00:04In Beijing, near the Forbidden City,
00:07film producer Lu Jianmin
receives us in its offices.
00:12Among his films, his greatest success,
Warrior Wolves 2.
00:20Here is the poster
from the first Wolf Warriors movie.
00:25And this one,
it is that of the second.
00:28This movie you do
surely don't know him,
00:31but it's
one of the most profitable works
00:35700 million euros in revenue,
more than Mission Impossible
00:40Look. It's a price
given to me by the government.
00:47And this one is a prize
won for the influence the film had.
00:51We got so many prizes
we had to put them somewhere else.
00:57Released in 2017, this film
has become a cult among young people,
01:01thanks to its screenplay
super patriotic.
01:12the story of a hero
who flies to the aid of Africans
01:14victims of Western mercenaries.
01:18Rambo is no longer an American,
he is now Chinese.
01:24In the past,
China has been weak.
01:28Our country has been invaded
and abused.
01:31Today,
our country is powerful
01:34and we don't suffer
more humiliation.
01:36In China, it is said that diplomats
have become warrior wolves.
01:39I am completely
agree with that.
01:42And on the international scene,
01:44we must
so get respect.
01:47This movie has become
the symbol of the Beijing new line,
01:56that's the name
of this new generation
01:59Around the world,
they defend honor
02:01and the values of their country.
02:03No more question of being silent.
02:09"No attempt to divide
of China will never succeed.
02:13those who play
with fire will only get burned.
02:18When in crisis
China is accused of being responsible
02:20of the Covid epidemic,
they respond immediately.
02:24"It could be the US military
who brought this epidemic to Wuhan.
02:28United States
owe us an explanation."
02:33The staff
French caregivers in EHPADs
02:35left their posts
leaving their residents to die
02:37of hunger and disease."
02:41It is amazing to see
than the most authoritarian countries
02:44of the world have become
masters of communication.
02:47What's wrong with being
a wolf warrior to defend fairness
02:50and international justice?
02:54Diplomacy
is not a world of care bears.
02:57China returns
in a head-on confrontation.
03:00She wasn't doing
never this before.
03:02The Warrior Wolves
speak with one voice.
03:04They are on duty
for the diet
03:06and its leader,
President Xi Jinping.
03:14The epidemic defeated,
renewed growth,
03:16never since the death of Mao,
China had not displayed
03:23China is really powerful
and the Communist Party is good.
03:26We Chinese
we can say that our country
03:28became a world leader.
03:30In the United States or Europe,
China is waging a cultural offensive,
03:34politics and technology.
03:38We are going to invest in France
in the next ten years,
03:4150 billion euros in 5G.
03:46We'll write a check
50 billion to the Chinese?
03:49What is the strategy
of the Chinese giant?
03:51What are
the Beijing maneuvers
03:53to establish itself as
the leading world power ?
03:57They can control
all the planet they want,
04:00You would accept at home
that we control your communications?
04:09Launched to attack the world,
Beijing designated France
04:12like a land
of privileged conquest.
04:15And China decoded
since a long time
04:17how did they work
French power circles.
04:20With us, she seeks
to seduce the political class
04:25And all occasions are good,
like last september
04:28in cozy lounges
of this grand Parisian hotel.
04:31The Chinese Business Club
is a big business meeting
04:34Franco-Chinese organized
every month by Harold Parisot.
04:40There is a Chinese delegation.
04:42The idea is to network
at a high level with bosses,
04:45politics,
business leaders,
04:46journalists,
people from different departments.
04:49There are senators, deputies,
ambassadors from major countries.
04:52It really is a club
Anglo-Saxon.
04:54people are there
to do business,
04:56collect business cards.
04:57And then behind, the idea
is that it is followed by effect,
05:01In the room, 200 guests
and not just business leaders.
05:06Beijing dispatched number two
of his embassy in Paris.
05:10Around her,
seated at the head table,
05:12three former ministers,
05:14Michele Alliot-Marie,
Philippe Douste-Blazy and André Santini.
05:21We even find
Bernard Squarcini, the former boss
05:24intelligence services.
05:26A small question for France 2?
05:28No.
I have already given.
05:31Just tell me why you came.
- To see friends.
05:36See you soon, thank you.
05:38What are we worth
your presence here today?
05:41It's not
my first time here.
05:43I come
quite regularly.
05:44Here the political class and the class
businessmen meet,
05:47exchange and possibly,
can talk about the future?
05:50Absolutely I think
that it is important
05:53that we know how to put
instead of the other,
05:55that we know
his concerns,
05:57whether on the part
policies for business people
06:00or from
business men
06:02with regard to concerns
politics.
06:06For Beijing, it's a godsend,
06:08direct access
to French personalities
06:12Why is this important?
06:13It's because
it's a trading platform
06:19in the middle
economic and commercial.
06:22We can meet
to discuss our cooperation.
06:29There should be cooperation
instead of confrontation.
06:42Beijing seeks to seduce
French elites
06:44to get their messages across.
06:46Their best relay,
you know him,
06:48a former prime minister.
06:50For twenty years,
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
06:54work on good relations
between France and China.
06:58In 2019, President Xi Jinping
even presented him with the friendship medal,
07:04a supreme distinction.
07:06Only a few close to the regime,
like Vladimir Putin
07:09or Raúl Castro, received it.
07:13I have been recognized
as a partner of China
07:19because I took
several thousand companies in China,
07:25French companies,
SMEs, large.
07:27I am not a diplomat
I don't do diplomacy
07:32Jean-Pierre Raffarin is also
the star of a television show
07:36from a Chinese state broadcaster,
intended for French speakers.
07:40In this episode, he makes us
visit a major city in China.
07:44There, we can see
modernity and tradition.
07:47In this one,
it pays homage to sports equipment.
07:51China is the world leader
tennis rackets.
07:54China has become a world leader
07:55in a very large
number of sectors.
07:58But Jean-Pierre Raffarin
praises above all the talents
08:00of President Xi Jinping,
08:02a president who
assumed all powers
08:05and tolerates no opposition.
08:08The leadership of Mr. Xi Jinping
is powerful leadership
08:12in a big country
where authority is naturally needed
08:15to rule more
of one billion 400 million inhabitants.
08:19Lots of observers
say to Monsieur Raffarin
08:22that he plays into China's hands.
08:23I play the game of peace.
08:27So I pay attention
that relationships are maintained.
08:31Politically, they have no
the same values as us,
08:34they do not have
the same history, nor civilization.
08:37It's a civilization
5000 years old.
08:39You have to be careful,
it is nevertheless quite rooted.
08:42And in this context,
that civilization
08:46is based on values
which are not ours.
08:49I called them
French pandas.
08:52French people fascinated
by China,
08:55what I understand,
it is a fascinating country.
08:58One can be fascinated by China,
its history, its culture
09:01and yet not
accept the appalling regime
09:06who, politically,
is imposed today on the Chinese.
09:09Me, I am a free man,
so I live things.
09:12There are disagreements,
there are interests.
09:14I think in diplomacy,
09:16it must not be forgotten
the interests of France.
09:18Sometimes you worry.
09:19You have not been called
by information?
09:25I obviously work with the services,
but I was never summoned.
09:29There was
a bit of a caveat.
09:32All of this,
it is propaganda.
09:36However, Jean-Pierre Raffarin
was invited to lunch
09:40by service
French intelligence in 2018.
09:44According to Le Canard enchaîné,
09:45it was a warning
about his dating.
09:50But he is not
the only politician in France
09:52to defend Chinese interests.
09:55Others are today
at the service of their businesses.
09:58After Jean-Louis Borloo,
it's the turn of Jean-Marie Le Guen,
10:02the former minister of François Hollande,
to join the council
10:05board of directors of Huawei,
Chinese multinational
10:12What comes to do
a minister of the republic
10:14to the board of directors
of a Chinese group which, in addition,
10:19is castigated from all sides?
10:21Huawei is a global champion,
extraordinary
10:24so i think he is
in good taste that there is on the market,
10:28including in Europe,
10:29it is in Europe's interest,
and France,
10:31a variety of suppliers.
10:36Why is Huawei hiring
former French politicians
10:39to defend their interests?
10:42Huawei may be
the first Chinese and Asian company
10:46to have understood
the functioning of the French state
10:50and politics
at the heart of the French state.
10:53And so they use
the biggest firms
10:55public relations,
the biggest lobby firms.
10:58They have cabinets that allow them
to have appointments
11:01face to face
with deputies,
11:03senators, mayors, etc.,
11:06to be able to sit
their influence and their network.
11:09Huawei's principle is to have
all actionable power levers.
11:14Huawei France therefore appealed
to the biggest agencies
11:17of communications in Paris.
11:20The Havas agency, Publicis,
11:25Boury, Tallon and Associates
and the Patricia Goldman agency.
11:31The latter also manages
Jean-Marie Le Guen's presentation.
11:35During six months,
Many times,
11:38we asked them for an interview
and always the same answer.
11:45"I confirm you that
neither Huawei nor Jean-Marie Le Guen,
11:51What exact role was given
to the former minister
11:54and new columnist
from the LCI channel?
11:58We went to meet him.
12:03This is to ask you a question,
is it tenable today
12:05to work for
a company like Huawei?
12:07Is that why you're here?
12:08Yes.
- Have a good evening.
12:09It's just to ask you
12:11if it is tenable to work
for a company like Huawei?
12:16Don't want to answer?
12:18you make an appointment,
do like everyone else.
12:20We tried
to make an appointment.
12:23These last months,
Huawei was pushed out of the 5G market
12:27by the leaders
Americans and English.
12:30In France, they still have hope.
12:32And to achieve his ends,
Huawei is not hiring
12:35only familiar faces.
12:37He also recruits among small hands
ministerial offices.
12:43We will call him Vincent.
12:46During three months,
this former high official of Matignon
12:50worked as a lobbyist.
12:52A salary of 8500 euros per month,
12:55with one objective: the Élysée.
13:00Huawei is hiring
people like me
13:02to make sure
to unblock certain situations.
13:05Whether it's just
access a minister
13:11Huawei officials crave
to be able to meet Bruno Le Maire
13:14when he goes to China.
13:15But the main objective
and for once,
13:19throughout my mission,
is to meet President Macron.
13:22So there, every day,
I am asked that.
13:27Huawei officials
who are in Paris are obsessed
13:32by the idea of giving
the picture in Shenzhen,
13:34that they are in cahoots
with French power.
13:37Shenzhen, the headquarters of Huawei.
13:39Have access to the president
live, it's giving yourself a weight
13:44and enormous influence.
13:46It's not just Huawei
who is looking for this.
13:48There are plenty of other companies.
13:50Except that there
they have taken steps to achieve this.
13:54I remind you that France
has a particular weight in Europe,
13:59a history with China.
14:00She was the one who created
with the Germans Europe.
14:03Having a partner like France
and be influential in France
14:07and be influential too
over Europe.
14:10The man who would seek
to conquer Europe, here it is.
14:15At 75, this former colonel
of the chinese army
14:19is the almighty boss
of the telecommunications giant.
14:23The founding father
is totally mythologized
14:27We tell his story,
we sublimate it, we show how much
14:30he started from nothing
to arrive at a gigantic empire.
14:33Inasmuch as
new employee, I was made to read
14:36and translate
his deep thought in French.
14:43The former Minister of Economy,
Arnaud Montebourg,
14:46remembers his official visit
at Huawei headquarters.
14:50I went to visit
to Mr Ren,
14:54the president of Huawei,
in Changzhou.
14:57And I watched
first when arriving
15:02Mr. Ren had built
a replica of the White House
15:07in the entry of Huawei.
15:08I said to myself
this man has ideas.
15:11We see where he wants to go.
15:13And inside his White House,
which was the headquarters of Huawei,
15:16he had set up his laboratories
research and development,
15:19and he showed us around
one after another
15:23and that was his message,
15:25they were going to take
control of the planet.
15:30What are the links
between the officially private company
15:33and the Chinese state?
15:36hard to answer
to this question without ending up in court,
15:40because Huawei puts pressure.
15:42Two years ago,
researcher Valérie Niquet
15:45claimed on television
that the business was run
15:48by the Chinese state.
15:49For her remarks, Valérie Niquet
was sued for defamation.
15:54Today, she doesn't even dare
say the name Huawei.
15:59I gave my analysis
of the operation of this company,
16:03which also corresponds
how they work
16:05many companies in China.
16:08And this business
considered it defamatory.
16:11For now,
we are waiting for the sequel
16:15and holding a trial.
16:18Like her, Stéphane Dubreuil
is also continued.
16:23Huawei today,
don't want to talk
16:26either from Huawei,
either from the Chinese State,
16:28and systematically attacks,
whether they are global specialists,
16:30journalists
or TV channels.
16:32And this is a first
in the world.
16:34He too had made the link between Huawei
and the Chinese Communist Party
16:38on a television set.
16:43The trial of Valerie Niquet
and Stephane Dubreuil
16:46will not take place before 2022.
16:49Huawei did not wish
answer our questions.
16:54Right now,
the company must above all face
16:58According to a survey
from the Washington Post,
17:01Huawei would participate in the crackdown
of the Uighur minority in China.
17:05The company would have provided the regime
its facial recognition technology.
17:11Today a million
of these Chinese Muslims
17:14would be interned
in labor camps.
17:26In France, a man is campaigning
to defend the Uyghurs.
17:31MEP Raphaël Glucksmann
is very angry with Huawei.
17:37Huawei is an essential cog.
17:40Huawei provides the technologies
facial recognition,
17:44technological team
with its equipment
17:48Chinese police and
allows surveillance of Uyghurs.
17:52She permits
population registration.
17:56And finally, Huawei is
one of the instruments of the Chinese state
18:01in its repression of the Uyghurs.
18:04To denounce these practices,
18:06Raphael Glucksmann
pulled off a masterstroke.
18:09On social networks,
he questioned the ambassador
18:12of the Huawei brand in Europe,
our world champion Antoine Griezmann.
18:17An arrest
extremely polite where we say
18:20Antoine Griezmann,
since it is their figurehead,
18:23this is what Huawei does.
18:24And we're counting on you
to stop advertising it.
18:27And very quickly, we had an answer
of Antoine Griezmann's brother
18:32who told us:
"Don't worry, we'll take care of it."
18:36And in the hours that followed,
he announced the breakup
18:40of its contract with Huawei,
what is a gesture
18:43frankly extremely rare.
18:46Early December,
Antoine Griezmann drops Huawei
18:49and announce it to its 32 million
followers on Instagram.
18:55"I put an immediate end
to my partnership
18:57binding me to this society."
19:00Antoine Griezmann would thus give up
to 5 million euros per year.
19:05He even allows himself
warn his former sponsor.
19:11"I take this opportunity to invite Huawei
not to be satisfied
19:13to deny these accusations,
but to commit as soon as possible
19:16concrete actions
to condemn this mass repression."
19:21For Huawei,
this is the worst advertisement.
19:25And for Raphaël Glucksmann,
it's a first victory,
19:28because the fight continues.
19:36That day, in the European Parliament,
he chairs a committee
19:40on foreign interference
in Europe.
19:45A commission
which he created himself.
19:52For this first meeting,
we chose to focus
19:55on Chinese interference.
19:57In the room and by videoconference,
20:00around twenty MEPs
gathered around Raphaël Glucksmann.
20:05For two days,
they will audition experts
20:07on the influence of China.
20:11Chinese penetration in Europe
is massive and complex.
20:15It operates in various ways,
ranging from spreading fake news
20:19on social networks
outright purchase
20:21of political leaders.
20:24While the European Union
just signed a trade agreement
20:27with China,
these deputies warn
20:29European governments.
20:31China plays the game
market economy
20:35and participate in democratic debates
when it is not a democracy.
20:38there is a subject
which is close to our hearts,
20:42it's the way
including some European elites
20:46In the viewfinder of Raphaël Glucksmann,
these French politicians,
20:50who work
for Chinese interests.
20:53You can not
served as Prime Minister of France
20:55and travel the world
in the service of Chinese interests
20:59sometimes against French interests,
as is the case with Mr. Raffarin.
21:03How do you explain
that Jean-Louis Borloo
21:06sometime ago,
Jean-Marie Le Guen today,
21:08former ministers, work
for companies like Huawei?
21:13Greed
has always been a threat
21:17for the sense of the general interest.
21:19In my opinion,
between making money for Huawei
21:22and have a political career
in our country, you have to choose.
21:25Once we have chosen
political career,
21:27we no longer have the right
to make money for Huawei.
21:31Politicians
a little too closely linked to Beijing,
21:34became
cause for concern
21:36for services
European intelligence.
21:38Investigation
is also in progress.
21:42In France also,
the DGSI closely follows the Chinese
21:46and hunt down possible spies
in multiple areas.
21:51We have procured
a confidential note
21:54French counterintelligence,
21:55six warning pages
in the research sector.
22:00"French research
is exposed to captures
22:02know-how and technology
potentially harmful
22:06national economic interests."
22:16"Chinese researchers
are directly mobilized,
22:19that they are required to do so (contract, scholarship,
pressure) or on a voluntary basis
22:24to contribute
to the economic expansion of their country.
22:29According to this memo,
a territory is particularly targeted.
22:33Far from the Parisian ministries
or places of power, Brittany.
22:39Journalist Antoine Izambard
explains why.
22:44Brittany has certain arguments
that interest the Chinese.
22:47Of course, the military
with our nuclear submarines
22:50rocket launchers
who are based on Île Longue in Brest,
22:54telecoms too
which were important in Brittany.
22:58Then we see
what is oceanographic,
23:00which is of great interest to China,
who seeks to acquire
23:03more and more skills
23:05in all that concerns
the maritime sector.
23:08To learn more about the oceans,
the Chinese would have targeted
23:11Ifremer in Brittany,
a famous French research center,
23:16the global flagship
exploration of the seabed.
23:21According to the DGSI: "Ifremer is subject
recurring Chinese approaches
23:26on a background of inclinations
expansionists in the China Sea."
23:30The Chinese would concentrate
on this site near Brest,
23:33with whom they established
partnership.
23:36Official objective:
pool knowledge.
23:41"The Chinese partner
could primarily target
23:44technology transfers
and know-how."
23:48This laboratory deals
of deep-sea microbiology.
23:52They agreed to welcome us.
23:55Karine Alain is the director.
23:58For many months,
she works with Jie,
24:01this young Chinese doctoral student.
24:05Our laboratory is associated
to a Chinese laboratory
24:10which is the resource lab
marine bio genetics from Xiamen.
24:15And this will allow us
to train Chinese students
24:18and conversely,
to train French students
24:22expertise that is mastered
by our Chinese partner.
24:25My doctorate is
on deep-sea viruses.
24:28Ifremer is well known
in the world.
24:31I think I will continue
to work a little in Europe.
24:34And then I will return
work in China.
24:38Every year,
a handful of Chinese students
24:40come here to acquire
very advanced knowledge.
24:46It's an old fireplace.
24:48She was cut
by our underwater robot.
24:51Do you know where he comes from?
24:53It comes from the Atlantic.
24:57It is between 2500 and 3000 meters.
25:02Yes, in deep waters.
25:05These discoveries
may seem innocuous.
25:07They have however
a very concrete application
25:10in the industrial field.
25:12At present,
industrialized economies
25:14need metals for example,
electric car batteries,
25:19telephony,
industrial magnets,
25:23who are going to miss
on dry land in the years to come
25:26and which are produced
by some process
25:29found in the seabed.
25:30For instance,
at the level of the chimneys as here,
25:32we will have an accumulation of copper,
zinc in some sites,
25:37barium and also
rarer metals.
25:40And suddenly there is
an international issue at this level.
25:43And you are not afraid
technology transfers
25:45or flights
intellectual property?
25:48No, I am not afraid
of this partnership.
25:51I'm not afraid to be
dispossessed of any knowledge.
25:54For me to know
is made to be broadcast,
25:59And no fear
an imbalance?
26:01No, for me there is not
imbalance between the French side
26:05and the Chinese part.
26:06I haven't observed anything like that.
in any case with our Chinese partner.
26:13Ifremer management
also ensures
26:15pay close attention to knowledge
that it delivers to its Chinese partners.
26:20There is still a risk
26:22according to this old
military intelligence.
26:27They need our expertise.
26:28They need it to progress.
26:30They can build
they can steal technologies
26:34or copy technologies.
26:36Then you have to know
use it without knowing it
26:39we betray secrets
which are not for us,
26:42You can just explain
use of an oceanographic vessel
26:48without betraying any secrets.
26:50And for China,
it will be of phenomenal value.
26:55When we see the behavior
from China for a few years,
26:59this voluntarism
and activism on all terrains,
27:02one can wonder if, in the end,
we are not going to be a little
27:04the useful idiots of power
chinese with china
27:07who will lay hands
on these data.
27:09You don't have to be naive
in cooperation
27:11that we tie with China,
because there is a risk
27:14which is nevertheless real, of diversion.
27:17To rule the world
China does not neglect anything.
27:21If she knows how to show the muscles,
she also knows that you have to conquer
27:28Still in Brittany,
in the city center of Rennes,
27:31this is the Confucius Institute,
27:35the first open
in France 12 years ago.
27:38It is a Chinese cultural center
that can be compared
27:41to our French alliances
worldwide.
27:44Its mission, to present
traditional Chinese culture.
27:49Tai chi, Mahjong, calligraphy.
27:55Blaise Thierree
runs this showcase of China.
27:58Hello,
you want to see the dragon?
28:03In ten years,
17 centers like this
28:05have opened throughout France.
28:07The main activity
Confucius institutes
28:11is the teaching of Mandarin.
28:13Hello, welcome, don't be afraid.
28:19She's coming in two minutes.
28:23To take Chinese lessons.
28:25Chinese culture is awesome.
28:28That's great,
for millennia.
28:32So there we eat well
all over China.
28:34I advise you to go there.
28:41We can show off.
We can say Ni Hao.
28:49Chinese teachers
are all recruited in China,
28:53like this young teacher
arrived in Rennes a year ago.
28:57Before arriving in Europe,
28:59I participated in Beijing
to vocational training
29:02organized by the Office of Education.
29:04It was like an internship
to be able to teach Chinese
29:09I was recruited by the office
who manages the Confucius Institutes in Beijing.
29:14The thousands of teachers
sent all over the world
29:17have all signed
the same employment contract.
29:22It clearly indicates
the rules to follow.
29:26Do not participate in activities
29:28harming national interests
from China,
29:33accept directions
and aides from the Chinese Embassy.
29:38It is necessary to avoid angry subjects,
sensitive issues,
29:42For example
the three Ts, Tibet, Taiwan and Tiananmen.
29:47Here in Rennes, it's the same thing
for the French director.
29:51Today, is he
relevant or legitimate
29:56to hold a conference
on the situation of the Uyghurs in China?
30:00I am not sure
let it be my role and my position
30:04and the right place to do it.
30:06And maybe on the subjects
the most sensitive, the most complicated
30:09where also information
are sometimes the most incomplete.
30:17All Confucius Institutes are funded
30:20and supervised by the Chinese Ministry
of National Education.
30:24Its direction is always
composed of a French director
30:28and a Chinese director,
sent from China.
30:32You can see
the Chinese director?
30:36And then, suddenly,
they have a very clear instruction
30:38not to respond to reporters.
30:41So the Chinese director
and the Chinese director have not
30:44the right to respond to the media?
30:45As far as I know, no.
30:47We ask them
not to respond to the media.
30:49I think the operation
overseas media
30:54is not Chinese operation,
30:57that they are afraid
let there be pitfalls,
31:00trap them
and they get screwed.
31:04In Rennes, nothing was left to chance,
especially not the library
31:10What are you reading?
31:12What's this ?
- I do not know.
31:14I discover a magazine
that I didn't know at all.
31:18I accompany my daughter
to register for a Chinese course,
31:22so I am patient while reading.
31:24China today
is a propaganda monthly
31:27published in several languages.
31:28He praises the successes
of China and the Communist Party.
31:36it exists today
548 institutes around the world.
31:40The Confucius Program
has undergone rapid development.
31:45Beijing has dedicated
a budget of two billion euros.
31:52This desire to control everything
31:54worries these activists
human rights.
31:58Last October in Rouen.
32:02Brigitte Guiraud
is the head of an association
32:04denouncing
Chinese abuses.
32:07She mobilized the opponents
under the Beijing regime.
32:11Their target:
business school
32:15who Houses
the city's Confucius Institute.
32:22Are you following us? Let's go.
32:26They have used
the name of Confucius,
32:28who is a chinese sage
recognized around the world.
32:32And they seduced
governments with it.
32:35And we don't want
that in a democracy,
32:38such a totalitarian regime,
as persecutory as the Chinese regime,
32:42have an interference
any in our schools.
32:54We ask for the closure
and the end of the partnership
32:57between Confucius Institutes
and major schools
33:00and French universities.
33:01Because there have been facts
interference, infiltration, espionage.
33:05That bothers you
to hear these words?
33:07I'm not going to
speak on this subject.
33:12These demonstrators demand the closure
of all Confucius Institutes,
33:16as happened
in Sweden or in Brussels.
33:21In Belgium, the authorities
closed two centers in 2019.
33:27Vanessa Frangville
is a sinologist and professor
33:30at the Free University of Brussels.
33:32The Confucius Institute was located
at the level of the first three windows.
33:37There was
exactly two offices.
33:40We closed this Confucius Institute
33:42essentially because we couldn't see
the usefulness of having an institute
33:47who talks a bit
too consensual in a university
33:52who claims to be free and critical.
33:54The University of Brussels
appointed as director
33:58this recognized specialist
of the Uighur community.
34:02A very sensitive subject.
34:04At the time,
this researcher and her colleagues
34:07have published on
the university website
34:10a support platform
to their repressed colleagues in China.
34:16It did not rain at all
to the Chinese authorities
34:18who asked
to university authorities
34:20to remove this page
from the university's official website.
34:25The university refuses
to withdraw his text.
34:27The Chinese Embassy
in Brussels does not stop there.
34:30A few days later,
a diplomat hands over
34:33this letter to management.
34:35He threatens Belgium
diplomatic retaliation.
34:39The university breaks immediately
with the Chinese authorities.
34:45Shortly after,
another affair breaks out.
34:49Flemish side this time.
34:51A spy case
revealed by this journalist
34:55after several months of investigation.
34:58In question, the Chinese director
from another Confucius Institute.
35:05Xinning Song began
by working in Bruges,
35:07in a center
United Nations research.
35:10He was then able to weave his network
and become very close
35:13many diplomats
Europeans based in Brussels.
35:17He even had connections
at a very high level.
35:21In 2016, he took over the management
of the Confucius Institute
35:25in the Flemish part
from the Free University of Brussels.
35:28intelligence services
Belgians then suspect him
35:31to conceal other activities.
35:37When he was director
from the Confucius Institute in Brussels,
35:41he organized conferences
35:44and he took the opportunity to recruit
agents of influence for Beijing,
35:49capable people
to relay Chinese propaganda.
35:58The Belgians discover that
Xinning Song reportedly served as scout
36:02for Chinese intelligence.
36:06today a refugee
in Beijing, he denies it.
36:08He claims to have been kicked out
for a simple visa problem.
36:13I never heard
that the Confucius Institute
36:16from the Free University of Brussels
was a blanket
36:19to carry out activities
spying on behalf of Beijing."
36:22Xinning Song was banned
throughout the Schengen area.
36:27And the Confucius Institute
which he ran was closed.
36:31No big deal, Beijing has other tools
to impose his vision of the world.
36:41300,000 inhabitants,
a confetti for Beijing.
36:46But even here
China doesn't let anything pass.
36:51Last October,
Chinese censorship has done damage
36:55at the City History Museum.
36:57After three years of work,
Director Bertrand Guillet
37:01had completed its exhibition
on the great Mongol conqueror,
37:05Even the poster was ready.
37:07We had almost
250 pieces in all,
37:10especially a very
fat shaman costume
37:13which was very impressive.
37:15Lots of objects
Mongolian folk culture
37:17who showed how
this culture was strong and active.
37:21These works should have
arrive from China,
37:24sent by a partner museum.
37:30Unfortunately,
this exhibition will not take place.
37:32It is now postponed
since the objects
37:35must come from China,
from Inner Mongolia,
37:38have been banned
leaving the territory.
37:41In Beijing, the heritage office
decided otherwise.
37:45The exhibition did not pass
Chinese censorship.
37:50When we started teaching
the file with our Chinese colleagues,
37:54so to bring up
the elements in Beijing,
37:56we got a first dial tone
who was telling us
38:02don't use the word Genghis Khan.
38:05We were a little surprised.
38:06Then don't use
the word empire.
38:10Don't use the word Mongolian.
38:12Do not use
the words Yuan dynasty,
38:14that is to say, finally,
38:15don't show
what you want to do.
38:17We don't even have
had time to react.
38:19In the following email,
38:20we had a counter-project
completely different,
38:23that's to say
with the same objects
38:27another synopsis,
another speech,
38:30another reading
of Mongolian history
38:34and whose title was Convergence,
mutual learning and integration.
38:38The plains of northern China
since the twelfth century.
38:40And see here,
the word mongolian has totally disappeared.
38:44Beijing refuses that
the Mongolian minority is valued.
38:48The Chinese are rewriting their national novel
and now dictate it to foreigners.
38:53Bertrand Guillet refuses to give in.
38:55He stops the project.
38:57It's clear that
if they have extremely fine work
39:02about what they want to hear,
what they want to say at home,
39:05we came back
in another sphere,
39:07is that they now want to master
what is said about them outside.
39:14To control
what the world says about you,
39:16there is another solution
devilishly effective: money.
39:21Will France become
like the United States?
39:26There, it will not have been necessary
only a few years
39:29to the new Chinese regime
to afford Hollywood
39:33and make it a tool
formidable communication.
39:40In 2012, the Chinese group Wanda
buys the American chain
39:45AMC cinema
for $2.6 billion.
39:50In 2016, the same group
buys for 3.5 billion dollars
39:55the legendary studio,
that of Batman, Interstellar
40:02In 2017, the famous film studio
Paramount sells a quarter of its shares
40:07for a billion dollars
to the state-owned Shanghai Films Group.
40:14Beijing wants to dominate the seventh art.
40:19In Los Angeles,
in a bookstore, Chris Fenton
40:23signing his latest book
Feed the dragon.
40:27I dedicate it to you in your name?
40:29For 17 years, Chris Fenton
chaired DMG, a Chinese company.
40:35He produced and supervised
twenty films
40:40If you are a fan
superheroes like Iron Man 3
40:43or a film called Looper,
I talk about it in my book
40:46and explain how
the Chinese Communist Party
40:49influences the production,
the screenplay and even the plot of the film.
40:55We owe him in particular
Looper with Bruce Willis and Iron Man 3.
41:00Today he denounces
political compromises
41:03not to
offend the Chinese regime.
41:07Everything the studios
Americans have to do,
41:11do we do
will please the Chinese Communist Party?
41:14So avoid producing
subjects that offend them.
41:18If your film involves Taiwan,
Tibet or Hong Kong,
41:21or even human rights,
41:24your project is dead.
41:26You can't produce
this kind of stories
41:28if you want to do
business with China.
41:31American actor Richard Gere
would have been the first to suffer.
41:35His commitment to the Tibetan cause
would have cost him many films
41:46Today, what we can see,
is that the films are produced
41:49with the endorsement
of the Chinese Communist Party.
41:55And when they say:
"We don't like this part of the film
41:58because it shows nudity,
drugs in china
42:02or a villain who is Chinese,"
42:06you have to cut it
and remove it from your movie.
42:10And the studios sure do,
to take advantage of the market.
42:15Hollywood would have given up
to his freedom of expression?
42:20An NGO denounces
this Chinese influence
42:23and self-censorship
American studios.
42:26The next film produced
by Paramount is in its sights.
42:30The remake of Top Gun,
42:31the movie event
next summer with Tom Cruise.
42:36I will show you
some changes,
42:40for example badges
on Tom Cruise's jacket
42:43in the original version
from Top Gun in 1986.
42:49You see here on the back of his jacket,
there is the Taiwanese and Japanese flag.
42:55I show you what it becomes
in the new version of the film.
43:00Badges have changed.
43:01The Japanese flag
has been replaced by this triangle
43:04and the Taiwanese flag by a sign
which doesn't mean much.
43:08The way the government in Beijing
exerts its influence scares us
43:12and it must be denounced.
43:14It's not
something unusual.
43:16Americans
must realize this.
43:20Sometimes the public wakes up,
like in the Mulan case.
43:26In August 2019,
at the height of the protests
43:30Hong Kong anti-Chinese,
43:33Liu Yifei, actress
from the new Disney movie,
43:37declares to support the Chinese police,
responsible for serious brutality.
43:42"I support
the Hong Kong police.
43:44You can hate me now.
43:46What a shame for Hong Kong!"
43:49Disney shot his movie
in the Xinjiang region,
43:52the Uyghur province.
43:54In the credits, at the end,
Disney thanks a lot
44:00the city of Turfan which is located
in Xijiang province.
44:05And we know very well
that in this city,
44:08there is a majority
detention camps
44:10of the Uyghurs who are subjected today
to a very serious repression
44:16from the government.
44:21If even Disney complies with this,
44:23this shows
that China's tactics
44:28as far as cinema is concerned,
is being accomplished.
44:35In China,
cinema has become a weapon
44:38to impose a new image,
44:40that of a responsible country,
able to save mankind
44:45Like in the movie Wolf Warriors,
Warrior Wolves.
44:55Be the new leader
of the world instead of the United States,
44:58this is Beijing's dream
and it is no longer cinema.
45:04When America
of Donald Trump disengages
45:06international organizations,
China places its men there.
45:12Four UN agencies
are now directed
45:14by senior officials
of the Beijing regime.
45:20Qu Dongyu is the head of the FAO
in charge of power issues
45:25and agriculture around the world.
45:27The International Department
civil aviation,
45:30it is led by Fang Liu.
45:33She handles questions
of air transport.
45:37Li Yong heads UNIDO.
45:40This organization
promotes industrial development
45:45And finally Houlin Zhao
to the International Union
45:48telecommunications
and his burning file,
45:53All these directors
are close to President Xi Jinping.
46:02And it's true that when
we place people in key positions
46:05in these agencies,
we still have
46:09We determine the agenda,
we push some things
46:13and that's what
China is trying.
46:15A recent example
seems to illustrate the weight of China
46:18on the international scene.
46:21Taiwan, 24 million inhabitants.
46:25It's from this country
historic enemy of China
46:28and not recognized by the UN,
46:30that the first alert
on the Covid-19 would be gone.
46:33On December 31, 2019,
46:36as the global pandemic
is not yet declared,
46:39this doctor alerts the WHO.
46:45I remember,
it was December 31, 2019,
46:52I saw two messages
in our internal network.
46:55These messages came from
of doctors from Wuhan.
46:59They mentioned
very important information
47:01on cases of atypical pneumonia,
apparently dangerous.
47:06After collecting this information,
I sent an email at noon to the WHO,
47:11to confirm these data.
47:13They told us
that they would transmit them
47:15to the department concerned
and that's all.
47:19Doctor
never received a response.
47:26The reason is simple
According to the Minister of Health,
47:30WHO would be
under Chinese influence.
47:33Listening to Taiwan is out of the question.
47:37China's influence
on WHO is very strong.
47:41It was thought that the WHO
was going to announce soon
47:44a global health emergency
when we let them know.
47:49But they delayed
several days this announcement.
47:53They did not want
jeopardize commercial flights
47:55nor prohibit travel
travellers.
47:58I think they underestimated
the seriousness of the situation.
48:05A month later, on January 28, 2020,
while China is highly criticized
48:09for its lack of transparency,
the director of the WHO in person
48:14come to congratulate
President Xi Jinping.
48:17China, with 50 million euros per year,
is the second largest contributor to the WHO.
48:25"Step by step you took
public health measures
48:30and that's something
very, very important.
48:34The other important element,
it is also your political commitment,
48:38your leadership and determination.
48:42And also the way
how you have managed this virus."
48:47Two million deaths later,
the WHO has just lip serviced
48:52that China should have reacted
faster and stronger.
48:58Geneva, last October.
49:01Despite protests from NGOs,
Beijing has just been re-elected
49:04member of the board
United Nations human rights.
49:09a heresy,
according to this former ambassador.
49:12There are enforced disappearances in China,
49:14There's no
independence of justice,
49:17no opposition,
no free press,
49:19there is no fundamental freedom
as we understand it, we,
49:22and as consecrated by the values
universal United Nations.
49:26human rights
are not Western values,
49:29these are universal values.
49:31That day, in the middle of the Assembly,
the Chinese representative
49:35has an ambitious goal.
49:37As a good wolf warrior,
this diplomat wants to pass
49:40a resolution that changes
the very concept of human rights.
49:45What did this draft resolution say?
49:47That when we were talking
of human rights, it was first necessary
49:50and above all look
the level of development
49:52and preserve freedom
choice of political and social regime.
49:56As if the Chinese
had freedom of choice in China.
49:59That's what we call
relativism,
50:01it is the negation of the universal value
human rights.
50:03Human rights,
it's good for some,
50:06Little by little, China is trying
50:08to introduce
some concepts that change a bit
50:12all concepts
human rights
50:14which are universally shared.
50:17This time it failed.
50:21In the face of resistance
diplomats,
50:23Beijing finally gives up
to present its resolution.
50:28China is concerned and worried
50:31continuation of work
of the Commission on Human Rights
50:35because of the allegations
from many countries
50:37opposed to our text.
50:39China will therefore continue later
50:40his participation in the Commission
human rights.
50:44Thank you, Madam President.
50:47For the Chinese regime,
it's a small defeat,
50:51but Beijing is in no hurry.
50:53The country is planning for the long term.
50:56What is China saying?
50:57deal with me
and we will build
51:01It's the principle
of the bicycle wheel.
51:03One center, 193 spokes.
51:05This is the number of states
members of the United Nations.
51:07you can do it all
as long as it's with me.
51:10In Chinese, the word China
does not mean the Middle Kingdom,
51:16it means the Center of the world.
51:18You have to keep that in mind.
51:21Thanks to his diplomacy
warrior wolves,
51:24Beijing is on its way
to realize what Xi Jinping
51:26named the Chinese dream.
51:29Become the first
world power by 2049.
51:34The People's Republic of China
will then celebrate its 100th anniversary.
