Social Issues

The country ‘is currently at its worst economic situation in nearly 20 years,’ one expert said.

An expert called it ‘very irresponsible’ that Beijing hasn’t provided details on the severity and location of the cases.

The crises are rooted in the regime’s structural problems, which the CCP can’t solve, an expert says.

NGOs such as Freedom House play an important role in supplementing U.S. government agencies for international advocacy of human rights, an expert said.

Espionage is a blanket crime used by the Chinese regime to silence journalists in China, according to Reporters Without Borders.

‘This is an extremely shocking situation—such things didn’t even happen during the Cultural Revolution,’ said former law professor Yuan Hongbing.

‘There are very few people on the streets now; it’s very quiet,’ one resident in Shijiazhuang said.

Since the 2003 SARS epidemic, the Chinese regime’s approach to health crises has remained unchanged, a doctor told The Epoch Times.

Adding to the troubling trend, China’s birth rate is staying low, while divorce rates are rising.

The Chinese Communist regime has been the ’most prolific perpetrator' of transnational repression over the past decade, according to Freedom House.

Experts say the Chinese regime’s censorship is killing the popular genre with a market of $5 billion.

Some Chinese electric vehicle makers saw a more than 50 percent sales drop.

Observers say the real number of protests is much higher, as most information is blocked by the Chinese regime’s pervasive censorship apparatus.

Empty malls and trains during the holiday period reflect the country’s economic strains.

A string of mass attacks that occurred across China recently has raised concerns about how people deal with the frustration under the tight control of the CCP.

Three of the five reservoirs have been emptied, which a hydrologist said indicates serious problems.

‘Tibet has been ’liberated‘ for over 70 years—why are the houses still in such poor condition?’ one netizen asked.

WADA has been under fire for its handling of the scandal involving 23 Chinese swimmers.

The quake came on the heels of a deadly 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the far western region of Tibet a day earlier.

‘The problem is the Chinese government didn’t provide systematic data for the outside world to understand what is the real situation,’ said Sean Lin.