A city does not collapse overnight. It fades quietly, street by street, light by light, person by person. And if you walk through Shanghai today, you will feel it immediately. This is not the Shanghai people remember. This is not the city that once swallowed crowds, ambition, money, and dreams. Something has changed—and it is happening silently.
There was a time when entering Shanghai on a weekend felt like stepping into a living organism. The sidewalks were packed. The subways were suffocating. You couldn’t move without brushing past strangers. Every corner buzzed with energy, noise, transactions, and desire. People came here believing that if they could just survive in this city, they had already won.

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Recently, a former mainland Chinese media professional disclosed an unverified whistleblower report, allegedly originating from a civil affairs official within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) system. The report contains a series of serious allegations regarding population figures and deaths during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. These claims have not been independently verified, but have nonetheless drawn attention online due to their scale and implications.

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Rumors surrounding the alleged arrests of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli have spread rapidly in recent days. On January 23, Michael Flynn, a former senior U.S. intelligence official, commented on the situation, describing it as a “coup within the CCP.” Flynn also explicitly named Xi Jinping, warning that “domestic turmoil in China will not end well.”

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Chinese officials admitted that 329 rivers had surged past the danger line. But behind this statistic lies a far darker truth: this crisis is not simply nature’s wrath—it’s the result of human arrogance. And at the very heart of it stands the most controversial symbol of modern China—the Three Gorges Dam.
Once glorified as the Communist Party’s ultimate triumph of engineering, the dam is now seen as its Achilles’ heel. When it was inaugurated in 2003, state media boasted that it could withstand a “once-in-a-thousand-year” flood. Later, that promise was quietly downgraded to “once in a century.” Now, as red alerts blare across central China, even that watered-down claim sounds like a cruel joke. The cracks in the illusion—both metaphorical and real—are widening.
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For years, China has proudly presented its high-speed rail network as a symbol of national strength, modern engineering, and unstoppable progress. Spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, the network is often described as so vast it could wrap around the Earth multiple times. To the outside world, it looks like a miracle of infrastructure. But beneath the polished image lies a darker reality—one whispered about online, quietly discussed by engineers, and feared by those who know how these railways are actually built. A single word captures this fear: tofu.
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Beijing’s first-tier cities have cooled down to this point. At noon, there is not even a single person eating. Let’s take a look at the shops on the streets of Beijing. This place used to be very bustling. I haven’t been here for two weeks, and now all of them are closed. The feeling among business owners is the most obvious. Look at the streets of Beijing. It’s already past noon, and there are basically no cars. We’ll change lanes later and take another look.

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