China doesn't declare war

hi welcome to China uncensored

I'm your host Chris Chappell

remember that passive aggressive friend of yours back in high school

the one who always was nice to you in person

but then you found out later

they were talking some serious smack behind your back?

-because you're really pretty -thank you

that's China

only instead of talking smack

china is waging an actual military war with you

behind your back

unless you're one of the 50 cent trolls watching this from china

in which case congratulations you're winning

the point is since the late nineties

most American mainstream media and politicians have been like

Oh China shiny high-speed trains and

Oh china please make all my cheap stuff

more recently it's been like hey come on

stop hacking us that's not nice

but seriously can you hurry up and make my new iphone?

it's like at some level we know it's an unhealthy relationship

and yet we do it anyway

the weird thing about hanging out with Regina was that I could hate her

and at the same time I still wanted her to like me

long before the first Chinese hack was reported in the media

china has been in an all-out war with the United States

US government intelligence has known about this for a long time

but the average American has no idea

because China never declared war

And China hasn't fired a single bullet

nonetheless the communist party of china is engaged

in a full-scale multi-billion dollar war with the United States

and it threatens every American worker and taxpayer

this war is called hybrid warfare

this US army white paper from last year states

that people's liberation army colonel Qiao Liang

has already laid out a vision for how China will attack the United States

through military and non-military tactics

the first rule of unrestricted warfare, he says

is that there are no rules.

with nothing forbidden.

no rules?

nothing forbidden?

it's like, you think you're playing football but then

let the games begin

so to learn more about this I recently sat down

with cyber espionage expert and investigative journalist

joshua philipp

he told me how the Communist Party's hybrid warfare works

and their systematic plan for making the US

more and more vulnerable.

and what's more it's happening right under our noses

what do you think the endgame is of all of this?

yeah, so the end game for the chinese communist party

its programs for economic theft are not isolated

they're part of what the US military would call hybrid warfare

And in fact there was a recent report from US Special Operations Command

saying China is waging hybrid warfare in the United States

hybrid warfare is a way of fighting war against another country

without using troops on troops combat

and so that includes economic theft

financial warfare

propaganda warfare

drug warfare

smuggling warfare

basically every kind of warfare you can think of

that doesn't involve, you know,

troops killing each other on a battlefield

this is a form of war meant to achieve what war would achieve

without firing bullets

so with this hybrid warfare could the Communist party of China try to,

say, target the U.S. power grid and shut it down?

Uh, they have.

they have unfortunately.

there are many people in the defense community

who believe that the Chinese Communist Party was behind

the 2003 shutdown of the New York City electrical grid

referred to as the blackout

the Chinese Communist Party and Russia

and several other countries are actively involved in attacking

what we call critical infrastructure

this is our roads, our power grid, our financial system..

it's basically all of the different systems within a country

that allow the country to function

you see? these are key targets in the event of war

because these are the things you could hit that would disable

the war fighting ability

you see, you destabilize the country to the extent

that they're no longer capable of waging war against you

i think the issue here is it's very easy for me

to imagine a terrorist with an ak-47 blowing something up

but you know talking about hacking the internet

it's a world that people don't have like, physical..

they can't come to grips with it in a very real way

right

this is the unfortunate nature of the modern world in general

the form of war changed during the Cold War

that was when war went from being, you know, fighting on the surface

to fighting beneath the wires

it's when spies became the main force

you know in the militaries

and the Internet enabled that to another level

because then you have spies who can work on the internet

and not just happened to infiltrate buildings and so on

the majority of modern warfare is being fought through unconventional means

as far back as 2007

the US military was saying China's waging full-scale force-on-force warfare

against us in cyberspace

so what is being done to prevent this?

unfortunately very little

Why?

okay so my sources tell me and it's not just my sources

but a lot of other people

the United States is overly focused on terrorism

plain and simple

we're putting all of our attention on terrorism

And the Chinese Communist Party has been running rampant

until I'd say until very recently

So while the war on terror was happening

that essentially left China unchecked

the communist party of china unchecked

to develop this program

they're costing us trillions of dollars and actually making this country less safe

that's right unfortunately

not only that but also the Chinese Communist Party

you know even provides weapons to these organizations

if you look at a lot of the countries that have terrorists problems

I mean a lot of the weapons come from China

you know it's like the Chinese Communist Party's keeping us busy with one hand

and then stealing - stealing from our pockets with the other hand

the implications of this are really terrifying actually

and so this is something that as a country

I believe we need to start taking more seriously

this is just the tip of the iceberg

in fact the Chinese Communist Party has developed

a complex and very profitable system for stealing American technology

and then using it against us in its quest to be a world superpower

and it's costing american taxpayers and businesses

trillions of dollars a year

if you'd like me to talk more with Joshua Philipp about this in a future episode

let me know in the comments below

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once again I'm Chris Chappell

see you next time