The Chinese government has recommended that farmers use natural gas instead of coal. As a result, local farmers have voiced widespread complaints. Many elderly people who were left behind in rural areas could not withstand the cold and have already died. Villagers ask how many elderly people in nearby villages have frozen to death and whether the authorities have ever cared. However, the Chinese Communist Party strictly controls public discourse. Discussions related to these incidents are banned online, and videos on the subject are ordered to be deleted.

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Argentina has done what many countries only whisper about behind closed doors: it ripped up its cooperation playbook with Beijing and walked away in broad daylight. The decision sent shockwaves through diplomatic circles, financial markets, and strategic think tanks alike. The man behind it, Javier Milei, was once dismissed as a political oddity—too loud, too radical, too reckless. Today, he is being watched as the leader who turned Argentina from a passive recipient of Chinese influence into one of the most defiant challengers of Beijing’s overseas expansion. For the Chinese Communist Party, Argentina has gone from promising partner to full-blown nightmare.

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Have you ever seen someone cry while selling a house?
Not tears of relief. Not tears of gratitude.
But tears of collapse.
Today, I saw it for the second time in my life.
The first time was years ago—when I sold my own home.
Today, it happened again, in Hongxiu City.
The owner bought that apartment in 2017. Back then, the market was roaring. He paid nearly 1.5 million yuan for the unit and bundled a 400,000-yuan parking space with it. Everyone told him he was lucky. Everyone said he got in just in time. Property was security. Property was the future. Property was dignity.

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Beijing and Shanghai have rarely looked this empty. Shops are closing, malls stand deserted—and one question echoes everywhere: where did the people go?
#chinaeconomy #undercover #tofu #collapse #china

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“Take one look and tens of millions are gone. Take another look, and tens of millions disappear again. Money vanishes not because of mistakes, but because time itself has turned against you.
This is Shajing, Shenzhen. It used to be one of the most vibrant, crowded, and energetic places in the city. After work, you couldn’t walk ten meters without bumping into someone. Voices overlapped, lights stayed on late into the night, and the streets felt alive. Today, all of that feels like it belongs to another era. Everything here is stitched to memory now. What once symbolized speed, opportunity, and ambition has quietly turned into history. Even Shenzhen—the strongest of China’s first-tier cities—can no longer hold its ground. There was a time when people said they were fleeing Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou just to come here.

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Thai F-16s ruled the skies, while Cambodia’s Chinese-supplied jets never left the ground. In just a few days of escalation along the Thailand–Cambodia border, a brutal reality was laid bare: air power decides modern conflict, and Cambodia had none. Six Chinese-made FTC-2000G fighter jets—worth over fifty million dollars and advertised as Cambodia’s pride—sat motionless on the runway as Thai aircraft carried out real strike missions overhead. The imbalance was absolute. One side controlled the air. The other absorbed the blows. And China, the arms supplier and Cambodia’s closest political patron, said nothing.
This was not merely a border clash. It was a live-fire exposure of what Chinese military aid is really worth when war stops being theoretical.
As Thai F-16s crossed into contested zones and launched precision strikes, Cambodia’s air force remained invisible. No interceptions. No counterattacks. No aerial presence of any kind. The silence from Cambodian airbases was deafening. Those six Chinese jets—paraded in ceremonies, praised in state media, and used to project an image of modernization—were suddenly useless. In the moment that mattered, they became hangar decorations.

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