What's happening in China?

[onawah]

Why Many Chinese Believe These Disasters Are an Omen
Lei's Real Talk
446K subscribers
7/11/26

"China is experiencing an extraordinary wave of disasters—earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, extreme heat, fires, and even thousands of venomous snakes escaping into flooded villages. Why are so many disasters happening at once? And why do many Chinese believe these events are more than coincidence? In this episode, we explore both the facts and the ancient belief that Heaven may be sending a warning."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YgBfNF-PMnM

[onawah]

China Is Hit by Disaster After Disaster—But Xi Jinping Is Nowhere to Be Seen
Lei's Real Talk
446K subscribers
Jul 15, 2026

"China has been hit by floods, fires, deadly factory disasters, and even thousands of escaped snakes. Yet Xi Jinping remains in Beijing, issuing instructions instead of visiting the disaster zones. Why does he stay away—and why are more Chinese seeing these events as signs that Heaven may be withdrawing its Mandate?"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6QYsMpBnH-8

[onawah]

China is Actually Done - Didn't Think it Could Get This Bad - Even We're Shocked - Episode #324
The China Show
390K subscribers
7/17/26

"China's devastation literally got much worse. "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gsvMW0WxekA

[ThePythonicCow]

Here's confirmation from a different perspective on the problems facing China. Lei's Real Talk is not alone in her observations.

Tom Bilyeu observes that China is not having problems getting sufficient petroleum, despite the war in the Persian Gulf obstructing their primary source of crude oil imports. He figures this is because a major driver of petroleum imports for China, to provide the diesel for the trucks and construction equipment used to build houses, apartments, factories, and infrastructure had already fallen into a depression, but China refused to stop importing petro to maintain appearances, knowing that the world tracked China's petro imports as a measure of its economic activity.

So China was just building up excessive reserves, which the war has now let China draw down to more reasonable levels, without exposing the collapse of major sectors (especially housing) of their economic activity.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mTetYGY-w5E

[onawah]

That makes perfect sense since for the CCP, it's all about "saving face".

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
China refused to stop importing petro to maintain appearances, knowing that the world tracked China's petro imports as a measure of its economic activity.
So China was just building up excessive reserves, which the war has now let China draw down to more reasonable levels, without exposing the collapse of major sectors (especially housing) of their economic activity.