The United States of America not detaching will only allow the Chinese Communist Party to grow larger. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Chinese Communist Party military entities that have been blacklisted by the U.S. are changing their identities, using new names and new brands to disguise themselves as American companies in order to evade sanctions. This kind of trickery has been used since the early 1990s in the most favored nation debate, but the difference now is that the scale is much larger and the methods are more concealed. It is clear that the CCP cannot do without the Western market, and not detaching will only allow the Chinese Communist Party to grow larger. – @lianchaohan
Foreign capital fleeing, office space in Hong Kong is empty. Due to the enforcement of the “National Security Law” in Hong Kong, combined with the impact of China’s economic sluggishness on Hong Kong, the stock market is in constant decline, resulting in a large number of foreign capital outflows. As a result, the vacancy rate of commercial office buildings continues to rise, while rents continue to decline, with even the skyscraper office building owned by Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing unable to escape the situation. According to Bloomberg, Li Ka-shing’s Cheung Kong Property Holdings’ 63-story office building, Cheung Kong Center, in Central has had a vacancy rate of about 25% over the past year, with nearby new development “Cheung Kong Center Phase II” having a leasing rate of only 10%. These scenes highlight the ongoing softness in the Hong Kong commercial office building market. Data from CBRE shows that the vacancy rate for Hong Kong commercial office buildings in the first quarter of this year was as high as 16.7%, reaching a record high, with rents plunging by 35% since the peak in 2019.
The more ruthless the Chinese Communist Party is towards the outside, the ten times more severe it will be towards the inside. “If you eat Chinese food, you have to obey the Chinese Communist Party.” This is the rule that the Chinese Communist Party sets for foreigners, which also makes the “patriotic masses” extremely proud. Little do they know that this saying is also a requirement imposed by the Chinese Communist Party on the Chinese people, and the standards that the Chinese Communist Party enforces domestically are much stricter, even resorting to collective punishment of nine generations. The Chinese Communist Party believes that everyone’s livelihood, everyone’s food, and everyone’s job are all favors granted by the Party, which can be taken away at any time. Therefore, do not easily applaud for the Chinese Communist Party’s incitement of nationalism, as the more ruthless the Chinese Communist Party is towards the outside, the ten times more severe it will be towards the inside. – @ltshijie
The “Maple Bridge Experience” put into practice. Recently, a netizen claimed that they were selected as a “Safe Volunteer” while taking a train, and were brought into a group responsible for promptly reporting any sudden situations in the train car. It is said that each train car will have a passenger holding a ticket for the entire journey acting as a volunteer. The group will disband when the train reaches its destination. – @whyyoutouzhele
Shanghai in 2024. Yesterday, a friend and I were riding an escalator in a certain shopping mall when a girl from a mother-daughter pair in front of us kept glaring back at me. I didn’t pay much attention to it and continued chatting with my friend. As the escalator was about to reach the next floor, the girl suddenly turned back and whispered, “traitor” to me. I suddenly realized it was because my friend was a foreigner, and we were conversing in a language other than Mandarin, which was overheard. Encountering such a situation in Shanghai in 2024, I couldn’t help but feel terrified. – @e12251525