The Chinese Communist regime's plans to seize the entire South China Sea have compromised the sovereignty of several Southeast Asian nations and established a permanent hotbed of tension in these waters.

Chinese coast guard vessels and maritime militia have increased, maintaining a constant presence and intimidating their neighbors, following gray zone tactics with low-intensity conflicts.

On the last day of January, a large number of patients with encephalitis caused by COVID flooded the outpatient clinics of hospitals across China.

Twitter account Nuomituan posted a video on January 31 showing the overload of patients at 19 hospitals in China.

In recent years, news of Chinese banks embezzling depositors' funds has spread widely. In the context of the economic downturn, many Chinese reflected on social media that banks made it difficult for depositors to withdraw money, especially for large deposits, causing public outrage.

Recently, the Shenzhen traffic police announced they would ban motorized vehicles from honking in the city for about a year. It's suspected to have something to do with the White Paper Revolution. After the White Paper Revolution broke out in November last year, some netizens called for protests on the internet by honking horns nationwide.

For many Chinese households, 2022 was a year with many challenges that tested their resilience and left them in an economic hole.

The underperformance was attributed mainly to the regime's strict 'Zero-COVID' policies, which led to shutdowns and brought economic activity to an almost complete halt.

After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) abruptly abandoned its “zero-COVID” policy based on lockdown, immediately, the CCP vigorously promoted propaganda about its plan for recovery and economic growth.

However, experts said the CCP could not change China’s economic difficulties with words alone.

According to Xin Tang Ren, economist Minxin Pei said the CCP’s zero-COVID policy had left deep scars on the Chinese economy.

Before the pandemic, China had 44 million small businesses, accounting for 98% of all businesses and about 80% of jobs outside the state sector.

China's "Zero-COVID" policy and the subsequent unplanned unblocking caused the wave of epidemics to continue to hit the economies of poor rural areas. Farmers in Hunan said that the epidemic had had an enormous impact on the village economy. Others say life in China has become less predictable under the current government's leadership.

Some younger Chinese have expressed their growing reluctance to get married. Some even welcomed the drop in the number of people tying the knot for the first time in China.
The South China Morning Post cited the China Statistics Yearbook 2022 reporting 11.6 million first-time marriages last year, nearly 700,000 less than the year before. This was significantly less than the 2013 peak of 23.9 million.
According to official statistics published early this month, China's population has decreased for the first time in 60 years, with a record-low national birth rate of 6.77 births per 1,000 people. The population in 2022 dropped by roughly 850,000 for a population of 1.41175 billion. This marks the first decline since 1961, the last year of China's Great Famine.

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10:25 Affected by the pandemic, Chinese films suffered considerable losses in 2022
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Observers and citizens are convinced that the number of deaths from COVID-19 in China far exceeds the number reported by China's regime.
Many Chinese people have boldly told the truth that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is said to be trying to cover up.

Why are there so many gaps in Darwin's theory of evolution? The discussion is more intriguing when it comes to a virus, could its origin be not what we thought?

In a growing thirst for babies, China’s vast Sichuan province has allowed unmarried individuals to have as many children as they want.
The province, which boasts a population of 80 million people, announced on January 30 that singles could begin registering births with the provincial communist authority starting February 15.

The film Full River Red by director Zhang Yimou was released about a month ago in China and was acclaimed by viewers. Set during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), Yue Fei represents loyalty, while Qin Hui was considered a traitor. The film emphasizes that "everyone can become Yue Fei and kill Qin Hui." What is the hidden meaning for the Chinese people?

This man is hitting China’s most hated statues with a steel door. He was not the first to have disgraced these figures.
In fact, the statues of treacherous politician Qin Hui and his wife are regularly spat on, slapped, and suffer other types of public vilification since that is the very purpose of their creation.

China's CDC says it has yet to detect any new COVID mutations during the Spring Festival vacation that ended Friday, January 27.
It also claims that the current wave of the pandemic is coming to an end....
But is this the reality as experienced by the Chinese?

In December last year, China released the official marriage figures. 11.6 couples married for the first time last year, a decrease of 700,000 compared to the previous year. The figure is much lower than the peak of 23.9 million in 2013.

On Sunday, January 29, the Chinese regime resumed issuing travel visas for Japanese nationals but not South Koreans after the Chinese government suspended the two visas for the countries earlier this month.

Like many wealthy Chinese, graduate student Zayn Zhang believes Singapore would be the ideal place for storing his family's money.

The idea of living in another country is attractive, but traveling to China and living under the policies of the communist regime is not.

At least this can be learned from some experiences of foreigners who traveled to China and had to adapt to the real reality of the COVID pandemic.