Overseas Chinese communities report a sharp tightening of passport renewal services at Chinese diplomatic missions, with the San Francisco Consulate General refusing applications and directing applicants to return to China for processing.
China’s prolonged real estate collapse, underway since the second half of 2021, is devastating dozens of linked industries and putting the livelihoods of tens of millions of workers at risk. Official statements have focused more on the property sector itself while downplaying the depth of distress in upstream and downstream sectors, often framing problems as “overcapacity in some industries” that require upgrading. Data and on-the-ground reports show a far broader crisis.
New exit-entry regulations announced by China’s State Council have not yet taken effect, but travelers are already reporting additional screening at Hong Kong International Airport for some passengers arriving from mainland China and transferring to flights bound for the United States.
Beijing has launched a sweeping global tax campaign targeting China’s ultra-wealthy, seeking to recover hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes stretching back decades. The drive aims to plug a deepening fiscal shortfall driven by the collapse of land-sale revenues.
Former Peking University professor Yuan Hongbing has disclosed what he describes as a major military conspiracy by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aimed at drawing the United States into a costly ground war in Iran.
This is very shocking! China’s Three Gorges Group has long been analyzing what would happen if the Three Gorges Dam collapsed in an instant. The internal file runs hundreds of pages long. Today, an insider leaked four of those simulation maps.
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.
The CCP's State Council issued new regulations on outbound investment, set to take effect on July 1, 2026. State media reported the move on June 1. The rules explicitly prohibit investors from transferring prohibited or restricted export data and technologies through methods such as dispatching technical personnel across borders, providing technical guidance, or arranging training.
China's wildly popular short dramas are rapidly shifting to AI production, leaving live-action performers, crews, and entire filming hubs without work. The bustling sets that once defined the industry have gone silent, with traditional companies slashing staff and pivoting to cheaper AI alternatives.
"It is still possible to bypass controls and obtain H200 chips, and even more advanced ones, though in limited quantities. The smuggled high-end chips are primarily supplied to Chinese state-designated tech firms for AI research and development."
China’s Ministry of Justice has announced that a special campaign has resulted in the removal of more than 300,000 administrative law enforcement personnel who did not meet qualification requirements. Authorities also eliminated over 7,000 illegal enforcement entities and scrapped more than 400,000 unnecessary enforcement items.
Facing accelerating population outflows and collapsing local finances, the Chinese Communist Party’s State Council on May 22 released a new policy to expand public services for non-registered residents in second- and third-tier cities, in a clear bid to keep migrant workers and their families as permanent consumers and taxpayers.