tencent used to be a tiny little company
at one point they literally had less
than one thousand five hundred dollars
in their bank accounts but now tencent
has recently become the 10th largest
company in the world with a total value
of over 1.6 trillion dollars going on to
control almost the entire internet and
gaming industry Riot games Epic Games
Ubisoft Discord Reddit and even Tesla
quickly monopolizing the entire tech
industry and yet funnily enough almost
no one's ever heard of this company so
how do they get so big so quickly and
why does no one really know their name
well by abusing the law sabotaging the
competition abusing human rights and
working with the CCP tencent has risen
to the top and shows no signs of
stopping because tencent isn't just a
company they are a weapon of the Chinese
government and now that tencent's
position at the top has been set in
stone the Chinese Communists are now
eager to expose it to the fullest using
tencent centralized structure the CCP
has massively increased its Global
surveillance censorship and control and
right now governments around the world
are doing everything they can to destroy
tencent because 10cm is one of the most
dangerous companies in the world and
it's time we talked about it you see at
first tension was just a simple startup
company in late 1998 tencent was founded
and they released their first product
just months later the founders started
the company after seeing the popularity
of foreign instant messaging services
but they thought they could release a
better version that focused on China and
so they did just that releasing oicq
just a few months after the company's
launch but even this early on Tansen
went stranger to dirty tactics their
first bump came by stealing the name of
a foreign capacitor they named their
product oicq adding the word open to the
already popular app icq but these dirty
tactics worked wonderfully and the
master program would quickly gain steam
it started at just 500 users but every
day after release more and more people
flooded in eventually causing many
problems as the server infrastructure in
China was so expensive in the early
2000s in fact tencent almost bankrupted
itself multiple times trying to
accommodate their massive growth and the
situation was made even worse when they
were sued for stealing the name but
after arranging some deals with Venture
Capital firms in the CCP the company got
through its early Growing Pains although
they eventually had to change the app's
name to QQ however it was these early
Venture Capital firm's investments into
tencent that would turn out to be one of
the most valuable investments in history
because tencent's QQ gained a million
users in its first year and 50 million
in the next year and So within just a
span of a few years tencent monopolized
the instant messaging Market in China
but the founders knew that this was just
the beginning they wanted greater things
they wanted to take on Silicon Valley
head first and bring about a new golden
age of technology in China the company
would keep reinvesting as profits where
they would buy other services and
swallow them up into QQ meaning that QQ
grew to be the first Chinese Mega rap
Latin uses control nearly every aspect
of their lives from one place they added
shopping social media online dating
banking antivirus software everything
you could think of and as tencent did
this they pushed out their competitors
but this quick success didn't go
unnoticed by the Chinese government
within five years of its founding
tencent in the CCP were building a deep
and well-connected relationship and so
both tencent and the government would
exploit their partnership to the fullest
to control both the markets in China as
well as
because China was seeing the technology
would be pivotal for their plans of
global dominance as outlined in the 2049
plan China has been destined to be the
number one Global superpower but the
only way they could do this was through
technology through influencing the world
through the internet but we're still
talking about the Arty days no one fully
knew how powerful social media would be
but the Chinese government did
understand that it would be pivotal to
their success and so the Chinese
government in 10 cents grew the company
into becoming a massive conglomerate
hoovering out features and companies
turning a simple messaging service into
an Empire and to do this they would
crush their competitors like in late
2010 when tencent tried to supplant the
most popular Chinese anti-virus app 360
Safeguard first they released their own
version called QQ doctor which they of
course integrated into QQ giving them an
immediate 40 market share but when the
makers of 360 Safeguard refused to give
up they made it so that QQ would stop
working if it detected 360 Safeguard on
the same system tense and then used
these tactics to bully their opponents
into submission and it was making them
an Unstoppable Monopoly a monopoly that
would be the perfect tool in Arsenal
also assumed because this particular
case of monopolistic actions eventually
took the notice of the Chinese Supreme
Court they knew they had to do something
about their baby tencent as businesses
and the elites of China were outraged by
tencent's actions they've been getting
away with way too many aggressive
actions for years against their own
Chinese populace and so with the CCP
eventually stepping in it literally
their dreams of Monopoly might never
come true however instead of punishing
10 cents the CCP stunned everyone by
deciding to let them grow instead of
regulating tencent's growth the CCP gave
them a free hand in other words the
Supreme Court took an extremely lenient
approach and that decision set a very
clear precedent making clear the very
strong relationship between tencent and
the CCP and with the CCP protecting
tencent nobody could touch the company
in fact tencent's own executive boards
were littered with CCP officials the two
were so intertwined that tencent was
basically an extension of the CCP and so
the next part attention strategy was to
exploit this partnership to the fullest
now in this period of the early 2010s
tensem was making billions of QQ and
with no anti-monopoly laws piles of cash
and the blessings of the CCP tension was
free to expand their Monopoly and buy
companies by the Dozen and lots of these
were buyers of their Chinese competitors
like their 448 million dollar investment
into the Chinese search engine sogo.com
but soon lots of these companies would
be foreign as well and it was actually
these foreign Westing companies that
would become 10 cents next Target with
10 cent buying up 92 percent of Riot
games in 2011. also buying stakes in
major game companies like epic games and
blizzard and these weren't just good
Investments these moves were motivated
politically they gave tencent lots of
foreign Sway and power and thus given
the CCP more influence over Western
Society because earning foreign
companies is exactly the kind of soft
power Beijing is looking for it's all
part of their 2049 plan to become the
world's superpower and through tencent
they were able to expand their influence
and make major profits and in 2011 1010
released a mobile version of their QQ
app WeChat immediately this was a
massive hit and we're going to log over
1 billion active users but tencent also
turned WeChat into a mega wrap in the
same way as QQ it became the home page
for tons of popular Chinese apps and
tencent's version of PayPal wechatpay
takes a cut from everything bought over
the app and so by 2015 Tansen was making
over 3 billion dollars from weed charts
and of course this isn't just tencent
profiting from the success the CCP now
being so fully entrenched into tension's
upper management that then became no
doubt that Tansen was just a weapon of
the Chinese government for example
tencent literally makes their employees
celebrate a special holiday
commemorating the government with the
15th of July being a party member day at
tencent and so of course with 10 cents
growing power over the world the CCP
were very keen to use this influence to
enforce their censorship techniques and
this close integration is all a part of
China's grand plan for technology but it
wouldn't seem like this just from
looking at tencent's early story on
paper they look just like any other
startup battling for Investments trying
to keep up with growth reinvesting
everything it seemed to everyone that
tencent was just the equivalent of a
Silicon Valley startup and when it comes
to tencent's image this is exactly what
they want you to think China traces
companies just like any other but in
reality they're designed and built to
become another part of the CCP they use
these companies like weapons and that's
how they've gone from only having a
thousand dollars to becoming a
multi-billion business in just a few
years I mean it's hard to underestimate
how early the CCP were involved in
tencent and as it grew the influence of
the CCP grew as well so once tencent
looked like it was going to be the next
big thing the CCP would continue to
encourage its growth they gave it all
the monopolies it could want in exchange
for closer control given the tencent
executives hundreds of millions will
then return for the power they had
gained well 10 cent is a private company
with Chinese characteristics in China
pretty much every company that's made it
big is only big because it has links to
the Communist Party here's 10 cents CEO
Pony ma and another famous Tech CEO Jack
ma no relation clapping during a speech
Xi Jinping gave two months ago inside
the Great Hall of the people
boy they were given great seats in that
speech where everyone was forced to clap
Xi Jinping said that the Communist Party
would maintain leadership over all tasks
that includes tech companies both Jack
and pony were also honored at that event
for their outstanding contributions to
China's economy which is why the CCP is
now dominating the corporate landscape
and now has de Factory management of
Wallace Logitech companies Huawei
Alibaba by Don's intencent despite
beginning his dreams of entrepreneurs
have all now been controlled by the CCP
and all the other Chinese billionaires
who don't capitulated to the ccp's
demands often end up in prison or just
magically disappearing and so with this
context in mind it should be no surprise
that by 2011 10 cents had nearly 6 000
CCP members within his ranks and that
same year the CCP saw fit to install
their own committee into tencent's
leadership structure through this
committee the CCP took complete control
of all of tencent's apps and through
tencent's apps Kiku and WeChat the CCP
would go into control every aspect
effects of the Chinese internet every
message that goes through these apps is
subjects with set of algorithms and
keyword checks going past all of the
government's sensors which is why some
words are outright blocked whilst others
are flagged and put a Target on your
back with many Chinese assistants being
imprisoned for saying the wrong things
and also any image you send is also scan
against a database of known banned
images and sensors Within These systems
the CCP can censor the public discourse
almost completely anything that
criticizes the CCP anything related to
their opponents or anything that doesn't
match their so-called searched as
principles is removed but it goes beyond
just censorship because these apps
govern so many parts of everyday life
given the CCP access to all sorts of
private information payment information
actual location who you're associating
with this all feeds into the CCP social
credit system helping the government
create an incredibly detailed picture of
whoever they want all based on what they
can learn from their phone so picture
your life in a place where everything
you do what you buy how you behave is
tracked the government gives you a score
and the score is a measure of how
trustworthy you are as a citizen and
determines what you're allowed to do
like ever boarding a train getting a
mortgage all goes back to this score
it's called social credit
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so if tencent could so successfully
control China why not develop the system
around the entire world this would be
the perfect stepping stone for China's
plans of global dominance which is why
tencent has bought so many foreign
companies they went on to the games
companies that we've already mentioned
and on top of this they had their eyes
on social media sites if they could
influence them or directly interfere
with the public opinion in other
countries they would buy the social
media app as it enabled the CCP to
expand its influence and censorship
overseas and it's very likely that
tencent used their ownership stakes in
foreign companies to push them away from
saying anything that might upset the CCP
possibly the most famous incident of
this was at the Hearthstone tournament
in 2019 blackstrong one of the
competitors had their price revoked and
was banned after openly supporting the
Hong Kong Freedom Fighters blizzard
which is partially owned by tencent
completely refused to back down even
after the intense worldwide criticism
and I should expect other companies
could see that Chinese capitulation was
a bad idea tencent understood that they
could easily manipulate foreign
companies into Towing the party line and
by controlling Western companies they
could control Western culture and it
goes Way Beyond just social media sites
and games
the manager of the Houston Rockets
tweeted the support towards Hong Kong
and in response Tansen refused to air
any of their games it looked like a
lengthy standoff was about to happen but
instead of fighting it back against this
Injustice against this totalitarian
regime both manager and the NBA itself
completely folded to tencent have you
ever apologize
you know
we love China we love you know playing
here both releasing public apologies and
asking China for forgiveness for their
inappropriate actions these successes
have only made 10 cent Bolder they
weren't just going to silence individual
people they were going to implement
blankets censorship into their platform
in November of 2019 pro-democracy
candidates won key victories in Hong
Kong when Chinese Americans tried to
talk about this on their American WeChat
accounts they got banned one user from
Texas said the pro-channel candidates
totally lost in a group chat and was
later removed from the platform this
kind of removal has been common in China
for years but now it's spreading outside
of the country as an alarming rate
seeping into all of the Western
countries by dance the Chinese Giants
that owns Tick Tock followed suits and
started censoring on their platform as
well Banning one US teenager who brought
attention to the CCP work camps removing
all of her videos on the topic I mean
CCP censorship abroad has ramped up so
much in the past few years and it's all
been facilitated by these giant
companies like tencent but possibly the
most Sinister development is related to
tencent buying parts of social media
companies when the news broke a few
years ago the Chinese giant was
investing 150 million dollars into
Reddit the site went into Opera
immediately a picture from the Tiananmen
Square protest received over 200 000
adverts but while Stenson didn't rise to
the challenge for this particular post
Reddit has a very shaky history of
removing posts related to Hong Kong and
other Chinese pressure points in fact I
have a whole video going into this
called the tragic tale of Reddit but the
most concerning thing about tencent's
ownership of Reddit is the user data
because in an Amnesty International
report on companies tencent scored zero
out of 100 on his treatment of data this
was because of massive problems with
transparency and when the data ended up
now that tension owns a substantial part
of Reddit they have access to all of the
data and not only this but they have
huge sway within the company as their
Investments represent more than 10
percent of reddit's value and reddit's
just the tip of the iceberg here Discord
for example was also involved with
tencent but to an even greater degree in
fact tencent was involved in the
creation and funding of Discord from the
beginning and over time they've poured
more and more money into the company
well while the Chinese government pours
more and more money into 10 cents become
coming a vicious cycle this is all for a
reason because if disco can host the
world's conversations China has eyes
everywhere as the days of the Disco
collects as the tencent's vast
collection of user data on the west from
all these sources tencent starts to have
access to information about the entire
world and of course if tanzan has access
to this then so does the CCP this is all
part of China's plan to control the
global population and that's why tencent
isn't just interested in these
Investments as purely Financial because
Discord and Reddit influence hundreds of
millions of people if not billions and
by now everyone knows the power of
social media and public opinion I mean
entire election campaigns live and die
on the internet now and so attendance
massive investments into huge social
media sites they can then have direct
access to these mechanisms that sway
public opinion and by subtly influencing
these companies the CCP can indirectly
shift public opinion and interfere with
discussion every foreign investment is
just more soft power for China all while
China bans all of the western social
media sites banning all Western
interference into their internet going
so far as to build their great Chinese
firewall websites such as Google YouTube
and Facebook are either blocked
completely or slowed to a crawl and
throttled to an almost unusable state
known as the great firewall of China
this censorship engine allows the
Chinese government to regulate the
internet and protect its citizens from
dangerous content but this is only one
part of China's three-pronged
technological attack tencent buys out
companies and uses this influence to
interfere with the West with companies
like bitons walking in tandem with
tencent and for those who don't know by
dance is the company that created Tick
Tock which has been one of the ccp's
greatest accomplishments of all time
having access to data from 1.5 billion
users and controlling the hearts and
minds of Generation Z and although Tick
Tock has publicly stated that the
information doesn't end up in the
Chinese government's hands unfortunately
what they say doesn't really matter much
because tick tock's user agreements
gives them the legal right to share data
with by dance the Chinese parent company
and buy dance is no different than
tencent it's also managed by the CCP in
effect it grew from the ground up in the
exact same way as 10 cents and the thing
is the US government knows this and this
is what led to the Trump Administration
moving to ban the app in 2020 and is why
the FBI is investigating tense and abide
down ounce and its unchallenged
influence on the world is the second
part of China's attack and then the
Third Way the China is using technology
to gain soft power is through Huawei the
Chinese infrastructure and Hardware
giant Huawei has been building Tech
infrastructure around the world for
years and now their pilots are
instrumental in cellular and information
infrastructure across the world and
tencent and Hawaii work perfectly
together you see Hawaii provides the
hardware and the infrastructure allowing
the CCP to get direct access to billions
of devices and networks around the world
and tencent then provides the software
through their apps and their Investments
they give the CCP an unlimited
information Source on the western
populace and so with both of these
companies China has an incredibly
detailed picture of every aspect of
Western Society but only recently have
governments woken up to the fact that
this is such a terrible idea where the
Chinese May party near the every cell
tower 5G Mast it's almost impossible to
know anymore if privacy even exists and
it isn't just as simple as replacing the
parts huawei's infrastructure is so
widespread that it would shut down the
entire network if you removed it and the
UK is the perfect example of this after
the U.S found out how much of a threat
Hawaii is to the world the UK was then
forced to remove it giving Huawei until
the end of 2027 to remove Huawei parts
from its infrastructure but it turns out
that this five years just isn't enough
anymore Huawei claims they need much
longer to do this and I think there's a
reason why because as I mentioned at the
start this is part of China's Grand
strategy it's a new type of warfare this
is the Cold War 2.0 because by using
these tech companies to expand China's
technological reach it's given the
massive influence over the West a
massive revolutionary potential for
Espionage the fuel to sway Western
culture and it goes Way Beyond just this
this control of Technology with Huawei
by dance and tencent's Global presence
and give the CCP incredible leverage
over the entire world however there is
some light at the end of the tunnel
because it hasn't been all planes
sailing for 10 cent and other Chinese
Tech Giants and the first sense of
trouble didn't come from foreign
pushback it didn't come from the US in
fact it came from the CCP itself you see
China's in an absolute nightmare with
covet and we've already released a video
going into the massive problems China's
economy faces so right now to consider
their power Xi Jinping his move to take
much more control of tech companies he
started doing this in 2021 when the
Chinese Tech Giants were given
anti-monopoly fines totaling around 3.25
billion dollars and so of course tencent
was included in this and as a result
they saw their stock drop massively
these same practices that built tencent
into the ccp's instruments of power were
now being punished this was despite the
fact that these moves have been given
the Green Light Just years before and
finds really aren't the only weapon the
CCP is using either because after
multiple Chinese Ted billionaires
started stepping out of line and showing
their disloyalty to the CCP would all
disappear earning to return months later
in a Chinese courtroom jagmar one of the
founders of Alibaba spoke out against
the government and after doing so he
disappeared for years the Chinese
government cracking down on big tech
companies and Alibaba founder Jack ma
hasn't been seen in public for two
months only returning recently in Exile
and so as a result of this Tech
Crackdown 1010 has been going through
some hard times over the past year at
the beginning of 2022 tencent was
approaching the one trillion dollar Mark
in their value Asian but from them their
stock prices began to fool and every
time the CCP announced another measure
they fell even more and so today tensin
has lost over 650 billion dollars in its
valuation now sitting at around 300
billion with more losses expected this
downward Trend hasn't come out of the
blue though it's a result of multiple
factors building up in China right now
Sky High rain costs the burst of the
economic bubble and their controversial
zero covert policy which entails massive
lockdowns and even more intense control
of the population and because China's
been in so much trouble recently the
government is now facing massive
protests in fact China has been set on
fire by riots and caused Vegeta's
removal and tencents had an awful time
managing this movement towards Freedom
forcing the tech Giants to censor their
platforms even more with the CCP
ordering them to take on way more senses
to fill the voids however the CCP thinks
that tencent isn't doing enough to
control the population causing the
government to lose trust in his ability
to help the state and this is a huge
reason for the company's devaluation as
the truth is still pouring out on
China's social media embarrassing in the
CCP globally and one of the key flaws in
tencent's system is that the protesters
have found ways of beating tencent's
algorithms one of the most famous
methods is to hold up a blank sign
because people understand this meaning
but the Bots and senses tasked with
policing WeChat and QQ don't protesters
also share vague messages without
obvious meanings to voice their support
which are also hard to recognize by Bots
and sensors and whilst this is great for
the Chinese population this is awful for
10 cents and even worse for the Chinese
government which is why it's uncertain
whether the conglomerates will ever
recover from this and this isn't the
only part of China's Tech plan that is
falling apart recently the FBI has been
making very strong statements on Deming
Tick-Tock with China's control of
recommendation algorithms among many
many other problems and his voice has
been joined by many around the world
Hawaii's also in a similar situation
being removed from many countries in
Europe and being completely banned by
the US government and it seems like
tencent is next however Chinese
technological infiltration isn't a
problem that's going to go away very
soon as tencent still owns massive
portions of major Western companies in
fact they're a vital Cog of the West
economic system and even with the US
government's concerns Tick Tock still
hasn't been banned with their revenue
actually going up despite the economic
hardship and its influence and impact on
the world just seems too large to
disappear and Hawaii's physical
influence will remain in global
infrastructure for years even with
countries actively trying to remove it
as fast as possible so while everyone's
done to wake up to the threat that China
poses to the world the damage has been
done and the process of removal of
tencent Huawei and Tick Tock may take
years if not decades and it remains
unclear where tencent's future lies
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