Social Issues

Interviews with service members reveal how economic pressures, broken promises, and political control are straining morale within the Chinese military.

Analysts say the Hainan port is not free while under the Chinese regime’s political control and is a cover for its military activities in the South China Sea.

Rhodium Group and analysts predict dim prospects for 2026.

Delayed wages, shuttered channels, and vanishing audiences reflect how financial strain and digital media have hollowed out state broadcasters.

Rights activist Chen Guangcheng warns China’s menstrual surveillance could fuel local birth targets and deepen state control over women’s reproductive lives.

Beijing ends a decades-long tax break on contraception while subsidizing matchmakers, as births plunge and the population rapidly ages.

A violent message targeting a Japanese school follows recent attacks and growing nationalist rhetoric as Tokyo urges citizens to stay vigilant.

The sales growth is significantly lower than last year, which indicates ‘poor quality growth’ amid deflation.

The unusual publicity of such cases by the regime is intended for deterrence, while indicating tightened control, said analysts.

The new bridge was meant to showcase China’s meeting its infrastructure goals. It only opened to traffic a few months ago.

Meanwhile, some orphanages in one province are seeing more adoptions as it appears that more Chinese choose to raise children without tying the knot.

China’s export-based economy and technological dependence on the west are in conflict with the regime’s ‘major country’ diplomacy, analysts say.

State media touted economic progress, while Chinese people have described worsening hardship, political contradictions, and fading public trust in Xi’s rule.

Days before the CCP’s Fourth Plenum, China cracked down on international travel for employees of state-owned enterprises and institutions.

On Chinese social media, the topic ‘ordinary people feel nothing about the Fourth Plenum’ has gained significant traction.

Beijing’s generous K-visa angers job-hungry locals and, analysts say, it acts as a soft-power lure for young tech workers from the Global South.

Business owners and residents say the actual situation is worse than what official data show.

Interviews with service members reveal how economic pressures, broken promises, and political control are straining morale within the Chinese military.

Analysts say the Hainan port is not free while under the Chinese regime’s political control and is a cover for its military activities in the South China Sea.

Rhodium Group and analysts predict dim prospects for 2026.

Delayed wages, shuttered channels, and vanishing audiences reflect how financial strain and digital media have hollowed out state broadcasters.

Rights activist Chen Guangcheng warns China’s menstrual surveillance could fuel local birth targets and deepen state control over women’s reproductive lives.

Beijing ends a decades-long tax break on contraception while subsidizing matchmakers, as births plunge and the population rapidly ages.

A violent message targeting a Japanese school follows recent attacks and growing nationalist rhetoric as Tokyo urges citizens to stay vigilant.

The sales growth is significantly lower than last year, which indicates ‘poor quality growth’ amid deflation.

The unusual publicity of such cases by the regime is intended for deterrence, while indicating tightened control, said analysts.

The new bridge was meant to showcase China’s meeting its infrastructure goals. It only opened to traffic a few months ago.

Meanwhile, some orphanages in one province are seeing more adoptions as it appears that more Chinese choose to raise children without tying the knot.

China’s export-based economy and technological dependence on the west are in conflict with the regime’s ‘major country’ diplomacy, analysts say.

State media touted economic progress, while Chinese people have described worsening hardship, political contradictions, and fading public trust in Xi’s rule.

Days before the CCP’s Fourth Plenum, China cracked down on international travel for employees of state-owned enterprises and institutions.

On Chinese social media, the topic ‘ordinary people feel nothing about the Fourth Plenum’ has gained significant traction.

Beijing’s generous K-visa angers job-hungry locals and, analysts say, it acts as a soft-power lure for young tech workers from the Global South.

Business owners and residents say the actual situation is worse than what official data show.