On the eve of the CCP’s Fourth Plenum, China has effectively “frozen.” In Guangxi, vocational students rushed out of classrooms at midnight to strike; central state–owned enterprise (SOE) employees were ordered to hand in their passports and all overseas travel was halted; petitioners in Shanghai were confined at home as “black jails” reappeared; even the e-commerce “Double 11” shopping festival is eerily cold—streamers exhausted, malls empty, consumer confidence collapsing. From phones to passports, from campuses to Zhongnanhai, this “low-pressure lockdown” is quietly spreading nationwide. No one has declared martial law, yet everything is being locked down. Who is afraid—and of what? Don’t miss the next drop—subscribe and enable the bell.
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