00:01:11.540 His removal may also impact the commission's work in terms of command,

00:01:16.080 as well as the People Liberation Army's ongoing military modernization and posture.

00:01:21.320 The military was one of the main targets of a broad corruption crackdown ordered by Xi in 2012.

00:01:29.200 Eight top generals were expelled from the ruling Communist Party on graft charges in 2025.

00:01:36.140 The ministry on Saturday said Liu Jin-li,

00:01:38.740 chief of staff of the commission's Joint Staff Department,

00:01:42.360 was also under investigation.

00:01:44.100 Okay, you can pause it right there.

00:01:46.960 He's gone.

00:01:47.440 They haven't seen him since November.

00:01:49.820 He's gone.

00:01:51.200 He is not giving secrets to us.

00:01:53.600 Why is this a pattern, though?

00:01:55.480 This happened two years in a row now, Tom.

00:01:57.820 Where are you at with this?

00:01:59.000 Well, I'll tell you.

00:01:59.820 Spying works both ways, number one.

00:02:02.420 And then number two, people have said for a long time that military leaders in China

00:02:12.060 are not like the military leaders in Germany.

00:02:16.560 What was the thing?

00:02:17.420 You know, we were just following orders when they were put on trial, remember?

00:02:21.560 I was just following orders.

00:02:23.260 And they're looking at it, and there are military leaders in China that have been said

00:02:28.120 that are disgusted with how people are really being treated.

00:02:32.780 And every now and then, you know, we've got spies over there.

00:02:36.180 You know, we've got things that we do over there.

00:02:38.360 I mean, you know, they're sending, you know, honeypots over here for Eric Swalwell.

00:02:44.120 I'm sure the CIA knows how to send an OnlyFans girl or two over to China. 1.00

00:02:49.060 It's the same thing.

00:02:49.780 I'm not making a joke.

00:02:50.460 Yeah, no, you're right.

00:02:51.660 You know, it's men's weakness.

00:02:56.040 And so the combination of they actually are disgusted by what they see as treatment of

00:03:01.360 their people, number one, and number two, they're susceptible to spying into techniques

00:03:05.640 as everybody else.

00:03:06.880 And then they sit there and think, well, we're never really going to have a nuclear war.

00:03:10.140 We're not going to launch these at each other.

00:03:11.660 And I'll get a little bit of money, or I'll get a little bit of this, and I'll just go ahead

00:03:14.940 and do it.

00:03:15.400 Well, what happens is now, why does China announce it is the bigger one?

00:03:20.580 Why doesn't China just keep this under wraps?

00:03:23.540 That's a good question.

00:03:24.640 You see?

00:03:25.100 It's because what they're about to do to this guy, they want everybody else in the military

00:03:29.940 to know it went down.

00:03:31.880 That's what they want.

00:03:33.180 Otherwise, they would hide this.

00:03:35.040 China never shows weakness.

00:03:36.720 They lie about economic stats so that they don't show weakness.

00:03:39.800 The only way they do this, with this woman's voice and everything, to let everybody else 0.87

00:03:45.340 in the military know what's about to go down.

00:03:48.620 Humberto, where are you at?

00:03:49.560 Not everybody speaks Chinese.

00:03:51.080 There's different layers.

00:03:52.100 They can make an example out of someone and keep it inside of China. 0.98

00:03:56.560 I think this can be a little bit of noise.

00:03:59.200 We caught three spies in the last year, like three Chinese spies.

00:04:02.180 Agriculture, terrorist, wing spies.

00:04:04.380 Oh, the two in Minnesota with the poisons and the fungus for the crops.

00:04:08.960 That's how it works.

00:04:10.840 It's tit for tat.

00:04:11.820 It's a terrible year for Timberwolves.

00:04:13.860 Terrible year.

00:04:14.780 But what I was going to get at is that they're in big trouble.

00:04:20.900 We've been covering their aging population.

00:04:23.600 That was the biggest strength of China.

00:04:25.200 They gave the world this idea of unlimited population growth that they're going to take

00:04:31.020 over by making babies. 0.93

00:04:32.880 Then the second thing, you have a debt dividend.

00:04:34.940 They only have one.

00:04:35.800 They only have one or less than one.

00:04:38.280 Then you have an economy that is collapsing.

00:04:40.680 You know, like if you see their housing market and the debt they have taken in the last few

00:04:48.340 years and how it's exploding in their face, it's unbelievable.

00:04:51.440 Ghost cities and actually tearing down giant apartment buildings.

00:04:54.060 They call them tofu buildings.

00:04:55.240 And then you have a very rigid that Xi Jinping is doing.

00:04:58.760 He has centralized all the power into one guy.

00:05:01.060 You know what I mean?

00:05:01.640 So you have a very rigid structure and a very rigid house commanded.

00:05:06.900 So I don't know.

00:05:07.920 This is not looking good.

00:05:08.880 I think they're trying to like divert attention from something else that's going on there.

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Valuetainment - January 28, 2026

＂They’re In Big Trouble＂ - China’s Top General Accused of Leaking NUCLEAR Secrets

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