China Is Not As Powerful As You Think

On this episode of China Uncensored,

some really anti-China things are being said, by...

China?

Welcome back to China Uncensored,

I’m your host Chris Chappell.

What do you think of when you hear “China”?

Hopefully—China Uncensored, starring Chris Chappell.

But our budget is a long way from what the Chinese Communist Party spends.

They’re spending $10 billion dollars a year to make sure that you love China.

What are they buying with those 10 billion dollars?

Why, all sorts of things!

Especially articles and videos that help you

focus on all the amazing things China’s glorious leaders have accomplished,

because, you know, China gets things done.

For example, they have this newspaper section called China Watch

that looks like articles, but is actually paid propaganda.

And then they pay American newspapers

to put them in as advertisements.

And combine things like that with operating American TV News channels,

and buying influence in Hollywood, and eventually you get

American media publishing their own articles praising the China model.

But right now, it seems the Communist Party wants you to hold on a sec,

because China isn’t really all that great.

You see, Americans have been seeing all the propaganda for years,

and a lot of them are now really worried that China

is some kind of super powerful,

existential threat to the world.

That it’s flooding the US with spies.

Or secretly building up the largest military in the world.

Or that China is a strategic competitor of the US.

Haha, couldn’t be further from the truth.

Really, there’s no way China could be doing all that.

I mean, the US is still number one, China can’t compete.

And that, ladies and gentlemen,

is the new message from the Chinese regime’s propaganda machine.

This People’s Daily editorial says calling China “the world’s first”

or “number one in the world”

“could easily make people misunderstand or even misjudge” China.

China’s US Ambassador Cui Tiankai said at a recent meeting,