Category: social control

Quarantining Underway as COVID-19 Hits Chinese City Northwest of Shanghai

Quarantining measures are ongoing for many residents of the Chinese city of Wuxi amidst an outbreak of COVID-19. Wuxi, a city of 7.5 million residents and 80 miles northwest of Shanghai, is an important commercial and trade hub of Jiangsu Province. According to official city announcements, this wave of the pandemic outbreak began on June…


China Tightens Rules for Online Platforms, Requiring Companies to Authenticate Users’ Identities

The Cyberspace Administration of China issued new regulations on June 27 requiring all online platform operators to authenticate users’ identities and verify the account information submitted by users during registration. The new regulations require the network information service provider to display user IP addresses on their page of account information, which would facilitate Beijing’s monitoring of user…


CCP Tethers Kitchen Knives and Bans Tesla Cars in Beach Town Before Its Top Meeting

Local authorities in northern China’s port city Qinhuangdao recently issued strict measures to control kitchen knives prior to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) holding its annual top circle meeting in the city’s Beidaihe district this summer. According to local media Qinhuangdao Evening News, on June 18, Qinhuangdao launched a campaign to control knives in the…


‘5 More Years of Zero-COVID,’ Says Beijing Official; FCC Wants TikTok Banned

This week, Beijing declared “five more years” of zero-COVID. To everyone’s surprise, they backtracked and claimed it was an “error” and a “mistake” on the part of the reporter. So do we expect China to go with hard lockdowns and mass testing for the next five years? Or is this all just political? And what…


Former Chinese Professor Secretly Arrested by Police for Demanding Democracy and Political Reform

A former Chinese professor disappeared on June 6 after being invited by local police for a talk in Handan city in China’s northern Hebei Province. Wang Gang has been an active critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 2012, he published an open letter to decision-making CCP officials, calling for action against corruption, demanding…


Ian Easton: The CCP’s ‘Reengineering of the World to Spread Totalitarianism, to Spread Communism’

The Chinese regime is in an all-out war against the United States. According to Ian Easton, it is an ideological war against the United States. However, that entails control from inside American society, dominating tech warfare, elite capture, and global infiltration. I speak with Ian Easton, senior director of the Project 2049 Institute, about his…


Aftermath of Shanghai Lockdown

Since Shanghai officially lifted the over two month long city wide lockdown on June 1, residents have summarized some of the consequences people are experiencing and are sharing on social media. Some say it will take a long time for the city to recover. Shanghai citizens are still not completely free from epidemic control measures….


China’s Ambitions in Africa to Displace the US on the Global Stage—With Tiffany Meier

China’s influence in Africa is displacing the global position of the United States. This long game to subvert and dominate an entire continent is decades in the making. Now, that effort is paying off with heavy debt for the nations in Africa—and helping China become even more powerful at the United Nations. All the while,…


Experts’ Report Saying Omicron Didn’t Cause Severe Symptoms in Shanghai Quickly Deleted

China’s top medical experts recently published a research report showing that people in Shanghai who were infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 only had mild symptoms. The report was later deleted as it goes against the regime’s “zero-COVID” policy and harsh lockdown measures. Experts believe it also reflects intensified CCP infighting. A team, led…


Four Chinese Officials and One Manager Charged With Abusing Pandemic Control Health Code System

Four Chinese officials and one state-owned enterprise (SOE) manager in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, were accused of abusing the health code system and randomly turning bank depositors’ health codes red. According to the city’s disciplinary watchdog, Deputy Party Secretary of the city’s Political and Legal Commission, Feng Xianbin, and the city’s top leader of the…