The CCP’s Trojan War: TikTok and WeChat
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We all know that US President Trump just signed two executive orders to block all U.S. transactions with TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance, as well as WeChat’s owner Tencent. As both TikTok and WeChat have large numbers of users, many people will be affected, and people are talking a lot about this. Today I’d like to present some of my own perspectives on this: Why I called this a “modern-day Trojan War” waged by the CCP against the US and the free world as early as two years ago, some hard evidence I found regarding the relationships between TikTok and the CCP, some concrete examples of to what extent TikTok and Wechat have been weaponized by the CCP, as well as the risk of Microsoft’s potential acquisition of TikTok. So stay tuned.
What is a “Modern-Day Trojan War”? What is at Stake?
First of all, what is a “modern-day Trojan War”? And What is at stake?
This "modern-day Trojan War" I started to talk about two years ago is not about fighting for the "fairest" goddess in the world, but about a battle for the future of humankind between the United States, the free world and a "hidden" force, whose ultimate goal is to destroy humanity. If the "hidden" force wins, humankind will be doomed.
When I said "hidden" force two years ago, I of course meant the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP.
I said, with the future of humankind as the "trophy" for this battle, the CCP has adopted a Trojan War type of ruse to achieve its goal, while the United States and the world may not be aware of it, even until the "hidden" force is very, very close to a complete success.
With the latest development with the case of TikTok and Wechat, I think this idea is even clearer today: With the “hidden force” being the CCP, what’s inside the wooden horse of the "modern-day Trojan War" are the CCP's corrupt ideology, corrupt values and corrupt way of behavior, which aim to control, corrupt and then destroy humankind.
And the wooden horse the CCP uses to hide its "troops" actually consists of many different parts, including TikTok and WeChat.
Why do I say so?
TikTok and WeChat Are the CCP’s “Wooden Horse”
With CCP’s full support, WeChat has long since become the dominating app in China. Everyone with a smartphone relies on it virtually for everything: to obtain news and information regarding what’s going on in the world, to contact friends and family, to do shopping, business, to make payments, to entertain oneself, etc.
Many workplaces use WeChat as a platform to send notices. School teachers use it to give assignments to students and to send notifications to parents. Students are required to submit their homework via WeChat, etc.
To sum it up, if you don’t use WeChat, you can hardly survive in CCP’s China.
And how about dozens of millions of overseas Chinese people?
My own estimation is, over 80% of them are using WeChat, as everyone has family and friends in China, so they have to install it, as this is almost the only way to maintain contacts with people in China.
It has also become a must-have tool if you want to do business with Chinese people or Chinese companies, regardless of whether you are inside or outside of China. Almost all small businesses list their WeChat numbers as the main contact info for their customers.
With WeChat having become an “essential” part of Chinese people’s life, what kind of content is provided on this platform?
Let me give you some concrete examples.
On March 3 this year, I talked to someone in China over the phone.
By the way, I am one of the very few overseas Chinese people who have never used WeChat. Why didn’t I use it? Because I learned the terrible features of WeChat as early as 7 years ago, from a high school classmate who is also an IT engineer.
He told me that as soon as you installed WeChat on your phone, the CCP would have access to virtually everything on your phone, including information of all your contacts.
This classmate learned computer science in America, worked in Silicon Valley for several years, and then went back to China to set up his own company.
As he had mastered the most advanced technology, his company was soon hired by the CCP to especially work against a software called Freegate developed by some overseas Chinese, or to put it more specifically, some overseas Falun Gong practitioners, to help Internet users in China or other countries to visit websites that are blocked by their governments.
This classmate told me that the CCP had set no limit as to how much money they could spend on blocking Freegate, as long as they could disable it, they could spend as much as they liked. Because this classmate worked in this area, he knew many inside stories regarding CCP’s internet control.
So because of the information I learned from him, I never used WeChat.
Ok, this is a little bit off the track. Now let’s go back to what happened in March this year when I talked to someone in China over the phone.
Basically, she very eagerly reported to me four pieces of news about the US she saw on WeChat that day:
The first piece was, over 10 thousand people in the US have died of the flu this year. That was actually the third time she reported the same “news” to me.
The second news she told me was that President Trump refused to shake hands with a congressman and had slapped that congressman on the face. When I tried to say that if this really happened, that would have been the biggest news of the day, and I could not have missed it. However, I didn’t see any news about this in America, so it must be fake news. But no matter how I tried to explain, she didn’t believe me whatsoever, saying that she had seen the video of Trump slapping that congressman with her own eyes. How could she not believe it?
The third news she told me was that there was a hurricane in the US somewhere;
The fourth news she shared with me was that panic-buying was happening in San Francisco, especially among Chinese communities, and that she strongly suggested that I hoard enough food too, so that I wouldn’t starve to death.
On April 11, I talked to her again, and she told me that she learned from WeChat the following 3 pieces of news:
1. President Trump has apologized to China and Chinese people for calling COVID19 "Chinese virus"
2. The US is suffering very badly from coronavirus and cannot stand on its feet now, and is begging China for help.
3. China will become the No. 1 country in the world after the pandemic.
From the above actual examples, we can see that the information or misinformation about the US on the WeChat is carefully designed and arranged for the Chinese people. Some pieces are sheer lies, such as Trump has slapped a congressman on his face, but are made so real that people have no other choices but to believe in it.
Some of the WeChat contents are truths, or partly true, such as the news about the hurricane, the flu, the panic buying in the Chinese community, etc. But the purpose of reporting the truth, such as over 10 thousand people have died of flu in the US, is to try to say to Chinese people, “Don’t blame us for the pandemic, the situation in the US is so much worse.” In this way, Chinese people will still feel good about the CCP’s ruling.
Some of the WeChat information is, of course, sheer propaganda, to brainwash Chinese people, such as China will become the No. 1 country after the pandemic.
So imagine, if enough overseas Chinese people also mainly rely on WeChat to get their information, the CCP has successfully turned the WeChat, and TikTok too, in this matter, into their “wooden horse” for their modern-day “Trojan War” against the free world.
Orginaze, Moblize, Molintor and Control
After enough people are using TikTok and WeChat, or any other CCP controlled apps, these apps can easily be used to organize, mobilize, monitor, and control people.
Let me give you another example.
Back in 2017, I shared on social media a message circulated on WeChat ahead of President Trump and CCP leader Xi Jinping’s upcoming meeting in Florida in April that year. That message shows that Chinese people were offered $60 per day to go to Florida to "welcome" Xi Jinping. It also said that transportation, food, and housing would also be taken care of, which means, the CCP would pay all the expenses for people from other places to go there to show support for Xi Jinping.
After I shared this WeChat message on Facebook, someone left a comment under my post, saying that he was an overseas Chinese, he had studied in Japan and then worked in France. Under the Chinese consulate’s “ruling”, he and others had welcomed the Chinese president “numerous” times without being paid anything.
Then he corrected himself by saying that the “ruling” in his previous comment should be “notifying”.
I almost laughed at this “coincidence”, as in the Chinese language, the pronunciation of “rule” and “notify” is almost exactly the same. “Rule” in Chinese is “Tongzhi(統治）”，“notify” in Chinese is “Tongzhi(通知）”.
So the guy who left a comment under my post must have wanted to type in “notify” in Chinese, but mistakenly chose the word “rule” instead.
Then I thought to myself: Wait a minute. Isn’t “notifying” exactly a form of “ruling”?
For example, although I am Chinese in terms of ethnicity, I am an Australian citizen in a legal sense, as I hold an Australian passport. As an Australian citizen living in the US, I never ever received any “notification” from the Australian consulates or Australian government about anything.
However, the CCP’s consulates, by using the WeChat app, can easily send their “notifications”, or “rules”, in this matter, to Chinese people living in overseas countries, and mobilize them to do things that the CCP wants them to do.
Isn’t this another proof that WeChat has indeed become a weapon for the CCP’s “Trojan War”?
Another similar story happened not long ago. Maybe you’ve already heard about it.
On June 20 this year, before President Trump was going to have his first campaign rally in months in Tulsa, Oklahoma, almost 1 million requested tickets for the rally, but only about 6,200 showed up to an arena with space for 19,000. It turned out TikTok was used to organize enough people to act together to achieve the result that some people wanted to achieve.
Mining Data
Apart from spreading information or misinformation, mobilizing, controlling, and monitoring people, TikTok and WeChat can also be used to mine mega data from users. In the age of Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI), everyone understands the importance of data. Some call it the most important strategic resource a country can have.
I remember in late 2018 when two Chinese hackers associated with the Ministry of State Security in China were charged by the United States with an extensive global computer-intrusion campaign carried out over more than a decade, people were shocked to learn how vast the intrusion campaign was, and how much information they had stolen.
Apart from other military & technology-related information, the hackers also stole personal information of more than 100K U.S. Navy personnel, including their names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, salary information, personal phone numbers, and email addresses. It shows that personal information is also very important to the CCP, that’s why their hackers were stealing it.
If now, with so many people using TikTok and WeChat, CCP can “legally”, conveniently and easily gather people’s information from these apps, how wonderful that would be for the CCP?
Will Microsoft’s Acquisition Make TikTok Safe?
Another important question to ask is: Will Microsoft’s acquisition make TikTok safe?
My answer is, probably not.
Let’s first of all, check two media reports I found, which tell us that CCP’s DNA might have been planted into TikTok’s very being, and it is very hard to change or remove it.
The first media report is about an event held at the headquarters of TikTok’s parent company ByteDance in Beijing last year. The event was held jointly by the CCP branch of ByteDance and the Overseas Chinese Federation in China. The theme of the event is "Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind.”
"Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind” is a famous CCP slogan quoted from Xi Jinping’s speech at the CCP’s 19th National Congress in 2017.
And what is CCP’s “original aspiration” and “mission”? The Manifesto of the Communist Party has made it very clear: to overthrow all old systems, to smash all existing human civilizations, to “liberate” all mankind, and to realize Communism in the entire world.
So, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance vowed to"remain true” to CCP’s “original aspiration” and keep its mission “firmly in mind”.
And through what kind of methods?
The report also makes this very clear: “through massive information collection, in-depth data mining and user behavior analysis.”
From this report, we also learned that ByteDance’s deputy editor-in-chief Feng Kaixu is also the deputy secretary of the CCP’s committee at Bytedance. We learned from another report that ByteDance’s editor-in-chief Zhang Fuping is also CCP’s party secretary, and there are 138 CCP branch committee members at ByteDance’s headquarters in Beijing.
Please note that 138 are only party branch committee members, not ordinary CCP members. 138 party branch committee members mean that they could have 10 times more ordinary CCP members.
Another report I found is about ByteDance signing a strategic cooperation agreement with CCP's police force. From this report we learned that ByteDance is doing everything it can to help the CCP police. Apart from “big data analysis, accurate push and creative planning”, ByteDance also provides professional training to the CCP police, as well as the most powerful and sophisticated tools and platforms to the CCP police, so that they can have an all-out presence and influence at all levels of the cyberspace.
If, at the designing, or development stage, CCP’s "Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind” was written into the source code of TikTok, how can that be changed by simply changing the ownership of TikTok?
Furthermore, if we check Microsoft’s track record, we know that Microsoft collaborates with the CCP on AI, and helped China build its Great Firewall; Bill Gate’s nuclear firm worked with CCP military; Microsoft worked with the CCP to develop a special type of Skype, called TOM-Skype for Chinese users. Microsoft intentionally redirected Chinese users so that they would download a different program, one which looks almost the same as Skype but opens up a user’s communications to surveillance by the CCP.
With all the above-mentioned factors and track records, I seriously doubt whether letting Microsoft take over TikTok will make it safer.
Perhaps we should learn from India and just ban all unsafe CCP apps outright.
Ok, that’s all for today. Thanks for watching. Please make sure you subscribe to my channel, and check out my other videos.
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8/11/2020
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