On February 12, 2026, the U.S. CIA released a video recruiting Chinese informants titled Why I Chose to Step Forward: To Save the Future. (Image source: screenshot from U.S. CIA video)
[People News] The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has now released four Chinese-language advertisement videos recruiting Chinese informants, and their combined view count on YouTube has astonishingly surged toward 120 million. Some netizens bluntly said, “Everyone is busy abandoning darkness for the light.” According to reports, the CIA has already achieved remarkable results in recruiting officials inside the Chinese Communist Party system and external informants.
According to Vision Times, citing a January 26 report by Breitbart News, since 2025 the CIA has successively released three Mandarin-language videos aimed specifically at Chinese audiences, with the purpose of attracting people familiar with the internal workings of the Chinese Communist Party system to provide information. Informed sources revealed that this series of actions not only successfully reached people inside the Chinese Communist Party system, but also achieved great success in recruiting new outside informants and obtaining other important intelligence resources.
The report mentioned that on the desk of CIA Director John Ratcliffe sat a special chart. The chart showed that before Trump returned to the White House, CIA staffing had once declined; but with Trump’s return to office and Ratcliffe taking over the CIA, the number of intelligence personnel began to rise again.
Recently, the CIA released a fourth video on its YouTube channel: Why I Chose to Step Forward: To Save the Future. The video points out that the truth is becoming ever clearer: the leaders are really protecting only their own private interests, their power is built on countless lies, but now these walls of lies are gradually collapsing, and in the end what is left for us is only to clean up the wreckage… I am a warrior. My duty is to protect the people and defend the motherland. Choosing this path is the way I fight for my family and my country.
Comment: A staggering number — 120 million views of CIA videos; everyone is busy abandoning darkness for the light.
On March 8, the netizen “Finding心归何处” posted on X that the four videos released by the U.S. CIA had astonishingly surged toward 120 million views. In particular, the Secure Contact Instructions segment had more than 60 million views. “This is not watching a recruitment ad — this is clearly watching an instruction manual for getting to a new world.” With this kind of popularity, even the foreign gentlemen at headquarters would probably have to scratch the backs of their heads and sigh that it turns out what this generation of Chinese netizens cares about most is how to safely sell their family’s little bit of “local specialty goods” for a good price.
The post said that this is not recruiting spies; it is a large-scale, cross-border “soul recruitment fair,” and these view counts are one silent vote after another. When a place’s sense of honor has been reduced to merely telling China’s story well, when dignity has been crushed and stuffed into a corner, when people discover that so-called security is just a joke, then these more than 60 million views become the sharpest satire.
The post also said that not everyone loves America; they simply hate too much this reality that makes them live like ants and then tosses them away like rags. Everyone is looking for an exit. Some want to go through the front door, only to find it welded shut; some want to go through the back door, only to find it leads to hell. So when the U.S. CIA extends a lifesaving straw, those tens of millions of souls claw for it frantically in the darkness.
U.S. CIA recruitment videos for Chinese informants: staggering view counts exposed
The post said that this kind of “collective intention to defect,” on the scale of tens of millions, is more ruthless than any public intellectual essay. It tears open an awkward reality: those who most want to resist this system are often precisely the silent majority most tightly enclosed under its protection.
The post concluded by saying that foreign forces are indeed formidable — so formidable that with just a video, they can make tens of millions of hearts quietly and precisely “turn traitor” in this flourishing age supposedly filled with positive energy.
In response, former Central Party School professor Cai Xia posted on X on March 8: “This short article objectively reflects the undercurrents surging within the Chinese Communist Party system. The most basic bottom line in people’s hearts is to let themselves and their families live safely. The system is not one solid block. Everyone wants to find a way to survive. This is simply human nature.”
Cai Xia also disclosed that even Xi Jinping’s close enforcers and cruel officials fear becoming sacrificial victims for Xi. “During the two days in 2024 at the Third Plenary Session when Xi suddenly collapsed, signs had already appeared that Xi’s underlings, big and small, would scatter like monkeys when the tree falls.”
On March 7, well-known commentator Fang Wei also posted on X: as of today, the four videos released by the U.S. CIA recruiting Chinese intelligence sources / defectors have reached nearly 120 million views on YouTube. “If this number is real, then it means that at least 10 million Chinese people have watched these videos.”
“I believe this traffic is real, because this administration is not very likely to play this kind of trick.” Fang Wei pointed out: “If these view counts are real, then we know just how deeply unpopular the Chinese Communist Party is. Beneath the surface calm lies an enormous crisis. It can be said that beneath the calm lake surface is churning magma.”
Many netizens also left teasing comments: “I heard about this too. It is amazing. Everyone understands without speaking!” “Everyone is now an underground worker!” “How many mouths saying ‘Even if far away, they will surely be punished’ are hiding the courage to ‘abandon darkness for the light’?” “Physically in Cao’s camp, but one’s heart is with Han.” “Sell the leader for a good price.” △
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