Power Struggles Tear Beijing Apart, Xi Losing Control!

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[00:00:00]Once a Chinese wolf warrior, now an international laughingstock. The tragic fate of those loyal to Beijing.

[00:00:07]China is becoming increasingly isolated by the world. China's doomsday list goes viral. As long as she's in power, from purges to population crash, it's all coming true.

[00:00:20]CCP sweeps up officials with family abroad, making overseas travel even harder. The secret of Cinping's family exposed. All have immigrated. owning vast fortunes.

[00:00:32]The poverty trap in China fully exposed.

[00:00:35]CCP officials secretly delight while the bottom class falls into utter despair.

[00:00:40]Eight low barrier, high return. Startup industries collapse, leaving Chinese citizens struggling just to get by.

[00:00:48]China stands on the brink of extinction.

[00:00:50]Births hit rock bottom. Youth say no to children. CCP's forced childbearing policies spark outrage. You're watching Decoding China, where we bring you timely analysis and grounded perspectives on today's China.

[00:01:07]Once a Chinese wolf warrior, now an international laughingtock. The tragic fate of those loyal to Beijing, China is becoming increasingly isolated by the world. A group of Chinese citizens who strongly identify as patriotic have drawn public attention.

[00:01:23]These individuals once placed deep faith in Chinese communism and regarded themselves as defenders of the regime.

[00:01:30]They aggressively and repeatedly displayed extreme patriotism, becoming the wolf warriors of the CCP. Yet, when real danger emerged, they discovered they were abandoned without hesitation.

[00:01:41]Former wolf warriors, once loud and aggressive, are now steadily turning into objects of ridicule. A video circulated online showing a retired soldier in Shenzhen wearing an old military uniform standing in the cold with a handwritten sign that read, "I'm hungry. I want to eat. I just want to live. Please give me the money I earned with my sweat. I beg for justice." The man had previously served within the state's armed system. But after his wages were withheld for an extended period, he had no effective channel for redress. While many online expressed sympathy, others left bitter comments.

[00:02:16]Those who once enforced stability have now become targets of stability maintenance themselves.

[00:02:22]The final outcome of the case has never been publicly disclosed. Another case dates back to 2021. Awan, a retired armed police officer, was lured to northern Myanmar by a man speaking with a Fujian accent. After being forced to participate in scam operations, Awan refused and was punished. He eventually escaped one night and called the Chinese embassy for help. During the call, he said, "I devoted my youth to the country. Now I'm in trouble. Please help me." The embassy's response was brief and cold. There's nothing we can do. No further contact followed. Awan was later detained by local authorities, brought to court, and sentenced to 5 years in prison. His family spent more than 500,000 when attempting to secure his release without success. It was not until August 2023 when Myanmar granted amnesty to foreign nationals that he was finally allowed to return to China.

[00:03:16]After his return, Awan said the most painful part of the ordeal was not prison, but the complete indifference of the state he once served. Systemic inequality is also evident in everyday life. A man in Wayihigh, Shaong province, posted a video explaining that he had parked his car by the roadside to eat at a restaurant. When he returned, his car along with several others had been ticketed for illegal parking.

[00:03:41]However, the car parked directly beside his belonging to a court official dining at the same restaurant received no ticket. The next day, he received a call demanding that he delete the video. When he cited freedom of speech, traffic police rejected the argument and refused to revoke the fine. Abroad, the behavior of so-called wolf warriors has drawn even more controversy. In August 2024, a Chinese influencer posted a video accusing the Evergreen Laurel Hotel in Paris of refusing to display the Chinese national flag during the Olympics. The hotel management responded that the flag was not included in their international flag order and that interior decoration was their own decision. After the video went viral, netzens discovered that both of the influencers sons are US citizens, raising questions about whether his patriotism was merely a content strategy. In August 2023, a group of Chinese students in East London painted over a local graffiti wall and wrote slogans promoting the CCP's core socialist values. The students were later fined £800 for graffiti and improper posting. Days later, others sprayed messages over the wall, including no freedom in China and anti-seinping slogans. Meanwhile, Wolf Warrior diplomacy continues to damage China's image. During a press conference on human rights, Chinese Foreign Minister Wong Yi was recorded rolling his eyes and angrily confronting a reporter, declaring, "You have no right to talk about China's human rights.

[00:05:07]China does." The video spread widely. A vlogger later produced a parody video likening the exchange to a domestic abuse interrogation, repeatedly asking, "Did you hit your wife and children?"

[00:05:18]The parody was widely praised overseas, but banned in China. Notably, such press conferences have been turned into educational materials for primary school students. A primary school child broke down in tears while shouting repeatedly on camera, "China is the best. China is the strongest. China leads everything."

[00:05:36]Another notable incident was the escalation of tensions between Japan and China following November 7th after Su Jian, China's console general in Osaka, made a threatening beheading remark implying physical harm toward Japanese politician Takayichi Sai after she stated in Japan's diet that a war in the Taiwan Strait would constitute an existential crisis for Japan. Following this event, the entire world strongly condemned the aggressive wolf warrior attitude of the CCP. Beyond diplomacy and propaganda, Western governments have grown increasingly alarmed by China's systematic theft of intellectual property. US security agencies report that Chinese espionage targets everything from corn seeds and aircraft parts to advanced technologies in university laboratories, causing estimated losses of 300 to 600 billion annually. As a result, many countries have begun restricting Chinese investments in strategic infrastructure, including telecommunications, drones, and port equipment, citing national security concerns. Experts conclude that the internal and external crises facing China today are rooted in the one party dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party, where unchecked power and moral decay have become systemic. In reality, all the conditions for the collapse of the CCP are now in place. From corruption and financial risk to mounting debt and international isolation, former wolf warriors, once celebrated, have now turned into clowns, abandoned by the very system they defended and increasingly rejected by the international community.

[00:07:10]China's doomsday list goes viral. As long as she's in power, from purges to population crash, it's all coming true.

[00:07:16]Netzens compiled a 30-point list titled As Long as He remains in power.

[00:07:22]Portraying a doomsday scenario for Chinese society, an economy corroding, a suffocating social climate, diplomatic isolation, collapsing livelihoods, and a regression of civilization. The list has circulated online for years, but by early 2026, many of its points are no longer predictions. They have become observable realities. Politically, the article argues that the 2018 constitutional amendment abolishing presidential term limits together with the incorporation of Xi Jinping thought into both the state constitution and the party charter fundamentally altered the power transfer mechanism established in the Dangg Xiaoping era. The 2025 to 2026 military purge is seen as the clearest signal. Jang Yukia, vicechairman of the central military commission and long regarded as a close ally and a representative princling along with joint staff department chief Leu Jenley, former vice chairman Hi Widong and CMC member Mia Hua were successively investigated on charges of serious violations of discipline in law. The PLA DY's rare use of phrases such as undermining the party's governing foundation indicated that the campaign had moved beyond conventional anti-corruption. Analysts say that even generals personally promoted by she being removed has pushed the entire official into a state of persistent insecurity, matching the list's description of bureaucratic panic and the imprisonment of people of conscience. In economic terms, the latest data shows simultaneous pressure on multiple fronts. In 2025, China recorded only 7.92 million births, the lowest since 1949, while the total population declined for a fourth consecutive year by 3.39 million with 11.31 million deaths. The pace of aging exceeded expectations, further shrinking the labor force. At the local level, the land finance model has weakened amid a prolonged property downturn, leaving many regions facing heavy debt burdens.

[00:09:25]Industrial profits, output, and employment indicators have all fallen, while exports, once a key growth pillar, have begun to weaken alongside global demand. A number of research institutions warned that 2026 could see the simultaneous convergence of seven major risks. Deflation, real estate collapse, financial debt stress, demographic contraction, industrial slowdown, weakening external demand, and fiscal strain. In this context, slogans such as highquality development and technological self-reliance are viewed as insufficient to reverse the trend as private sector confidence declines and foreign capital continues to shift away.

[00:10:07]The list's depiction of bankruptcy, unemployment, and rising livelihood pressures has become the lived experience of many urban households. At the social level, international human rights reports for 2025 to 2026 indicate that the space for an independent civil society has nearly disappeared.

[00:10:26]Digital surveillance has expanded into everyday life. While topics once openly discussed, such as economic policy criticism or historical reflection, have increasingly become sensitive. Cases of scholars, journalists, and artists disappearing from public view are cited as signs of a tightening academic and cultural environment. This corresponds to the list's descriptions of expanding speech no-go zones, and the erosion of social trust in foreign affairs. The hardline stance in the Taiwan Strait, the wolf warrior diplomatic style, and close ties with Russia after the Ukraine war have complicated China's external environment. Some analysts interpret the military purge as political preparation for future security objectives, while others argue that the campaign itself has disrupted command structures and affected the professionalism of the armed forces. Although China continues to hold influence in sectors such as new energy and overseas infrastructure projects, the geopolitical costs are rising, reflected in technology controls, supply chain realignments, and trade barriers. The article concludes that Cinping's impact has gone beyond ordinary policy shifts within the party.

[00:11:37]Collective leadership has been replaced by a highly centralized power structure in the economy. The reform and opening growth model has weakened under the combined pressure of debt demographics and confidence. In society, a pluralistic and relatively open environment has contracted in exchange for surface level stability. In terms of national trajectory, the country is moving away from a catchup through reform model toward a more closed and higher risk strategic path. The list's final summary states that when power rejects external oversight and self-correction mechanisms, it becomes dependent on a closed information system, leading to continuous misjudgments in decision-m and a steady lowering of the systems survival threshold. In today's context, this assessment appears increasingly consistent with reality. Perhaps the real question is no longer what will happen if he remains in power, but after he is removed, what will be left behind?

[00:12:36]CCP sweeps up. Officials with family abroad making overseas travel even harder. The secret of Xiinping's family exposed. All have immigrated, owning vast fortunes. The focus has been to map out and inventory the overseas ties of senior officials and top executives at state firms. According to the sources, discipline and anti-corruption watchd dogss in Beijing have long treated officials whose spouses or children live overseas for extended periods as a key group for monitoring. In the latest round, however, the scope has expanded to include officials whose children live abroad, even if the spouse remains in China. These individuals are now placed under stricter supervision and are required to promptly declare information related to family members abroad. Under the CCP's internal rules, officials whose immediate family has all settled overseas are in principle supposed to step down from their posts. In practice, this has led some to conceal their family's overseas residency. In September 2022, the CCP's discipline authorities publicly noted a case involving Wong Dawei, former vice governor of Leoning and former head of the provincial public security department, alleging that he had concealed issues related to family members residing overseas. As China's political climate has grown more tense, observers say that by the end of 2025, authorities appeared intent on further sidelining a group of officials whose family connections tie them to Western societies. On November 1st, 2025, media reports said that Yiang, former governor of the People's Bank of China, Wong Rang, former chairman of the GuangDong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, CPPCC, and several other senior figures were no longer holding leadership roles in CPPCC special committees. Sing Tao cited sources saying that during the cleanup of officials with family members living abroad, authorities learned that the children of some of these officials were unwilling to return to China, which was cited as a factor behind the actions taken in the second half of 2025.

[00:14:41]Statistics indicated that at least 20 CCP officials no longer held key posts.

[00:14:47]Earlier official disclosures also underscored the scale of elite flight.

[00:14:51]In 2014, the Beijing People's Procurator said that over nearly 30 years, roughly 4,000 corrupt officials had fled abroad, each taking an average of about 100 million WAN in illicit funds. It added that officials with family members residing overseas accounted for around 40% of ordinary economic cases, while in cases involving embezzlement, bribery, and misappropriation of public funds, the share was as high as 80%. These figures point to a close relationship between corruption and the ability to arrange for family members to buy property and live comfortably overseas.

[00:15:27]Against this backdrop, authorities have not only narrowed and intensified their crackdown on corrupt officials, but also tightened opportunities for officials to travel abroad with the restrictions now extending to retirees. The irony here is that the family of CCP general secretary Xiinping has members who live primarily abroad with many having even become foreign citizens. Xiinping's daughter with his current wife Pang Leuan Xi Ming was revealed to have enrolled at Harvard University in May 2010 for her undergraduate studies. As early as 2011, she reportedly held a US green card and could obtain US citizenship at any time.

[00:16:06]Xiinping<unk>s elder sister Chio and her husband Dangjiagui are both Canadian citizens. Chiqao's daughter Jang Yanan and son-in-law Fuani are British citizens. Xiinping's second sister Xi Anan holds Australian citizenship and is currently the chairman of Shenzhen Datang Mobile Communications. Her husband, Wuong, also an Australian citizen, is the chairman of Beijing Shiny Tong, general manager of Shenzhen Datang Mobile Communications and a shareholder of China Rare Earth Holdings Kobat Eaters Landed. Xiinping's younger brother, Xiwanping, is also an Australian citizen, and his son, Xiing Jen, holds a US green card. The above data is just the tip of the iceberg. It is said that at least 60 to 70% or even more of the CCP's party, government, and military officials have their children, spouses, or assets overseas, with the vast majority in Western developed countries like Europe, the US, Australia, and Canada.

[00:17:10]The poverty trap in China fully exposed, CCP officials secretly delight while the bottom class falls into utter despair.

[00:17:18]While the CCP and Ciinping are preoccupied with fierce internal struggles, China's socio-economic situation is plunging into a severe crisis. Poverty among the Chinese people has gone far beyond what most people can imagine. Many people equate poverty with laziness. They simply don't understand that for far too many people in this world, their entire life is spent fighting with all their strength just for the most basic survival. At Lojun Mountain Scenic Area in Henan Province, mountain porters were seen carrying loads under normal conditions. One person carries four to six cases at a time, equivalent to 50 to 75 kg. They climb steep mountain paths continuously, trading physical strength for pay calculated per trip. If they slow down, they earn nothing. If they fall ill, their only source of income disappears.

[00:18:08]In major cities, the situation for workers is no better. In the delivery industry, food couriers brave wind and rain, delivering thousands of packages every day. A deputy division chief from Beijing's human resources and social security bureau once personally experience this job. After running deliveries for 12 straight hours, he earned only 41 WAN. One order took a full hour and paid just 6.6 WAN and the platform deducted 60% of that amount.

[00:18:36]Only then did he understand why delivery workers push themselves to the limit trying to take 10 or even dozens of orders per hour. Yet even after running themselves into exhaustion, many still cannot save any money by the end of the month. In the financial sector, ordinary tellers face enormous performance pressure, work long hours, and yet receive unremarkable incomes. Ride hailing drivers spend more than 10 hours a day inside their cars, bearing fuel costs, maintenance, and vehicle depreciation out of their own pockets.

[00:19:07]In rural areas, farmers toil with their faces to the soil and their backs to the sky, growing grain and vegetables, only to have purchase prices forced down to extremely low levels, leaving profits too thin to sustain production. In the retail sector, small shop owners, the people seen every day on the street, struggled to survive three years of pandemic lockdowns. Just as business began to show signs of recovery, they were crushed by online giants using lowpric dumping tactics. Inventory piled up, cash flow suffocated, while major platforms relying on monopoly advantages continued to reap enormous profits. The same pattern appears across countless industries. The hard work of ordinary people ultimately becomes a tool for others to accumulate wealth. Chinese society is one in which 95% of the population supports a life of extreme comfort for the remaining 5%. Most people can rely only on their labor to survive. Yet the results of that labor do not belong to them. In Europe and North America, labor costs are consistently high. Even for basic work such as mowing lawns, shoveling snow, or maintaining gardens, ordinary workers can earn $100 to $200 for a day's work.

[00:20:19]This is not a matter of technical skill, but of income distribution mechanisms.

[00:20:23]When labor is valued highly, the wealthy must pay a fair price to hire workers, and the poor can rely on their labor to sustain life and gradually improve their living conditions. Developed countries share a common feature. Labor is expensive while goods are relatively cheap. Workers can live on their wages, afford housing, medical care, and education for their children.

[00:20:44]Underdeveloped systems show the opposite pattern. Labor is cheap while the cost of living is high. People sell their labor at extremely low prices yet must buy goods and services at ever rising costs. Under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, mainland China suffers from a severe distribution paradox. The CCP possesses enormous power to mobilize resources and accumulate wealth. Yet the share of household income in GDP has remained at the lower end of global levels for many years. Most of society's wealth does not flow to workers, but concentrates within the power apparatus, state-owned enterprises, monopoly conglomerates, and image-driven showcase projects. Wealth in China moves in only one direction. From the people upward into the ruling system with no return path, workers are compressed into the lowest cost input. They become highways that may never recover their costs, lavish overseas aid programs, luxurious government office buildings, and figures buried in corruption scandals. The CCP constantly promotes slogans about surpassing Japan, unifying Taiwan, and becoming a global superpower. But real development is not measured by the number of aircraft carriers, nor by how many flags are planted on the moon. Real development means that even a street sweeper or a breakfast vendor can afford housing, medical care, and education for their children living with dignity. In Taiwan and Japan, national wealth is distributed more broadly among ordinary people. Minimum wages there exceed the income of most white collar workers in China. Employers must pay a price that matches human dignity if they wish to hire labor. In China, however, ordinary people live harder lives than anyone else. The CCP appears glamorous while the people struggle just to survive.

[00:22:29]When despair spreads among the population, it becomes a clear warning sign of social collapse.

[00:22:36]Eight. Low barrier, high return. Startup industries collapse, leaving Chinese citizens struggling just to get by. I've lost too much money, and everyone around me says I'll never recover it. This lament from an investor on Liauan Avenue is not an isolated case. He spent more than 10 million UN to open a warehouse style furniture market. After 3 years of operation, what awaited him was not a third anniversary celebration, but the painful decision to shut down. According to the owner, only three or four groups of customers now visit each day. Nearby shops have taken down their signs one after another. This scene directly reflects collapsing consumer demand and a widespread erosion of confidence.

[00:23:18]China's business environment has become exceptionally harsh. While slogans about artificial intelligence, robotics, and high technology are loudly promoted at the grassroots level, small businesses, and ordinary workers are steadily being pushed out. The restaurant industry has fallen rapidly into crisis. From self-service barbecue shops to large restaurants and even longestablished brands, losses are everywhere. Wedding banquetss have dropped sharply as marriage registrations continue to decline year after year and young people avoid large restaurants to cut costs.

[00:23:52]Meanwhile, rent and labor expenses keep rising, leading many owners to admit that the longer they stay open, the more they lose. The scandal over pre-cooked food became the final breaking point.

[00:24:04]Investigations revealed that many high-priced wedding banquetss and restaurants were actually serving lowcost prepared food, triggering widespread consumer outrage and a collapse of trust. As a result, many establishments have been forced to downgrade their operations just to survive, selling marinated foods, setting up cheap fast food stalls at their entrances, and even five-star hotels have begun opening streetside booths. In retail, unmanned supermarkets, once hailed as symbols of innovation, have failed across the board. High technology costs, complicated operations, rampant theft, and poor customer experiences quickly doomed the model. Projects that once attracted massive investment were abandoned, leaving behind shuttered stores, and burned capital. Optical shops, once regarded as a high-profit industry, have not escaped decline.

[00:24:53]E-commerce platforms, smart eye testing devices, and soaring rent and labor costs have wiped out margins. Monthly revenue of tens of thousands of UN is no longer enough to cover expenses, forcing tens of thousands of shops to exit the market. The technology sector tells a similar story beneath the glossy headlines. In 2025, the survival rate of newly established AI companies is only about 7%. Many heavily funded projects collapsed within months with employees laid off before they could even become permanent staff. Courier pickup stations in residential communities, once marketed as passive income businesses, have also quickly imploded with an average lifespan of just 10 months and nearly half operating at a loss. Bubble tea shops, long symbols of low investment, high return entrepreneurship, have become another classic case of mass failure. Most new shops shut down within months due to homogeneous competition, relentless price cutting, trend chasing, and an almost complete absence of customer loyalty. Some observers have compiled a list of China's entrepreneurial failures and reached a clear conclusion.

[00:26:00]Industries that appear to have low barriers and high returns are in reality money traps. Behind the promises of getting rich fast lie soaring bankruptcy rates and capital burned to nothing. In recent years, China's economy has been engulfed by mounting uncertainties amid a prolonged downturn. Property prices continue to fall. Household wealth is shrinking and incomes are declining.

[00:26:23]Employment pressure and uncertainty about the future have become a permanent dark cloud hanging over Chinese society, driving more and more people to abandon risk-taking and focus solely on one goal, survival.

[00:26:36]China stands on the brink of extinction.

[00:26:39]Births hit rock bottom. Youth say no to children. CCP's forced childbearing policies spark outrage.

[00:26:47]>> Stop rushing me. I don't want to have children. It's impossible. These days, having a child means living with constant fear. Fear of going outside, fear of going to school, fear of going to the hospital. As China enters 2026, statements like these are appearing with increasing frequency across social media platforms. While the government continues to roll out child birth incentives in response to record low birth rates, public reaction points in the opposite direction. Fear has overwhelmed any remaining motivation to have children. Refusing child birth is no longer an individual lifestyle choice, but a collective survival instinct taking hold across an entire generation. This anxiety has not emerged out of nowhere. It has taken shape within a system where state power penetrates deeply into private life, where information is tightly controlled, truth is routinely obscured, and accountability is largely absent. When risks are met with suppression instead of transparency, people lose any basis for believing that their children's lives will be protected. A series of recent incidents involving the deaths or disappearances of children and teenagers has laid bare this governing logic. The case of a 13-year-old student found dead in a school dormatory at Ginshi Sinua Garden Senior High School in Sinai County, Henan Province, sparked nationwide outrage. The body was moved hastily before the parents arrived.

[00:28:08]Surveillance cameras failed at critical moments. The scene was quickly cleaned, the family was isolated, and two official statements were issued to rule out foul play. Instead of an independent investigation, the public witnessed information control and the suppression of public reaction. This pattern is not isolated. Across China, reports of missing children, students, and young people have continued to surface. Many cases share disturbing similarities. No ransom demands, no signs of running away, and surveillance cameras in surrounding areas coincidentally malfunctioning. At the same time, official reports boast of rising numbers of organ transplants, while the channels for obtaining organs remain completely opaque. The combination of disappearances, secrecy, and repression has fueled deep public fear. The idea of vulnerability has increasingly entered public discourse. Its most chilling expression appeared in a leaked video during the 2022 CO lockdowns in which officials openly discussed applying pressure by targeting a non-compliant resident's child. That moment crystallized a realization for many.

[00:29:14]Children are not only future citizens, but potential tools of coercion within an authoritarian system. In this context, prob birth policies, child rearing subsidies, extended parental leave, and intrusive measures reaching into women's private lives fail to generate reassurance. Instead, they highlight a fundamental contradiction, a regime that urges people to have more children while maintaining a system that renders those very lives fragile and exposed. Demographic data reflect the consequences of this governing logic.

[00:29:45]Births in 2025 are projected at roughly 8.71 million, half the level of less than a decade ago. The total fertility rate has fallen to around 1.09, among the lowest globally. While other countries experienced demographic decline over decades, China has reached a comparable collapse in just 7 to 8 years, an indication that this is not merely an economic issue, but a crisis of trust. Social surveys confirm this reality. A majority of young people believe they can live well without having children. The reason is not poverty, but the absence of a safe environment for raising the next generation. In a system where power is unchecked, the judiciary lacks independence and truth is unprotected.

[00:30:28]Child birth is increasingly viewed as a high-risisk decision. Refusing to have children has thus become a silent response to the political system itself.

[00:30:36]There are no protests, no slogans, no direct confrontation. Yet, the long-term impact is profound. When people see no path to reform, they withdraw biologically from a system they no longer trust. In the past, cutting off one's bloodline was considered the crulest curse. Today, for many in China, it has become a final refuge in the face of a system that has eroded any sense of safety. When power is sustained through control and fear, social vitality inevitably withers. In this context, choosing not to have children is no longer merely a personal decision. It is the direct outcome of a political system that has stripped away security at its very root. And for many, not having children has become paradoxically an act of kindness, sparing future lives from being born into such a system.

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