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China is once again grappling with a major wave of COVID infections. Official numbers are climbing, and on the ground, people report a grim reality—crowded hospitals, rising severe cases, and a surge in sudden deaths, including among the young.

China’s population is shrinking fast, with birth rates crashing across the country. A deepening fertility crisis is raising alarms. Here’s the latest.

A shocking espionage case is unfolding at one of Germany’s top universities. A Chinese student is under investigation for allegedly leaking sensitive research secrets.

The CCP is no longer hiding it. It’s openly calling on people to join the big “No King” protests across the United States on June 14.

Here’s the big picture: the CCP sees America as its number-one enemy and is already fighting an undeclared war. Smuggling pathogens could be one piece of that puzzle.

Shocking new reports from the Falun Gong website Minghui confirm that 11 more practitioners died due to persecution by Chinese authorities, with cases reported in May.

Electricity prices in China are crashing, with major economic provinces like Jiangsu seeing a 24% drop and Guangdong falling 8.3%. Even more striking, "negative prices" have emerged in Shandong, Zhejiang, and Inner Mongolia’s spot markets.

In a major crackdown, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has deported 122 Chinese nationals who were illegally in the country.

China’s largest and newest aircraft carrier, Fujian, has conducted its first-ever flight drills in a disputed maritime zone near South Korea — raising fresh tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

In a stunning economic development, China's exports to the United States nosedived by 34.5% in May, marking the steepest drop in five years — even deeper than during the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak.

In a bizarre twist to China’s deepening unemployment crisis, a new phenomenon is sweeping across major cities: jobless citizens are now paying to pretend they still have jobs.

In the Jing’an New Era Building in Shanghai, a co-working space called the “Pretend-to-Work Company” by netizens, Weidu Joint Office, has gone viral.

This “pretend to work company” is opened in Xinjiang. This person, who looks like a boss, introduced four ways this company makes money—opportunities brought by a large number of unemployed people, which seems quite ironic.

This is another even more "wild" "pretend-to-work company.”

Have you heard of something called a “pretend to work company”?

In a major drug bust this week, U.S. authorities intercepted 50,000 kilograms of chemical precursors shipped from China and bound for Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel—marking a serious escalation in transnational threats involving the Chinese Communist Party.

On June 6, 2025, the U.S. Capitol's Rayburn House Office Building hosted a pivotal forum titled "The Chinese Communist Party's Escalating Transnational Repression." Organized by The Epoch Times, the event brought together lawmakers, scholars, and human rights advocates to address the CCP's intensifying efforts to suppress dissent beyond China's borders.