in the CCP system, the head of the discipline inspection group acts as the CCDI’s eyes and ears — effectively a “monitor” or “political commissar” inside the Foreign Ministry. Li Qian’s national security background suggests the MSS is gaining influence. Authorities now appear to prioritize so-called “political security” cases involving diplomats over routine anti-corruption efforts.

The CCP has conducted a recent submarine-launched ballistic missile test from the sea while launching the China-Russia "Maritime Joint-2026" naval exercise off Qingdao in Shandong province. Insiders say the launch was intended to demonstrate the ability to strike beyond the second island chain and project military pressure across the Western Pacific.

China’s official data shows unemployment insurance fund expenditure reaching a new record high for the January-May period, underscoring a persistent wave of job losses that authorities have struggled to conceal.

Many people are asking this question: Under such a brutal purge of the military by Xi Jinping, why don't Chinese generals and soldiers fight back?

China’s Communist Party has just made a major new move. They plan to let millions of party members flood the global internet. Free societies must prepare. How should we respond?

In Communist-ruled China, there is a saying: “Prepare public opinion first.” Mao Zedong first said that to overthrow a regime, you must first create public opinion and do ideological work. Later, it was summed up as “Lay the Groundwork in Public Opinion First”, or “Build the Propaganda Narrative First”. 

As China's economy remains mired in prolonged stagnation and internal power struggles within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intensify, the regime has rolled out a new ideological campaign centered on "Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building."

For the CCP and Xi Jinping, the core logic is not maximizing national interest but maximizing the CCP’s political security, or the ruler's own interests. As long as Xi thinks Taiwan relates to CCP regime security and his personal historical status, he may package high risks as strategic opportunities.  

As China’s economy staggers under the weight of structural failures, mounting debt, and authoritarian mismanagement, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has once again resorted to its favorite tactic: rebranding reality.

When fiscal exhaustion, loss of social confidence, local governance failure, and middle-class disengagement happen together, the system enters a state of slow bleeding — which may be more dangerous than a sudden crisis.