What you’re seeing on the screen isn’t a ghost town from a disaster movie—it’s the new reality of urban China. Once-crowded shopping malls are now eerily silent, entire floors lit up but empty, with only a handful of people wandering through. Brick-and-mortar businesses are suffocating, one by one pushed to the edge. Is your city starting to feel the same? In recent months, the rental market in Shenzhen has quietly but dramatically turned cold. Landlords who once sat comfortably are now restless and anxious. Homes are nearly impossible to rent out. In the past, tenants would rush in as contracts neared expiration. Today, even after slashing rents by hundreds of yuan, the phones stay silent. Apartments next to subway stations—once snapped up instantly—now sit vacant for weeks, even with luxury renovations and brand-new interiors.

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I’ve come to realize something terrifying: the worse the economy gets, the more crime explodes. China’s crime rate right now is honestly frightening. It feels like for every 100 people, one is committing a crime. I truly believe many ordinary people in this society no longer even have enough food to survive. They were already pushed to the edge before, and now they’re being dragged back into the game just to stay alive. This is what my relative told me yesterday. He’s a senior prosecutor who has spent over 40 years in public security. In times like these, it’s no surprise at all that people of a certain age become targets of robbery or theft—because this exact pattern was rampant in the 1980s and 1990s. I’m 31 years old this year. I’m working from home now. And honestly, 2025 has been brutal for me. I lost my job. My children are sick. Some days, it feels like I can’t even breathe.

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China’s Tofu-Dreg Nightmare: Dams Breaking, Cities Drowning, Driving Millions to Flee

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From electric car fires and rust controversies to unpaid workers and collapsing dealerships, China’s auto industry is showing dangerous cracks. Car graveyards, brutal price wars, and mounting losses are raising urgent questions about the country’s economic future.
#chinanews #tofu #chinaeconomy #chinaundercover #china

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In recent months, devastating floods have swept across nearly half of mainland China, turning vast regions into deadly seas of water. Countless villages were washed away within hours, leaving behind nothing but ruins and silence. Tens of thousands of people were killed or went missing, with the true toll believed to be far higher. Dozens of dams collapsed, while chaotic and large-scale water releases from reservoirs pushed the disaster beyond control. Entire communities were submerged without sufficient warning, trapping families in raging floodwaters. By the end of 2025, extreme rainfall and flooding had spread beyond China’s borders to Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia, causing massive destruction. A regional disaster chain is emerging, forcing the world to confront the growing cost of human decisions colliding with an unforgiving climate.

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Everyone, let me give you a serious warning. People are becoming desperately poor—so poor that some are losing control. It doesn’t matter whether they’re locals or outsiders. People have already started prying doors and breaking locks. Along Xihu Road in Nankai District, Tianjin, three or four households have already been broken into. If there are elderly people or children at home, make sure the doors are locked properly. If you run a business, take all valuables away—do not leave anything inside the shop.
Everyone needs to raise their sense of vigilance. My God, people in Chengdu really have no money anymore. Now everyone takes their children to the mountains instead of spending. We are getting poorer and poorer. Why are people in Beijing becoming increasingly depressed? There is a very serious issue here. If all those so-called experts are wrong, how could ordinary people ever live a good life in Beijing?

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