Hello everyone, welcome to “News Perspective,” I am Li Xin.
Today’s highlights: Heavy resentment! Society under the rule of the CCP is out of control; African leaders gather in China, CCP “throws the pot and sells the iron” but then another wave of big spending! Chinese electric cars dumped at low prices, damaging others and themselves! Economic woes worsen.
On September 3, a school bus plowed into a crowd in Tai’an City, Shandong Province, causing dozens of casualties. On September 2, a major incident of police killing and gun snatching was reported in Changchun, Jilin Province, illustrating how severe social unrest is under the violent rule of the CCP.
At 7:27 a.m. on September 3, in Foshan Middle School, Dongping County, Tai’an City, Shandong Province, a vehicle transporting students lost control and crashed into a crowd, injuring 24 parents and students on the side of the road. Official reports indicate that by noon, 11 people had died (6 parents, 5 students), 1 was in critical condition, and 12 had stable vital signs. The driver responsible has been detained by the police, and the cause of the accident is under investigation.
However, eyewitnesses at the scene claimed that over 30 people had died. Online videos showed multiple people on the ground, bloodstains everywhere, and heavy casualties.
In another tragic incident in Changchun, several videos circulating online showed a large number of special police forces, armed police, and riot vehicles converging on the Red Flag Street Wanda Waldorf Mansion C District in Changchun, with snipers deployed on high-rise buildings and the ground, the area sealed off, and many onlookers present.
According to a WeChat public account “Changchun Chaoyang Public Security Propaganda,” on September 3, the Chaoyang District Division of the Changchun Public Security Bureau in Jilin Province issued a police report stating that on September 2, a suspect named Li Moye (male, 45 years old, a resident of Chaoyang District, Changchun) caused trouble with a knife at the property on Donghong Street, resulting in the death of a police officer and injuries to two others. The suspect was shot and killed on the spot. The case is currently under further investigation.
Unprovoked school bus ramming into students, a dispute between a property owner and management escalating to killing police and taking guns, leading to multiple deaths and injuries — these tragic events reflect the immense pressure and resentment festering in people’s hearts. The unrelieved pain deep inside, behind the facade of prosperity, reveals a society lost and bewildered.
In recent years, as China’s economy declines, the real estate market slumps, companies continue to downsize and cut salaries, leading to widespread unemployment and hardship. The aggression and animosity promoted by the CCP, erupting under such circumstances, have resulted in various violent incidents and even family exterminations.
On August 28, a knife attack occurred in Gaomi Night Market, Shandong Province. Two men argued, and one pulled out a large knife and fatally struck the other.
On July 4, a indiscriminate knife attack took place in a residential area on Xinghua South Street in Tiexi District, Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Videos circulating on X platform showed a bald man in a grey shirt and shorts, wielding a large curved knife, randomly attacking residents in the neighborhood before fleeing, leaving several people lying in pools of blood.
On June 18, a family annihilation tragedy occurred in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Villager Niu Debiao and his family of five were brutally murdered, shocking the nation. The perpetrator Huo Wenchang was captured after a 10-day manhunt.
According to netizens’ statistics based on social media messages, from May 7 to July 4, over 40 cases of knife attacks in China resulted in at least 55 deaths and 48 injuries.
Former Inner Mongolian official Du Wen stated, “In recent years, under the high-pressure rule of the Communist Party, economic downturn, unjust judiciary, lack of relief channels for the people, severe social psychological pressures have led to a spate of social malignancies.” “These phenomena are referred to in social psychology as’Extreme behavior due to social pressure’ or ‘Violent behavior induced by social pressure.'” “These issues in Chinese society today are a direct manifestation of social unrest under Communist Party rule.”
I believe that besides the pressure brought about by economic decline and decreasing incomes, the fundamental issue lies in the atheism and evolution theory advocated by the CCP, leading people to lose their moral foundation and faith support. Apart from making money, they cannot find the meaning of life. Once they lose money and lose hope of making money, some people lose the drive and courage to survive. If it weren’t for the CCP seizing power, every Chinese person could live in a peaceful and harmonious society like Taiwan, with a clean government, affluent people, and everyone enjoying sufficient social welfare protection.
There’s an online post circulating, quoting Li Wenlong: “A normal country should not rely on exploiting its own people to provide benefits to other countries and please others. Singapore absolutely cannot follow suit like other regions, exploiting its own people to provide benefits to others and please others.”
It cannot be confirmed whether Li Wenlong actually said this or not, possibly a made-up story by netizens using Li Wenlong’s identity. However, the fact that it has been circulating online for years reflects the sentiments of many. That’s why the CCP is preparing for another big spending spree recently.
According to reports by the CCP’s official media, the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit will be held in Beijing from September 4 to 6, with CCP leader Xi Jinping giving a speech at the opening ceremony on September 5. It is said that various African presidents, including Zambia’s President Hichilema and South Sudan’s President Kiir, have already arrived in Beijing.
A Voice of America report on September 2 pointed out that African leaders rushing to Beijing are seeking to continue receiving loans and investments from China. For example, a $5 billion railway project in Kenya was funded by the China Import and Export Bank, but the plan to extend the railway to Uganda had to be halted due to both countries’ inability to pay off existing loans from the Belt and Road initiative.
Kenya’s current debt to China has already exceeded $8 billion. Consequently, the country recently experienced deadly protest demonstrations.
Since Xi Jinping took office, in addition to frequently lavishing gifts on Africa, African students in China receive preferential treatment, and there are even “study partners.”
However, people are starting to question: with financial difficulties and soaring debts in various regions of China, following directives from the central government to “throw the pot and sell the iron,” will the CCP continue its lavish spending spree? Think about it, all these African presidents have come, giving you such face by personally attending the “China-Africa Cooperation Forum Summit,” can they return empty-handed? Absolutely not. The dictatorship of the CCP never needs to be accountable to the people; everything is done to strengthen its dictatorial rule. Buying face with money, buying friends with money, he finds it very worthwhile.
Public reports show that the CCP has dispatched hundreds of thousands of workers to Africa to participate in the construction of mega projects, exploiting the continent’s abundant natural mineral resources, including copper, gold, lithium, and rare earth mines.
Since Xi Jinping took power, Beijing has provided several billion dollars in loans to many African countries to assist them with infrastructure development, but this practice has also been accused of trapping recipient nations in a “debt trap.”
The United States has repeatedly warned Africa to resist the “malign influence” from China. In 2022, the White House accused Beijing of seeking to “promote its narrow commercial and geopolitical interests and undermine transparency and openness” in Africa.
Furthermore, the U.S. think tank, the Atlantic Council, released a report stating that out of 795 government training programs sponsored by the CCP, it trained “global southern” dictators.
The CCP trains local rulers in African countries on how to strengthen one-party control using a party cooperative model, transferring experiences of authoritarian rule to Africa, teaching them how to maintain social stability, akin to the concept of training schools. Scholars believe that the Belt and Road is a new form of colonialism. Although these African countries are nominally sovereign, they are economically and politically controlled by the CCP.
Another online post states, “A senior Chinese delegation visiting the U.S. encountered American scholar Laus, who asked a difficult question: ‘I’m 68 years old and have been to 96 countries, I don’t understand your Chinese government. There are still one hundred million people living below the poverty line in China, 900,000 mountain children out of school, and 1.5 million beggars. You do not solve these problems, yet send several billion in aid to foreign countries each year. Are the people not considered human in your eyes?”
I can only say that people with love in their hearts can see the needs of the impoverished, while those consumed by power see a completely different world. Therefore, many policies enacted by dictators are aberrant, even absurd, incomprehensible to normal people.
In recent years, the Chinese authorities have forced Western car companies to transfer technology “in exchange for the market” and engaged in a price war in the electric car market, directly causing a significant drop in the market share and sales volume of foreign car manufacturers in China, leading to continuous losses.
Gordon Chang, a Chinese economic expert in the United States, stated that the CCP government aims to reserve the Chinese car market solely for Chinese companies.
“They invited foreign companies to enter China because they needed technology, funds, and expertise. Now that they have these, they are making every effort to drive foreign companies out.”
However, according to data from Dunne Insights, a global automotive industry consulting firm, apart from foreign car manufacturers manufacturing and selling in China experiencing significant declines in sales in recent years, there are almost no profitable Chinese electric car manufacturers.
Regarding this, Professor Fan Jiazhong of the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University pointed out that many people only see the sales volume, market share, and even export volume of Chinese electric vehicles, overlooking the fact that their profit margins are continually deteriorating, especially in the solar energy industry. In fact, only BYD is likely making money in the Chinese electric vehicle market. Many car manufacturers see increased sales, so why are they still losing money? There’s an overcapacity issue!
Fan Jiazhong said, “It is hard for outsiders to understand why the CCP government is implementing such a policy of subsidizing and dumping at low prices, ‘harming others without benefiting itself.’ This practice easily worsens trade relations with other countries, creating many trade barriers.”
In May this year, the Biden administration raised tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles from 25% to 100% to curb China’s electric vehicle industry. The EU also imposed a punitive tariff of 37.6% on Chinese electric cars starting July. Latest data shows that the number of electric vehicles registered in Europe by Chinese manufacturers started to decrease in July. In July, the total number of Chinese electric cars registered in Europe was less than 14,000, down 9.7% from June, more than 23,000, and lower than the number in July 2023.
Fan Jiazhong further explained that many people might think Chinese electric vehicles are formidable. In reality, electric vehicles are not a technological innovation; autonomous driving is the innovative technology. Chinese electric vehicles are essentially battery-powered vehicles. They’ve merely switched from burning oil to burning electricity, not a groundbreaking technology.
The pricing advantage of Chinese electric vehicles comes from government subsidies; if the government stops subsidizing, Chinese electric vehicles will have a hard time selling abroad.
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