1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 So first off, what I want everyone to know is we're going to be focusing mostly on this 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,120 area called Zhengzhou, which is in central China, in Henan, a very Han centric, very... 3 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:16,559 area of China. Yeah, very nationalistic. Now, we're going to be focusing on that. However, 4 00:00:16,559 --> 00:00:21,600 what you have to know is that there are handfuls now of these types of scenarios... 5 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:26,879 directly around the country at this very moment. And the Chinese government's doing... 6 00:00:26,879 --> 00:00:31,359 to make sure that you don't hear about it. But the initial leaks, all the footage and... 7 00:00:31,359 --> 00:00:35,359 out from Zhengzhou. So we'll be focusing on that. So first off, I just want you guys t... 8 00:00:35,359 --> 00:00:41,840 scope of maybe what you're about to see. Yeah. Here's somebody on the highway passi... 9 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:47,679 a toll gate and you can see all of the police vehicles that are currently heading in to... 10 00:00:47,679 --> 00:00:54,640 control of the protests in Zhengzhou. This is police and SWAT team and special police,... 11 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:59,840 Yeah, those buses are just busing police. Yeah, busing police. You have the armored... 12 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:05,920 have all the basically all of the terrorist squad, terrorist squad, you know, that you... 13 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,640 Just get this. I want you guys to get the scale. Yeah, those are military trucks as... 14 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:15,280 which are going to have troops in the back. Just get the scale of what we're looking a... 15 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,519 buses over there? It looks like a passenger bus. That's not a passenger bus. You see t... 16 00:01:19,599 --> 00:01:28,399 down the side? That is a police bus. Yeah. Yeah. So it's not like, oh, we're sending... 17 00:01:28,399 --> 00:01:34,799 down here. It's also not like, oh, you know, we're sending 20 cops to go deal with a... 18 00:01:34,799 --> 00:01:40,959 Right. No, they're mobilizing en masse. This is a lot of police and military and whatev... 19 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:46,799 that are currently heading to, you know, suppress the uprising. And we'll explain t... 20 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:52,239 of the uprising. We'll explain to you what's going on with that shortly. But one thing ... 21 00:01:52,239 --> 00:01:59,519 know is that this is all surrounding the Foxconn factory, which has over 200,000, a... 22 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:05,679 before, people working there. I mean, just look at the amount of police vehicles and... 23 00:02:05,679 --> 00:02:10,079 an armored SWAT vehicle over there. That black one. I've seen them myself many time... 24 00:02:11,519 --> 00:02:15,360 You know, that's- They use those as like a show of presence. They'll park one in like... 25 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,960 Like at the border. You'd see them if you cross the border in China, you see them, 26 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:24,720 you know, in Lohu and Shenzhen. They haven't parked there and stuff. But yeah, this is ... 27 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:33,200 huge amount of law enforcement and so on heading over there. So anyway, this, you m... 28 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,880 some footage. We're going to show you pretty much everything here. Well, you need to se... 29 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:45,359 actually going on here in China. So here you can see the clashes between the police the... 30 00:02:45,359 --> 00:02:49,439 Dabai uniforms. The Dabai means big white. These are the storm troopers that you can ... 31 00:02:49,439 --> 00:02:53,359 behind us here. I think there might be- With riot shields. Yeah, there might be some... 32 00:02:53,359 --> 00:03:01,519 might think of the white, you know, Dabai, the COVID pandemic staff as not police, bu... 33 00:03:01,519 --> 00:03:05,759 staff. But here you got to understand in China, when they send these police out int... 34 00:03:05,759 --> 00:03:12,319 they're all in hazmat suits. Especially since this is all about zero COVID. Yes. OK. And... 35 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:19,199 whole point of these riots is revolving around the fact that there are COVID... 36 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:24,639 I'm just going to take it back to here and explain to you what's been going on. We... 37 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:30,000 was it last week or the week before we reported on the fact that you had all of... 38 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,319 fleeing the Foxconn factory there. Yeah. OK. And this was because of COVID quarantine h... 39 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:44,240 people in their dorms. Yeah. And allegedly, was it eight people in one dorm died? Yeah... 40 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:49,120 allegedly. Like that's not something that's been confirmed, but that is what sparked o... 41 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:55,439 exodus. Because people have been stuck in because of these quarantines and there was... 42 00:03:55,439 --> 00:03:59,599 food shortage and things like that. And then when the rumors, whether it's true or not, 43 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:04,000 that these people had died in their dorm spread amongst all the workers, a lot of t... 44 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,079 this is it, I'm out of here. But because of the zero COVID restrictions, they couldn't... 45 00:04:10,079 --> 00:04:14,159 they couldn't take trains, they couldn't take public transports. They walked. And we showed 46 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:20,560 you the footage of them walking down the highways to escape this zero COVID lockdow... 47 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:27,519 nonsense. So what happened was Foxconn then offered fairly handsome employment packages 48 00:04:27,519 --> 00:04:32,240 to new employees, because of course, now they have to make up for the loss of employees.... 49 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:37,920 that were like, I'm out and they fled. So they offered quite a lot. And so a whole... 50 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:44,800 employees turned up. And then something went wrong with the employment contract, becaus... 51 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,600 been told they would be receiving a certain amount. And then it turns out that they we... 52 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:53,680 they're not going to receive a certain amount. And then the people that had staye... 53 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:58,879 really getting annoyed with the fact that the new people coming in hadn't quarantined an... 54 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:02,879 zero COVID starts spreading. And this is, I mean, the COVID started spreading. And thi... 55 00:05:02,879 --> 00:05:10,320 genesis of it all. There was a wage dispute. There was a miscommunication that had... 56 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:15,520 disgruntled in the first place. But then when you throw in the zero COVID, where it's al... 57 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:20,799 sudden, now we're going to be locked down, because some people have COVID now, and... 58 00:05:20,799 --> 00:05:25,359 to be stuck here. So as soon as this whole thing about the zero COVID picked up, and... 59 00:05:25,359 --> 00:05:30,399 realized that they were getting screwed over, and we're about to be locked down and... 60 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:35,279 once again like prisoners, they were like, this is enough. Yeah. Why don't you run th... 61 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:39,680 Because I have every clip in order. And we don't have to like give you a blow-by vote... 62 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:44,479 you why this transpired as this plays out. And for those of you who are possibly... 63 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,680 what you're seeing here is you're seeing the workers are picking up steel poles. And I'm 64 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,920 thinking a lot of these steel poles are coming from those makeshift barriers that... 65 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,879 to trap them in their dorms and stuff. And look, they're carrying Chinese flags. And ... 66 00:05:58,879 --> 00:06:04,000 this is what the government doesn't want. Yes. Is they're now using their nationalism, 67 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:10,319 because, you know, in the Chinese national anthem, it says, stand up those who refuse... 68 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:16,800 That's part of it. And I guess the Chinese government's regretting that they allowed... 69 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,240 to stay in the national anthem, because they want everyone to be slaves. And they actually 70 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:24,639 banned that line for a little while, because people are using it as a protest anthem. 71 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:30,959 Exactly. We'll explain the psyche behind the nationalism behind these protests as well.... 72 00:06:30,959 --> 00:06:36,560 this is towards the beginning. What you're seeing is in its infancy, what happened was, 73 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,879 because of all of the, you know, the wage dispute thing, and all this kind of stuff ... 74 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:46,639 good smoke and mirror campaign to take away and divert from bad policy. Yes. Because b... 75 00:06:46,639 --> 00:06:50,800 is really what got us here in the first place. I need you guys to understand... 76 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:56,240 just in Zhengzhou. There's uprisings in Guangzhou, Chongqing, and handfuls of othe... 77 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:01,120 country, because people have had enough. You're almost three years into this thing.... 78 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:06,399 locked down, not getting good food supplies, getting your code, your QR code, which can 79 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:10,319 be green, means you can walk around and do whatever you want. Yellow, which means tha... 80 00:07:10,319 --> 00:07:16,959 in a high risk area. Yeah. And then red means that you or someone nearby is a COVID... 81 00:07:16,959 --> 00:07:20,639 Yes. And so you get locked down where you are. People are freaking out. They're like... 82 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:27,280 you can't keep me in this spot, right? Yeah. And what they did was they were manipulati... 83 00:07:27,279 --> 00:07:34,239 QR codes and changing them to red to stop protests. Yeah. And this is now, I hope yo... 84 00:07:34,239 --> 00:07:39,039 if you're new here, you'll understand. This was never about COVID in China. The Chines... 85 00:07:39,039 --> 00:07:44,479 doesn't care about COVID. What they care about is the ability to stop any and all... 86 00:07:44,479 --> 00:07:48,959 switch of a QR code. Yes. That's what we're seeing here. We're seeing revolts against... 87 00:07:48,959 --> 00:07:53,199 smoke and mirror campaign right now from the Chinese government is to say, oh, Foxconn ... 88 00:07:53,199 --> 00:07:58,399 Yeah. The factory. It's a Taiwanese company. Look how bad they are. This is somehow... 89 00:07:58,399 --> 00:08:03,920 fault. Isn't Taiwan supposed to be a part of China? Yeah. According to them. But it's a 90 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:08,399 smoke and mirror campaign because what it is, is diversion to say, oh, this is a company... 91 00:08:08,399 --> 00:08:13,599 issue. This isn't a national policy issue. And what's happening, this threshold is be... 92 00:08:13,599 --> 00:08:19,759 to where the Chinese government has made sure that they never get blamed for stuff like... 93 00:08:19,839 --> 00:08:24,800 And it's blamed on people or countries or companies. And then when it surpasses that, 94 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,560 when you see the flags come out and you say, Hey, this is not what China is supposed to... 95 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:33,039 China is supposed to be, you know, our proud, strong country. You can't do this to us. 96 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:38,879 Local pandemic workers. That information gets into the right hands. These people aren't... 97 00:08:38,879 --> 00:08:43,679 Right? All you need is some people with a megaphone to stand up and say, Hey, 98 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,720 this is coming from the top. This is a bad national policy. That's meant to keep us... 99 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:53,920 We need to overthrow, just like our national anthem says, overthrow the people that are... 100 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:58,720 us into slaves. And that's what you're seeing now. You're seeing a mix between disgruntled 101 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,279 people that just can't handle it anymore. And people saying, wait a minute, this can't be a 102 00:09:03,279 --> 00:09:08,080 forever policy for us. It's hopeless. It feels hopeless. Yeah. Right. By the way, t... 103 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:12,080 police car that they're overturning seats is gong on on the side, which means public... 104 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,680 In those, in these kinds of areas, you don't see fancy police cars. You know, that's what 105 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:23,439 you'd expect to see. I just want to read some comments. Sure. Oh, this is a worker revolt. 106 00:09:23,439 --> 00:09:28,959 Sorry. Just before you do that, we also have to make clear that the government remotely... 107 00:09:28,959 --> 00:09:33,919 all of the protesters QR codes to red. So imagine you're on the fence and you know,... 108 00:09:33,919 --> 00:09:37,679 disgruntled people and they're like, screw this, you know, we don't want to be trappe... 109 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:43,039 with zero COVID. Let's go out, make a noise. And then suddenly your phone turns red. Th... 110 00:09:43,039 --> 00:09:47,439 if your QR code is red, that means you are a prisoner. Sure. That means you're screwed. 111 00:09:47,439 --> 00:09:52,559 There's no way out of it. You have to be taken to a quarantine camp. You have to be... 112 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:57,599 room for like weeks on end. And no one ever knows how long because they keep changing ... 113 00:09:57,599 --> 00:10:02,319 So you as a person, you're like, screw this, I don't want my freedom taken away. And... 114 00:10:02,319 --> 00:10:06,399 else's freedom is being taken away at the same time. That's why you've got what's... 115 00:10:06,399 --> 00:10:10,799 right now. Is everyone standing up and saying, screw this, we do not want to be p... 116 00:10:11,519 --> 00:10:15,679 for something we didn't do. The only reason I said I'm not reading, I'm not going to break 117 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,519 up the flow of this because we're still reporting on this. But there's a comment h... 118 00:10:19,519 --> 00:10:24,559 more the one now. This is a worker revolt against the factory rather than a... 119 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:31,279 No. Okay. Explain to me why the Chinese police and the Chinese military are here... 120 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,959 these workers. If it's a worker revolt, you know, it's a different story because then... 121 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:41,519 the factory security would be there. It'd be like there'd be a negotiation with the... 122 00:10:41,519 --> 00:10:46,320 you know, it'll be like, hey, we're gonna have a strike. Right. Okay. We've seen... 123 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:51,600 And strikes in China are very different. And it usually involves people standing with a... 124 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:57,120 or kowtowing or kneeling down or something like that. It's a very different sort of a... 125 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,200 We've seen it ourselves because remember, protests are not allowed. Why do you think 126 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,759 they're smashing that zero COVID booth, that COVID testing booth over there? It's not... 127 00:11:05,759 --> 00:11:10,000 That person I just read was a Wuma, by the way. Makes sense. Why would it be a worker... 128 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,559 If it's a worker dispute, why are they smashing the zero COVID, I mean, the COVID... 129 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:18,960 Why is it? See, look at the guy smashing the COVID. That's not a worker dispute. That's... 130 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:25,200 oh, my wages. You know, that's my, I'm sick and tired of this garbage. They're going u... 131 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:31,279 the police. Yes. The SWAT team. They are not protesting their boss to give them a red... 132 00:11:31,279 --> 00:11:35,360 They're not like more pay. We're here to stay. It's not that- It doesn't matter how... 133 00:11:35,759 --> 00:11:40,720 it's an exacerbation of things. Also, I'd like to commentate on the people out there... 134 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:46,000 running disinformation campaigns for China to say this is an isolated incident against... 135 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:51,680 bosses. What you're doing is a massive disservice to all the other protests that ... 136 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:55,680 because if this is a worker dispute, then why is it happening in Guangzhou? Yeah, which ... 137 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,680 There's no Foxconn there. So far away. Where's the Foxconn factory in Guangzhou? 138 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:05,199 Yeah, exactly. It's not about Foxconn. It's not about a wage dispute. It's about people 139 00:12:05,199 --> 00:12:10,479 getting sick and tired of having their freedom taken away because of this ridicul... 140 00:12:10,479 --> 00:12:15,199 policy. Right? I mean, look at what they're doing here. Remember, this is not like... 141 00:12:15,199 --> 00:12:19,519 for the factory. You saw the police cars and the SWAT teams and the stuff come in. This... 142 00:12:19,519 --> 00:12:25,199 government coming in to control the people. Yes. Okay. I love that right now we have a 143 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:30,960 disinformation bots campaign in our chat live, guys. This is why you're at the righ... 144 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:36,720 follow this footage because we have people paid to go stop this stream right now. Yea... 145 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,080 want you to see this. And what they're trying to tell you is that, oh, it's just a wage... 146 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:46,000 This is not a wage dispute. Okay. These are people sick and tired of their freedoms be... 147 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:51,600 And if there was no zero COVID policy, we'd see if there was a wage dispute, it would ... 148 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:57,200 the whole police and army from all surrounding provinces to be sent in to que... 149 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:02,320 would literally be a bunch of people unsatisfied and they do a sit in, they do ... 150 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:07,040 their wages. This is like, screw this. They're people fleeing on the highways. Ye... 151 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:12,800 what I mean? Trying on foot. Everyone in the chat, please say hi to the paid government... 152 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:18,399 Yeah. In the chat right now to try to sway your opinion. Those are police riot shield... 153 00:13:18,399 --> 00:13:23,360 seeing there. All right. Those are not like Foxconn factory. Look at this worker dispute. 154 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:29,600 Yes. Must just be about their low wages. Yeah. No. Look, they're breaking down... 155 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:35,120 smashing COVID testing booths. That's got nothing to do with wages. The barriers are... 156 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:40,000 them from going anywhere because, hey, now you're under quarantine. The testing booth... 157 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,079 that they torture them with every day with all their stupid, you got to test twice a ... 158 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:50,000 whatever it is. Get a Q-tip shoved down your nose or your throat so far that it's, you... 159 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,840 that you feel like you, I don't know. I'll pause it there. Okay. I was waiting for th... 160 00:13:54,639 --> 00:14:01,440 Okay. So what you see on the left here is a live stream. So this is what happened. I w... 161 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:07,440 the kind of Chinese internet records slash archives until stuff got wiped. Yeah. And I 162 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:14,160 talked to some people that were there. And so what happened was there was a, and this is... 163 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:20,560 this is super rare, but this is the first time I've seen a protest inspire other one... 164 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:26,080 of the Chinese internet. And I'll tell you why. In China, they can shut down anything... 165 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,720 Yeah. And if something is being shown, it's being allowed to be shown. So if you see... 166 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,480 that's like, wow, I can't believe they're allowing that. It's allowed for a reason. ... 167 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:38,399 government literally has, basically you can picture it like a big button that says, sh... 168 00:14:38,399 --> 00:14:44,000 topic down. Shut this word down. They'll block words, phrases, live streams, areas.... 169 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,159 black out a whole area. They shut down live TV. I mean, you know, you're watching the ... 170 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:51,920 CNN will air something or something and they quickly cut it. On the internet. So it's... 171 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:57,120 bing, bing, bing. It's playing like some random adverts from like 20 years ago. Yea... 172 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:03,840 what happened was there was about five, between five and six minutes of live strea... 173 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:08,639 coming on Kwai Show on other live stream apps. Those are live streaming services. 174 00:15:08,639 --> 00:15:14,080 Right. In China. And they, people, because people are confused. People, they weren't... 175 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:18,240 like, I'm a clandestine reporter here on the ground. They were just whipping out their... 176 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,160 and saying, holy crap, what's going on? And in the live streams, they would say, I don... 177 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:26,480 what's going on. And people in the crowd would say things like, oh, they're actuall... 178 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:30,080 because everyone's getting locked down. They're like, oh yeah, yeah, get them, go ... 179 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:35,040 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go mess up the cops. And they actually, you could watch and listen 180 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:39,759 to people's opinions being shifted on the ground. Yeah. And so for those five or six... 181 00:15:39,759 --> 00:15:44,560 you had a whole country that had the ability to go see these no name channels live... 182 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:49,040 event that weren't there to plan to do it. Just were shocked that something was... 183 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,639 it took five or six minutes to shut everything down. And of course they shut... 184 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:58,080 They sent in all the cops. They did. But in that process, it was enough to get people... 185 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,520 whether maybe those people are from Zhengzhou, but they live in a different city 186 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:05,040 to start their own kind of thing. And we saw this happen in Chongqing a little bit. 187 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:11,440 And continuing to happen in Guangzhou. So this was a kind of like little spark that ... 188 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:16,080 not a national revolution, but a big enough thing to where it was not an isolated... 189 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:22,480 anymore. And that's why you're seeing campaigns from Chinese state media and... 190 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,320 campaigns from foreigners that work. When I say foreigners, like America, let's say an... 191 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,480 that works for the Chinese government, will put out a disinformation campaign to say, 192 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:35,840 this is really like, why would someone put a story about this? This is really actually... 193 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:42,480 disgruntled workers. This is not about zero COVID. Why is there an American YouTuber... 194 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:47,600 tweets like this? It's because there's a coordinated effort right now to shut down ... 195 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:52,320 this was anything but that. And it like, again, any doubt that this has got anythin... 196 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:58,000 zero COVID. All right. Yeah. Remember, they're breaking down the zero COVID... 197 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:03,680 attacking the zero COVID cops because these are the police and the military. They're a... 198 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:08,400 suits. Yes. Come in there to suppress the people. If it wasn't about zero COVID, you... 199 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:13,120 that. No. I mean, it makes it very easy, I suppose, in these situations to know who t... 200 00:17:13,120 --> 00:17:17,840 because they look like stormtroopers. Yeah, it's quite literally become Star Wars. Yea... 201 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:21,600 These are the rebels. Yeah. And I mean, you can just look at the sheer amount of peopl... 202 00:17:22,159 --> 00:17:27,519 had enough with this shit. Again, it's not a worker dispute. You understand, and we... 203 00:17:27,519 --> 00:17:31,839 before, guys, I want you to understand that if there are places, like in Qinghai, for... 204 00:17:31,839 --> 00:17:38,159 as a province in China, where over 40 days, people have been locked in one wet market, 205 00:17:38,159 --> 00:17:42,559 they can't go see anyone. They can't go see their families. They can't go to work.... 206 00:17:42,559 --> 00:17:47,279 in a wet market. There's a friend of mine in Mongolia has been locked up for 53 days. 5... 207 00:17:47,279 --> 00:17:50,319 In their apartment. In his apartment. Yeah. Can't leave. Not allowed to leave. 208 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:55,759 And people don't get that, you know? Yeah. Can you imagine being locked up for 53 days? 209 00:17:55,759 --> 00:18:00,799 That's what these workers don't want. No. That's why they were fleeing on foot down ... 210 00:18:00,799 --> 00:18:06,559 you know, in October. This is just, it's insane what's going on here. And you've go... 211 00:18:06,559 --> 00:18:11,519 people in one place, of course. Yeah. They're using fireworks again. It's a makeshift... 212 00:18:11,519 --> 00:18:16,960 Yeah, of course. Dude, this is absolutely what's going on right now in China. It's 213 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:22,240 absolutely crazy. It's crazy. Now, to some perspective that you might not get from li... 214 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:28,000 maybe a mainstream outlet, but this is where you can't use a Western lens to look at this. 215 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:34,639 Yeah. This is not an uprising that's saying, oh, let's overthrow the central government... 216 00:18:34,639 --> 00:18:40,799 not an uprising that says, oh, everyone rise up. Let's stop the Communist Party of Chin... 217 00:18:40,799 --> 00:18:46,639 doing that, right? Nope. The problem is, is that the Chinese government knows how thin... 218 00:18:46,639 --> 00:18:51,039 Yes. So things can take shape, right? This is in Guangzhou. They're putting up concrete... 219 00:18:51,039 --> 00:18:55,440 to stop people because they're revolting. And they keep breaking down the barriers. 220 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:00,480 And now they're like, you know, we'll use concrete and rubble and stuff to hold it i... 221 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:05,680 Right. Anyway, to take it back to that. Yeah. They know that it's a slippery slope and it's 222 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:11,440 a dangerous game. Yeah. Because all it takes is the intellectuals that know why this is... 223 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,759 to become inspirational figures in these movements. So you have to stop the movement 224 00:19:15,759 --> 00:19:19,840 while everyone's in the street and everyone's kind of raring to go. Because if you get... 225 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:24,880 figures in these areas, you can start to change people's minds about why this is... 226 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:30,560 happening. Yeah. This is not a local government problem. No. This is not my bos... 227 00:19:30,559 --> 00:19:35,839 is not the local police are so bad, but we love the police in Beijing deal. Yeah. And... 228 00:19:35,839 --> 00:19:42,159 take that long to change someone's mind. Again, this is not some completely uneduca... 229 00:19:42,159 --> 00:19:46,159 here. No. They're smart people, right? They know what's going on if you give them the... 230 00:19:46,159 --> 00:19:52,079 to understand the truth. Correct. And again, we have to be very mindful of the... 231 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:56,159 campaigns that are going on right now. And the number one disinformation campaign is... 232 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:01,759 shift the blame of these protests, which again, we have to make crystal clear on no... 233 00:20:01,759 --> 00:20:06,000 in Zhengzhou, but they're happening around the country, small pockets here and there.... 234 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:11,200 of them that we don't know about because it's suppressed so well, they're happening... 235 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:17,279 And it's not anything to do with a wage dispute. In that particular instance in th... 236 00:20:17,279 --> 00:20:24,080 factory, that is maybe what sparked them. But it was the zero COVID that created this mess. 237 00:20:24,159 --> 00:20:28,319 It's what turned it into. It's a zero COVID that changed it from a wage dispute. From ... 238 00:20:28,319 --> 00:20:34,079 Yeah. Because when they changed everyone's QR codes to red, all of a sudden it's like... 239 00:20:34,079 --> 00:20:40,240 People are like, no, let's break down the barriers. Let's get our freedom. It's just... 240 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:46,399 insane. You're seeing all of this stuff happening all over the place. Yeah. And it... 241 00:20:46,399 --> 00:20:50,879 It's an overreaction. It's zero COVID. It's an overreaction, right? And again, 242 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,360 another thing to bring up I wanted to bring up, I'm glad I didn't forget. 243 00:20:55,440 --> 00:21:00,400 There's a huge problem right now with a massive outflux of investors in China. Peo... 244 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:10,240 already running away. But China relied on constant influx of investment to keep its... 245 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:16,240 And so when people see what zero COVID is, the ability to lock down an entire area, s... 246 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:24,000 industry, shut down a local economy, to effectively stagnate and paralyze a country, 247 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,480 it scares the hell out of people, right? They're like, I'm going to take my money t... 248 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:32,720 I'm going to take my money to the Philippines. I'm going to move my factory... 249 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:38,319 this is in Chengdu. The empty streets are in Chengdu? Yes. And the other one, is that... 250 00:21:38,319 --> 00:21:43,519 the Foxconn? Yeah. Because, by the way, Chengdu is currently under lockdown, as yo... 251 00:21:43,519 --> 00:21:48,000 footage as usual. And there's a lot of these soft lockdowns going on. You know, like I got 252 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,039 friends in Beijing who are like, yeah, we're not really under... Oh, these are COVID te... 253 00:21:51,039 --> 00:21:55,359 I believe, in Eastern China. Okay, COVID tests, sorry. Here's the thing, like I got... 254 00:21:55,359 --> 00:22:00,639 Beijing, for instance. Yeah, look at the amount. I want people to understand how CO... 255 00:22:01,279 --> 00:22:05,920 What they're so paranoid about. This is how it's going to spread. I got people in Beij... 256 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:10,879 telling me, oh, we're not officially under lockdown, but all of the restaurants and... 257 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:15,600 closed and we can't go to public places and stuff, but we're not under lockdown. But t... 258 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:20,480 But I'm glad you brought that up, because going back to my point, they were so worri... 259 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:25,200 actual effects of people pulling out investment, they saw what economic damage ... 260 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:30,160 The central government knows this. So they say, oh, we're actually relaxing the zero... 261 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:34,640 regulations. They let rumors spread about that. And then all these stupid investors ... 262 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:39,120 They're like, oh, it's coming back. Yeah. The roaring dragons coming back. And they use 263 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,319 tactics like, oh, it's just a soft lockdown in Beijing. It's not a real lockdown. 264 00:22:42,319 --> 00:22:45,279 Yeah, it's a soft lockdown. And people are like, oh, this is... They're relaxing... 265 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:48,559 They're going to stop this nonsense. Oh, yeah. Let's go invest in them, these stock... 266 00:22:48,559 --> 00:22:54,319 investment bankers, you know, wankers going over there and just by throwing money at... 267 00:22:54,319 --> 00:22:57,759 because they're not seeing what's really happening. And you know what is happening? 268 00:22:57,759 --> 00:23:02,079 It's worse than before. It's way worse. The lockdowns are getting worse. 269 00:23:02,079 --> 00:23:08,159 Zero COVID is getting more restrictive. Yeah. We got a guy up north. I won't say where. ... 270 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:13,279 spoke to him this morning. They're just rebranding things. They're saying, oh, we're 271 00:23:13,279 --> 00:23:17,759 going to have high quality nucleic acid testing, high quality COVID testing now.... 272 00:23:17,759 --> 00:23:23,360 Right. What does that even mean? They are now in his city, right? And this is not a majo... 273 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:26,880 Yeah. And you won't hear this on the news. They're now saying that everyone has to wear 274 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:31,519 masks and stand 1.5 meters apart and wash their hands. But they've added a rule. Okay. 275 00:23:31,519 --> 00:23:36,400 What's the rule? They've added a rule now that if you're in line anywhere, including... 276 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:41,519 line and line for groceries, you're not allowed to talk or else it's against the l... 277 00:23:41,519 --> 00:23:47,440 spreads COVID. So you can't talk now. Right. So they're coming up with all these... 278 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:51,680 the laws and rules and zero COVID is just as bad, if not worse in places you're not goi... 279 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:57,040 any reporting out of. Yeah. Right. Again, I'm just bringing it back to the fact that... 280 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,920 attacking the COVID testing booths. Yes. Because anyone tries to tell you it's a wa... 281 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,519 ask why are they attacking the COVID testing booths? Why are they breaking down the COVID 282 00:24:05,519 --> 00:24:10,319 quarantine barriers? Yeah. What does that have to do with a wage dispute? Yes. You... 283 00:24:10,319 --> 00:24:15,200 They're not burning down the factory. No. You know, they're not. No. Seizing the means of 284 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:21,440 production. No. You know? No. They are breaking down the COVID barriers. They are... 285 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:27,359 the police in hazmat suits. It's all COVID related. It's all COVID zero related. And, 286 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:33,200 you know, it's dumb because another disinformation campaign I've been seeing... 287 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:39,039 is this idea that zero COVID is saving China's economy. Because of zero COVID,... 288 00:24:39,039 --> 00:24:43,440 the infections down so that means production can continue. No, it's actually having the... 289 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:48,799 opposite effect. Because when everyone's locked down, the production ceases. And... 290 00:24:48,799 --> 00:24:55,360 getting a cold, which is what COVID has, you know, kind of become now, it's like a bad... 291 00:24:55,360 --> 00:25:01,200 mild flu. If anyone's had it, they'll know everybody that I know has had it. It's not... 292 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,279 it's not like the first iteration. No, the first iteration was awful. But it's got to... 293 00:25:05,279 --> 00:25:08,400 now where you're in bed for a couple of days and you're over it and then you continue on. 294 00:25:09,519 --> 00:25:14,080 That would be way better for China's economy and for the world's economy. But of course, 295 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,720 they're trying to clamp down on this idea that this control method that they have, t... 296 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:24,319 absurd over the top control method, which can control everyday life exactly where everybody 297 00:25:24,319 --> 00:25:30,640 can go, what they have to do. They all have to be tested multiple times before they ca... 298 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,320 anything. You can't go into a shopping mall, you can't go and buy your groceries, you... 299 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:39,759 take a bus, you can't take a train unless you have that green QR code. It's insane how much 300 00:25:39,759 --> 00:25:44,320 control they have. And so they're trying to justify it through all these different... 301 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:50,400 campaigns. And it's awful and sick and tired of it. It's a bad system. And you can see ... 302 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:56,000 is now boiling over and people have had it because people have been locked up like... 303 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,480 over again, all because of this stupid policy. You know? 304 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,240 So coming out of this, because we're about to wrap this segment up and we can get into the 305 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:09,680 regular show. By the way, if you guys are new, please subscribe. We have a live Chin... 306 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:16,160 every Friday. Number two, I want you guys to be super hyper aware of the news that's... 307 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:22,319 of this, not from major outlets, from people that claim to be on the ground in China or... 308 00:26:22,319 --> 00:26:27,039 oh, this is actually what's happening here. And they keep diverting it back to the who... 309 00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:31,599 dispute, because then you'll know you're actually looking at a disinformation... 310 00:26:31,599 --> 00:26:34,399 you'll have you're armed with the knowledge to actually go forward with that. 311 00:26:34,399 --> 00:26:40,799 Yeah, exactly. This is not a wage dispute, guys. This is an uprising against zero COV... 312 00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:45,679 you don't if you don't believe it, look at what happened to the same factory not that... 313 00:26:45,679 --> 00:26:51,599 where everybody was fleeing because of the zero COVID stuff on foot. There's incredib... 314 00:26:51,599 --> 00:26:57,119 of that of people just walking down the highways with all of their belongings to... 315 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:03,599 lockdowns. It's all got to do with the COVID lockdowns. And it's it's like being... 316 00:27:03,599 --> 00:27:09,199 It really is. Once you have that red QR code, you are now a prisoner. And the state decides 317 00:27:09,199 --> 00:27:14,399 if you're going to be imprisoned in your dormitory, if you're going to be imprisone... 318 00:27:14,399 --> 00:27:20,719 locked in a container somewhere in these quarantine facilities, or any weird place.... 319 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,120 are not allowed to order your own food. You have to rely on the state for food. And... 320 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:31,039 we've had situations with people starving to death. It's true. The deaths from zero fro... 321 00:27:31,039 --> 00:27:36,160 China are are uncountable. We'll never know the real amount of deaths from the actual... 322 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:41,920 itself from the first outbreak. But the deaths from starvation, suicide, mental... 323 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:47,360 all this other crap people, people who have like serious medical conditions, but canno... 324 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:52,719 help because they don't have a thing. Another thing to bring up a lot of the uprisings... 325 00:27:52,719 --> 00:27:58,799 now, particularly we had one Lanzhou. Yeah. And there's a new one because babies and k... 326 00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:03,039 died because they can't get medical attention. Yeah. So you got a kid with an... 327 00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:07,839 fever, very sick needs immediate medical attention. And they're like, no, even thou... 328 00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:11,599 hospital 800 meters away, they're like, you don't have the QR code or you have to... 329 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:15,279 whatever, and the kid doesn't get medical attention. That's a real story, by the way. 330 00:28:15,279 --> 00:28:20,399 Kid dies, the whole local areas like screw this bullshit. Yeah, they're like, that's ... 331 00:28:20,399 --> 00:28:26,559 enough. This zero COVID thing is a massive mistake. It's a massive, massive, they can... 332 00:28:26,559 --> 00:28:30,720 it. That's how one party state works. So when you want to apologize for a one party state 333 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:35,519 and authoritarianism, and you want to say, hey, at least they get stuff done. No, thi... 334 00:28:35,519 --> 00:28:40,160 actually what happens in the end. Anyway, the fact of the matter is, sorry, let us get u... 335 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:45,920 there. Things are not under control. As much as the Chinese government tries its absolu... 336 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,880 to push the propaganda narrative that zero COVID is working, and they've beat COVID, 337 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,400 and it's amazing. And because of it, they are leading the world. And they've done everyone 338 00:28:54,400 --> 00:29:00,560 such a big favor because of zero COVID. All they've done is hurt the people of China...