Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • Six o'clock.

  • Okay, Xiqiao East Road, Sunset Cafe,

  • I'll see you there.

  • 'K. Goodbye.

  • So, you're meeting someone at the Sunset Cafe?

  • I am.

  • Hey, wait, how did you know that?

  • Did you think you could hide that from me?

  • Who are you?

  • I'm their ear.

  • You can hear?

  • Yes, but I guess you can't.

  • But I know you well.

  • Hey, no, we're not friends.

  • And why would I care that you can hear?

  • Ear, I'm the Party's ear.

  • The Party's ear?

  • The surveillance system.

  • Surveilling what?

  • Everyone in the country.

  • That's a violation of human rights!

  • Hey hey, don't you dare blame me for that!

  • The violator is the Communist Party.

  • I'm just a machine. What am I doing wrong?

  • It thinks I hurt its feelings.

  • 'K, then let me ask, just what is it that you do?

  • Now that is a very long story.

  • Here we go.

  • It's hard to sum up.

  • Go on, then.

  • Music!

  • No, don't.

  • I can't describe it without a beat.

  • You talk, I'll be your beat.

  • You can do that?

  • Begin.

  • I am the massively expensive Golden Shield Project.

  • I am a powerful surveillance system.

  • I obey all the orders of the CCP.

  • I listen to whoever they want for however long they want.

  • Wow, she brags a lot.

  • Nowadays, personal devices are everywhere.

  • My technology is advanced.

  • If your phone is in your hand, you have no privacy at all.

  • Don't believe me? Go make a call.

  • I won't miss a single word.

  • What if I don't call?

  • It doesn't matter if you don't call.

  • QQ, WeChat, all the platforms have these surveillance functions.

  • And if my phone's off?

  • Go ahead and turn off your phone!

  • Our technology is advanced, and you lose, we win!

  • Are you telling me you can hear every word we say every single day?

  • Yeah, that's why I said I knew you so well.

  • No no no, you don't need to be scared!

  • As long as you don't use sensitive terms on the phone or online,

  • we won't monitor you.

  • Sensitive terms?

  • Central leadership spent so much money

  • to build this crooked system and monitor ordinary people?

  • Hey, you need to watch what you say.

  • Words like "central leadership" and "monitoring"

  • are all sensitive terms, and they all get picked up.

  • Huh? I can't even mention central leadership?

  • Then I'm sure I can't mention "constitutional amendment,"

  • "restored imperial government," (Hey, hey, hey.)

  • "money diplomacy," "rights protection," "petition." (Hey, hey, hey …)

  • What are you doing?

  • You're dropping bomb, after bomb, after bomb.

  • Why?

  • Why not?

  • A visit from the police?

  • Just for this, the police would bring me in?

  • The thing is, your phone is under your real name.

  • The minute they lock on to you, you can't get away.

  • They can just lock on and arrest, lock on and arrest,

  • lock on and arrest, lock on and arrest— (Whoa, whoaalright, alright.)

  • What are the other terms?

  • I don't want to say them anymore.

  • Things like "June 4th student movement," "Tian'anmen incident," "Tibet question,"

  • "one-party rule," "forced brainwashing," "live organ removal,"

  • "news censorship," "Lord Jesus," "Almighty God," "Eastern Lightning,"

  • "faith," "Bible sales banned," "church demolitions,"

  • "truth about McDonald's murder case" …

  • Just how many sensitive terms are there!

  • China doesn't have any freedom of speech at all!

  • Hey, it isn't none at all.

  • Really?

  • Ordinary people can't talk about politics or religious belief,

  • and can't mention petition, human rights or freedom, but

  • But what?

  • They can praise the Communist Party,

  • talk about food, drinking, entertainment, or gambling.

  • Those are completely allowed.

  • Yeah, I see what's happening.

  • The Communist Party of China wants to turn the people into thoughtless, soulless tools

  • that it can control and use as it likes and who must praise it.

  • Yes, that's right.

  • But, what if someone mentions a term accidently?

  • Typically, they'll get a warning, have their post deleted,

  • maybe a visit from the police,

  • But, if

  • Another "but."

  • But if someone dares to mention religious faith,

  • it's not quite so simple.

  • That's right!

  • Goodness, who is this?

  • You are

  • The Party's eyes. (Oh?)

  • You're the electronic eye?

  • I have an official office.

  • It has an office?

  • I am part of the Sky Net System,

  • the world's largest surveillance network.

  • I obey all the Party's orders,

  • and watch whoever they want me to watch for however long they want me to watch.

  • How do you watch them?

  • I can be found everywhere over 9 million square kilometers.

  • Twenty million cameras with facial recognition tech.

  • And if they are looking for you, we cameras will follow you anywhere.

  • The CCP violates even the most basic human rights.

  • Oh, that's nothing.

  • You call that nothing?

  • Yeah.

  • Tell me then, what else do they do?

  • Just a moment. (Fine.)

  • Based on the successful Sky Net Project,

  • they built the Dazzling Snow Project, (What?)

  • which covers every county, village, and town. (That's right.)

  • This time, from cities to villages,

  • the government has full area coverage, (Full network sharing.)

  • with complete access. (Full-spectrum monitoring.)

  • Maximum security.

  • That's right.

  • China is just a giant prison!

  • So tell me, what is it you do?

  • When it comes to security, we do exactly

  • the same thing.

  • You monitor Christians?

  • You monitor human rights protectors?

  • And ethnic minorities?

  • You monitor—(Any individual and group the Communist Party wants to exclude.)

  • You could say that we are a perfect pair. (Yep.)

  • A perfect pair?

  • Think about it, the moment we find our target,

  • I watch.

  • I listen.

  • Together we monitor them,

  • recognize, locate, and track.

  • Trying to hide anywhere is pointless. (Yup.)

  • You two might work well together, but the nation's people will suffer.

  • The nation's people? (Yeah.)

  • No, no, they won't.

  • We don't watch many of the womanizers,

  • gamblers, drug users, conmen, and thieves.

  • They live lives of freedom and ease. (Yes.)

  • This is so confusing.

  • Chinese people are barely surviving and resentment is building,

  • but rather than making people's lives better,

  • the CCP is just spending money to monitor and control the people.

  • Aren't they neglecting their duty?

  • This is the Communist Party's governing strategy. (Exactly.)

  • When people can't get along, stability needs to be protected, (Yes.)

  • to prevent any opposition.

  • The CCP is eliminating unstable elements at the source.

  • Right.

  • That's a really sick and twisted way to do things.

  • That's just how they are.

  • Of course,

  • we all know the CCP is the most violent organization there is. (Yeah. Right.)

  • Attacking any opposers isn't a problem for them at all.

  • They line up tanks and machine guns and crush problems with armed force.

  • And the CCP fears believers in God more than anyone, (That's right.)

  • especially Eastern Lightning,

  • it makes it hard for central leadership to sleep at night.

  • Believers in God don't own a single gun or grenade,

  • so why is the Communist Party so afraid of them?

  • Oh boy!

  • Why would guns scare them?

  • They wouldn't.

  • What the CCP fears most is God's appearance and work, (Right.)

  • the truth expressed by Almighty God.

  • That's not so stupid after all.

  • Eastern Lightning testifies that the Lord Jesus has returned, as the incar

  • "Incarnate."

  • Right, the incarnate Almighty God.

  • Many people have read Almighty God's The Word Appears in the Flesh,

  • they have seen that it is truly the voice of God and have accepted Almighty God.

  • When people read the words of Almighty God,

  • they understand the truth

  • and know what is righteousness and evil, and begin to awaken.

  • After that, the Communist Party can't enslave them.

  • Then who will they govern? Whose master will they be?

  • How will they create a godless country?

  • How will its goal of always controlling Chinese people ever be realized?

  • That's why the CCP ordered us to rigorously monitor

  • Christians belonging to The Church of Almighty God.

  • That's right!

  • Especially their church leaders and the core staff.

  • We have to watch them 24/7.

  • We can't rest.

  • We even have to watch their families very closely.

  • And listen closely.

  • They're just waiting to arrest us.

  • No, no. (No?)

  • The CCP is sneaky and won't just arrest you. (Yup. Oh?)

  • It waits patiently in deep waters and waits to reel in the big fish.

  • It wants to root out and kill off every Christian!

  • The CCP really is the devil incarnate.

  • For many years, the CCP has used us to monitor countless numbers of Christians.

  • And that's not all.

  • There's more?

  • Even when Christians are released from jail,

  • we still secretly monitor them.

  • How is that any different from being in jail?

  • But even then,

  • the CCP isn't satisfied. (Exactly. What?)

  • It thinks we're not advanced enough,

  • and wants us to monitor people's thoughts.

  • They have an unquenchable thirst for control.

  • You're right.

  • To completely eradicate Christians,

  • the CCP will have to strengthen surveillance.

  • I've had a lot of friends and relatives drafted for grassroots service.

  • Hear it?

  • Friends and relatives?

  • Pinhole cameras.

  • The CCP police have thought of ways to install them

  • in absolutely every corner of places like

  • Thumb drive, hard drive, car lock, button, light switch, stovetop and blender,

  • charger, laptop, dresser and even on your car's fender

  • How do you know that?

  • Those are places my relatives live too.

  • It's true.

  • That has relatives?

  • Tiny microphones.

  • With the Communist Party in power,

  • China is a demonic jail.

  • Christians have no way to survive!

  • The CCP keeps China under lock and key.

  • Frantically arresting and hunting Christians,

  • they arrogantly try to turn China into a godless country

  • and drag people toward hell.

  • These are the actions of a demon!

  • And you twohuh

  • you actually help the CCP,

  • help them monitor and persecute Christians.

  • Don't you even have a little bit of a conscience?

  • But we don't have a choice!

  • Everyone knows that Christians are good people,

  • but the CCP always makes us monitor them.

  • Do you think I have a clear conscience?

  • Exactly!

  • For years, the CCP has used us to harm so many Christians.

  • Do you have any idea how embarrassing that is?

  • You have no idea!

  • The microphone feels embarrassed!

  • OK. I'm curious.

  • Tell me why you feel so embarrassed.

  • Let me tell you about 2009. ('Kay.)

  • This is top secret.

  • You can trust me. (Don't worry, go on.)

  • In 2009 … (Yeah?)

  • This involves someone's life. (Just say it. You can tell already.)

  • Keep it a secret.

  • We will. Go ahead. (We will, we will, we will.)

  • Okay, seriously, you have to keep— (Get to it already!)

  • Alright, I'll tell you. (Go on.)

  • In 2009, the CCP put me on a special assignment,

  • monitoring for a murder case.

  • A murder case?

  • In 2009,

  • cell phone signals were used to locate a main leader of The Church of Almighty God.

  • She was determined to be a national leader by the CCP,

  • responsible for work in several provinces.

  • If the CCP ever got her, she'd be tortured to death.

  • The Public Security Bureau had searched for her several times, (Yeah.)

  • and when they finally found her, the CCP was delighted.

  • They ordered me to watch her closely 24/7.

  • And then?

  • After that, China's MPS gave their deployment orders,

  • and they brought in provincial police from Henan and Hebei and locally from Tangshan,

  • hundreds of officers and special agents.

  • They all set out in about 50 police cars, sirens blazing

  • and finally they arrested her in Tangshan.

  • I can't believe they used so many police to catch just one Christian.

  • Only the CCP would do something like that!

  • That's true.

  • The point is, (Oh?)

  • after they arrested her,

  • they tortured and tormented her,

  • but she didn't give up the church's information.

  • In the end

  • What happened?

  • She was beaten to death by the police!

  • When I think about that, I feel like I just

  • I mean, that's mistreating me? Isn't it?

  • I'm a technology product, meant to make life better for people,

  • but the CCP turned me into a tool for killing Christians.

  • That's just so humiliating for me!

  • Me too, in 2009 the CCP gave me an order too.

  • What order?

  • I had to monitor a Christian from The Church of Almighty God

  • who had just been released from jail. (You see?)

  • To stop her from believing in God,

  • I had to monitor all her comings and goings.

  • Occasionally, the police would come to her home and threaten her.

  • This lasted for 5 whole years.

  • The torment nearly caused her to breakdown.

  • Those beasts!

  • On November 16, 2014,

  • she finally couldn't take the CCP's persecution anymore,

  • and killed herself in the river.

  • She was only 44.

  • Now, tell me,

  • after watching an innocent person lose her life,

  • do you think I felt good?

  • Course not!

  • In 2011, during the CCP's "Crackdown Storm,"

  • the CCP used me to locate core members of The Church of Almighty God.

  • This must be another bloody, brutal arrest!

  • Right!

  • I monitored them for eight whole months, (Yeah.)

  • and the police analyzed more than 500 phone conversations.

  • And their conversations never included sensitive terms,

  • but the police cracked the code they used in all their conversations.

  • Shoot! (They tried so hard!)

  • In the end, they arrested 14 Church of Almighty God leaders all at once,

  • many more Christians had their homes searched, were fined, or were sentenced to jail,

  • nearly 10 million yuan in church assets were taken!

  • The CCP is a devil! Everything they do is evil.

  • And also, these past years,

  • there have been more and more arrest crackdowns targeting Christians. (Yeah. That's right.)

  • We've been so busy. (Yep.)

  • Because of our listening and monitoring,

  • the number of Christians the CCP has arrested,

  • sentenced, and driven into hiding are countless.

  • And many have been beaten to death or crippled.

  • The whole of mainland China is an oppressive, paranoia-inducing place.

  • No matter how you put it,

  • all of this happens because the CCP holds power.

  • That's right! The CCP is a demon!

  • They use technology to round up, arrest and kill Christians.

  • Its evil deeds are too many to count.

  • As long as the CCP survives,

  • Christians will have to endure its constant persecution.

  • That's right. If you ask me, the CCP is crazy!

  • God wants it to die, so first He drives it mad.

  • The more I hear and see,

  • the more convinced I am that the CCP will be finished soon!

  • What?

  • The CCP persecutes Christians so ferociously.

  • And that proves to us that their days will be numbered.

  • Huh?

  • The CCP sees that Almighty God's words were published online long ago.

  • More and more people are accepting and spreading them.

  • Belief in God is spreading and they know that humanity is turning toward Him,

  • and that Christ's kingdom will appear among men.

  • Their final days are coming but they won't be satisfied to fail,

  • so they fight hard to disrupt God's work

  • and wildly attack, suppress, and persecute Christians.

  • This is just the madness of their final days.

  • Wow! That's very insightful!

  • I've actually thought about that.

  • The CCP's oppression of religious belief has never stopped,

  • and in recent years, they've nearly perfected it. (Right.)

  • So, these are just their death throes!

  • On the surface, they seem more ferocious than ever,

  • but actually, they're at the end of their road, breathing their last breath.

  • Definitely!

  • The CCP is incredibly cruel.

  • But no matter what they do,

  • they can't disrupt God's work or alter their doomed fate!

  • That's wonderful news!

  • You know, as an electronic eye,

  • I've longed to see the moment the CCP collapses!

  • And as a microphone,

  • I've been waiting to hear God's chosen people singing hymns of victory!

  • When the time comes,

  • Chinese people will be able to freely believe in and worship God!

  • That's right!

  • And you and I won't have to do these unconscionable things.

  • That's right!

  • Hey, is there anything that I can do for your church?

  • We don't need a spy microphone.

  • Oh, me, me! I can help you watch a church and stuff.

  • I promise I'll be loyal.

  • I offered to help you first!

  • But the time, I have an appointment.

  • I have to go. I'm leaving. (Hey, hey, hey.)

  • Hey, don't go! Don't go!

  • Let's talk about this!

  • There's a lot I could do for you!

Six o'clock.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it