‘Let it rot’ is the new ‘lying flat’
According to the SCMP, on Xiaohongshu, China's version of Instagram, a search for the term "bailan" gave about 2.3 million results. Bailan means "let it rot." On Bilibili, the Chinese version of YouTube, videos titled "let it rot" are among the most popular. "I am bailan-ing. Leave me alone." is a note ...
People rescued from sewer after street collapses and plunges them into smelly and filthy pit
The term "tofu-dreg project" describes a poor building in Chinese words. Tofu-dreg projects in China have been a growing problem for many years. A street in Qijiang, Chongqing, suddenly collapsed on October 3. That morning, a dozen or so people then fell into the sewage underneath. Many passersby's stopped and pulled ...
Kitchen utensils with maggots and flies at a Shenzhen elementary school cafeteria
According to mainland media, Minzhi Primary School in Longhua District, Shenzhen, was recently reluctant to become "well-known." The school's Parent Committee representative conducted a surprise inspection of its catering kitchen and found the sanitary conditions too poor. A video taken by parents at the scene shows that all kitchen utensils have maggots, ...
‘Lifting lockdown’ the wave of protests boom in Lanzhou; Concern about additives in Haiti soy sauce
Protests in Lanzhou boom as authorities implement lockdown on national holiday Lanzhou is a city with fewer COVID cases compared to other provinces. The city also hasn’t risk areas. However, residential areas were continuously locked down, which angered residents. They started fighting to lift the lockdown during the national holiday. A video ...
Bus overturns in Shaanxi, 8 dead; Crows appear above Inner Mongolia hospital; Pigs burned alive
8 dead, 21 injured in a car accident in Shaanxi According to Chinese media, a serious car accident on October 1 on a highway in Shaanxi caused at least eight deaths and 21 injuries. On October 2, the Yan’an Traffic Police in Shaanxi Province issued a notice saying that the accident happened ...
Mongolian expatriates protest at the Chinese Embassy in Paris against the assimilation policy
According to RFI media, more than 20 Mongolians living in Paris gathered in front of the CCP Embassy in Place Andre in Paris on October 1 to protest its policies of cultural extermination and oppression of ethnic minorities in Inner Mongolia. According to the France 24 Press, since 2020, the CCP ...
China: getting old before it gets rich—population decline harms its economy
Beijing has acknowledged that China's population will face negative growth by 2025 for the first time. An article from China's National Health Commission in August also said that more than 30 percent of the country's people will be older than 60 around 2035. As China's official data shows, China's population reached ...
Lost his house, his future wife and child: True story behind China’s real estate crisis
We have been reading everyday about the real estate crisis and the bubble burst. But what does it mean to the ordinary Chinese citizen? This is the account of a true behind-the-scenes story. Li, from Hunan, had just bought an apartment for his future family. His girlfriend was pregnant, and a ...
Chinese flight attendants switch careers due to pay cuts and lower wages
Being a flight attendant is the dream job of many young people in China. However, the epidemic changed everything, and flights were reduced because of the strict measures of the zero COVID policy. Therefore, the income of flight attendants has also been affected. This has caused many to quit their ...
11th anti-communist march in Toronto, twelve ethnic groups participate
On the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, several groups organized demonstrations in Toronto, Canada. They all participated in an anti-communist parade to show their will to oppose the Chinese Communist Party (CCP.) According to Radio Free Asia, twelve ethnic groups cooperated in organizing the 11th ...
Chinese Gen Z women face disappointment when they find their ‘foreign degrees’ lacking
According to Statista, in the pandemic breakout period 2020-2021, China remained the most prominent country for international students enrolled in U.S. programs. The total of 317,299 made up 35% of the total number of international students studying in the U.S. According to Six Tones, over the past two decades, the number ...
Heinous trade: Human flesh capsules what they are and how they are made
On September 28, 2022, Yonhap TV reported on the seizure of the so-called "human flesh capsules" in South Korea, two years after the last event related to this contraband. The meat capsules are manufactured from human fetuses that have been aborted naturally or induced. China's active black market has been exporting ...
Chinese regime kills Uyghurs with ‘disinfectant’ for coronavirus
Officials from the Chinese Communist regime confirmed that at least 13 people died in Xinjiang over the last weekend. The victims were poisoned by "disinfectant" agents used by the regime to allegedly reduce contagions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus. Radio Free Asia (RFA) was able to confirm with regime ...
Couple kneeling to eat grass to earn money to treat their son’s illness
Recently on Chinese internet, there was a rumor that the son of a farming couple in Hunan province, China, unfortunately was diagnosed with leukemia. In order to raise money to treat the 9-year-old boy, the couple "ate grass" in public hoping people would feel sorry for them and raise some ...
Scolding health officials on live broadcast, Tianjin woman hailed as ‘heroine’
In the recent month, the pandemic situation in Tianjin has become serious again, many areas were locked down or put in a state of static management. A few days ago, when Gu Qing, chairman of the Health and Medical Department of Tianjin, was broadcasting his speech, a female citizen angrily ...
China, designated as a developing country, is world’s biggest creditor
A recent U.S. Senate panel reminded everyone that China is still designated a developing country by Washington. Yet, worldwide, it has been recognized as rather the opposite. On September 21, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed an amendment to the ratification of updates to the Kigali Treaty of the Montreal Protocol, giving ...
China dips into pork reserves for a record 4th time in a month
China has recently released more pork reserves, the fourth time this month. This came after the price of basic meat went up by almost a third, which caused increased concerns about inflation. The National Development and Reform Commission - the Chinese regime's top economic planner - has already released pork from ...
Shandong: 2 positive COVID cases, extreme measures see thousands of people quarantined
While the whole world is beginning to learn to live with the COVID pandemic, China is still steadfast in its "Zero COVID" policy. According to NetEase, after detecting two positive cases of COVID on September 29 during screening at key points, the authorities immediately took action to prevent an outbreak in ...
China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ shows sign of getting more extreme ahead of Party Congress: Expert
Experts believe that before the upcoming 20th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) National Congress, the COVID policy in various places in China will be more extreme. China’s health authority reported that on Saturday, October 1, there were 179 new confirmed infections, along with 540 new asymptomatic cases. The cases are reported from ...
Primary school students in mainland China wear masks to eat in classrooms
Until now, China insists on its "zero COVID" policy, requiring lockdowns over the smallest number of cases. However, COVID restrictions have been intensifying to tackle the outbreaks. In addition to wearing masks when entering public places, these primary school students must wear masks even while enjoying their meals. In one video, primary ...
