What's happening in China?

[onawah]

3 Gorges Dam scrutinized again--China's Achilles Heel

Big Trouble at Three Gorges Dam/Cement Like Tofu/ Senior Engineer Arrested/Demolition Rumors Spread
China Observer
804K subscribers
Mar 31, 2026

"Recently, a video about the poor quality of a local river embankment project has caught public attention. The video shows that the concrete easily crumbles, showing it’s definitely a subpar project. This has brought the focus back to the long-term maintenance and safety issues of national-level major water projects, especially massive projects like the Three Gorges Dam."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3RIFzDNQ1Es

[Ravenlocke]

Chay Bowes

China unveiled a 600 kg heavy-lift helicopter drone for inaccessible or dangerous areas like mountains, disaster zones, and combat regions.

A total gamechanger for rescue and logistics.

https://x.com/BowesChay/status/2039676902261100693

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

Mar 31
🚨🚨🚨World's First!

China's 7-ton Changying-8 cargo drone, a global largest, completes maiden flight

The Changying-8 is a new Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed for long-distance, heavy-lift logistics, boasting a maximum range exceeding 3,000 kilometers without refueling.

Developed by Beijing Beifang Changying UAV Technology Co., Ltd., this fixed-wing cargo drone features a 7-tonne max takeoff weight and 3.5-tonne payload capacity

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/2038986219724451919

[onawah]

CITIZENSHIP SCAM - Why the CCP is "Harvesting" American Babies - Episode #309
The China Show
383K subscribers
4/3/26

"This is a massively important episode. The biggest citizenship scam to ever exist is operating right out in the open."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KMYxkf26Yxw

*************
The War That Exposed a Hidden Human Supply Chain
Lei's Looking Glass
75.1K subscribers
Apr 2, 2026

"The Thailand–Cambodia conflict at the end of 2025 appeared to stem from a long-running border dispute—but it may have exposed something far more disturbing. Beneath the surface lies a hidden human supply chain in Southeast Asia, linked to scam networks, trafficking operations, and dozens of China’s state-affiliated medical and bioscience institutions. At the center is CCP leaders’ pursuit of extreme longevity—and the controversial use of young stem cells. This video breaks down one of the most unsettling systems emerging today."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=j-YezcED4js

[Ravenlocke]

Sputnik

🚨🇨🇳 China cracks code for tougher, faster next-gen jets

China’s engineers have ditched the decades-old “0/45/90/-45” formula for stacking carbon-fiber composites—super-strong materials used in everything from airplanes to sports cars, reports South China Morning Post

The old method ensured uniform strength but ignored how real-world forces stress parts unevenly

A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Mechanics developed designs reflecting actual stress patterns, with varied layer thicknesses and angles precisely where loads are heaviest

These new metal-like composites deliver:

🔶 26% stronger structures

🔶 13% tougher joints

🔶 Less warping and defects

The materials are tailored for next-gen fighter jets, drones, and spacecraft, where lighter fuselages and wings translate into more range, speed, and payload

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2041091582963642370

[Ravenlocke]

NewRulesGeopolitics

Apr 2
🚨🇮🇷🇨🇳If America Can’t Handle Iranian Missiles, It’s Not Ready for China

In just the first 16 days of war against Iran, the United States expended nearly 40% of its THAAD interceptors.

If America’s most advanced air defenses are struggling against Iran—a regional power with a fraction of China’s capabilities—there is no plausible scenario in which the US is ready for a showdown with Beijing.

The Chinese Arsenal

The People’s Liberation Army operates the world’s largest missile inventory, backed by a rapid-action doctrine designed to dismantle U.S. bases and infrastructure in the early stages of conflict.

Unlike Iran’s Kheibar Shikan and Sejjil missiles, China’s DF-27 anti-ship ballistic missile and DF-17 hypersonic glide vehicle offer advanced mid-air maneuverability and sustained hypersonic speeds.

With an estimated range of 8,000 kilometers, the DF-27 places U.S. naval installations at Pearl Harbor and Everett, Washington within striking distance—allowing China to threaten American assets without deploying a single ship.

Strategic Implications

According to Dr. Andrew Erickson of the US Naval War College, China is the first nation to operationalize an armed ICBM.

These capabilities could cripple U.S. operational effectiveness across East Asia and complicate the defense of American interests in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines in the event of armed conflict.

Depleted Defenses

Even as Patriot and THAAD struggle against less sophisticated Iranian missiles, Western analysts warn that a large-scale Chinese attack could overwhelm U.S. defenses by depleting interceptor inventories entirely.

With THAAD replenishment not expected until April 2027, the fragility of current stockpiles is increasingly difficult to ignore.

The Central Question

If US air defenses are depleted in the Middle East after just over two weeks of fighting Iran, how will they withstand a Chinese arsenal that dwarfs Iran’s—particularly when the DF-27 can already reach American soil?

https://x.com/NewRulesGeo/status/2039659746761076949

[edina]

I'm listening to this latest by Lei's Real Talk with interest. Especially given something Econchick recently mentioned almost in passing...

Yes, Russia, China, and Iran easily figure out who’s ever had a clearance for starters. Then as you become of more interest to them, you get even more attention. Those 3 have hacked into every American in some digital capacity.
The Chinese hold a dossier on 100% of Americans, even kids

https://truthsocial.com/@ECONCHICKIN...46660615251572

(This surprised me, but maybe it shouldn't, because they probably have dossiers on 100% their own people. Just the possibility of it caught my attention.)

The video below is not just about what is happening in China, but even more so, how what is happening in China reaches out into other countries. It'll take a bit for me to finish watching this, and let the implications of this percolate ...

CCP Infiltration in America: What Most People Still Don’t See

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kJvSE0s5rfM

How deep does CCP influence in America really go? In this interview, a U.S.-based entrepreneur shares firsthand experience with harassment, intimidation, and what he calls a system operating in plain sight. From diaspora networks to business ties and long-term influence strategies, this episode breaks down why the threat may be far bigger—and closer to home—than most people realize.

Those CCP influence strategies are creating havoc in the media sphere these days. A whole lotta noise going on.

[edina]

Through Lei's Talk I was aware of the two generals purged in January, a couple more from last year, and I think about nine more key military figures since January,

However, it turns out that the number of purges In Xi Jinping's tenure is astronomically more than a few dozen people. Just the News, a news outlet started by the award winning investigative journalist John Solomon, after he left The Hill, recently posted an article listing the numbers of people involved.

Xi Jinping carries out record-breaking punishments inside CCP amid purge of generals: Taiwan intel

The Taiwan government’s National Security Bureau reportedly assessed that the CCP had punished nearly one million CCP members and People’s Republic of China officials during 2025, a new report found, which seems to dovetail with Xi’s removal of a host of high-ranking Chinese military brass as he prepares the PLA for war and increases his already iron-like grip on power in the country.

44 generals and admirals, as well as 57 lieutenant generals and vice admirals removed

“The Chinese Communist Party last year disciplined 983,000 party and government officials, a record high during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tenure, according to a report by the National Security Bureau,” the Taipei Times reported on Tuesday, with the assessment reportedly being sent to Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan — the democratic island nation’s equivalent of the U.S. Congress — ahead of the scheduled committee testimony of Tsai Ming-yen, the director-general of the important Taiwanese intelligence agency.

The Taiwanese are going to be interested in this since Xi Jinping has stated a goal "to be able to fight and win a war on Taiwan by the end of 2027.”

Lei has often described in her talks of how China asserts pressure and influence strategies into Taiwan. (And well, pretty much everywhere else)

With this in mind, I've made special note that recently, Taiwan opposition leader (Cheng Li-wun) visits China for expected meeting with Xi Jinping and she leans toward reunification with China. Taiwan opposition leader pledges reconciliation at memorial for founding father in China. While many people within Taiwan consider her an opportunist or a "fair-weather" politician, for me, it's a concerning development. What's happened in Lebanon with Hezbollah is the result of an opportunistic politician that fanned the dead organization of Hezbollah for his own political gain, and Lebanon continues to suffer for it.

While the world may not feel what happened in Lebanon so much, a Taiwan overrun by China would have global affect and implications.

The Just the News article goes on to discuss how the purges may be driven by US military successes.

Some assessments have contended that changes within the Chinese military leadership have occurred due to fears about U.S. military superiority demonstrated on the battlefield. The Taiwanese intel assessment from this month reportedly found that “the removals” of top Chinese generals and admirals “might have been linked to the CCP’s sale of military equipment to countries such as Venezuela that have performed poorly in conflict scenarios in the past few years.”

Miles Yu, the director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute, also wrote in late March that the waves of Xi-led purges inside the PLA might be being driven by recent impressive performances by the U.S. military.

“The modern trajectory of China’s weapons development cannot be understood without recognizing a recurring pattern: Every major leap in the People’s Liberation Army has been triggered by decisive demonstrations of U.S. military superiority,” Yu wrote in the Washington Times. “From the Persian Gulf War to more recent confrontations involving Iran and Venezuela, American battlefield dominance has repeatedly exposed systemic weaknesses in China’s military-industrial complex, forcing cycles of hurried modernization, internal crisis, and political purges.”

Yu argued that “at its core, the CCP has long defined the United States as its principal adversary” and that the CCP’s “strategic mission has consistently centered on overcoming and ultimately displacing American power.”

“Yet rather than pursuing steady, innovation-driven development, China’s military modernization has largely been shock-driven,” Yu added.

The article also discusses that the purges may be driven by Xi's attempt to consolidate power, which Lei has also thoroughly discussed in the past few months.

[onawah]

Thanks for bringing Solomon to our attention, Edina (though it's surprising to see any truth about China coming from someone who was previously on "The Hill").
It's not easy to find good sources of info about China, with so much of the truth being obfuscated or distorted at all costs by the CCP and totally hidden with reams and reams of outrageously false propaganda.
China Observer is a good source too; though their format makes it look like very sensationalistic , they usually have plenty of on the scene videos and other sources that back up their claims, which are also often corroborated by other credible sources such as Lei and The China Show.
The CCP has been threatening to annex Taiwan for years, but I don't think they can actually accomplish it.
They have to "keep face" and make it look like they can, but that will probably all backfire this time too.
For one thing, it doesn't look like Japan would stand for much more hostility in that part of the world and they have a powerful arsenal.
For another, the 3 Gorges Dam is such a huge Achilles Heel that even the CCP can't pretend the dangers away.
And the CCP's technology often looks impressive on the surface at first, but is often proven in a short time to be worthless.

Posted by edina (here)
Through Lei's Talk I was aware of the two generals purged in January, a couple more from last year, and I think about nine more key military figures since January,

However, it turns out that the number of purges In Xi Jinping's tenure is astronomically more than a few dozen people. Just the News, a news outlet started by the award winning investigative journalist John Solomon, after he left The Hill, recently posted an article listing the numbers of people involved.

[onawah]

Big Brother's stock in China is dwindling

Xi Jinping Fears Beheading! Urgently Arrests 300 Employees from China’s Top Surveillance Firm
China Observer
805K subscribers
Apr 7, 2026

"On April 6, well-known human rights activist Sheng Xue posted on X platform, revealing details from a source in China. The information disclosed that a monopoly company that produces surveillance equipment in China suddenly faced a devastating blow."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QHzSke3sDj0

[onawah]

Beijing is the Target, not Iran

Posted by rgray222 (here)

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Interesting perspective from Twitter X:


 That’s not about Tehran.
 That’s about Beijing. China is the life-support system keeping the IRGC’s missile program on dialysis. The solid-fuel components, the guidance tech, the machine tools...they flow through Chinese ports and shadow networks like septic sludge. Trump knows it. This isn’t random chaos.

 Iran is the pawn. China is the king he’s stalking. The hardliners just handed Trump the perfect casus belli to squeeze Beijing without ever saying the word “China” on camera.

https://x.com/grey4626/status/2041902195273040363

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Interesting perspective from Twitter X:

Iran didn’t “violate” a ceasefire.
 That’s child-tier analysis.
 What happened was textbook regime schizophrenia...the exact pathology that has rotted the Islamic Republic from the inside out for decades. The negotiating politicians (the ones who still pretend they can play 21st-century chess) signed the two-week deal with Trump’s team. They saw the off-ramp: sanctions relief, reconstruction cash, a chance to breathe while the mullahs consolidate. But the IRGC cancer...those psychotic hardliner mother****ers with more missiles than brains...never got the memo. Or more likely, they did get it and simply didn’t give a ****. Because obedience to the Supreme Leader’s political theater is secondary to their divine mission: keep the fire burning, keep the blood flowing, keep proving they’re the only ones with balls in Tehran. So they lit the fuse. Missiles rain on Israel and Gulf states.
 Ceasefire? What ceasefire? 
The IRGC doesn’t do ceasefires. It does eternal jihad and cocaine-fueled power trips. Trump’s response is ****ing surgical poetry. He doesn’t cry about the violation.
 He calls it a “productive regime change.”
 Translation: “You just showed the world your own government is a schizophrenic cluster****. Beautiful. Now watch me carve the tumor out.” Then he drops the hammer: 50% tariffs on any nation arming Iran. Read between the lines, you geopolitical virgins.
 That’s not about Tehran.
 That’s about Beijing. China is the life-support system keeping the IRGC’s missile program on dialysis. The solid-fuel components, the guidance tech, the machine tools...they flow through Chinese ports and shadow networks like septic sludge. Trump knows it. He’s known it since 2016. Every single move in this theater...the tariffs, the sanctions, the public humiliation of the mullahs...is a scalpel aimed at Xi’s carotid. This isn’t random chaos.
 This is high-IQ economic warfare layered on top of psychological dominance. Trump is exploiting the IRGC’s own pathology against them: their inability to stop being rabid dogs even when the politicians are begging for a leash. By forcing the split into the open, he’s accelerating the regime’s internal rot while simultaneously choking the Chinese supply chain that feeds it. And the $500 billion US-China trade backdrop?
 That’s the real chessboard.
 Iran is the pawn. China is the king he’s stalking. The hardliners just handed Trump the perfect casus belli to squeeze Beijing without ever saying the word “China” on camera.
 Genius. Ruthless. Lethal. This is what real power looks like when a predator understands both human pathology and great-power competition.
 The IRGC thinks it’s playing 4D jihad.
 Trump is playing extermination chess with the lights off. Pay the **** attention. Or stay irrelevant.
Your choice.
https://x.com/grey4626/status/2041902195273040363

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by onawah (here)
Beijing is the Target, not Iran

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Trump knows it. He’s known it since 2016. Every single move in this theater...the tariffs, the sanctions, the public humiliation of the mullahs...is a s

Who opened up China, accelerating it from a backward nation to the intended replacement for the U.S. as the world's next industrial superpower?

Henry Kissinger:

• He who once noted casually but in public that he spent more time briefing the British Foreign Office than he did Nixon's State Department.
• He who rose from the Rockefeller empire, key globalist banking, oil and political (both United States and United Nations) agents.

China was build up to be a great power, dependent on shipping. They purchase more raw materials (starting with petroleum) by sea, and ship more industrial product by sea, than any other nation, with a population enslaved not so much to the mining, extraction and harvesting of the earth's wealth as happens in many third world nations, nor to the debt slavery of "first world" (EU, Commonwealth and US) nations that provides the immense pools of financial liquidity used to fund the globalists schemes, overt and covert, but to the world's most productive factories.

Who still rules over (though us Yankees are getting a bit uppity) the sea and the banks? I don't know, actually. But I'm pretty sure someone in the City of London knows.

The global world order ... a great machine with a few great choke points: oil, minerals, shipping, finance, law, science, and propaganda/education/entertainment to name a few.

The globalists: choke point masters. May they choke on a soggy tea bag.

[onawah]

This may be the beginning of a big change:

What Japan Just Did... China's Ultimate Weapon Is Now USELESS
The Geo Network
115K subscribers

"For years, Beijing has held the world hostage. Controlling nearly 70% of the global rare earth element supply, China has weaponized its monopoly, using brutal embargoes and export restrictions to blackmail massive economies like the U.S., Europe, and Japan. But now, Beijing's ultimate geopolitical weapon has just been rendered completely useless.

In a daring strategic counter-strike, Japan has completely bypassed China's supply chain. Striking a historic alliance with France in April 2026, Tokyo has secured a 10,000-kilometer strategic shield. With the activation of the Caremag refinery in southern France, the critical elements needed for F-35 fighter jets and nuclear submarines are now being produced outside of Beijing's control. Furthermore, Japan has just uncovered a devastating 16-million-ton deep-sea reserve off Minami Torishima Island—enough to supply the globe for centuries and grant Tokyo absolute strategic autonomy.

As Xi Jinping’s rare earth monopoly collapses, Beijing is panicking. Stripped of its primary economic weapon, intelligence suggests China may now accelerate its invasion plans for Taiwan, desperate to establish a new, far more dangerous monopoly over global microchip production. Watch this exclusive OSINT geopolitical breakdown by The Geo Network to see how Japan just destroyed China's global masterplan!

🎯 Topics Covered in This Geopolitical Analysis:

The Rare Earth Trap: How China weaponized its 70% global monopoly.

A Historic Alliance: Japan and France's strategic pact to bypass Beijing.

The 16-Million-Ton Discovery: Japan's massive deep-sea rare earth reserve.

The Caremag Refinery: Securing critical materials for F-35s and submarines.

The Taiwan Threat: Why Beijing's panic could accelerate an invasion. "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X4qK4JeOReE

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
China was build up to be a great power, dependent on shipping. They purchase more raw materials (starting with petroleum) by sea, and ship more industrial product by sea, than any other nation, with a population enslaved not so much to the mining, extraction and harvesting of the earth's wealth as happens in many third world nations, nor to the debt slavery of "first world" (EU, Commonwealth and US) nations that provides the immense pools of financial liquidity used to fund the globalists schemes, overt and covert, but to the world's most productive factories.

[onawah]

China's Having a Very Bad Day - They Can't Recover From This - Episode #310
The China Show
383K subscribers
4/10/26

"From robots to slopaganda. This week in China is A LOT!"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=a2BWd89fAIs

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by onawah (here)
This may be the beginning of a big change:

What Japan Just Did... China's Ultimate Weapon Is Now USELESS
The Geo Network
115K subscribers

"For years, Beijing has held the world hostage. Controlling nearly 70% of the global rare earth element supply, China has weaponized its monopoly, using brutal embargoes and export restrictions to blackmail massive economies like the U.S., Europe, and Japan. But now, Beijing's ultimate geopolitical weapon has just been rendered completely useless.

In a daring strategic counter-strike, Japan has completely bypassed China's supply chain. Striking a historic alliance with France in April 2026, Tokyo has secured a 10,000-kilometer strategic shield. With the activation of the Caremag refinery in southern France, the critical elements needed for F-35 fighter jets and nuclear submarines are now being produced outside of Beijing's control. Furthermore, Japan has just uncovered a devastating 16-million-ton deep-sea reserve off Minami Torishima Island—enough to supply the globe for centuries and grant Tokyo absolute strategic autonomy.

As Xi Jinping’s rare earth monopoly collapses, Beijing is panicking. Stripped of its primary economic weapon, intelligence suggests China may now accelerate its invasion plans for Taiwan, desperate to establish a new, far more dangerous monopoly over global microchip production. Watch this exclusive OSINT geopolitical breakdown by The Geo Network to see how Japan just destroyed China's global masterplan!

🎯 Topics Covered in This Geopolitical Analysis:

The Rare Earth Trap: How China weaponized its 70% global monopoly.

A Historic Alliance: Japan and France's strategic pact to bypass Beijing.

The 16-Million-Ton Discovery: Japan's massive deep-sea rare earth reserve.

The Caremag Refinery: Securing critical materials for F-35s and submarines.

The Taiwan Threat: Why Beijing's panic could accelerate an invasion. "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X4qK4JeOReE

Judging by the the description, this vid is bunk and clickbait.

The reason that China dominates the rare earths market, is that it doesn’t care about polluting itself.

The so-called “rare earth” elements are not rare at all. They are present in large amounts across the globe. The problem is that safely dealing with the toxic by-products of the refining processes is expen$ive.

Several refining operations are gearing up in the west. This one in France and another in the US, at least. But matching western demand is still a ways down the road.

Lol at “Xi/China panicking”.

[Bill Ryan]

This video (which I've not yet seen) might help to counter some of the relentless China-critical propaganda. It's on the YouTube channel of Cyrus Janssen, a Dutchman fluent in English and Chinese who lived in China for 15 years.

His regular interviews about geopolitics are all solid, well-informed, and free from the western media narratives that are so very pervasive. The video timestamp topics below seem relevant and interesting.

The Media Doesn't Want You To See THIS About China

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XBKyv8WA8Uc

The video description:

What is China like in 2025? I flew to Beijing to interview Li Jing Jing, a local Chinese Reporter and YouTuber to hear a local Chinese girl's thoughts on China's past, present, and future. Enjoy this interview live from Beijing, China.

00:00 - What is China Like in 2025?
01:00 - Intro to Li Jing Jing and Beijing
02:18 - What is Biggest Misconception About China?
03:29 - Does China Have True Freedom?
04:10 - Is China Safe for Women?
05:00 - What Has Chinese Government Done for You?
06:30 - China’s Poverty Alleviation Program
08:45 - Why Education is Most Important in China
10:53 - What Do Foreigners Learn When They Come to China?
11:55 - Why China is So Convenient and Easy
12:40 - Is is Better to be Poor in China or USA?
13:42 - Why Basic Necessities are Affordable in China
14:36 - How the Internet is Changing Lives
16:04 - What is Future for Youth in China
17:00 - Why Chinese Are Confident About Their Future
18:37 - The United States Real Goal for China
19:50 - Why Chinese Students Return Home to China
20:43 - Does China Want to Spread Communism?
21:22 - Why Countries Love Doing Business with China
23:05 - What Do Chinese People Think of Trump?
24:30 - Are Chinese People Scared of Tariff War?
26:15 - How US Tariffs Are Making Enemies Not Friends
27:04 - How USA Is Hurting It's Reputation on Global Stage
27:37 - Final Thoughts

[norman]

Cyrus Janssen
1.01M subscribers

"The Media Doesn't Want You To See THIS About China"


Errm, the media DOES want you to see this. They're shoving it right in your psyop'ed faces.


Never mind China, it's a beautiful country and a lot of very patient and tolerant sovereign soulful people still live there despite the communist party rule.

That woman in the video wasn't one of them. She was a professional cultural Marxist.

That video, from start to finish was Cultural Marxism propaganda 101.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
This video (which I've not yet seen) might help to counter some of the relentless China-critical propaganda.

There are two polar opposite narratives in the West regarding China. Knowing not a word of Chinese nor ever having set foot in China, I am in no position to know for certain which of the two is more accurate; but presently I hold a polar opposite view, such as from Lei's Real Talk (Youtube).

Nor it seems is China the only nation viewed with such increasing divergence, both from within and without. Apparently my own nation, the U.S., is viewed with similarly diverging views, as are other nations. At least in the case of the U.S., many of those diverging views are more or less accurate, at various times, for various parts and peoples of the nation.

The very "world order" of nations is shifting; we know not yet just how. For those of us who feast on mental puzzles, this is a great time to be alive.

=== ===

Posted by norman (here)
"The Media Doesn't Want You To See THIS About China"


Errm, the media DOES want you to see this. They're shoving it right in your psyop'ed faces.

Some media, yes.

[Ewan]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
This video (which I've not yet seen) might help to counter some of the relentless China-critical propaganda. It's on the YouTube channel of Cyrus Janssen, a Dutchman fluent in English and Chinese who lived in China for 15 years.

His regular interviews about geopolitics are all solid, well-informed, and free from the western media narratives that are so very pervasive. The video timestamp topics below seem relevant and interesting.

The Media Doesn't Want You To See THIS About China

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XBKyv8WA8Uc

The video description:

What is China like in 2025? I flew to Beijing to interview Li Jing Jing, a local Chinese Reporter and YouTuber to hear a local Chinese girl's thoughts on China's past, present, and future. Enjoy this interview live from Beijing, China.

00:00 - What is China Like in 2025?
01:00 - Intro to Li Jing Jing and Beijing
02:18 - What is Biggest Misconception About China?
03:29 - Does China Have True Freedom?
04:10 - Is China Safe for Women?
05:00 - What Has Chinese Government Done for You?
06:30 - China’s Poverty Alleviation Program
08:45 - Why Education is Most Important in China
10:53 - What Do Foreigners Learn When They Come to China?
11:55 - Why China is So Convenient and Easy
12:40 - Is is Better to be Poor in China or USA?
13:42 - Why Basic Necessities are Affordable in China
14:36 - How the Internet is Changing Lives
16:04 - What is Future for Youth in China
17:00 - Why Chinese Are Confident About Their Future
18:37 - The United States Real Goal for China
19:50 - Why Chinese Students Return Home to China
20:43 - Does China Want to Spread Communism?
21:22 - Why Countries Love Doing Business with China
23:05 - What Do Chinese People Think of Trump?
24:30 - Are Chinese People Scared of Tariff War?
26:15 - How US Tariffs Are Making Enemies Not Friends
27:04 - How USA Is Hurting It's Reputation on Global Stage
27:37 - Final Thoughts

Well Bill, I am surprised that you of all people would fall for such obvious propaganda, as I am sure onawah will be along to explain shortly.

You must have realised by now, if you had been really following this thread, that nothing good can ever come out of China - it is all smoke and mirrors.





(She's not wrong, the Chinese lady - not onawah!)

[Ewan]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
.....such as from Lei's Real Talk (Youtube).

And I was fairly convinced the channel you name was another western backed anti-China rant.

Like you confess, I have never been there either, nor know anyone in my recent life that was Chinese. So we are wasting time with opinions formed largely around our life's experiences. We simply don't know!

[onawah]

There are just a few issues that I have devoted a great deal of time to researching, one of them being China.
(Needless to say, I don't agree at all with Bill's assessment.)
Though I also have never been there, I do think that given sufficient research, there are enough credible sources of information about what conditions are like in China currently, including a wealth of on-the-scene videos, all demonstrating that China under the CCP has become a dystopian nightmare.

My main reason for spending as much time as I have over the years in posting information on this forum has been not so much to discuss issues with other members, as to share credible information for the benefit of non-members who don't have time to research, in the hope that it will help hasten the general realization of truth.

However, what is surfacing for me now is not the desire to spend lots of time posting more about what's real in China, but allowing in deeper truths and the realization that I need to re-prioritize.
Reading the following induced a "synchronicity happens" event which helped me to reach that point and choose rather to pursue some better, more creative ways to spend my time and energy.
I hope other members who have shared my views about China won't mind too much.

The light has cast a spell upon itself: On courage, self-deception, and the power of creativity
Paul Levy
Apr 15, 2026
https://awakeninthedream.substack.co...m_medium=email

"One thing we humans are geniuses at is deceiving ourselves. In doing so, we deny our vast genius for creatively shaping our own experience, both in the world around us and inside our own heads.

When I contemplate what is at the very bottom of the insanity—and evil—that is playing out in our world, I keep on coming back to one and the same thing.
The cause (and solution) of the multiple world crises we are facing, when traced back to their very root, all have to do with that we are not in touch with our own creative power and agency.

We are powerful magicians beyond—and only limited by—our imagination, but to the extent that we don’t realize this and believe otherwise, our own creative power is wielded unconsciously and boomerangs against us in destructive ways which undermine the fulfillment of our conscious aims and stifles our own creative genius.
The collective evil that is playing out in the world’s body politic is reflecting—and revealing—this deeper process of unconscious self-sabotage that is being acted out within each one of us.

It is an archetypal idea, expressed in every spiritual wisdom tradition in a myriad of ways, that the powers of light and dark are mysteriously connected, and that the forces of darkness parasitically feed off of and require the energy and support of the light in order to maintain and perpetuate their seeming existence so as to appear real.
This is to say that the powers of darkness have no independent objective existence on their own separate from their connection to the light. When translated back to its deeper implicit meaning, this reveals that the light has for some reason used its own creative energy to constrain and limit its infinite radiance, as if the light has cast a spell upon itself.
We—as potentially both emissaries of light and/or agents of darkness—somehow play a key, participatory role in this process.

Seen as a reflection of a dynamic happening within each one of us, this expresses how something so incredibly powerful (i.e., ourselves as the radiant plenum – the boundless sentient luminosity which is the very fabric of our being) can fall under the spell of a nonexistent phantom appearance that arises from nowhere but the immense creativity of our own mind, such that it entrances the light within us into believing that this imaginary, illusory phantom of darkness is more powerful than the light that we are.

These apparition-like darker forces have no intrinsic existence or creativity of their own, but can plug into and mimic our own creative power such that they can use our own disowned and unrealized creativity against us.
These darker powers can only take on a convincing, apparent existence by tricking us into believing that they have power over us.
These darker forces only have power over us, however, to the extent that we don’t see through their illusory nature, but rather, unwittingly give our power over to them by investing them with an undeserved objective reality, making them appear more powerful than is warranted.

One thing that we are indisputably geniuses at is deceiving ourselves – we are masters beyond compare at fooling ourselves, at tricking ourselves out of our (right) minds and then falling for our own ploy.
This is pointing to our unfathomably vast and unrealized latent genius to creatively shape our own experience, both all around us (in the world) and inside of our heads.
If used without awareness, however, we have a great propensity, as if hypnotizing ourselves, to fall under our own self-created illusions – which is a chief feature of unconsciousness.
This whole process is potentially revealing to us that this same creative energy with which we bewitch ourselves, if used consciously and channeled so as to shed light on itself, can help awaken us from our self-created nightmare to become conscious participatory agents in our own evolution.

It is as if we are unknowingly in possession of a magic wand that is powerful beyond measure, but not only do we not know how to use it to benefit ourselves and the world at large, most of us do not even suspect that we have such great creative power.
Many of us are unconsciously wielding our creative genius to entrance ourselves so as to think that we are not in touch with our creativity—which is then immediately confirmed by the experience we create for ourselves—which ironically, is itself a direct and immediate expression of the enormity of our creative power.
Not knowing that we possess undreamed of creative power, our power to create then possesses us from beneath our conscious awareness, which then fuels our worst nightmares—both of the sleeping and waking variety.

To quote the great psychologist William James, our situation is:

“…Much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.... We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream.”

To amplify James’ metaphor, let us dare to dream. Let us fully incarnate into the rest of our multi-dimensional organism—both material and immaterial—and draw upon the untapped over-flowing reservoirs of creative inspiration that potentially fills us to the brim and surrounds us on all sides.
The question arises: why not do this? What is stopping us?
And the answer: Nothing at all.

Paul Levy's Awaken In the Dream is a reader-supported publication. "