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Bulwark Takes

America Is About to Betray a Brave Man

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller takes on the planned deportation of Uyghur whistleblower Heng Guan, a decision that raises deeper moral and strategic failures in America’s approach to China.

Please contact your senators and representatives: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, Tim O'er from the Bullwark here. I wanted to make sure you guys saw this horrific

0:04.6

story about the deportation we have planned for Hanguan, a Chinese whistleblower who fled

0:11.7

China after documenting their abuses of the Uyghur Muslim minority there.

0:16.8

I want to explain what's happening in this story in particular because it's so nightmarish and so awful.

0:22.3

I also just want to do a quick rapid fire at the end.

0:24.4

We'll have a broader video later with somebody who's more of a China expert.

0:27.5

But there have been a bunch of other stories that have caught my eye over the last couple of weeks related to just the degree of Donald Trump's weakness on China,

0:36.6

both in the category of things that he is doing and things that he isn't doing,

0:40.3

that across the board, to the extent that there's any great power competition going on right now and that we should have any sort of hawkish feelings towards China,

0:50.0

like Donald Trump is maybe the most pliant and prostrate president we've had facing a great foe or a great competitor on the world stage in memory.

1:03.2

I mean, certainly, you know, and certainly in my lifetime.

1:06.3

So I'll want to talk about Hang, and then we'll do rapid fire.

1:12.1

A couple of these other China stories.

1:13.6

This is from New York Times.

1:14.5

Shout out to Amy Kinn and Chris Buckley for their work on this headline.

1:19.3

As he recorded China's detention of Uighurs, the U.S. wants to deport him to Uganda.

1:24.0

You can read from you a little bit of the lead here to give you the context. In 2020,

1:28.4

a Chinese citizen had heard reports about the mass detention and surveillance of Uyghurs.

1:33.1

He wanted to see if they're true for himself. So that citizen Henguan made a risky decision

1:37.6

driving across the country from eastern China to Xinjiang, where he tracked down and

1:41.8

secretly shot video of these re-education and detention centers,

1:45.9

mostly holding Uyghurs a Muslim ethnic group.

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