In Guangdong Zhuhai, where the aftermath of a tragic pedestrian collision has yet to subside, another malicious stabbing incident occurred at a university in Wuxi, Jiangsu. On November 17, Guangdong University of Technology witnessed yet another case of someone being attacked with a knife, leaving a man injured.
Multiple screenshots circulated online on November 17 revealed an incident where a student was stabbed in the back and fell to the ground in a pool of blood at the dormitory area of Guangdong University of Technology in Guangzhou. Bloodstains were found in various locations including the stairwell and dormitory corridors.
Footage from the scene showed school security guards and police gathered outside a room, attempting to kick down the door, while many students peered out from their dorm rooms, with the suspect seemingly locked inside the room. Eventually, the door was forcibly opened, and a group of people rushed in to apprehend the individual.
As of the evening of November 18, detailed information about this campus stabbing incident has not been made public locally.
Recently, a spate of malicious incidents involving stabbings and vehicle collisions with pedestrians has erupted in China.
On the night of November 16, an indiscriminate stabbing incident occurred at the Yixing Wuxi Institute of Arts and Technology in Jiangsu, where the assailant entered the school grounds and attacked students with a knife. Official reports stated that at least 8 people were killed and 17 were injured.
In recent months, there have been numerous incidents of stabbings, including a man in Shanghai’s Songjiang District barging into a Walmart supermarket and indiscriminately attacking people, resulting in 3 deaths and 15 injuries; a man in Guangzhou’s Tianhe District wielding a knife to attack individuals outside a primary school, leaving at least 3 severely injured; and in Beijing, a man with a knife assaulting people outside the Zongguancun No. 3 Elementary School in Haidian District, causing injuries to 5 individuals.
Apart from stabbing incidents, intentional vehicular collisions with pedestrians have also been occurring, such as a collision at the Zhuhai Sports Center in Guangdong, which reportedly resulted in at least 35 deaths and 43 injuries; an intentional collision at the entrance of a middle school in Taian City, Shandong Province, leading to at least 11 deaths and 13 injuries; a student at the Taizhou Vocational and Technical College in Zhejiang driving into pedestrians on campus, causing 19 injuries, including 3 fatalities; and at the entrance of the Third Experimental Primary School in Dezhou City, Shandong, a man driving a vehicle struck over 10 children.
Shanghai entrepreneur Hu Liren told reporters that dozens of heinous cases have been exposed recently, with potentially more undisclosed, and that the perpetrators of these violent incidents are seeking revenge on society through any means possible.
He believes that the economic crisis in China has led to a social crisis, with many feeling despair about their future, ultimately manifesting in random acts of violence against society.
Hu stated, “I come from Shanghai, and many of my friends are entrepreneurs or financiers. Even at my level, many businesses are struggling to survive, some are deeply in debt, and some friends have fled the country.”
Hu described the country as being in a state of immense panic, with a continuous cycle of malicious events unfolding as a result of societal collapse.
Former Beijing lawyer and Chairman of Minzhi Canada, Lai Jianping, believes that these incidents signal the difficulty for the Chinese Communist Party to maintain its authoritarian rule.
He said, “Once Chinese society reaches an extreme state, it triggers a comprehensive crisis, marked by an unprecedented hostility. For the Communist Party, it represents a governance crisis. For the people, it’s a crisis of survival, of society, of human rights, and of psychology.”
Political commentator Xing Tianxing, based in the United States, analyzed that the root cause behind these incidents lies in the incompetence, overall corruption, and evil nature of the Chinese government’s governance. With those in power setting a bad example, people in such harsh environments become twisted in their mindset, seeking to retaliate against society, driven by a violent nature of authority that exerts a negative influence on the population.