Shelley is out of town, so Matt and Chris bring on Allen Xie, host of Generation Tech, who valiantly served as the China Uncensored cameraman in Hong Kong during the Umbrella Revolution, sailed into disputed China/Philippine territorial waters in the Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea—as well as in Taiwan and New Zealand.

China and the US have two competing visions for the future of the global Internet. Don't like Internet censorship and mass surveillance? Better hope China doesn't get its way in the United Nations and Huawei doesn't build your 5G network. A VPN won't save you from China's internet police.

Venezuela is in chaos, as current President Nicolas Maduro tries to maintain his grip on power, in the face of challenger Juan Guaido. We sit down with Juan Ravell, founder of the satirical Venezuelan new ssite El Chigüire Bipolar to find out what's really happening in Venezuela. Plus, Chinese Lunar New Year, President Trump's State of the Union Address, and China eye's Reddit!

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https://www.elchiguirebipolar.net/

As the presidential Venezuela crisis heats up, countries around the world are choosing between current socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro and the democratically elected head of the National Assembly Juan Guaido. Why has China chosen Maduro? That plus updates on the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou,

As the Trump administration heats up the China Trade War, is there any hope that the US can get a trade deal from Chinese leader Xi Jinping? Special Guest Pierce Norton talks about the coming Trade War "Event Horizon."

Pierce Norton's Blog

https://pcnorton.com/

Kim Jong-Un spends his birthday in China visiting Chinese leader Xi Jinping. China lands a lunar probe on the far side of the moon. The shady dealings of Huawei. And we sit down with Ian Easton to talk about Xi Jinping's recent speech on Taiwan and a possible war for "peaceful reunification."

The Chinese Invasion Threat: Taiwan's Defense and American Strategy in Asia

https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Invasion-Threat-American-Strategy/dp/1546353259

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Reggie Littlejohn is helping people in China in the most dangerous way. Her organization helps victims of the Communist Party's forced abortions, One-Child Policy, and lack of a social safety net for the elderly. But her group, Women's Rights Without Frontiers, must fly under the Party's radar, or face problems of its own.

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https://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org

Celebrated investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann discusses forced organ harvesting in China: How it started 20 years ago in Xinjiang, how foreign doctors helped China develop this technology, how much profit is being made by killing people for their organs, and how the Western medical community has tried to cover it all up.

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The Slaughter

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Losing the New China

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China has been upgrading its persecution technology over its entire history! And the techniques it perfected in the anti-Falun Gong campaign are now being used to "identicide" the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. We talk to China researcher and scholar Matthew Robertson.

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From police stations on every corner to vocational training/concentration camps will over a million people, the Chinese Communist Party has pulled out all the stops to make sure the Uighur ethnic minority of Xinjiang feel safe and loved. We sit down with Uighur activists Nury Turkel and Irade Kashgary to learn more about what life in Xinjiang is like.

For more information visit

Uighur Human Rights Project

https://uhrp.org/

World Uighur Congress

http://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/