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Zhao Lijian got ‘scolded’ again for caring about ‘compatriots’ in Cambodia
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted a letter on August 23, on Twitter, "Taiwanese compatriots are Chinese people, please contact the Chinese Embassy if you are in trouble," causing netizens to poke fun commenting that the Chinese Embassy can't even save the Chinese people, can it save the Taiwanese? In ...
Chinese netizens frustrated as women’s volleyball team becomes ‘international joke’
On August 25, the Chinese women's volleyball team met the weaker Iranian team at the 2022 Asian Cup in the Philippines. In the first set the Chinese team was nothing special, all the players wore masks, and lost the first match. In the face of criticism and doubts, the Volleyball ...
Chinese borrow panda’s name to mock leader
Recently, the Chinese Communist Party's official media CCTV asked the public to name "Cui Cui's" panda and netizens left messages like "Qi Cui" (meaning "Pray for Cui Cui") in the comment section. The official media immediately deleted the comments and even blocked further comments. Some analysts believe the incident reflects ...
Fires raging in Chongqing have spread to homes
Forest fires continue to rage in Beibei District, Chongqing City, China. People said that even though the isolation belt was dug, the fire still traversed the barrier, burning very strongly. On August 24, a fire broke out in Lingjiang town, Neijiang city, Sichuan province, and many residences were burned and ...
Chinese singer censored for criticizing zero Covid measures
For some time now, Chinese citizens have been encouraged to show the discontent generated by the strict measures of the zero COVID policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Some people dared to post strong criticism toward the CCP, others expressed their angst through ironic jokes, including exposing the ridiculous ...
Chongqing ‘piled up disasters’: High temperatures, forest fires, pandemic, bats chaotically flying in the sky
On August 23, the record high temperature in Chongqing had lasted for over a month. The prolonged high temperatures and drought, contributed to more than ten forest fires. And the COVID-19 pandemic resurfaced, public transportation was suspended, all compounded by large-scale nucleic acid testing making people tired. On August 22, ...
CCP tried to clean up its image with falsely awarded documentary on Hong Kong
On June 1, a press release announced that the film "Spring, seeing Hong Kong again" won the award for best documentary at the Prague Film Festival in the Czech Republic. The announcement was made on the film's official website and was published by media outlets such as the Globe Newswire. ...
‘Everyone should spend their hard-earned money on the Party’: Article disappears after infuriating people
Recently, NetEase News published an article titled "Southern Normal University Professor Li Jiange: The common people should spend the money they earn on the party and civil servants." The article aroused criticism, prompting NetEase to delete it, showing a 404 error when searching on Chinese Baidu. Vision Times republished the content ...
Beijing hires hackers to attack human rights organizations
Massachusetts-based cybersecurity company Recorded Future recently released a report stating that a hacker group associated with the Chinese Communist Party has been targeting human rights organizations, think tanks, media agencies, and multinational government agencies. The group has carried out cyberattacks over the past three years. The hacker group RedAlpha targeted Amnesty ...
Local government out of money? Increased fines picking up the slack?
The CCP's local finances are in a serious crisis. There are reports that they are using various forms of fines to make money, and people are complaining. The Chinese Communist Party's State Council recently asked local governments to "strictly prohibit the use of fines to generate revenue." Scholars believe that the ...
Chinese companies face many difficulties in the ‘South American lithium triangle’
The "South American lithium triangle" region has become an important objective for Chinese Communist Party investment in recent years. It has the world's richest high-quality lithium resources. However, due to factors including consumption of water resources, environmental pollution, and local opposition to mineral privatization, Chinese companies have encountered challenges and ...
Unusual: Chinese regime tests fish, pillows, cell phones and anything else they can think of
The coastal city of Xiamen, Fujian province, made headlines for the controversial order of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to perform nucleic acid tests on freshly caught fish, crabs, and shrimp to detect COVID-19. The move caused mockery on the internet and criticism from experts who warn that it is ...
Shanghai Bund turns off lights, Sichuan people don’t dare to take the elevator due to continuous power cuts
Lights off in Shanghai Bund China is facing rare hot, dry weather with record breaking temperatures and power shortages in many places. Tencent reported that, on August 21, the Sichuan provincial government issued a notice launching its first emergency response. The local area is facing a severe situation due to the most ...
China’s controversial new version traffic light, drivers dare not go when green
Recently, many cities in mainland China have gradually adopted the new version of traffic lights, also known as "Jiu Gong" (Nine Squares). Jiu Gong is a chart with 9 squares with numbers 1 to 9. These nine numbers represent the nine stars used to see the ji xiong and fengshui or ...
UN expert confirms forced labor camps in Xinjiang
A chief expert for the U.N., Tomoya Obokata, a Japanese specialist in transnational organized crime, human trafficking, and modern slavery, issued a report last week accusing the Chinese Communist Party of enslaving members of the Uighur, Kazakh and other minorities in East Turkistan (Xinjiang) and use similar practices against the ...
Recent crackdowns reveal 4 paradoxes in China’s judicial system
It is hard to imagine that the certificates of legal professional qualifications would be validated by criminals. But this is really happening in China. This is just one among thousands of absurd stories in China's judicial system, which can be summarized in the following four paradoxes. Paradox 1: When legal professional ...
Chinese regime’s failure to take the lead in chip production pushes it further away from invading Taiwan
The dependence on technology in today's world is such that it has become a major bottleneck to progress. For this reason, the development and protection of microchips occupy an important role in the policies of all countries, and even more so in industrialized countries. For the Chinese Communist Party this situation ...
What is behind the fall of Chinese property giants?
Chinese developers left millions of pre-sold apartments unfinished. As a result, most Chinese banks are facing a halt to mortgage payments or in effect a “mortgage strike”—homebuyers are refuse to pay mortgages unless the developers resume construction. Amid the real estate debt crisis, the decrease in the number of Chinese developers ...
Owed 5 months back pay, Chinese sanitation workers take to the streets
Following the bus drivers' strike in Dancheng, Henan last week, many sanitation workers in Yongnian district, Handan city, Hebei went into the streets on August 16 because they had not been paid for 5 months. Sina reported that on August 17, the staff of the Yongnian District Letters and Calls Bureau ...
5 Chinese companies requested to be removed from Wall Street
Chinese state-owned companies requested "voluntary exclusion" from the U.S. stock market, allegedly due to high costs and low returns. These companies are Sinopec and PetroChina, two of the world's largest oil companies, the Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco), as well as China Life Insurance, and a Shanghai-based subsidiary of Sinopec. For years ...
