The Root of All Evil

—— An Anatomy of the CCP

 
 
The Root of All Evil: An Anatomy of the CCP

Author: Bian Jingtao
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Publication Year: 2026

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Table of Contents
Preface:	8
Part I: Theft of the State and the Facade (Historical Tracing and Jurisprudential Reconstruction)	10
Chapter 1: The Bandit Undertone and State Theft During the War of Resistance: Concealed Historical Truths and Bloody Seizure of Power	10
1. The Tool of Power Seizure and the Concealed "Bandit" Undertone	10
2. The Thieves of History and the Fatal Accident for the Chinese Nation	12
3. The Double Fraud of Land Reform: "Digging Three Feet Deep" that Surpasses Ancient Robbers and State-Level Plunder	13
Chapter 2: The Great Betrayal of the Century and the Dead End Against the Current: Tearing Up the Constitutional Contract and the Dictator's Ultimate Trump Card	14
1. The Great Betrayal of the Century: The Torn "1946 Constitution" and the Hypocritical Facade of the "Xinhua Daily"	14
2. The Ironclad Proof of Global Civilization: The Completely Punctured "Theory of Dictatorship's Necessity"	16
3. The Final Verdict of the Nobel Prize: The Scientific Trial of the Dead End of Autocracy	17
4. The Underlying Logic of Dictators: Rather Cling to Power and Drag the Country Down to Death Together	18
Chapter 3: Imported Guise Stitched to the "Qin System": A Century-Long Cycle of the New Westernization Movement and Totalitarian Genes	19
1. The Expedient Measure of Clinging to Life: Completely Puncturing the Pseudo-Myth of "Reform and Opening-Up"	19
2. The Contrast Between Tiananmen Tanks and the Upheaval in Eastern Europe: The Complete Shattering of the Illusion of Peaceful Evolution	20
3. The Contract Betrayal of the WTO: Sucking the Blood of the Free World and the Rise of an International Rogue	21
4. The Unravelable Dead Knot: The Ultimate Tearing Between Productive Forces and Totalitarian Control	22
Chapter 4: The Death of the Rule of Law and the Rule of Family Law: How Power Rapes Truth and Mutates Law into a Unidirectional Whip	23
1. The Reduction of the Constitution to Toilet Paper: The Absolute Arrogrance of Power Overriding Everything and the Demise of the State Contract	23
2. The Shameless Evolutionary History of Customized Political Chains: From "Custody and Repatriation" to "Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble"	25
3. The Cruel Strangulation of Rights-Defense Lawyers: The Last Line of Defense in Court and the "709" Mass Arrests	26
4. The Industrialization of "Being Psychiatrized": Carrying Out Fascist Torture in the Name of Medicine	27
Part II: The Totalitarian Meat Grinder (Political Purges and Social Atomization)	30
Chapter 5: The "Privatization" of the State Apparatus and the Art of Dog Training: Absolute Monopoly Over Violence and Brainwashing	30
1. Cutting Off Independent Revenue and the Ultimate Logic of "Feeding by a Single Master"	30
2. The "Uprooting" of Political Purges: The Fear of the Rocket Force and the Destiny of the "Chamber Pot"	31
3. High-Tech Brainwashing, Three-Dimensional Surveillance, and the Inward-Facing Guns of the "Praetorian Guard"	33
Chapter 6: The Sword of Damocles in Personnel Files: Selective Anti-Corruption and the Game of "Shared Guilt"	34
1. The Truth of Rejecting the Sunshine Act: The Blood and Tears of the "New Citizens' Movement" and the Slap of the "Panama Papers"	34
2. Institutional "Gu-Poison Rearing": The "Blood Oath" in Pacts with the Devil and the Game of "Shared Guilt"	35
3. The Justifiable Butcher's Knife: Political Ambition, the "Seven Havings," and the True Cause of Death for Fallen Tigers	36
Chapter 7: Phobia of Association and the "Viral Host Takeover" of Society: The Annihilation of All Spontaneous Order	38
1. The Absolute Strangulation of Independent Unions: The Jasic Labor Movement and the Bankruptcy of the Marxist Facade	38
2. Viral Host Takeover: The Comprehensive Parasitism of Private Enterprises, NGOs, and the Spiritual World	39
3. Extreme Fear of Intangible Resistance: The White Paper Movement and the Dead End of "Man's Calculation is Inferior to Heaven's"	40
Chapter 8: The Atomized Purgatory and the Mafiazation of Public Power: A Mutually Destructive Society Devoid of an Umbrella	42
1. The Chained Woman of Fengxian: The Criminal Conspiracy Between Grassroots Regimes and Mafia-like Forces	42
2. Henan Village Banks: The Dimensional Strike of the Red Code and the Open Violence of the "White-Clad Mafia"	43
3. The Interception Industry and "Black Jails": Outsourced Fascism	44
4. The Loss of the Middle Buffer Zone, Mutual Harm at the Bottom, and the Abandoned "Beasts of Burden"	45
Part III: The Empire of "Human Mines" (Extreme Economic Extraction)	47
Chapter 9: The Evolution of Ultimate Slavery: From Physical Confinement During the Great Famine to the Generational Indenture of Astronomical Housing Prices	47
1. "Zero-Cost Consumables" Worse Than Livestock and the Blood-Sucking Logic of the Scissors Gap	48
2. The Bloody Plunder of Land: "Expropriation" in Name, Highly Profitable "Forced Demolition" in Reality	49
3. The Ultimate Financial Trap: Toothpaste-Squeezing Land Supply and the Generational Indenture Emptying "Six Wallets"	49
4. Despair in Unfinished Buildings: The Collapse of the Ponzi Scheme and the Ultimate Display of Legalized Robbery	50
5. Draining the Land and Future Generations: The "Extinction of Descendants" Style of Ecological Extraction	52
Chapter 10: The Modern "Salt and Iron Monopoly" and Invisible Regressive Taxation: How Monopoly State-Owned Enterprises Extract the Marrow of the People's Survival Needs	52
1. Tearing Off the Facade of "Ownership by the Whole People": Hereditary "Party Assets" and "Red Manors"	52
2. The Cruelest Meat Grinder of Invisible Regressive Taxation: The Exploitation Trap of Robbing the Poor to Subsidize the Rich	53
3. Open Theft and Fraud: Freewheeling Electric Meters and the Rogue Logic of "One Liter of Oil Equals 800 Milliliters"	54
4. Extremely Cruel Biological Folding: The "At All Costs" of High-Ranking Cadre Wards and the Despair of the Poor	55
Chapter 11: State-Level Splitting of Spoils Under the Baton of Power: Grand Narratives, the Truth of Involution, and the Financial Iron Curtain Sealing All Exits	56
1. The Facade of the Grand Narrative: The "Great Leap Forward in Chips" and the Feast of State-Level Money Laundering and Splitting of Spoils	57
2. The Ultimate Truth of "Involution": One-Sided Crushing Through the Loss of Bargaining Power and Passive "Beasts of Burden"	57
3. Financial Refugees and the Cruel Harvesting of "Fattening for the Kill": The Shredder of the Middle Class	58
4. Wealth Plunder from the Sinking Ship Perspective: Foreign Exchange Controls and the Financial Iron Curtain of "Beating Dogs Behind Closed Doors"	59
Part IV: The Panopticon and Cognitive Castration (Technological Stability Maintenance and Thought Control)	61
Chapter 12: Institutionalized Schizophrenia and Lies Written into the Constitution: The Brainwashing of "Doublethink" and Obedience Testing	61
1. Logical Rape: The Socialized Mass Production of "Doublethink"	61
2. Self-Contradictory Theories and the Absolute Hegemony of the "Ministry of Truth"	62
3. Pointing at a Deer and Calling it a Horse: The Essence of the Lie as the "Ultimate Obedience Test"	63
4. Lies Entering the Constitution: The Highest Sanctification of Rogue Logic	63
5. Tearing Apart Ethical Baselines: Students Reporting Teachers and the Spiritual Foundation of a Mutually Destructive Society	64
Chapter 13: The High-Tech Digital Cage: Skynet, the National Anti-Fraud Center, and the Indiscriminate Panopticon	64
1. The Ultimate Lockdown of Physical Space and the Nationwide Rehearsal of the "Xinjiang Model"	65
2. Close-Fitting Electronic Shackles: The "National Anti-Fraud Center" and Round-the-Clock Cyber Possession	66
3. The Digital Legacy of the Health Code and the Dimensional Strike of "Social Death"	68
4. The Indiscriminate Panopticon: The Mutual Imprisonment of Masters, Jailers, and Slaves	69
5. Cognitive Castration and Self-Censorship: The Ultimate Destruction of the Soul	70
Chapter 14: The Paralysis of the Social Immune System and the Moral Wasteland: The Empire Where Media and Courts Are Surnamed "Party" and the Blind Ride the Blind	71
1. "Party Media Surnamed Party" and the Annihilation of Conscience: The Death of Investigative Journalism and the Extinguishing of the Social Searchlight	72
2. The Ultimate Backlash of Strangling the Social Warning System: The Tragedy of Li Wenliang and Systemic Human-Made Disasters	73
3. "Courts Surnamed Party": The Despair of Commoners Suing Officials and the Iron Law that "House Slaves Don't Bite Their Masters"	74
4. "If You Didn't Hit Her, Why Did You Help Her Up?": The Moral Nuclear Wasteland Created by Judicial Arrogance	75
5. A Blind Man Riding a Blind Horse: Information Cocoons and the Dictator's Ultimate Dead End	76
Chapter 15: The Bankruptcy of Trust and the "Sinking Ship Mentality": The Great Fleeing Inside and Outside the System and the Closing of the Country	77
1. The Complete Zeroing of Trust: The "Run-ology" (Run) Frenzy in the Bandit Manor In the past few years, a vocabulary filled with black humor yet extremely desolate was born on the Chinese internet—"Run-ology" (Runxue, sounding like the English word "Run"). It is no longer a privilege of a few elites, but has become a collective escape crossing all classes and sweeping the entire society.	77
2. The "Sinking Ship Mentality" and the Black Humor of "Naked Officials": The Crazy Money Laundering Machine of Underground Banks	78
3. The Bayonets of the Supervising Squad: Illegal Border Controls and "Beating Dogs Behind Closed Doors"	79
Chapter 16: Resistance by Severing the Bloodline: Sterilization, "Lying Flat" Under Extreme Pressure, and the Descent of Purgatory	80
1. "We Are the Last Generation": The Ultimate Nonviolent Disobedience of the Slaves	81
2. Statistical Self-Deception: Youth Unemployment and the Collapsed Future	81
3. The Terrifying Demographic Inversion: The Abyss of 1 Supporting 4 or Even 1 Supporting 8	82
4. The Ultimate Cruel Exploitation: Slaves Spending Money to Support the Masters and the Whips	83
5. The Dead Knot of Silent Detonation: Totalitarianism Will Eventually Starve to Death in Its Own Lies	83
Chapter 17: The Global Backlash Against the "Zero Human Rights Advantage": Exporting Slavery and the Ambitions of the "Rogue Oligarch"	84
1. The Dimensional Strike of the "Zero Human Rights Advantage": Destroying the Free Market with the Blood and Sweat of 1.4 Billion Slaves	84
2. State-Level Blood-Sucking Subsidies and "Rogue Dumping": Using Taxpayers' Money to Eliminate Global Competitors	86
3. Debt Traps and the Export of Corruption: The Dictators' Conspiracy in the "Belt and Road"	87
4. The Ultimate Ambition of the Wolf Warrior: Turning the Global Supply Chain into a Noose for Political Extortion	88
5. The Awakening of the Civilized World and the Massive Backlash of Comprehensive Decoupling	89
6. The Swan Song of the Isolated Island: The Desperate Run After the Blood Transfusion Tubes Are Cut	90
Chapter 18: The Collapse of the Tax Base and the Totalitarian Endgame: Exhausted Stability Maintenance Funds, Machine Stoppage, and the Iron Law of Economics	91
1. Bayonets Cannot Create GDP: The Ultimate Dead Knot of the Totalitarian Ponzi Scheme	91
2. "Deep-Sea Fishing": Legalized Robbery and Mafiazation Under the Exhaustion of Stability Maintenance Funds	92
3. The Price Tag of Loyalty and the Betrayal of Mercenaries: The Meat Grinder Losing Its Financial Lubricant	93
4. Machine Stoppage and the Totalitarian Endgame: The Death Knell on the Ruins of Tyranny	94
Part VI: Dawn Over the Ruins (Marching Toward the Republic and the "Chinese Magna Carta of Liberty")	96
Chapter 19: Puncturing the Malicious Lie of "Chinese Exceptionalism": The Beacon of Taiwan and the Ironclad Proof of Asian Modern Civilization	96
1. The Extremely Schizophrenic Dictatorial Narrative: "Great" When Sacrifice is Needed, "Inferior" When Rights Are Demanded	97
2. The Paradox of "Special National Conditions": The Slap from India and the Civilizational Proof of Japan and South Korea	98
3. The Ultimate Sword Piercing the Lie: The Beacon of Taiwan of the Same Root and Origin	100
Chapter 20: The Mighty Current of History: The Twilight of Dictators and the Demise of the Rogue Club	103
1. Two Hundred Years of Real Data: Dictators Are Becoming an Irretrievable "Endangered Species"	103
2. The General Backer of the Totalitarian Club: Squeezing National Blood and Sweat to Support the "New Axis of Evil"	104
3. The Comprehensive Counterattack of the Civilized World: From Appeasement Illusions to Ultimate Containment	106
4. The Net of History Closing In: The Twilight of Dictators and the Irreversible Law of Cycles	108
Chapter 21: Reconstructing the Social Contract: The Baseline Consensus for Marching Toward the Republic and the "Chinese Magna Carta of Liberty"	109
1. Completely Breaking the Millennium-Old Myth: There Is No Savior, Only a Sacred Contract	110
2. The Uncompromising Baseline: Private Property Rights and the Right to Bear Arms to Defend Against Tyranny	110
3. The Return of Sunny Rule of Law: The Sunshine Act, Public Order and Good Morals, and the Demise of "Police and Bandits Are One Family"	112
4. Shattering the Shackles on the People's Livelihood: Welfare Reconstruction and Labor Dignity Under Democratic Constitutionalism	113
5. Uprooting the Malignant Tumor: The Absolute Prerequisite for Marching Toward Civilization	114
6. The Imminent Rejuvenation: Unleashing the Majestic Power of 1.4 Billion People and Universal Prosperity	115
7. A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire and the Dawning Light (Epilogue of the Book)	115

 
Preface:
This is an extremely absurd and agonizing era. While the official mouthpieces continue to sing the praises of the "rise of a great nation" and a "prosperous golden age" day after day, the 1.4 billion ordinary people on this land are enduring the deepest spiritual despair and physical exhaustion ever seen in times of human peace.
We are the hardest-working nation in the world, yet we struggle on the edge of survival with incredibly meager base salaries; we possess the world's most massive jungles of reinforced concrete, yet we must hollow out the "six wallets" of three generations to exchange for an off-plan property that might be abandoned at any moment; our heads are densely covered by the world's most advanced high-definition surveillance cameras, yet they still cannot protect a mother who was chained by the neck for twenty years.
Countless people bitterly ask in the dead of night: Why do Chinese people live such exhausting lives? Where exactly has the massive wealth we created gone? What terminal illness has our deeply suffering nation contracted?
To find this answer, some blame the greed of capital, some attribute it to the massive population, and some even engage in self-racial deprecation in their despair, believing that something is wrong with the cultural genes of the Chinese nation. But these are all smokescreens meticulously designed by the totalitarian machine.
"The Root of All Evil" aims to use the coldest logic, the sharpest common sense, and the bloody, ironclad evidence of history to completely pierce these lies of stability maintenance. We want to reveal to our 1.4 billion compatriots the one and only ultimate answer: The root of all suffering in China lies not in natural disasters, nor in culture, but in the totalitarian system and autocratic regime that is entrenched upon the body of the state, completely privatizing the public instruments of the nation.
This is a radical anatomy marching from the depths of history toward the dawn of the future. The entire book will undertake an ideological reconstruction from six dimensions:
•	In the coordinates of history and jurisprudence, we will strip away the totalitarian system's disguise of "state theft and facade," exposing its true colors as a state thief that rose to power relying on bandit logic and the tearing up of constitutional contracts.
•	In the operation of the state apparatus, we will see through this "totalitarian meat grinder," watching how the dictator uses anti-corruption as a butcher's knife to purge dissidents, smashes society into loose sand, and allows grassroots public power to face complete mafiazation.
•	In the cruel logic of economics, we will dismantle this massive "empire of human mines," seeing how monopoly state-owned enterprises, astronomical housing prices, and privileges within the system complete the extraction of the marrow of the entire population's rigid survival needs.
•	In the shadow of digital high-tech, we will uncover that blind-spot-free "panopticon," seeing how totalitarianism uses health codes, spyware, and information cocoons to complete the cognitive castration of 1.4 billion people.
•	In the irreversible cycle of history, we will deduce the inevitable "great collapse" that this Ponzi scheme will face. When sterilization and "lying flat" encounter a financial cutoff, the collapse of totalitarianism is merely a countdown of physical time.
•	Above the ruins of the old world, we will seek a path for the Chinese nation, using the republican blueprint of the "Chinese Magna Carta of Liberty" to completely end this land's millennia-long history of slavery.
This book is not an elegy for people to lament, but a political manifesto written for all those who refuse to submit. It is written for the food delivery riders fighting for their lives under the algorithmic whip; written for the parents weeping in despair in front of abandoned building projects; written for the investigative journalists and rights-defense lawyers attempting to leave behind the truth amidst network-wide censorship; and also written for the Chinese youth who let out the tragic swan song, "We are the last generation."
What the totalitarian system fears most is never the enemy's bullets, but the awakening of common sense in the minds of the people. When the facade of history is peeled away, when the truth of involution is seen through, and when the fear in the heart is overcome, that seemingly invincible steel beast is nothing more than a rotting political zombie.
May this book turn into a match in the dark night. The moment we open its pages marks the beginning of breaking out of the panopticon in our minds. The long night will eventually end, and the dawning light of the Chinese nation marching toward freedom and constitutionalism will be unstoppable!
 
Part I: Theft of the State and the Facade (Historical Tracing and Jurisprudential Reconstruction)
[Part Introduction] To see through the current madness of the totalitarian system, one must first return to the depths of history and strip away its meticulously woven modern disguise. This section is a historical tracing to clarify the source. Piercing through the fog of the official grand narrative, what confronts us are only cold data and deliberately covered-up bloody historical facts. Whether it is the bloodthirstiness of its bandit origins, the conspiracy of stealing the state apparatus, or the betrayal of tearing up the constitutional contract, all reveal the robber undertone of this regime that "resurrected in a borrowed corpse." When the facade of history is completely torn down, the logic of jurisprudence will inevitably proclaim to the world: this has never been a legitimate modern government, but a robber empire built upon fraud and massacre, inherently devoid of any jurisprudential legitimacy from birth.
Chapter 1: The Bandit Undertone and State Theft During the War of Resistance: Concealed Historical Truths and Bloody Seizure of Power
The paradox of history lies in the fact that the cruelest tyranny often wears the most dazzling and progressive cloak. When "Communism," as a foreign specter, wandered into the Far Eastern continent accompanied by the cannon fire of the October Revolution, it did not bring true liberation to the toiling masses of this land. On the contrary, because this theory contained an "extremely efficient model of violent power seizure" and an "absolutely centralized Leninist party machinery," it was astutely captured by a group of men in modern Chinese history brimming with imperial ambitions, transforming it into the ultimate weapon to steal the state apparatus of the Republic of China.
Through decades of compulsory state brainwashing, the CCP has whitewashed its founding history into a "history chosen by the people." However, when we peel back that facade woven of lies and coercion to examine those blocked historical archives, we discover: what flows in the underlying nature of this regime is by no means the hot blood of the proletariat, but the most ancient and cruel bandit logic in Chinese history.
1. The Tool of Power Seizure and the Concealed "Bandit" Undertone
For the founders of the CCP, the so-called "vanguard of the proletariat" and "communist faith" were merely "propaganda cloaks" used to deceive the vagrant underclass into bleeding and dying for them. Stripping away this cloak, the history of their early armed separatism and seizure of power is fraught with a deeply despicable bandit nature and hair-raising internal massacres.
The "Great Fleeing of Remnant Troops" Under the Facade of the Long March The "25,000-Li Long March," revered as the highest myth in CCP party history and written into countless primary and secondary school textbooks, was essentially one of the most pathetic "escapes of defeated remnant troops" in modern human military history. In 1934, under the overwhelming military strikes of the National Government's fifth "bandit suppression" campaign, the CCP's "Chinese Soviet Republic" separatist regime in Jiangxi completely collapsed. Facing the iron encirclement of the National Army (Kuomintang forces), the top CCP leadership hastily abandoned the local base area civilians who had once supported them, being forced to give up their territory and frantically flee toward the barren lands of the west. This massive escape was by no means the officially propagandized "marching north to resist Japan"—because the Japanese army was in the Northeast at the time, while their escape route headed toward the Southwest (Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan) and the deserts of the Northwest. This was a panicked flight by bandits desperate to survive when faced with impending annihilation.
The Meat Grinder Starts: The Bloodthirsty Gang Rules of "Purging the AB Group" and the Yan'an Rectification Movement What is even more shocking is that this armed force was not only cruel to outsiders but even more bloodthirsty toward its own. The "political meat grinder" used to purge dissidents within the CCP system had been operating efficiently long before the founding of the state. In 1930, in the Jiangxi Soviet, to establish absolute personal authority, the CCP launched the appallingly brutal campaign to "Purge the AB Group" (the Futian Incident). In this internal purge, tens of thousands of educated young officers and intellectuals within the Red Army were labeled "counter-revolutionaries" and subjected to extraordinarily barbaric torture. According to the CCP's own party history documents, the interrogation methods at the time included "burning with incense," "lighting sky lanterns," and branding with red-hot iron bars. Tens of thousands of their own people were brutally murdered in this purge, even resulting in mass graves where victims were pushed into deep pits after being killed. By the time of the "Yan'an Rectification Movement" in 1942, this internal purge escalated into a total rape of the soul. Faced with reasonable criticism from intellectuals like Wang Shiwei regarding the privileged class in Yan'an (where "clothing was divided into three colors, and food into five grades"), the top CCP leadership classified them as "Trotskyites" and "anti-party cliques." Not only were they secretly hacked to death beside dry wells, but through cruel denunciation sessions and a "confession movement" where everyone was forced to pass ideological screening, the independent personalities of the intellectuals who had initially fled to Yan'an were completely destroyed. Through these two bloodbaths, the CCP established the mafia-like gang rule of "absolute obedience; those who submit prosper, those who resist perish," forging the core organizational gene for its later totalitarian rule.
The Dark Secret of Drug Smuggling Behind "Nanniwan" In official propaganda, the Great Production Movement in Northern Shaanxi is a triumphant hymn of self-reliance, especially the story of the 359th Brigade "opening up wastelands and planting fields" in Nanniwan, which was popularized nationwide by the cheerful song "Nanniwan." However, the truth of history is utterly filthy. During the period of eking out an existence in Northern Shaanxi, facing an economic blockade by the National Army, the CCP sought to resolve a massive military funding crisis. The 359th Brigade, led by Wang Zhen, did not cultivate grain in Nanniwan; instead, they planted opium poppies across the mountainsides, which was obscurely recorded in internal ledgers at the time as "special goods" (Tehuo). The CCP smuggled massive quantities of this narcotic, processed in Northern Shaanxi, into Kuomintang-controlled areas under armed guard to poison their own compatriots, exchanging it for hard currency and military supplies. A regime that did not hesitate to manufacture and traffic drugs to raise military funds during its power-seizing phase had already fully exposed its rogue and mafia-like nature.
2. The Thieves of History and the Fatal Accident for the Chinese Nation
The CCP's ultimate theft of state power was fundamentally not its self-touted "historical inevitability," nor was it the "choice of the people," but a national tragedy forcibly rewritten by two historically criminal "accidents."
The Xi'an Incident and State Theft During the War of Resistance: The "Seven Parts Expansion" Hiding Behind Enemy Lines In 1936, when the CCP's remnant forces in Northern Shaanxi faced final annihilation by the National Army and were on the brink of life and death, the "Xi'an Incident" launched by Zhang Xueliang inadvertently saved their lives. Subsequently, the full-scale War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out. In this crucial moment of blood and fire that determined the life or death of the Chinese nation, the CCP displayed an extremely dark, selfish political calculation. At the Luochuan Conference, the CCP leaders secretly set the core strategy of "one part resistance, two parts dealing with the Kuomintang, and seven parts expansion." While the elite forces of the National Army fought on frontal battlefields like the Battle of Shanghai, the Defense of Nanjing, and the Battle of Wuhan, facing Japanese planes and artillery, sacrificing 3.21 million soldiers and hundreds of generals who died in combat; the CCP hid in rural areas behind enemy lines where Japanese forces were weak, aggressively establishing armed separatist regimes. They exploited the gap of the national crisis to loot a burning house. By incorporating bandits and forcibly conscripting men, they expanded their remaining tens of thousands of troops at the start of the war to a massive force of 1.2 million regular troops and 2 million militia by the war's end. As soon as the War of Resistance was won in 1945, the CCP immediately tore up the peace agreement. With the covert support of the Soviet "Big Brother" (the CCP even did not hesitate to surrender rights in Outer Mongolia in exchange for Stalin's protection), Lin Biao's troops swiftly entered the Northeast, fully taking over the massive quantities of heavy weapons and arsenals left behind by the Japanese Kwantung Army. Emboldened by Soviet aid, they immediately launched a fatal strike against the National Government, which was completely exhausted after eight years of bloody war. How is this the "choice of history"? This is clearly the act of state thieves hiding behind national suffering.
The Anti-Human Tragedy of the Siege of Changchun: Seizing Power by Stepping on the White Bones of Civilians In the ensuing civil war, the CCP demonstrated to the world its ultimate cold-bloodedness, treating civilians as "zero-cost consumables." The most appalling event in this history is undoubtedly the "Siege of Changchun" in 1948. To capture the Kuomintang-defended city of Changchun without fighting, Lin Biao's Northeast Field Army issued a cold, ruthless death order: "Civilians are strictly forbidden to leave the city" and "Make Changchun a city of death." Using barbed wire and machine-gun nests, they trapped hundreds of thousands of civilians inside Changchun alive for five full months. During these five months, food and water in Changchun were cut off, grass roots and tree bark were eaten bare, eventually leading to a hellish tragedy of massive "cannibalism" and streets littered with those who starved to death. According to historians (such as Zhang Zhenglong's account in White Snow, Red Blood) and the agonizing memories of later survivors, this man-made siege caused between 150,000 and 300,000 innocent Chinese civilians to starve to death. The CCP generals sat outside the city, coldly watching their emaciated compatriots wail and die in despair before the barbed wire, without a shred of pity. It was exactly like this—stepping on the white, ghastly bones of their compatriots and using anti-human methods of massacre—that they stole state power.
3. The Double Fraud of Land Reform: "Digging Three Feet Deep" that Surpasses Ancient Robbers and State-Level Plunder
In the early days of the regime, how did the CCP deceive the poor peasants across the country into risking their lives to fight for them? They relied on that highly demagogic slogan: "Beat the local tyrants, distribute the land." Many thought this was merely a modern version of ancient outlaws "robbing the rich to feed the poor." But in fact, if we deeply analyze this practice through the dimensions of economics and political science, we will find that its evil and insidiousness far surpass any robber logic in history.
Ants on a Hot Pan and the "Extermination Net" Style Mass Plunder We can reconstruct the true historical context at the time: At the life-and-death juncture of seizing power, this massive totalitarian armed force was facing extreme material deprivation—lacking money, food, and clothing. With millions of troops and horses needing daily sustenance, facing the desperate situation of running out of rations, the entire syndicate was as anxious as ants on a hot pan. It was precisely to solve this extremely urgent "military funding crisis" that they racked their brains and invented this peak thug-like tactic. When ancient bandits robbed the rich to give to the poor, they usually took nine-tenths of the rich man's wealth, but would at least leave one-tenth for the poor, or even leave a way out for the rich to buy public sympathy. However, the CCP employed an extremely vicious "extermination net" style of plunder. Under the name of "class struggle," they frantically incited hatred in all rural areas nationwide. They not only wanted to kill the body, but also to destroy the soul. They forced the lumpenproletariat and peasants at the bottom to personally denounce and beat to death the landlords and gentry in their villages. This is the most classic "blood oath" (pledge of allegiance) of a totalitarian mafia—once you have the blood of the landlord on your hands, you have no way back; you can only follow the Communist Party with dead devotion. Along with the killings, they maniacally implemented a nationwide "digging three feet deep" mass plunder. Using violence, they swept away the "liquid assets" accumulated by society over thousands of years—gold, silver, silver dollars, banknotes, antiques, jewelry, and even a landlord's iron wok—like draining a pond to catch all the fish. The vast majority of this truly valuable wealth was never distributed to the peasants; it was all pocketed by the totalitarian regime, acting as massive military funding for fighting the civil war, laying the so-called "material foundation" for ultimately seizing and consolidating the dictatorial regime.
The Immovable Land and the Most Shameless Serial Scam So, what did they distribute to the peasants? The only thing they "distributed" to the peasants were those fixed assets that physically could not be taken away or moved: land. By using immovable land as a zero-cost false promise and temporarily issuing a land deed, they successfully bought off and deceived the hearts of the vast majority of poor peasants worldwide, making them willingly push wheelbarrows of military grain to the frontlines and send their own sons to be cannon fodder. Predictably, the expiration date of this scam was shockingly short. Only a few years later, when the regime was completely consolidated, the military funding crisis was resolved, and the peasants had entirely lost their utilitarian value, the government immediately turned hostile. Starting in 1953, through the "Unified Purchase and Sale," "Agricultural Cooperatives," and eventually the "People's Commune" movements, the CCP forcibly confiscated all the land that had just been distributed to the peasants back into "collective (i.e., state) ownership." In this greatest serial scam in human history, peasants not only lost their land again but were also tightly locked to the land by the subsequently introduced draconian "Hukou" (household registration) system. They were even stripped of the right to leave their villages to beg, completely losing their personal freedom and being reduced to the exclusive serfs of the state regime. This deprivation ultimately led to the unprecedented tragedy of 30 million people starving to death during the three-year Great Famine.
This method of exchanging the destruction of the entire society for the selfish gain of one party—first plundering the nation's liquid wealth as military funding, then using immovable land as bait, and finally swallowing both the people and the land whole—perfectly unified their nature as bandits, robbers, and thugs in actual practice. This can be deemed the most evil and bottomless state-level political plunder in recorded human history.
Chapter 2: The Great Betrayal of the Century and the Dead End Against the Current: Tearing Up the Constitutional Contract and the Dictator's Ultimate Trump Card
To see clearly the illegal essence of today's CCP totalitarian system, we absolutely must not merely stare at its atrocities today, but must stand on the historical space-time coordinates to uncover the most shameless "great betrayal of the century" in human political history. We must examine how these political fraudsters swam against the mighty current of global civilization, personally tearing up the first contract that could have led China toward modern civilization, dragging the entire country into an irrevocable dead end of autocracy.
1. The Great Betrayal of the Century: The Torn "1946 Constitution" and the Hypocritical Facade of the "Xinhua Daily"
Today's totalitarian rulers view "democracy, freedom, and constitutionalism" as poison infiltrated by the West, guarding against them strictly, and even setting these vocabularies as sensitive words on the internet. However, they deliberately conceal from the 1.4 billion Chinese people a highly ironic historical truth: In the dozen or so years before seizing power, it was precisely the CCP leaders and literati who shouted universal values with the most impassioned words, launching the fiercest attacks on one-party dictatorship.
Democracy's Anthem in the "Xinhua Daily" and the Political Smokescreen During the War of Resistance and the Civil War, the "Xinhua Daily" distributed by the CCP in KMT-controlled areas, as well as the "Liberation Daily" in Yan'an, were virtually "manifestos for constitutional democracy." In 1944, when Mao Zedong was interviewed by Reuters correspondent Guenther Stein in Yan'an, he solemnly promised: "Every American soldier in China should be a living advertisement for democracy. We must learn from each other to build an American-style democratic China." The editorial of the "Xinhua Daily" on March 30, 1946, even published that famous slogan: "One-party dictatorship brings disaster everywhere!" The editorial stated in black and white: "Demand an end to one-party political tutelage and the implementation of democratic constitutionalism... Truly return the rights of freedom of thought, publication, assembly, and association to the broad masses of the people." These extremely beautiful and moving promises of democracy confused countless young students, democrats, and Western observers who were disappointed with the corruption of the Kuomintang at the time, winning the CCP massive moral sympathy and political united front advantages. However, history proved that this was merely a lullaby played by thugs to trick the victims into opening their doors before attempting a robbery.
The 1946 Political Consultative Conference: The Crushed Dawn of Chinese Constitutionalism In early 1946, after the victory in the War of Resistance, the Kuomintang, the CCP, as well as various democratic parties and non-partisan social luminaries gathered in Chongqing to hold the nationally anticipated "Political Consultative Conference." After intense maneuvering and compromises, all parties reached a consensus and jointly participated in formulating the "1946 Constitution of the Republic of China." This constitution established a political framework based on popular sovereignty, protection of fundamental human rights, a five-power separation (essentially an improved separation of three powers), and multi-party elections. It perfectly aligned with modern universal values of freedom and democracy, representing the greatest hope of the entire Chinese people at the time to end the chaos of war and move toward modernization. It was also the constitutional cornerstone that CCP representatives, including Zhou Enlai, personally participated in drafting, amending, and signing off on. Had this constitutional framework been followed, China could have synchronized with the world after WWII, peacefully and smoothly transitioning into a multi-party competitive constitutional republic.
The Cold-Blooded Betrayal of the Century However, the CCP never intended to be a legitimate "opposition party" within this constitutional framework. Once they seized national power with the armed support of the Soviet Union, climbing over the mountains of corpses and seas of blood of the civil war, they immediately turned hostile. In 1949, Mao Zedong published "On the People's Democratic Dictatorship," completely tearing off the democratic disguise maintained for over a decade, declaring with murderous intent: "We are dictatorial, and we will absolutely not practice benevolent governance." That "1946 Constitution," filled with freedom and human rights, signed and validated by the CCP itself, was torn up and trampled upon like waste paper, replaced by the fig leaf of the "dictatorship of the proletariat." Through this largest-scale political fraud in human history, they not only betrayed the intellectuals who once shouted for democracy alongside them, and betrayed all Chinese people, but also brazenly legalized one-party dictatorship permanently. From that day on, this regime completely lost its jurisprudential legitimacy. A regime that came to power by tearing up the country's fundamental contract and deceiving the entire population carries the genes of a robber from the womb.
2. The Ironclad Proof of Global Civilization: The Completely Punctured "Theory of Dictatorship's Necessity"
To cover up the crimes of usurpation and dictatorship, the CCP's imperial literati meticulously fabricated an extremely grand lie over the subsequent decades: "At the beginning of the state's founding, China was poor and blank, with a massive population and low levels of education. Under such special national conditions, it was necessary to rely on the absolute dictatorship of the Communist Party to concentrate resources to accomplish big things, in order to realize national industrialization and modernization. While democracy is good, China at the time could not afford it."
This "Theory of Dictatorship's Necessity" duped generations on the Chinese mainland. However, world history post-WWII and ironclad data smashed this lie to pieces. History left behind comparative evidence across the globe that leaves totalitarians with nowhere to hide:
•	The Clear Mirror of Taiwan: That "1946 Constitution" torn up by the CCP retreated to Taiwan alongside the National Government. Despite experiencing the birth pangs of an authoritarian period, the baseline of the constitution remained. By the 1980s and 90s, Taiwan not only created a miracle of economic takeoff but also, without a bloody revolution, naturally realized the democratic elections mandated by the constitution, forging today's most prosperous democratic beacon and chip hegemon in Asia. The same culture, the same genes—if Taiwan could do it, why couldn't the mainland?
•	Japan and Germany from the Ruins: Japan and Germany, reduced to scorched earth and total ruins in WWII, had a much worse starting point post-war than China, facing tens of millions of refugees and thoroughly collapsed industries. But they did not choose totalitarian dictatorship to "concentrate resources"; instead, under the framework of constitutional democracy, through protecting private property rights and free markets, they rapidly rose to the pinnacle of the world in less than twenty years, elevating the living standards of ordinary people to heights unimaginable to Chinese people at the time.
•	Israel in the Desert and Reborn Eastern Europe: In the desert, surrounded by strong enemies and lacking resources, Israel built the only developed country in the Middle East relying on democracy and freedom; meanwhile, the Eastern European nations, once enslaved by the Soviet model and mired in economic stagnation, discarded communist totalitarianism in 1989. Not only did they avoid "world chaos," but they welcomed true prosperity, successively stepping into the ranks of high-income nations.
These vivid examples declare a historical common sense with unparalleled clarity: Prosperity is never the product of dictatorship, but the byproduct of freedom, rule of law, and the protection of private property rights. The CCP's totalitarian rule did not "save" the country; instead, through endless political upheavals like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, it locked down and delayed China's modernization, which could have arrived half a century earlier. Their so-called "economic miracle" is merely the result of Chinese people fighting with their own blood and sweat after the chains binding the hands and feet of ordinary people were slightly loosened later on.
3. The Final Verdict of the Nobel Prize: The Scientific Trial of the Dead End of Autocracy
The trend of the world is already so obvious, and the autocratic system is anti-human, anti-fairness, and violates the most basic economic laws. If anyone still harbors illusions about the so-called "Chinese model" of the totalitarian system, believing it can "concentrate resources" to counter the West, the recent theory from the Nobel laureates in Economics (Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, authors of Why Nations Fail) has sounded the final death knell for the CCP's totalitarian autocracy from a rigorous academic level.
Through comparing hundreds of years of human history and massive datasets, they proposed a subversive iron law: The fundamental reason determining whether a country prospers or decays is neither geography nor culture, but institutions.
•	Inclusive Institutions (Democratic Constitutionalism): Only institutions that protect private property rights, limit public power, guarantee human rights, and encourage everyone to participate in political and economic competition (i.e., democratic constitutionalism) can continuously foster "creative destruction" (innovation), thereby bringing lasting, sustainable prosperity to a country.
•	Extractive Institutions (Totalitarian Autocracy): This is precisely what the CCP is currently practicing. A tiny clique of elites monopolizes political power, depriving the masses of their property and freedom. This system can indeed utilize state violence to forcibly mobilize the bottom-tier "human mines" for low-end labor, and even manufacture astonishing GDP growth and infrastructure frenzies in the short term (just like the heavy industry miracle of the Soviet Union back in the day).
However, this totalitarian system has a fatal weak point: It absolutely cannot tolerate true innovation. Because true innovation inevitably requires the free flow of ideas and the reallocation of resources, which would directly threaten the political control and monopoly interests of the established elite class. Therefore, when the dividends of "imitation" and "squeezing cheap labor" are exhausted, the totalitarian system will inevitably head toward stagnation and involution, ultimately moving toward economic collapse because it strangles innovation and drains social resources. The CCP's system can be called the most precise and efficient "extractive institution" in human history. Science and history have long handed down its verdict: This system is effectively already nailed to the garbage dump of history. Its current madness is merely a terminal lucidity before entering the irreversible countdown to extinction.
4. The Underlying Logic of Dictators: Rather Cling to Power and Drag the Country Down to Death Together
Since the trend of the world is so mighty, and since the Nobel Prize-winning theory in Economics has already revealed the laws so clearly, why do today's totalitarian rulers remain so unrepentant, even doubling down on shifting history into reverse? Is it that they cannot understand these truths?
Absolutely not. Dictators are shrewder than anyone else, but they have made the most selfish, darkest political choices. The underlying logic of dictators is never about the "long-term future of the country and the nation," but about "maintaining the vested interests and life security of the core clique." They know better than anyone what will happen once they comply with the historical trend toward free constitutionalism, once the sunlight of the rule of law shines into the black box of power:
•	Disgorging Astronomical Wealth: The trillions in blood-and-sweat wealth of the people hidden by elite families in offshore trusts overseas, as well as the vital industries they monopolize, such as electricity, tobacco, and finance, must all be returned to the state and the people.
•	Facing Historical Reckoning: Over the past seventy-plus years, this regime—from killing during Land Reform, starving thirty million in the Great Leap Forward, the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution, to the crushing by tanks at Tiananmen, the torture of rights-defense figures, the persecution of faith groups, and the disasters brought by three years of cruel Zero-COVID... their hands are stained with the blood of too many innocents. Once they lose the protective umbrella of power, they will not only lose everything but will also face open trials by independent tribunals and the ultimate reckoning of history.
Such consequences are absolutely unbearable for the dictatorial clique. Therefore, just like the dying last dynasties of the past, facing the mighty civilization of the global mainstream, they would rather use harsh speech censorship to gag the common people, rather use a panopticon-style stability maintenance machine to drain the national treasury, and rather watch the economy collapse, foreign capital withdraw, and the lower classes tear each other apart, than voluntarily relinquish even the slightest shred of power.
They have kidnapped 1.4 billion people as hostages; their true subtext is: "If I cannot continue to be the master, then everyone goes to hell together." To secure the dragon throne of one family and one surname, they would rather cling to power and drag the entire country and 1.4 billion people down to death together. This is the ultimate, and most anti-human, evil trump card of totalitarian rulers.
Chapter 3: Imported Guise Stitched to the "Qin System": A Century-Long Cycle of the New Westernization Movement and Totalitarian Genes
Today's China is absurdly reenacting the doomed "Westernization Movement" (Yangwu Movement) of the late Qing Dynasty. Over a hundred years ago, to save the imperial power of the Aisin Gioro family, the decaying Qing Empire proposed the slogan "Chinese learning as the essence, Western learning for practical application," attempting to solely introduce the West's sturdy ships and powerful cannons while resolutely rejecting Western constitutionalism and rule of law, ultimately suffering a crushing defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War. The irony of history lies in the fact that today's totalitarian rulers have once again concocted the most schizophrenic "institutional Frankenstein's monster" in the history of human civilization—"Soviet totalitarian autocracy as the essence, Western capitalist markets for practical application." They wear the imported guise of "Marxism-Leninism" from the West, but what operates in their bones is the bloodthirsty "Qin System" of Shang Yang and Qin Shi Huang from two thousand years ago, designed to "weaken the people, exhaust the people, and humiliate the people."
1. The Expedient Measure of Clinging to Life: Completely Puncturing the Pseudo-Myth of "Reform and Opening-Up"
In the grand narrative crafted by the authorities at immense cost, the "Reform and Opening-Up" of 1978 is depicted as a visionary and magnificent grace bestowed by the top CCP leadership, as if they personally brought prosperity to the Chinese people. However, as long as we pull our gaze back to that true era, this myth bursts instantly like a soap bubble.
The National Economy on the Brink of Collapse and the Desperate Bid for Survival The fact is, after nearly thirty years of appalling class struggles, the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the ten-year catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution, by the late 1970s, China's national economy was on the absolute brink of total collapse. The state treasury was empty, materials were extremely scarce, and hundreds of millions of peasants were struggling on the edge of life and death. In the famous Xiaogang Village of Anhui, eighteen peasants, merely to survive, had to risk execution to press their bloody thumbprints on a secret pact, secretly dividing the land belonging to the people's commune to individual households ("contracting production to households"). The so-called "Reform and Opening-Up" was by no means the top CCP leadership growing a conscience and wanting to return power to the people; it was the survival instinct of this totalitarian regime when facing the total bankruptcy of its ruling legitimacy and the imminent threat of collapse.
The "Unbinding" by the Kidnapper is Absolutely No Grace This is akin to a brutal kidnapper tying a hostage tightly to a pillar and starving them for thirty years. When the kidnapper realizes the hostage is about to starve to death and he will soon have no one left to extort, he loosens the ropes slightly, allowing the hostage to find something to eat themselves. Relying on an incredibly tenacious vitality and hard-working blood and sweat, the hostage not only feeds themselves but also earns mountains of wealth for the kidnapper. Yet at this moment, the kidnapper righteously demands the hostage to be deeply grateful: "If I hadn't untied you, would you have the good life you have today?" Taking the rights that originally belonged to the common people—the right to farm, the right to do business, the right to move freely—and returning a tiny bit of them with extreme reluctance, like squeezing toothpaste, is called "stopping doing evil," it is called "relaxing enslavement," it absolutely does not equate to grace! The economic growth of China over the past forty years is entirely the result of the Chinese people fighting with their own blood and sweat, using the world's cheapest labor, the most undignified 996 sweatshop labor, and the extraordinarily massive cost of environmental pollution. The totalitarian system not only did not create wealth, but has actually been the greatest friction pressing against the wheels of the economy over these forty years.
2. The Contrast Between Tiananmen Tanks and the Upheaval in Eastern Europe: The Complete Shattering of the Illusion of Peaceful Evolution
When the "capitalist prosthetic limb" of the economy begins to grow on this totalitarian body, it inevitably produces intense rejection reactions. A prosperous free market inevitably requires the emancipation of thought, the establishment of the rule of law, and the loosening of the political system.
In the spring and summer of 1989, a movement that shocked the world erupted across China. Millions of Chinese, primarily students and citizens, took to Chang'an Avenue in Beijing and the streets of major cities nationwide. Their demands were extremely moderate and just: anti-corruption, anti-profiteering by officials, freedom of the press, and democratic rule of law. This was a pure, peaceful petition.
Here, we must subject the Beijing of 1989 to an extremely bone-chilling, soul-striking comparison with the upheavals in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet Union that occurred around the same time. This is also the truth that the totalitarian regime fears the world mentioning the most to this day.
The Sparkle of Humanity in Eastern Europe and the Velvet Revolution In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union around 1989, facing tens of thousands of people yearning for freedom and surging onto the streets in protest, the rulers of the communist bloc at the time (such as Gorbachev) faced the ultimate interrogation of history. Undeniably, they had once taken the wrong path, and were even participants in tyranny, but at the final juncture of history, they displayed the most basic conscience and baseline of being human—they refused to open fire on the unarmed civilians of their own country. When the army defected, when the masses tore down the Berlin Wall, when dictatorial rule could no longer be maintained, they chose to voluntarily relinquish power. This facilitated the peaceful evolution of Eastern European countries into modern democratic states via the bloodless "Velvet Revolution." In the face of the temptation of power versus the blood of civilians, they preserved their humanity.
The Butcher's Knife on Chang'an Avenue and the Devil's True Face However, shifting the historical lens to China's Chang'an Avenue, this contrast proved that the CCP is an inhumane demon of vested interests possessed by the devil. Facing the legitimate demands of the people nationwide who peacefully asked for political rights and the punishment of corruption, the top CCP leadership not only refused any substantive political reform, but instead, adhering to the extremely bloodthirsty logic of "kill two hundred thousand people to guarantee twenty years of stability," unhesitatingly mobilized hundreds of thousands of fully armed regular field army troops, using machine guns, armored vehicles, and tanks to crush the flesh and blood of their compatriots right in the heart of the capital.
The Ultimate Fear Behind the Massacre Why did they carry out this massacre? This was absolutely not just to clear the square; it was a "kill one to warn a hundred" execution to demonstrate their demonic nature to the people of the whole country. The red elites of the CCP knew deeply that they controlled sky-high vested interests. Once the regime changed colors, once constitutional democracy was implemented, they would not only lose ownership of the country's monopolized resources but would also face open political and legal trials, and the monstrous crimes they committed in the previous thirty years would be thoroughly reckoned with. This consequence was absolutely unbearable for them. Therefore, if anyone dares to pose even a slight threat to their dictatorial regime, even just kneeling to submit a petition, they will unhesitatingly raise the butcher's knife.
The blood of the June 4th Incident in 1989 completely shattered the naive illusions of the Western world and Chinese intellectuals. It proved with tank treads a cruel truth: In China, attempting to achieve "peaceful evolution" through compromise and reform within the system is an utter illusion. You cannot make deals with the devil, let alone expect bottomless rogue bandits to honor contracts. This inferior robber regime does not deserve to be called a governing body. The only way to achieve freedom, democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law in China is to completely overthrow it and rebuild from scratch.
3. The Contract Betrayal of the WTO: Sucking the Blood of the Free World and the Rise of an International Rogue
The totalitarian system not only slaughters internally but is equally devoid of any contractual spirit externally. After the tank treads rolled over, the CCP, facing comprehensive sanctions from the international community, once again fell into a severe economic crisis in the late 1990s (massive bankruptcies of state-owned enterprises, the outbreak of the layoff wave). This time, the Western free world committed a historically disastrous mistake—they naively believed that as long as China was brought into the global free trade system, the rise of the middle class would inevitably force China toward political democracy.
Joining the WTO and Shameless Promises In 2001, China officially joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). Western capital, technology, and astronomical orders flooded in madly, saving the CCP's crumbling economy and ushering China into a twenty-year economic hyper-growth. When joining the WTO, the CCP signed a thick stack of protocols with the world, making solemn international promises: opening financial and telecommunications markets, protecting intellectual property rights, establishing a transparent legal business environment, opening the internet, and not engaging in illegal state subsidies.
Burning Bridges After Eating the Fill However, twenty years have passed, what is the true situation? They treated all these international contracts written in black and white as waste paper to wipe their feet. Not only did they not open the internet, but instead, using the dollars earned from globalization, they built the most massive and airtight "Great Firewall (GFW)" in human history, completely sealing 1.4 billion Chinese people inside an information cocoon; they not only failed to protect intellectual property, but through "forced technology transfer" and state-level hacker theft, they frantically stole cutting-edge Western technology; they not only failed to achieve fair competition, but utilized massive state subsidies to artificially create extremely distorted "overcapacity" in fields like photovoltaics, steel, and new energy vehicles, and then maliciously destroyed the normal supply chains of civilized European and American countries by dumping at below-cost prices.
The Rise of an International Rogue The CCP's logic is extremely despicable: Your market must remain open to me, allowing me to earn massive surpluses; but my market (such as finance, communications, media) must absolutely not be open to you, because that concerns my "regime dictatorial security." In international diplomacy, they openly declared that previously signed international agreements were "historical documents lacking practical significance." They only enjoy the massive dividends of the blood transfusion from the free world, but resolutely refuse to fulfill any obligations to embrace modern civilization. They exploit the contractual spirit and rule of law of Western free societies to exploit every loophole, sucking the nutrients of the free world like vampires, and conversely, pouring the wealth earned into the stability maintenance machine suppressing their own people and the aircraft carriers and warships for external expansion. This marks the formal baring of fangs on the world stage by an "international rogue" posing as a great power.
4. The Unravelable Dead Knot: The Ultimate Tearing Between Productive Forces and Totalitarian Control
Forcibly stitching the "productive forces of Western technology and capital" onto the "control power of autocratic imperial power and surveillance" is a dead knot that violates fundamental sociological and economic laws. As time passes, the rejection reactions of this "totalitarian Frankenstein's monster" are flaring up violently.
The soul of a modern free market economy is the free flow of information, the absolute protection of private property rights, and the certainty of the rule of law. But these three points are exactly the deadly poison for totalitarian rulers. In recent years, as the volume of China's private economy grew increasingly massive, tech giants mastered vast amounts of data, and private capital began to possess a voice, the totalitarian dictator felt deep fear. In the logic of totalitarianism, a "second center of power" that is not under the absolute control of the Party is absolutely not allowed to exist.
Thus, we witnessed the most inconceivable "suicidal behavior" in economic history: Merely because of a single administrative document that went through no legal process, they could destroy the entire tutoring industry worth trillions of market value overnight, rendering tens of millions of practitioners instantly unemployed; under the names of "anti-monopoly" and "national security," they purged internet tech giants like Alibaba and Tencent until they were barely breathing, forcing private entrepreneurs to collectively fall silent, withdraw, or even flee; they launched the so-called "Common Prosperity," which is essentially legalized robbery of "the state advances, the private sector retreats," forcing foreign capital to withdraw from China at the fastest pace in history.
When "economic prosperity" clashes with "regime security," totalitarian rulers do not hesitate for a moment. To ensure absolute control over society, they would rather castrate themselves, personally chopping off the limbs of the private economy and foreign capital that had created astronomical wealth.
This proves that cruel truth: Autocracy can manufacture short-term economic bubbles, but it can absolutely never accommodate enduring modern civilization. This patch-covered "totalitarian Frankenstein's monster," full of irreconcilable massive contradictions internally, will inevitably head toward irreversible final collapse amidst the internal friction of its own mad tearing.
Chapter 4: The Death of the Rule of Law and the Rule of Family Law: How Power Rapes Truth and Mutates Law into a Unidirectional Whip
In the foundation and underlying logic of modern human political civilization, the core meaning of the "Rule of Law" is singular: to clearly define and regulate public power, to protect the absolute rights and life dignity of every citizen, keeping them free from arbitrary crushing by the state apparatus. The law should be the last line of defense for the weak against the strong, the highest contract jointly observed by the entire society.
However, under the totalitarian rule of the CCP, the "rule of law" has been completely dead since the first day of the regime's founding. On this 9.6 million square kilometers of land, what exists is merely totalitarian "family law" and mafia gang rules draped in the outer garment of modern legal vocabulary, as well as the unidirectional whip used by the ruling class to suppress slaves. They scream "comprehensively govern the country according to law" on the "Xinwen Lianbo" (news broadcast) every day, but its true operational logic is the most insidious "Rule by Law" (ruling people through laws) of the ancient Chinese Legalist school—the law is never used to restrain the rulers, but is the meat grinder blade in the hands of the dictator, used to legally and completely eliminate any voice that dares to question power without leaving a single blind spot.
1. The Reduction of the Constitution to Toilet Paper: The Absolute Arrogrance of Power Overriding Everything and the Demise of the State Contract
In a true modern republic, the constitution is the highest contract of the state, the sacred embodiment of the will of the entire citizenry, possessing supreme authority. Any political party, any organization, any individual, no matter how high their status, must operate within the framework of the constitution. But in totalitarian China, the constitution is merely "political toilet paper" used by the dictator to wipe away the bloodstains of power and whitewash legitimacy.
The Highest Law Altered for One Person and the Reversing of History Human political civilization spent thousands of years, experiencing the cruel wars of rivers of blood, to arrive at an extremely heavy, insurmountable iron law: the peaceful transition of power and term limits for the supreme leader are the last insurance preventing a country from falling into the abyss of personal tyranny. Even the CCP itself, after experiencing the appallingly brutal ten-year catastrophe of the "Cultural Revolution" during the Mao Zedong era and the country nearing collapse, learned from this painful lesson. In the 1982 constitution, the older generation of leaders reluctantly added the breakwater that "the term of office of the President of the State shall not exceed two consecutive terms." This was once seen as a faint dawn of China moving towards political institutionalization and bidding farewell to the rule of man.
However, in March 2018, the current supreme leader, merely to satisfy his extreme ambition of "lifelong rule" and becoming a modern emperor, effortlessly mobilized the state violence machine, forcibly amended the fundamental law of the state, and directly abolished the term limits for the State President.
History will forever engrave that extremely absurd and suffocating scene: In the Great Hall of the People, tightly controlled by special police and security personnel, nearly three thousand so-called "National People's Congress delegates" wearing suits, claiming to represent 1.4 billion people, were like a flock of marionettes whose spines and souls had been extracted. Facing this constitutional amendment draft that openly turned back the clock of history and dragged the country into the abyss of personal dictatorship, the entire hall was dead silent. Not only did they not dare to raise a single question, but they scrambled to press the hair-raising voting buttons resulting in "2958 votes in favor, 2 votes against." Those pitiful two opposing votes are widely believed by the outside world to be the last fig leaf deliberately left by the authorities to fake a "democratic process."
The Chain Reaction of the Constitution's Death and the Collapse of the Jurisprudential System This constitutional amendment was by no means just a game of power distribution within the high-level CCP; it laid bare an extremely cold, cruel fact to 1.4 billion Chinese and the whole world: In this country, there simply exists no rule higher than power. The personal will of the dictator is the unchallengeable supreme law of this country.
When the most fundamental law of a country can be arbitrarily altered and castrated in a ten-minute rubber-stamp vote simply because of one person's selfish desires, this constitution completely loses its jurisprudential dignity, reduced to a pile of waste paper that can be crumpled at any time. This is an extremely terrifying "domino" effect: Since even the highest state contract can be arbitrarily raped by power, all criminal, civil, and administrative laws under the constitution completely lose the foundation of their legitimacy.
The common people have no reason left to believe that a regime capable of tearing up the state's highest contract at will would abide by basic fairness and justice in daily civil disputes and criminal trials. Totalitarian rulers tell everyone with an extremely arrogant posture: The law is absolutely not meant to restrain me; the law is the tool I use to rule and intimidate you. The moment the constitution died, Chinese society had already jurisprudentially regressed to the feudal, barbaric era of "L'état, c'est moi" (I am the state).
2. The Shameless Evolutionary History of Customized Political Chains: From "Custody and Repatriation" to "Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble"
To achieve blind-spot-free, low-cost absolute suppression of the lower strata of society, the totalitarian system is extremely proficient in a highly Chinese-characteristic "legal sleight of hand." They can always, according to changes in the times and pressure from international public opinion, custom-make various "legal chains" for the common people that can arbitrarily deprive citizens of personal freedom without the need for due judicial process or court debate.
The Blood of Sun Zhigang and the Sin of "Custody and Repatriation" Before the beginning of the 21st century, the Sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of countless migrant peasant workers, urban poor, and non-local intellectuals was a system called "Custody and Repatriation." Simply because you couldn't produce a temporary residence permit on the street, the police needed no arrest warrant to forcibly lock you into a custody center like catching a stray dog, followed by brutal beatings, extortion of money, and even transporting you to remote areas for forced labor. In 2003, a 27-year-old university graduate named Sun Zhigang was illegally detained by police on the streets of Guangzhou simply for not carrying a temporary residence permit, and was beaten to death alive by insiders within the custody center. Sun Zhigang's blood and tragedy sparked massive nationwide public outrage. Under the desperate appeals of scholars and the tiny slice of media space that still existed at the time, the CCP, to quell public anger and salvage a bit of ruling legitimacy, extremely reluctantly abolished this man-eating wicked law.
The Police Chief's Lynch Law: The Fascist Black Hole of "Re-education Through Labor" Although "Custody and Repatriation" was abolished, another thicker, darker chain—"Re-education Through Labor" (Laojiao)—remained tightly choked around the necks of the common people. Under this extremely absurd system that violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, public security organs did not need prosecution by a procuratorate, did not need a court trial, and did not need any defense lawyers to intervene; with a stroke of the pen, the police chief alone could directly lock a lawful citizen into a labor camp with high walls and electrified wire fences for up to one to four years.
Over those long decades, labor camps became the totalitarian government's extralegal "Gulag Archipelago." Countless peasants who had nowhere to turn after petitioning over forcibly demolished land, netizens who posted a few complaints criticizing the government online, and members of faith groups who refused to compromise, were thrown into labor camps without any legal trial. There, they suffered electric baton shocks, forced high-intensity slave labor, and were reduced to free slave labor producing cheap export goods for the totalitarian system. It was not until 2013, forced by immense domestic and international pressure, that this lynch law system, completely defying modern common sense of the rule of law, was finally terminated.
The Ultimate "Pocket Crime": The Bottomless Abuse of "Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble" If you thought that after the abolition of the labor camp system, China's rule of law would welcome the dawn, you are gravely mistaken. The suppression machine of the totalitarian system will absolutely not leave a vacuum of power. After the abolition of labor camps, they immediately dug out a charge from criminal law originally used to punish street thugs brawling—a concept extremely vague and capable of infinite expansive interpretation—"the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble" (Xunxin zishi zui), and endowed it with an enormously massive political suppression function.
This can be called the most absurd, shameless, and handiest "ultimate pocket crime" (a catch-all charge) in the history of human rule of law. In China today, its scope of application has reached an extremely absurd and crazy level, almost covering all possible charges for an ordinary person rebelling against injustice:
•	When peasants complain and seek help online because the land their ancestors farmed and the houses they lived in were forcibly occupied and demolished by mafia-like forces, this is called "picking quarrels and provoking trouble in cyberspace";
•	When workers on assembly lines pull up banners at factory gates to demand half a year's unpaid blood-and-sweat wages, this is called "picking quarrels and provoking trouble in public places";
•	When common people kneel and petition at government gates after going bankrupt buying unfinished pre-sale homes (Lanweilou), or when they question the abuse of power by neighborhood committees in WeChat groups due to COVID lockdowns, or even simply for "liking" a post on the overseas social app Twitter (X)—they can all be slapped with the charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" by local police, handcuffed, and sentenced to three to five years in prison.
The totalitarian government uses this tailor-made "legal blind box" to completely strip citizens of their last rights to free speech and resistance. The law is no longer the yardstick distinguishing right from wrong, no longer the embodiment of fairness, but has become an "omnipotent sack" where those in power can throw in and tighten the string on whoever displeases them or dares to disobey.
3. The Cruel Strangulation of Rights-Defense Lawyers: The Last Line of Defense in Court and the "709" Mass Arrests
A rule-of-law society is supposed to have an extremely crucial group acting as the last shield for the weak against public power—independent human rights and rights-defense lawyers. In a normal country, it is a heaven-ordained right for lawyers to defend suspects in court, even defending murderers. But under the totalitarian rule of the CCP, the bravest, most legally knowledgeable, and most "die-hard" lawyers who dare to use the CCP's own laws in court to question public power have become the biggest "political enemies" of this country. The totalitarian system cannot defeat them in court with reasoned law, so it uses mafia-like thug tactics to eliminate them outside the courtroom.
The Tragedy of Gao Zhisheng: The Fall of a Prophet of the Rule of Law Early in this century, Gao Zhisheng, a rights-defense lawyer hailed as the "Conscience of China," touched the most sensitive nerves of the totalitarian system because he represented numerous cases of grassroots oil field rights defense in Northern Shaanxi and repeatedly wrote open letters to the highest authorities demanding an end to the cruel persecution of faith groups and ordinary petitioners.
Not only was he illegally stripped of his lawyer's license by authorities and his law firm forcibly sealed, but he also suffered years of cross-provincial secret kidnappings, stalking, and black-hooded torture by domestic security police (Guobao). According to top-secret manuscripts Gao wrote in prison later revealing his ordeal, during his secret detention, domestic security police extremely cruelly beat his genitals with high-voltage electric batons, burned his body with cigarette butts, and knocked out his teeth. To this day, this warrior who once tried to awaken China with the law, regarded as a savior by countless people at the bottom, remains in a state of forced disappearance, his life or death unknown. The tragedy of Gao Zhisheng served as a prelude to the CCP's ultimate strangulation of the entire community of rights-defense lawyers.
The "709 Mass Arrests": "Uprooting" the Forces of the Rule of Law Gao Zhisheng's ordeal was merely a prelude. On July 9, 2015, the CCP launched the "709 Mass Arrests" nationwide, an event that shocked the world and was recorded in the annals of international human rights history. In just a few days, over a hundred human rights lawyers, law firm staff, and civil rights activists who tried to use the law to protect the weak (such as Wang Quanzhang, Li Heping, Wang Yu, Xie Yang, etc.) were secretly arrested under unified orders from the Ministry of Public Security, using mafia-style kidnapping methods like prying doors in the dead of night and putting black hoods over their heads.
During their secret detention under "Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location" (RSDL)—an extrajudicial black jail invented by the system that is even more terrifying than formal prisons—these legal professionals who should have been sparring with words in court suffered hellish physical and mental torture. According to the blood-and-tears accusations of released lawyers, they were deprived of sleep for days and nights on end ("exhausting the eagle"), forcibly fed unidentified drugs that destroyed their nervous systems leading to mental trances and muscle atrophy; authorities even threatened the lives and safety of their families, forcing these once iron-boned lawyers to weep bitterly and "plead guilty and submit to the law" in front of state television cameras. At the same time, imperial literati and party media within the system ran at full capacity, smearing all these lawyers who fought for migrant workers' unpaid wages, defended victims of forced demolition, and advocated for children harmed by poisoned milk powder, labeling them as "die-hard lawyers manipulated by hostile foreign forces, vainly attempting to subvert state power."
This appallingly brutal strangulation completely broke the spine of the Chinese legal profession. When all the lawyers who dared to speak the truth and challenged public power in court were stripped of their licenses or even thrown into prison; when the defense benches in courtrooms were left only with "collusion lawyers" who act according to the Party branch's cues and actively cooperate with the police, prosecutors, and judges to "go through the motions," China's courtrooms were utterly reduced to a political sentencing assembly line devoid of any justice whatsoever. When ordinary people face the crushing weight of the state machine, they not only have no shield, but even a defender to cry out their grievances no longer exists.
4. The Industrialization of "Being Psychiatrized": Carrying Out Fascist Torture in the Name of Medicine
For the totalitarian machine, torture in labor camps and sentencing for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" still fall under traditional physical suppression. For those resisters whose convictions are extremely firm, who would rather die than submit, and whom the system cannot convict using conventional legal provisions (even extremely stretched pocket crimes), the totalitarian machine unleashes the most heinous, concealed, and anti-human extrajudicial punishment in human history—"psychiatricization" (being forcibly committed to a mental institution). This is a fascist stability maintenance method inherited from the Soviet KGB, surpassing physical destruction to carry out a de facto "chemical execution" directly on the human soul and brain.
The Hellish Ordeal of the "Ink-Splashing Girl" and Li Tiantian In 2018, a young girl named Dong Yaoqiong, merely because she expressed protest against the supreme dictator's bottomless deification campaign, splashed ink on a political portrait on the streets of Shanghai and live-streamed it on Twitter. This should have been an extremely ordinary political expression, but in totalitarian China, she immediately suffered a cross-provincial secret kidnapping by domestic security police. The authorities went through no judicial process, no indictment, no court trial, and directly locked her forcefully into an "Ankang Hospital" (a police-run psychiatric hospital) directly administered by the public security system. Coincidentally, in 2021, Li Tiantian, a female rural teacher in Hunan, merely for speaking out on Weibo in solidarity with a female teacher from Shanghai Aurora College who was fired for speaking the truth in class, was forcibly kidnapped by local government officials and police and dragged into a mental hospital to be locked up, even though Li Tiantian was heavily pregnant at the time.
Chemical Lobotomy: The Ultimate Punishment More Terrifying Than Death In these places that are hospitals in name but black jails in reality, those doctors in white coats have completely betrayed the Hippocratic Oath of saving lives and healing the wounded, degenerating into the most sinister torturers of the totalitarian system. Here, the authorities do not need to use the Ten Great Tortures of the Qing Dynasty, nor do they need bloody surgical scalpels. Through compulsory injections of massive doses of sedatives and forced administration of antipsychotic drugs that severely damage the central nervous system, they carry out a de facto "chemical lobotomy" on these neurologically completely normal dissidents. When Dong Yaoqiong reappeared before the world after a brief discharge, that once determined, quick-witted, and rebellious girl had been ravaged to the point of having a vacant stare, a puffy and swollen face, and was unable to even express one or two complete sentences clearly, completely losing basic logical cognition and the ability to resist. Her brain was burned alive by chemical drugs.
This method of carrying out torture in the name of medicine is far more sinister and cruel than being sentenced to prison. In prison, there is at least a clear term, statutory visitation rights, and the day one will see the light again; but "being psychiatrized" means the police can at any time use the excuse of "relapse of illness, posing a danger to society" to subject you to life imprisonment-style endless detention, until they use psychiatric drugs to turn you into a living corpse unresponsive to the outside world. It is precisely through this inhumane method that totalitarian rulers send the most terrifying death glare to the entire society: If you dare to resist, not only will I deprive you of your physical freedom, but I will forcibly strip you of your thoughts, soul, and dignity as a "normal human being."
When we finish dissecting the microscopic jurisprudential level, a suffocating picture of the totalitarian dragnet clearly emerges: This is an extremely double-standard, terrifying bear trap. When elite families transfer tens of billions of the people's hard-earned wealth to offshore trusts overseas, when red capital frantically harvests chives in the stock market, this massive legal machine collectively goes blind, becoming deaf and blind. However, when the weak at the bottom try to use the law to defend their last bit of dignity, what awaits them are the cold handcuffs of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," the black jails of "designated residential surveillance," and the biochemical butcher knife of "being psychiatrized."
The totalitarian system has thoroughly punctured its own facade of the rule of law: No matter how grandly the legal provisions are written, their essence is always the unidirectional whip used by slaveholders to punish slaves. In a country that dances with the devil and where power is unchecked, the rule of law is dead; all that remains is naked violence and boundless fear.
 
Part II: The Totalitarian Meat Grinder (Political Purges and Social Atomization)
[Part Introduction] If Part I exposed the illegal undertone of the totalitarian system in terms of history and jurisprudence, proving it to be a "robber regime" built on deception and violence; then this volume will push the lens toward the internal nerve center and the social grassroots of this regime to dissect exactly how this massive "state machine" operates. We will deeply analyze how today's dictator, through cruel internal purges and bottomless external strangulation, completely "privatizes" the army and police—which originally belonged to the state—forging them into an absolutely obedient totalitarian mafia system. Ultimately, we will reveal how this meat grinder destroys all spontaneous civil organizations, plunging the entirety of China into an atomized purgatory characterized by the mafiazation of public power and mutual destruction at the bottom.
Chapter 5: The "Privatization" of the State Apparatus and the Art of Dog Training: Absolute Monopoly Over Violence and Brainwashing
In a normal modern democratic civilized country, the army and the police are "public instruments" belonging to the state and all citizens. Their sole legitimacy for existence is to defend against foreign invasion and maintain internal social fairness and justice. Soldiers swear allegiance to the constitution and the country, and the police serve the taxpayers. In political science, this is known as the "nationalization of the military" and the "neutralization of the police." But in the CCP's totalitarian dictionary, these two terms are absolute political taboos, red lines that bring death if touched.
For the supreme dictator to achieve a personal dictatorship that lasts for generations, the first and most core step is to thoroughly "privatize" all state violence machines, holding them tightly in the palm of one person alone, degrading them into a "private Praetorian Guard" (party army) to protect the realm of one family and one surname, and to guard against people's resistance. To achieve this goal, they employed a set of extremely cold and precise "arts of dog training."
1. Cutting Off Independent Revenue and the Ultimate Logic of "Feeding by a Single Master"
To absolutely control an armed force of millions equipped with heavy weapons, relying solely on brainwashing slogans in meetings is far from enough. The dictator deeply understands an eternal truth: one must establish an absolute monopoly from the lowest economic lifelines and completely sever this armed force's ability to "find food for itself."
The Carnival of Military Business and the Fear of Losing Control From the late 1980s to the mid-to-late 1990s, to make up for the shortfall in state financial investment in military expenditures, the top CCP leadership extensively allowed the military and armed police forces to engage in business on a massive scale. In just a few years, the military's commercial empire expanded wildly like a runaway horse. From running civilian factories, operating high-end star-rated hotels, and mining, to even using warships, military aircraft, and military vehicles for large-scale transnational smuggling (such as the world-shocking Xiamen Yuanhua smuggling case, which had deep military involvement). The various major military regions and armed factions objectively possessed independent and extremely massive sources of income, forming large and small vested interest groups. In the eyes of ordinary people, this was just an issue of military corruption; but in the eyes of the supreme dictator, this was a potentially fatal political threat. An armed force with its own "money bag" and blood-generating ability meant they no longer fully relied on central appropriations. The lessons of history are vivid: once the Xiang and Huai armies of the late Qing Dynasty acquired the ability to raise their own funds, they evolved into regional warlords beyond the imperial court's control. As long as the military and police do not need to rely on the dictator for their salaries, they will not maintain absolute loyalty to the dictator.
The Art of Dog Training Behind the "One-Size-Fits-All" Approach: Cutting Off Rations Therefore, in 1998, the top CCP leadership, using extremely tough thunderous measures, mandated that the military, armed police, and political-legal organs "must uniformly cease engaging in business," requiring them to forcibly decouple from all subordinate enterprises. In official news, this reform was loudly touted under the glamorous banners of "building a strong military" and "anti-corruption." But stripping away this facade, its most core political purpose was singular: to sever all independent survival capabilities of the violence machine and implement "feeding by a single master." From that day on, all military expenditures, weapons and equipment procurement, ration supplies, and even the privileged treatment and retirement pensions of high-ranking generals for these millions of troops and police could only be uniformly signed off by the supreme dictator (the Chairman of the Central Military Commission) alone and uniformly disbursed from the state treasury. This is an extremely brilliant and cold "art of dog training": I grind your teeth to be incomparably sharp and equip you with the most advanced weapons, but I hold your feeding tube tightly and firmly in my hands. If you want to survive, if you want to be promoted and get rich, you can only wag your tail every day and beg me for food. Whoever commands the absolute distribution power of the rice bowl commands the absolute loyalty of this dog.
2. The "Uprooting" of Political Purges: The Fear of the Rocket Force and the Destiny of the "Chamber Pot"
After severing the economic independence of the violence machine, to ensure there were no dissidents within this rank, the dictator launched a cruel internal great purge that has lasted for more than a decade, continues to this day, and is becoming increasingly neurotic. This totalitarian meat grinder not only strangles political enemies but also cruelly devours its own cronies.
The "Uprooting" of the Rocket Force and the Ministry of National Defense: The Dictator's Ultimate Paranoia Under the banners of "anti-corruption" and "governing the military strictly," the current dictator, in his first few years in power, ruthlessly purged the military heads left over from the previous administration (such as Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, Fang Fenghui), clearing the obstacles to his ascension. According to common sense, once the military is replaced entirely with his own people, the great purge should come to an end. But in recent years, the butcher's knife of the purge was extremely abruptly swung at the absolute cronies he personally selected and promoted. As the strategic missile force that masters the great weapon of the nation and cost countless trillions of the people's blood and sweat to build—the Rocket Force—its high command suffered an unprecedented "uprooting." Commander Li Yuchao, Political Commissar Xu Zhongbo, and several other high-ranking generals were secretly arrested and suddenly disappeared; closely following this, two consecutive Ministers of National Defense (Wei Fenghe, Li Shangfu) handpicked by the dictator were successively stripped of their military ranks, expelled from the Party, and sent to the totalitarian court.
Why must even the cronies he personally promoted be cruelly purged? This completely exposes the extreme security paranoia and fearful suspicion deep within the dictator's heart. In the black box of totalitarianism, there is no true trust to speak of. Because the dictator knows his actions violate heavenly principles and the people's will, and deeply knows that grievances have long boiled over among the populace, he has fallen into the mad hallucination that "there are always unruly subjects trying to murder the emperor." He is extremely terrified that the generals holding heavy troops will cower and retreat in a future Taiwan Strait war, and even more terrified that they will turn their guns around to protect themselves. In the logic of the dictator, even a crony, as long as he is suspected of having the slightest disloyalty, cowardice, or being "not absolutely loyal" (even if he just complained in private), will be instantly and ruthlessly strangled.
The Destiny of the "Chamber Pot": The End of Cruel Officials If we look away from the military, let's look at the political-legal system (police and national security system) that does all the dirty work for totalitarianism. The cruel officials of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, represented by former Minister of Justice Fu Zhenghua and former Vice Minister of Public Security Sun Lijun, were once the fiercest and most loyal "thugs" for the dictator in suppressing the "709 rights-defense lawyers" and persecuting the conscience of society. Fu Zhenghua personally manufactured countless unjust and false cases, sending countless prisoners of conscience, petitioners, and truth-telling journalists into black jails, performing "outstanding service" for the stability of supreme power.
But when the dictator needs to eliminate those claws and teeth who know too many core dark secrets, have too much power, or even form small factions internally, these once-omnipotent thugs who could reach the sky are kicked away like stinking "chamber pots," directly sent into the Qincheng Prison that they themselves were once responsible for building and managing. This bloody history of purges proves a cruel truth: within the totalitarian system, being a dog for the dictator yields no good end. There is absolutely no sense of security within the system; everyone is lining up in this meat grinder. Today you are responsible for stepping on the switch of the meat grinder, tomorrow you will be a pile of minced meat thrown into it.
3. High-Tech Brainwashing, Three-Dimensional Surveillance, and the Inward-Facing Guns of the "Praetorian Guard"
After completing the material feeding and bloody organizational purges, the final and most crucial link in totalitarian rule is the two-pronged approach of "ideological brainwashing" and "technological surveillance," to ensure that this violence machine of millions of people thoroughly becomes a soulless killing tool that only recognizes passwords.
Quantified Brainwashing: The Algorithmic Poison Destroying Brain Bandwidth In the traditional totalitarian era, brainwashing relied on reading newspapers in meetings. In the modern high-tech totalitarian system, brainwashing has been extremely precisely "algorithmized" and "KPI-ed." The system forces all bureaucrats, military personnel, and police to clock in, watch leader videos, and accumulate points every day on an official app called "Xuexi Qiangguo" (Study to Make the Nation Strong). They must complete the required points every day, otherwise, they will be criticized in notices, or it may even affect their promotion. Never think this is just a simple "formalism" to go through the motions. The top designers of the totalitarian system know very well that forcing adults to watch these things cannot make them genuinely believe those dry and hollow political slogans. The core malicious purpose of this forced clocking in is to "forcibly occupy your time and mental bandwidth."
When a soldier or police officer is forced to spend a lot of energy every day completing this illogical, extremely boring mechanical clicking and answering of questions, his independent thinking space is completely squeezed out. This is akin to a "dimensional algorithmic strike" on the brain, like boiling a frog in warm water, gradually making you accustomed to absurdity, accustomed to subconscious obedience, and accustomed to "whatever the higher-ups say goes." This continuous cognitive destruction can extremely effectively destroy a normal person's critical thinking and moral baseline, ultimately training this massive army into a conditioned reflex machine that only recognizes commands and does not ask right or wrong.
The Inward-Facing Guns: The "Stability Maintenance Monster" Suppressing 1.4 Billion People While brainwashing, the totalitarian machine uses modern high-tech to deeply plant the tentacles of surveillance into the background of every military and police officer's mobile phone. Through the internal digital surveillance network, they conduct real-time screening of the officers' every word and action, and even their WeChat chat records after work. In the eyes of the dictator, thugs and slaves are not distinguished; the master uses the exact same big data algorithms used to monitor civilians to stare dead at the jailers guarding the prison for him.
When this massive state machine—which consumes the astronomical blood and sweat of 1.4 billion people and receives a "stability maintenance budget" exceeding the national defense budget every year—is cut off from its economic lifeline, ideologically purged, and shackled with high-tech electronic chains, becoming completely domesticated, a profoundly sorrowful and terrifying historical fact is born: The guns of this state machine will inevitably turn inward. The primary imaginary enemy and target of precaution for this, the world's largest armed force, is no longer the external enemy crossing the border to invade China, but the 1.4 billion "human mines" on this land who rise early and stay up late to feed them. The core subjects of their daily exercises and rehearsals are not how to resist foreign insult, but how to quickly suppress workers taking to the streets to demand unpaid wages, suppress kneeling depositors defending their rights, suppress desperate unfinished-home owners, and how to deal with university students holding up blank sheets of paper. It is no longer the Great Wall defending the country, but an out-and-out private Praetorian Guard aimed at internal suppression, defending the dictator's dragon throne to the death.
Chapter 6: The Sword of Damocles in Personnel Files: Selective Anti-Corruption and the Game of "Shared Guilt"
Looking at all the political campaigns of today's totalitarian rulers, the weapon wielded most frequently, most sharply, and most capable of cheating cheap applause from the folk is "anti-corruption." The Xinwen Lianbo (news broadcast) plays in an endless loop the footage of various levels of "big tigers" and "flies" breaking down in tears after their downfall, while official imperial literati nauseatingly extol it as "a strong man cutting off his own arm" and "self-revolution." However, as long as we use basic political common sense and historical logic to see through this black box system, we will discover a hair-raising truth: This vigorous anti-corruption campaign is fundamentally not meant to purify the political ecology. Its essence is a political purge designed for "those who submit prosper, those who resist perish," and a political fraud of the century meticulously designed. It is the "Sword of Damocles" used by the dictator to intimidate and control tens of millions of bureaucrats.
1. The Truth of Rejecting the Sunshine Act: The Blood and Tears of the "New Citizens' Movement" and the Slap of the "Panama Papers"
As human political civilization has developed to this day, how to eradicate systemic corruption is no longer a world-class problem that requires "crossing the river by feeling the stones." The reason developed countries can cage power has never been by catching a few corrupt officials, nor by relying on an "internal disciplinary commission" to investigate itself, but by an extremely simple, highly common-sense baseline—the "Sunshine Act" of "official asset disclosure," along with an independent judiciary free from government interference and free news media. Putting power in the sunshine and letting the entire society's searchlights stare at the officials' wallets naturally leaves corruption with nowhere to hide.
The Elegy of the New Citizens' Movement: Whoever Demands Asset Disclosure Subverts the State The supreme rulers of the CCP know this modern political common sense perfectly well. But not only do they resolutely refuse to implement the "Sunshine Act" for asset disclosure, they instead deploy extremely cruel state violence to suppress those ordinary people calling for the Sunshine Act. Around 2012, an extremely moderate and rational "New Citizens' Movement" arose across China. Legal scholars, lawyers, and ordinary citizens, represented by Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, did not put forward any violent demands. They merely took to the streets to pull up banners or co-signed petitions online, demanding that "members of the CCP Central Committee and senior officials at or above the provincial and ministerial levels take the lead in disclosing personal assets." This is an absolutely justified demand that is perfectly natural in any modern civilized country. However, the totalitarian machine's reaction to this was extremely hysterical and bloody. The CCP not only deployed special police to conduct nationwide mass arrests of these advocates but also, without any jurisprudential basis, slapped Xu Zhiyong, Ding Jiaxi, and others with the shocking felony charges of "gathering a crowd to disrupt public order in a public place" and even "subverting state power," sentencing them to heavy prison terms of more than ten years!
The Resounding Slap of the "Panama Papers" and Complete Hypocrisy Why are they so terrified of the four words "asset disclosure"? Why do they use heavy sentences to throw those calling for sunshine into black jails? The globally shocking "Panama Papers" leak in 2016 provided the most despairing and truest answer. When the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) decoded the top-secret files of offshore financial companies, the whole world was shocked. The documents proved in extremely detailed terms: The most core elite families of the CCP, and the immediate family members of multiple current and former members of the Politburo Standing Committee, hid astonishing, trillions of dollars' worth of secret wealth in offshore financial centers like the British Virgin Islands! These red families, through extremely complex white gloves and shell companies, frantically laundered money overseas, transferring the blood and sweat of domestic ordinary people.
When these solid proofs were made public, leading even the Prime Minister of Iceland to be forced to resign, what was the reaction of the CCP government, which shouts "self-revolution" every day? Did they immediately launch a thorough investigation? Did they give an explanation to the people of the whole country? No. They instantly activated the highest level of the internet censorship system domestically, setting the words "Panama Papers" as the highest level of sensitive words across the entire internet, wiping clean all related discussions, absolutely forbidding the 1.4 billion ordinary people from seeing even a single punctuation mark. Furthermore, not a single implicated core elite received even the slightest investigation or punishment because of this.
This resounding slap completely punctured the hypocritical facade of anti-corruption: Not only do they not want to eradicate corruption institutionally, because their top echelon itself is the largest and only super-corrupt syndicate in this country! The true reason they reject the Sunshine Act is that once the system is transparent, the supreme dictator and his elite families would show their true colors and be nailed to the pillar of historical shame; more importantly, once officials are no longer corrupt, the dictator completely loses the ultimate means to blackmail and control subordinates using "black materials from the disciplinary commission."
2. Institutional "Gu-Poison Rearing": The "Blood Oath" in Pacts with the Devil and the Game of "Shared Guilt"
Since there is no Sunshine Act, an enormous political dyeing vat where "no official is uncorrupt" is deliberately created and maintained within the CCP system. In this system, incorruptibility is not only not advocated, but is an impermissible, extremely dangerous anomaly.
Why Does the Dictator Not Need Honest Officials? In normal human logic, anti-corruption is to get honest officials. But in the dark logic of totalitarian rule, what the supreme dictator fears and guards against the most is precisely true "honest officials." If an official is pure and has clean hands, with no handle for others to hold against him, then he absolutely cannot survive in officialdom. Because superiors and colleagues will find you "unsociable" and "uncontrollable." Even more terrifyingly, an official without corruption often still has his own political ideals and moral baselines. When faced with absurd administrative directives (like forcibly tearing down common people's houses and seizing their cattle, or cruel city-wide lockdowns), he might disobey out of conscience. This "uncontrollable conscience" is a fatal threat to the dictator.
The Devil's Contract: The Political Kidnapping of "Shared Guilt" Therefore, the underlying logic of this totalitarian system is actually a hair-raising, unwritten psychological contract and devil's pact reached between the supreme dictator and tens of millions of bureaucrats at all levels: "You sell your soul, conscience, and independent personality to me, and I give you the qualification to use power to embezzle, take bribes, oppress the people, and enjoy privileges; but the evidence of your corruption must be obediently handed over to me, becoming the handle I use to forever restrain and blackmail you."
Only when you reach out your hand, take dirty money, keep mistresses, sell your conscience, and firmly hand your dirty corruption handles into that bottomless "personnel file bag" of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, have you submitted your "blood oath," and are considered by the ruling core as "one of our own" with a "soft underbelly." The dictator does not need honest officials; he needs everyone to become "accomplices" in corruption. Because only by making every official carry unspeakable original sins, with everyone's lifeblood and vital points firmly grasped in the hands of supreme power, can this Sword of Damocles named "anti-corruption" exert its maximum power, ready to hang over every bureaucrat's head at any time.
Those bureaucrats who reached this tacit transaction with the devil for interests have actually lost their dignity as independent individuals. They have been utterly reduced to walking corpses under the totalitarian system, turned into marionettes firmly blackmailed by their handles, a group of political zombies arbitrarily manipulated by supreme power. As long as the dictator is pleased, they can hypocritically talk about communist ideals on the rostrum; as long as the dictator gives a look or feels a trace of dissatisfaction, they instantly become prisoners weeping bitterly on television. In this "all-member hostage" system, absolutely no one is safe.
3. The Justifiable Butcher's Knife: Political Ambition, the "Seven Havings," and the True Cause of Death for Fallen Tigers
When all officials' black materials are filed with the dictator, and the disciplinary commission's file bags are filled with the fatal handles of all bureaucrats under heaven, "anti-corruption" is no longer the execution of the law, but turns into a political butcher's knife that can be swung arbitrarily and justifiably. When the dictator wants to purge someone or promote a crony, he only needs to pull out the specific person's materials from the disciplinary commission's file bag, package them, and toss them to the public.
This "selective anti-corruption," when dealing with high-level elite bureaucrats in recent years, has become so blatant that they can't even be bothered with a fig leaf. Through political charges newly invented by the authorities, the bottom cards of the totalitarian system are completely flipped open.
"Forming Factions" and the Absolute Test of Loyalty When the authorities announced the so-called "political clique cases" of former Vice Minister of Public Security Sun Lijun, former Minister of Justice Fu Zhenghua, and others, although they also listed hundreds of millions in embezzlement and bribery amounts at the very end of the lengthy notice, the most core, top-ranking charges were not corruption at all, but feudal palace charges that make one feel as if they had time-traveled back to the Qing Dynasty: "Extremely inflated political ambition," "forming cliques and factions," "banding together for power," "recklessly discussing the major policies of the Central Committee," "utter lack of political rules," and "seriously violating the 'Seven Havings' (Qi ge you zhi)."
These qualitative vocabularies full of feudal gang colors not only lack any spirit of modern rule of law but directly leak the ultimate cosmic secret of the totalitarian system: Within this system, corruption, embezzlement, and frantically extracting the people's blood and sweat are entirely tolerable. That is merely the welfare of your enjoyment of power, or even the "blood oath" you actively submitted to show loyalty. However, as long as you dare to form political associations privately, as long as you dare to form cliques to create your own small circles, as long as you show even the slightest dissatisfaction with the decisions of the supreme dictator (the so-called reckless discussion of the central committee), or even merely appear to be "not absolutely loyal" (loyalty that is not absolute is absolute disloyalty), then this meat grinder will immediately start up and kill without pardon!
Binding Everyone with Corruption, Killing Precisely with Anti-Corruption The dictator precisely uses the tacit approval of corruption to bind everyone, and then uses anti-corruption as a high-sounding pretext to precisely eradicate political enemies. In front of ordinary people, these fallen corrupt officials are vermin who deserve their punishment, and the official media use this to loudly tout the brilliant wisdom of the "Blue Sky Grand Master" (just official), harvesting the cheap gratitude and applause of the bottom-tier chives; But in the inside story of the totalitarian system, everyone within the system knows perfectly well: These fallen high officials were not arrested for corruption at all. They were merely losers in power struggles who stood in the wrong line, vainly attempted to establish their own fundamental base, or failed to act enough like an absolutely obedient slave dog.
In this bottomless meat grinder, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and national laws are merely imperial tools used by the dictator to legally eliminate dissidents and awe his ministers. When the law is reduced to a unidirectional whip for power infighting, and anti-corruption is reduced to a purge game to eliminate dissenters, this totalitarian machine has completely mutated into a dark engine that only devours wealth and humanity. It not only drives civil society into hell but also makes everyone within the system live in endless fear and calculation, inevitably sliding into the abyss of disintegration.
Chapter 7: Phobia of Association and the "Viral Host Takeover" of Society: The Annihilation of All Spontaneous Order
The deepest nightmare in the heart of any totalitarian ruler is never an economic recession or sanctions by external forces. If the economy is bad, at worst, they use state violence to make the people eat grass; if there are external sanctions, at worst, they close the doors and resume national isolation. What they truly fear to the bone and guard against day and night are only two words—"Organization."
The core sociological foundation upon which the towering totalitarian edifice has managed to stand shakily for over seventy years is the successful shattering of the 1.4 billion citizens into a tray of "disconnected, mutually suspicious loose sand." The dictator knows deeply that once this 1.4 billion loose sand possesses a spontaneous condensation core, once the masses know how to cross classes and regions to associate and unite for mutual aid—even if this association is initially just to protect the environment or demand wages—it will eventually evolve into a monstrous wave that buries the totalitarian system. Therefore, to maintain an absolute monopoly over society, the CCP mobilized massive state violence to conduct a decades-long, persistent, and cruel "de-organizing" surgical operation on Chinese society.
1. The Absolute Strangulation of Independent Unions: The Jasic Labor Movement and the Bankruptcy of the Marxist Facade
The CCP claims in black and white in its Party Constitution and the State Constitution that it is the "vanguard of the Chinese working class" and that this country is "led by the working class." However, when the true working class stood up and tried to use legal means to defend their most basic survival rights, this regime immediately tore off its hypocritical mask, revealing its most hideous fascist fangs acting in collusion with bloodthirsty capital.
The Desperate Struggle of the Shenzhen Jasic Labor Movement In the summer of 2018, in Shenzhen, the absolute forefront of reform and opening up, a rights-defense movement erupted among the bottom-tier assembly line workers of the Jasic Technology factory, shocking audiences at home and abroad. These workers had long endured extremely harsh working environments, illegal excessive overtime, arbitrarily deducted base pay, and a draconian, prison-like fine system. Driven to a dead end, they did not put forward any political slogans to subvert the regime; they merely demanded, in accordance with the "Trade Union Law of the People's Republic of China," to form a truly independent union elected by the workers themselves that could speak for them.
In a normal country, this is merely an ordinary labor-management dispute. But shockingly, this bottom-up resistance attracted left-wing youth and university students from Marxist societies at dozens of top universities across the country (including Peking University and Renmin University). These hot-blooded youths, who grew up reading "Das Kapital," naively believed they lived in a "socialist" country. So they resolutely gave up the comfort of their summer vacations, rushed to Shenzhen, and stood arm in arm with the bottom-tier workers at the factory gates, singing the "Internationale" loudly, demanding that the capitalists abide by the labor law.
The Suppression by Special Police and the Clash of True and Fake Communism Faced with this cross-class solidarity at the bottom, the CCP authorities showed an unconcealable, extreme panic. Not only did the local government not punish those capitalists who severely violated the labor law and squeezed the workers to the limit, they directly tore off the facade of the "vanguard of the proletariat," dispatching a large number of fully armed anti-riot special police to conduct extremely brutal clearing and comprehensive encirclement of the unarmed workers and university students.
In this absurd scene, the proletariat, singing the "Internationale" and holding up portraits of Marx, was pinned to the ground and brutally beaten by totalitarian police claiming to believe in Marxism. The worker leaders who participated in the struggle were slapped with the charge of "gathering a crowd to disrupt social order" and thrown into jail; those Peking University students harboring ideals were secretly kidnapped by domestic security police, placed under house arrest, forced to suspend their studies, and even subjected to torture and forced brainwashing in black jails. Subsequently, the authorities used thunderous measures to forcibly dissolve or take over the Marxist societies at all major universities nationwide.
The tragedy of the Jasic labor movement is an extremely resounding slap in the face. It completely tore to shreds the CCP's ideological facade. This irrefutably proved: The extent to which the totalitarian system fears "solidarity" at the bottom far exceeds its faith in its own ideology. In their eyes, official Marxism is only a tool used to brainwash slaves. If the slaves truly believed the spirit of resistance within it and put it into practice, that would be the greatest "counter-revolution." Any spontaneous force capable of gathering people together, no matter what banner it flies under, is "competing with the Party for the masses" and must be mercilessly strangled in the cradle.
2. Viral Host Takeover: The Comprehensive Parasitism of Private Enterprises, NGOs, and the Spiritual World
To prevent any new civil organizations from being born in the cracks, the CCP relies not only on violent physical suppression but has also invented an extremely insidious method of "viral host takeover" (Dueshe) in recent years. Like alien parasites, they conduct comprehensive political parasitism on all existing physical institutions and spiritual domains in society.
The Political Straw Inserted into the Main Artery of the Private Economy In civilized countries, enterprises are purely commercial organizations aimed at creating profits for shareholders and providing employment for society. But in China, the totalitarian government forces all private enterprises of a certain scale, internet giants (like Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance), and even foreign-invested enterprises and private law firms to compulsorily establish "Party branches." This is absolutely not just hanging a sign to go through the motions, but like a fatal political virus, directly inserting a straw into the main artery of private capital. The system demands that the Party branch must participate in the "major decisions" of the enterprise, and even possess a veto right on key issues. Furthermore, the authorities directly send government directors into tech giants by compulsorily acquiring "special management shares (golden shares)." This means that no matter how hard private entrepreneurs work or how many hundreds of billions or trillions of wealth they create, as long as the totalitarian machine presses the switch, this political straw can bypass the legal owners and instantly strip the entrepreneur of their control. The large-scale "lying flat" and "Run-ology" (fleeing abroad) among Chinese entrepreneur groups today is precisely because they have seen through this robber logic of being "taken over" at any moment.
The Absolute Annihilation of Middle Buffer Zones and NGOs Besides enterprises, they implement "kill without pardon" against any civil forces that might form a "community." In totalitarian logic, doing charity is also a privilege of the government; civil society cannot spontaneously do good deeds. Just for advocating against sexual harassment on buses and promoting women's rights, the "Feminist Five" were viewed as engaging in organized incitement and faced criminal detention; civil public interest NGOs dedicated to helping people with disabilities or providing legal aid to migrant workers with pneumoconiosis were all labeled as "funded by hostile foreign forces" and uprooted entirely.
The Rape and Tampering of Spiritual Faith What is even more hair-raising is the absolute control over the realm of religious faith. The CCP knows deeply that faith is the most powerful condensation core in the human heart. Therefore, they absolutely do not spare even those civil faith groups that completely ignore politics and only hold worship services. Taking the famous "Early Rain Covenant Church" in Chengdu as an example: merely because they insisted on the separation of church and state and refused to join the officially controlled "Three-Self Patriotic Movement," they suffered police breaking down their doors, smashing property, and massive secret detentions. Their pastor Wang Yi was heavily sentenced to nine years in prison.
For those officially recognized religious venues, the totalitarian government carries out a sickening "host takeover." They forcibly tear down the crosses on churches, and make it mandatory to hang portraits of the supreme leader at the highest points of Buddhist temples and Christian churches; they even force monks to study political documents and require pastors to forcibly stitch the Party's policies with religious doctrine when preaching. The totalitarian rulers want to prove an absolute terrifying truth to the entire society: On this land, no deity, faith, wealth, or organization can be higher than the authority of the "Party." There can absolutely be no horizontal connections between people based on morality, faith, or interests; everyone can only be vertically attached to power like marionettes.
3. Extreme Fear of Intangible Resistance: The White Paper Movement and the Dead End of "Man's Calculation is Inferior to Heaven's"
The totalitarian machine smashed all social organizations with violence and stationed a party secretary in every enterprise and temple. They thought this was foolproof, that they could sit on the dragon throne forever and rest easy. However, the laws of history prove that where there is extreme oppression, there will inevitably be born unpredictable resistance.
The Shock of a Blank A4 Sheet of Paper In the winter of 2022, after experiencing three years of extremely absurd, cruel, and anti-scientific "dynamic zero-COVID" extreme lockdowns, an appallingly tragic fire in Urumqi (where dozens of innocent civilians were burned alive because the lockdown prevented fire engines from entering) pushed the tolerance of the Chinese people to the critical point of explosion. On Wulumuqi Middle Road in Shanghai, Liangmaqiao in Beijing, and in dozens of top universities across the country, thousands of desperate young people and citizens took to the streets. They had no banners, no megaphones, no organizers; they simply stood silently holding up blank sheets of A4 paper. But it was this wordless white paper that shouted out slogans that shocked the world and struck straight at the heart of totalitarianism: "We want food, not PCR tests; we want freedom, not lockdowns," "Step down, Communist Party! Step down, Dictator!"
This was clearly an unorganized, leaderless, spontaneous protest entirely out of the masses' instinct to survive, yet it made the massive totalitarian machine feel bone-chilling panic. Because they fearfully discovered that even after spending decades eradicating all organizations, that "spontaneous order" pursuing freedom and survival would still break through the soil like wild grass in despair, instantly generating a nationwide resonance.
High-Tech Settling of Accounts and the Destiny of the Late Qing's Downfall Afterward, facing the brink of nationwide economic collapse and local financial bankruptcy, the authorities were forced to lift the lockdowns overnight without any warning. But immediately following that, they mobilized the massive big data surveillance system. Through facial recognition, mobile base station positioning, and health code trajectories, they carried out extremely frantic secret arrests and months-long post-event account settling (autumn reckoning) against those young people who had held up white paper on the streets. This proclaimed the totalitarian regime's absolute zero tolerance for even the tiniest breathing space in civil society.
The CCP's imperial scholars have spent decades conducting almost paranoid "refined research" on the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe. They attempted to block every loophole that led to the downfall of previous regimes: The Soviet Union perished because of the nationalization of the military, so we must absolutely have the Party command the gun; Eastern Europe perished because of independent unions, so we smash all civil organizations. This is exactly like the Qing Empire back then. The Qing government made the most exquisite institutional precautions against the downfall of all successive dynasties, even attempting a preparatory constitutionalism at the last moment. However, man's calculation is inferior to Heaven's. The Qing government guarded against everything, but couldn't guard against the impact of the tide of the times and the gunshot of a few junior military officers on the city walls of Wuchang.
Today, the CCP is also playing the same tinkering totalitarian stability-maintenance tricks of the late Qing Dynasty, vainly attempting to defy fate. But the yearning for freedom in human nature cannot be permanently suppressed by any algorithm or tank. No matter how high a firewall they build, how many unions they smash, or how many enterprises they take over, they will ultimately fail to escape the same fate of crashing downfall as the Qing government. Because the trigger point of the next totalitarian avalanche will inevitably be a blind spot that no advanced big data surveillance or stability maintenance machine could ever predict or guard against.
Chapter 8: The Atomized Purgatory and the Mafiazation of Public Power: A Mutually Destructive Society Devoid of an Umbrella
Through decades of endless political campaigns, the strangulation of independent unions, and the "viral host takeover" of civil organizations, the CCP has completely wiped out all the remaining "middle buffer zones" in Chinese society that have existed for thousands of years to protect civilians, such as rural gentry, clans, guilds, and independent churches. When the social structure is thoroughly shattered, the 1.4 billion Chinese people become isolated, helpless atoms.
The dictator believes that as long as everyone is loose sand, the regime will be forever safe. However, a cruel iron law of sociology is: when a society lacks any civil organizations to provide supervision and sanctuary, public power, having lost all external constraints, will inevitably tear off its last mask of hypocrisy and head toward complete roguery and mafiazation. In this "atomized purgatory" where no community can be relied upon, the totalitarian machine is no longer a shield protecting the people, but becomes an unrestrained vicious beast devouring the weak.
1. The Chained Woman of Fengxian: The Criminal Conspiracy Between Grassroots Regimes and Mafia-like Forces
In official daily propaganda, China possesses the world's most advanced and safest "Skynet" surveillance system and omnipotent big data. They proudly proclaim that they can precisely arrest a netizen complaining in a WeChat group within minutes, or catch a fugitive in a concert of tens of thousands within seconds through facial recognition. However, the "Chained Woman Incident in Fengxian, Jiangsu," exposed in early 2022, extremely cruelly and bloodily tore off the ugliest fig leaf of this so-called "secure state."
A living human being was repeatedly and brutally trafficked in broad daylight. An icy iron chain was locked around her neck like a dog's leash. In the freezing winter of over minus ten degrees, wearing only thin clothes, she was locked in a dilapidated, doorless shed. She was reduced to a birthing machine for the buyer and his entire clan to vent their animalistic desires, giving birth to eight children in succession, all her teeth were pulled out, and she was ravaged until she completely lost her sanity. For over twenty years, she lived miserably in Dongji Village, Huankou Town, Fengxian County, Xuzhou. Didn't the village committee know? Didn't the local beat cop know? Didn't the local family planning office, which perennially used harsh methods like tearing down houses and taking away cattle, know? Didn't the local women's federation and town government know? They all knew! Furthermore, they themselves were direct participants, conspirators, and the protective umbrellas of this hair-raising evil.
In this airtight grassroots black web, village officials helped the buyer (Dong Zhimin) obtain a falsified marriage certificate; in an era of extremely draconian "one-child" policies where countless women were forced to have abortions, the local family planning office not only turned a blind eye to the chained woman having eight children but even gave a green light to issue her a low-income subsidy; when victims' families tried to call the police to find their missing relatives, the local police not only went through the motions but would even tip off the human traffickers. This was fundamentally not the "bureaucratism and inaction of grassroots cadres" lightly described by officials afterward. This was an appalling "long-term interest conspiracy formed between public power, human traffickers, and clan-based mafia-like forces."
The tragedy of the chained woman extremely cruelly proved a truth: when bottom-tier society loses the supervision of civil organizations, independent media, and rights-defense lawyers, those bureaucratic institutions dispatched to the grassroots by the dictator will inevitably collude with the darkest mafia-like forces. The grassroots regime has completely rotted through, degenerating into a man-eating demon. In the totalitarian net, the cameras that protect ordinary people are always broken, but the cameras monitoring ordinary people's petitions are always high-definition.
2. Henan Village Banks: The Dimensional Strike of the Red Code and the Open Violence of the "White-Clad Mafia"
If the Chained Woman of Fengxian demonstrated the filth hidden in the dark by the grassroots regime, then the "Henan Village Banks Meltdown Incident" that broke out in the same year was a public display of the mafiazation of public power in broad daylight before the whole world. Tens of billions of blood-and-sweat deposits, saved frugally over a lifetime by ordinary people, were looted clean by elite capital under the very noses of the local government and financial regulatory departments. When thousands of bankrupt, desperate ordinary depositors from all over the country tried to go to Zhengzhou to legally demand their hard-earned money, the totalitarian government displayed extremely bottomless rogue methods.
The Dimensional Strike of High-Tech "Electronic Shackles" First, the Zhengzhou authorities extremely precisely and shamelessly deployed the highest-tech tool used for COVID prevention at the time—the "Health Code." While the depositors were still on trains, on highways, or even just sitting at home having just bought a high-speed rail ticket to Zhengzhou, Henan officials merely tapped the keyboard a few times in the background and "precisely assigned a red code" to thousands of rights-defending depositors across the country. This marked an extremely terrifying milestone in the history of human totalitarian rule: the totalitarian government can now, at any time, use high-tech methods under the name of "public health" or "national security" to instantly deprive an innocent citizen of the personal freedom to take public transportation, stay in a hotel, or even step half a step out of their home. This requires no court judgment, no police arrest warrant; a piece of algorithm controlled by brute power directly locked your physical body in place. This is not only an open rape of the modern rule of law but a suffocating "dimensional strike" launched against ordinary people by the digital totalitarian surveillance system. Before your physical body even resists, your digital identity has already been executed by the authorities.
The Public Beatings by Colluding Officials and Mafia However, when this high-tech rogue method still could not stop a small number of angry depositors from breaking through numerous obstacles, gathering in front of the People's Bank in Zhengzhou, and pulling up banners, the authorities pulled out an even more despicable, bloodier move. To evade the condemnation of international public opinion and historical responsibility, the Henan authorities did not directly deploy uniformed police to violently clear the scene. Instead, they secretly colluded with and hired a large number of unidentified "white-clad men" (composed of idle social elements, street thugs, and black security guards). Surrounded and watched in silent approval by layers of fully armed uniformed police, this "white-clad mafia," in broad daylight, charged into the crowd like hungry wolves, indiscriminately beating, dragging, kicking, and trampling the unarmed rights-defending depositors—including pregnant women, the disabled, and white-haired elders. The blood of the depositors dyed the steps of the People's Bank in Zhengzhou red.
Officials colluding with the mafia, using underworld methods to solve white-world crises. Faced with ordinary people demanding their lawful property, the government completely tore off the last disguise of a "state under the rule of law," directly degrading into a rogue gang relying on fists, clubs, and mafia stability maintenance. This tells 1.4 billion Chinese people: In this country, the biggest mafia is the unchecked public power itself.
3. The Interception Industry and "Black Jails": Outsourced Fascism
This mafiazation of public power is not only reflected in major sudden public events; it has long been deeply embedded in the daily operational logic of the totalitarian system, forming a massive and sinful industry chain.
The CCP claims to have a "petition system" (Letters and Visits system) to redress grievances for ordinary people, but this is actually an extremely malicious "pressure cooker exhaust valve" scam. On the one hand, it gives ordinary people the false hope that "there is a blue-sky grand master above," luring them to petition; on the other hand, the system internally implements a draconian "one-vote veto system for petition rankings"—as long as someone from your jurisdiction goes to Beijing to petition, local officials will have their bonuses docked or even lose their official hats. Forced by this contradiction, to preserve the "stability maintenance targets" that determine their political careers, local governments year-round allocate huge "stability maintenance budgets" from already tight finances, hiring large numbers of idle social elements and private security companies, forming a sinful "interception industry chain."
They use taxpayers' hard-earned money to set up countless hidden "black jails" in remote hotels and basements in Beijing and provincial capitals. For those wronged citizens trying to petition in Beijing, victims rendered homeless by forced demolitions, and parents of poisoned milk powder victim children, the black security guards hired by local governments will illegally kidnap, snatch mobile phones, detain, beat, and even sexually assault them at train stations and petition bureau gates. They stuff petitioners into unmarked vans like pigs and dogs and transport them back to their origins overnight. In this process, to evade direct legal responsibility and international condemnation, the totalitarian public power directly "outsourced" the dirty work of suppressing civilians, restricting personal freedom, and administering torture to profit-seeking mafia and street thugs. In front of the iron gates of these "black jails," the law is worse than a piece of waste paper.
4. The Loss of the Middle Buffer Zone, Mutual Harm at the Bottom, and the Abandoned "Beasts of Burden"
Under such a social structure where public power takes the lead in mafiazation and has absolutely no bottom line, it inevitably leads to the complete collapse and degradation of universal morality at the micro level.
Cold-Blooded Bystanders as Fear Spreads The "Tangshan Barbecue Restaurant Beating Case" that occurred in 2022 shocked the whole country. Several thugs with obvious mafia backgrounds brutally beat innocent women who refused to be hit on in broad daylight. After the video came out, many people accused the other diners present of being cold-blooded and not daring to step forward. However, this cold-bloodedness is absolutely not an innate "inferior root" of Chinese people, but the inevitable result of long-term domestication by the totalitarian system. Why do ordinary people not dare to act courageously for justice? Because everyone knows that in this country where the rule of law is dead and the police and bandits are one family, public power often "muddies the waters" for the sake of stability or because they took dirty money. If you step forward, not only will you not receive legal protection, but you will suffer frantic revenge from mafia forces; even more absurdly, the police might classify your courageous act as a "mutual brawl" and send you to prison. Many years ago, in the famous "Nanjing Peng Yu Case," that soul-searching question from the judge that shocked the world—"If you didn't hit her, why did you help her up?"—had already, through the state judicial machine, directly broken the moral spine of Chinese people. The system uses the law to clearly tell 1.4 billion people: In this jungle society, selfless kindness must absolutely not exist, and any behavior that does not conform to "extreme selfishness" will be punished.
The Deliberately Designed Mutually Destructive Jungle The massive oppressive force of totalitarianism presses directly on the head of every bottom-tier individual like the lid of a pressure cooker. Because the channeling avenues of unions, media, and courts have been completely eliminated, the hostility, despair, and anger of the bottom layer cannot be vented upwards. They dare not resist that behemoth holding the gun barrel and capable of giving them a red code at any time, so they can only swing the butcher's knife at the weaker ones beside them. Thus, we see a hair-raising society of mutual harm: To survive, people mix melamine into baby milk powder, and mix chemical coal-to-liquid oil into cooking oil; bottom-tier delivery drivers draw swords against similarly bottom-tier security guards over entering a residential compound; tragedies of taking revenge on society happen in kindergartens; seeing an old person fall, people avoid them like the plague; seeing the weak bullied, they watch in cold blood. The whole society has degenerated into a mutually destructive jungle where the weak are prey to the strong and morality is completely bankrupt.
The Ultimate Calculation: The Destiny of Consumables We must recognize an extremely cold, even somewhat anti-human fact: The totalitarian system's squeezing of the bottom layer, its indifference to the chained woman, and its indulgence of official-business collusion are by no means a lack of governing ability, but a "meticulous calculation" already made when designing this totalitarian system at the top level.
The CCP uses power and wealth to net a small group of elite bureaucrats as an absolute "community of interests," while treating the vast bottom-tier populace purely as "beasts of burden" (Niuma) and "human mines" to produce wealth for the totalitarian edifice. The rulers deliberately use high-intensity 996 labor, exorbitant housing prices, and monopolized education and medical costs to force ordinary people into a desperate corner of extreme exhaustion, where opening their eyes every day is only to rush about snatching scraps and cold leftovers. Because dictators have studied history well, they know deeply: a group of loose sand that guards against and calculates against their compatriots every day, doesn't even have enough time to sleep, and struggles bitterly in a mutually destructive jungle, will never have the energy or trust to unite and overthrow tyranny.
The totalitarian system precisely traded the deep suffering of these 1.4 billion people and the comprehensive moral degradation of society for the absolute safety of the dictatorial dragon throne. In the eyes of the dictator, as long as the state power is still in his hands, even if the bottom layer mutually harms itself until rivers of blood flow, it's nothing more than the death of a batch of inconsequential "consumables."
 
Part III: The Empire of "Human Mines" (Extreme Economic Extraction)
[Part Introduction] If the first two parts exposed the totalitarian system's robber undertone in jurisprudence, as well as its violent physical and organizational binding of Chinese society; then in this volume, we will ruthlessly peel away the grand facade of the so-called "economic miracle" and "rise of a great nation," striking directly at the coldest and most secretive economic essence of this state machine. Totalitarian rulers neither believe in true socialism, nor have they ever practiced a true free market; what they have meticulously concocted is an "extreme extractionism" with highly Chinese characteristics. You will see how this system evolved from the physical confinement during the early years of the regime—which led to millions of starved corpses—to currently forcing 1.4 billion people to sign generational indentures using astronomical housing prices. You will see through the shameless disguise of "ownership by the whole people" in monopoly state-owned enterprises, seeing how red oligarchs suck the marrow from the bottom class's rigid survival needs through the modern salt and iron monopoly and invisible regressive taxation, and even create a cruel "biological folding" in healthcare. Finally, we will dismantle the state-level money laundering and division of spoils behind the "grand narrative," exposing the truth of involution and the cruel harvesting of the financial meat grinder. In this empire, humans are merely natural minerals for the totalitarian machine to extract, refine, and ultimately discard. This is a hellish slave camp of human mines, exploited to the very marrow.
Chapter 9: The Evolution of Ultimate Slavery: From Physical Confinement During the Great Famine to the Generational Indenture of Astronomical Housing Prices
In recent years, after experiencing endless involution, unemployment, and despair, Chinese netizens have used an extremely desolate tone to coin a vocabulary that deserves to be recorded in the annals of human sociology—"Human Mines" (Renkuang). In the eyes of this totalitarian system, human beings are never the end goal; they are not even treated as equal lives, but merely as natural, extractable mineral consumables. From the moment of birth, the destiny of the Chinese people is to be extracted, refined, and squeezed to the limit, until the last bit of surplus value is drained and they are discarded as waste slag. This "ultimate slavery" directed at the entire citizenry is not immutable. Over the past seventy-odd years, with changes in the times and the swelling greed of the ruling class, it has undergone a fatal evolution from "physical confinement" to "financial extortion."
1. "Zero-Cost Consumables" Worse Than Livestock and the Blood-Sucking Logic of the Scissors Gap
To understand the CCP's extremely cold exploitation logic, one must see through their true positioning of "human beings." This is a modern enslavement model far more cruel than ancient slavery. In ancient Rome or the plantations of the American South, although slaves lacked freedom, in the eyes of the plantation owners, slaves were "heavy private assets" that required money to purchase. Owners had to build sheds, distribute rations, and hire doctors when slaves fell ill, because if a slave died of illness, the owner suffered a direct economic loss. However, under the CCP's totalitarian system, the peasants and workers at the bottom are, in the eyes of the rulers, actually worse off than "traditional slaves" or "livestock." Because here, labor is "publicly owned"; it is an inexhaustible natural mineral resource. The system does not need to assume any welfare safety net for the people's birth, aging, illness, and death. The Chinese people must use their extremely meager wages to completely self-fund the cruel survival cycle of reproduction, housing, medical care, and retirement. The 1.4 billion people have become the totalitarian government's perfect dry batteries, truly yielding "zero cost, high return."
The Scissors Gap and Armed Confinement During the Great Famine This extraction was carried out in an extremely bloody, physical manner in the early days of the regime. At the beginning of the state's founding, the CCP wanted to establish a massive heavy industry and military-industrial complex in a short time. Lacking foreign exchange, their only method was to frantically suck the blood of hundreds of millions of peasants. Economically, they invented the highly exploitative "industrial-agricultural price scissors gap"—forcibly monopolizing the purchase of peasants' grain at extremely low prices, and then selling inferior industrial products to peasants at extremely high prices. Socially, to prevent the drained peasants from escaping, they invented one of the most anti-human systems in history—the urban-rural dual household registration (Hukou) system. This was not just a household booklet; it was an artificial, Indian-style "caste system" created on Chinese soil, an invisible iron chain tightly locked around the ankles of hundreds of millions of peasants.
Bound by this iron chain, the three-year "Great Famine" (1958-1962) erupted, leading to thirty million starved corpses. The Great Famine was by no means a natural disaster; it was an inevitable human-made catastrophe caused by "extreme extraction." Driven by the fanatical "exaggeration wind" and the "Great Leap Forward," the government sent work teams to the countryside. To fulfill the "public grain quotas" set by superiors, they not only took away all the peasants' rations but even forcibly confiscated the seeds for the next year. When peasant households yielded no harvest and people began starving to death in droves, basic human survival instincts dictated that they should flee to beg for food. However, during the horrifying Xinyang Incident in Henan, the local government not only refused to distribute relief grain but set up layers of armed militia checkpoints at village entrances, intersections, and train stations. They smeared the fleeing, starving peasants as "blind vagrants" and "class enemies sabotaging socialist construction," strictly forbidding anyone from leaving the village. Millions of peasants were thus physically confined in their own villages and on their own beds by the government's gun barrels, starving to death household by household, even leading to a hellish scenario where people exchanged their children to eat. This physical confinement of "drawing a circle as a prison" completely punctured the first layer of the regime's hypocrisy—they would rather let tens of millions of dry batteries rot and starve to death in place than allow them to shake the totalitarian system's absolute monopoly over resources and absolute control over societal order.
2. The Bloody Plunder of Land: "Expropriation" in Name, Highly Profitable "Forced Demolition" in Reality
Entering the 21st century, with China's accession to the WTO and the rapid rush of urbanization, totalitarian rulers realized that locking slaves to the land to farm was not only inefficient, but the simple agricultural scissors gap could no longer satisfy the endlessly swelling, astronomical greed of the elite group. Thus, they turned their eyes to the land beneath their feet. They invented the most advanced, most concealed, and most blood-sucking modern instrument of slavery in human history—astronomical real estate prices and land finance.
The source of astronomical real estate prices is the government's bottomless, blood-stained "highly profitable business." In China, ordinary people do not own private property rights to the land; the government (or rather, the minority elite representing the government) is the state's sole legitimate "great landlord." When urban expansion requires land, the government taking land from peasants or old city residents is not called an equal "purchase" or "transaction" in legal documents, but a condescending "expropriation." In this unequal plunder, the government unilaterally sets the price, giving the original residents extremely meager compensation, and then turns around to sell it to developers at auctions at prices tens or hundreds of times higher. If you find the price unfair, dare to refuse to sign, dare to be a "nail house" defending your private property, what greets you will absolutely not be a fair debate or hearing in court.
What greets you are bulldozers driving into the village in the middle of the night, unidentified mafia thugs, forced disconnection of water and electricity, and even the batons of fully armed riot police. The history of China's economic takeoff over the past twenty years is underpinned by an extremely bloody "history of forced demolitions" (Qiangchai). Countless people at the bottom lost their ancestral homes amidst the roar of excavators; some even poured gasoline on themselves to commit self-immolation in defense of their homes, were beaten to death, or were thrown into prison for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." This act, named "expropriation" but in reality "forced demolition," is essentially an open robbery conducted by the totalitarian system using state violence. It constitutes the most primitive and bloody primitive accumulation of capital for land finance.
3. The Ultimate Financial Trap: Toothpaste-Squeezing Land Supply and the Generational Indenture Emptying "Six Wallets"
After robbing the land at almost zero cost, the government will absolutely not release it to the market in massive, cheap quantities to solve the housing problems of ordinary people, because that would not earn astronomical profits. To push land prices sky-high, the totalitarian system meticulously designed a super financial scam of "artificial scarcity."
The Financialization of the Hukou System and Artificial Scarcity First, they tossed an unquestionable false pretext to the whole society—"protecting the red line of 1.8 billion mu of arable land"—using this as an imperial sword to artificially restrict the supply of urban construction land. In the land auction market, the local government, acting as the sole seller, uses its absolute monopoly advantage to release only a tiny amount of land to the market at a time, like "squeezing toothpaste," deliberately forcing developers to scramble for it, repeatedly auctioning off nationally shocking "Land Kings." Even more fatal are the venomous supporting policies. The government extremely rigidly hijacked Hukou (household registration), high-quality public education, medical resources, and even the marriages of young people (the so-called "mother-in-law's rigid demand"), tying them inextricably to "urban commercial housing." The "Hukou system" that once restricted peasants' personal freedom in rural areas has now completed its financial mutation—if you don't buy this expensive reinforced concrete, your child cannot go to school, and you will forever be a second-class citizen in this city. Caught in the double pincer attack of absolute monopoly supply and power-manufactured "rigid demand," housing prices were effortlessly pushed sky-high.
The Modern Version of Generational Indenture In this super scam meticulously designed by power, we must recognize an extremely cruel truth: In China, houses are not meant for living; they are merely an "ultimate financial prop" used by the totalitarian government to overdraft and extract the future decades of wealth from the entire population. When the down payment for a house far exceeds several years' salary of a young person, this system does not stop its blood-sucking pace. It coldly extends its extraction tentacles upward, forcing the parents on both sides of the young couple, and even the grandparents, to completely empty the blood-and-sweat money they have frugally saved over a lifetime (which is the uniquely Chinese and extremely heartbreaking "six wallets"), just to scrape together that admission ticket.
Once you sign that thirty-year high-interest mortgage contract at a state-owned bank, it is equivalent to signing a modern version of a "generational indenture." This is the totalitarian ruler's most exquisite psychological stability-maintenance control technique. The government doesn't even need to send an overseer to whip you; as long as the SMS notification for the monthly repayment date rings, you will obediently accept the extreme extraction of "996." You dare not resign, dare not get sick, dare not express any opinions about social injustice, much less take to the streets in protest. All your anger is firmly suppressed in your heart by that heavy mortgage bill. Through the single prop of "land monopoly," the totalitarian government cleverly and extremely costlessly stole the savings of several generations and all labor supply for the rest of the lives of 1.4 billion people. Using power, they completely drained the wealth created by the people in the past, present, and future, leaving the entire middle class forever unable to turn around in the fear of repaying loans, completely losing the will to think about political rights and resist strong power.
4. Despair in Unfinished Buildings: The Collapse of the Ponzi Scheme and the Ultimate Display of Legalized Robbery
However, any Ponzi scheme that violates basic economic common sense is doomed to burst one day. When the blood-sucking speed of the totalitarian system exceeded the blood-making speed of the 1.4 billion "human mines," when the demographic dividend dried up and the real estate bubble could finally no longer be sustained, this extreme extraction system revealed its most deranged, most unreasonable scene—the large-scale outbreak of the "unfinished building" (Lanweilou) tragedy.
In any normal country governed by the rule of law in this world, if you pay for a commodity and the merchant fails to deliver, it is called a breach of contract; the transaction should be canceled, and the buyer has the right to stop repaying the loan. But in the monstrosity of Chinese real estate, this common sense has been completely overturned. Ordinary people who emptied the wallets of three generations and took on millions in mortgages ultimately bought a pile of unfinished ruins with no doors, windows, water, or electricity, where even the foundation was barely completed. In this chain of fraud, the local government had long pocketed astronomical land transfer fees through selling land; the greedy developers had long cashed out and left by illegally withdrawing presale funds, even transferring the assets overseas; and the state-owned banks, which were supposed to be responsible for supervising presale funds, not only turned a blind eye to this but even covertly cooperated in the misappropriation of funds.
Privatizing Risks, Publicizing Profits When the bubble burst, the massive deficit caused by the crimes of all regulators and the greed of developers was forcibly pinned on the heads of the most bottom-tier victims—the ordinary homebuyers. Those ordinary people who lost half a lifetime's wealth were not only forced to move into unfinished buildings without walls in the northern winter winds, lighting candles to cook in concrete shells with no water or electricity; they also had to, under the gun barrels of the government's stability-maintenance police and the forced execution of the courts, continue paying the thirty-year mortgage to state-owned banks every month for a house that essentially did not exist! If you dared to get angry, dared to unite to "force a halt to mortgage payments," the court would immediately freeze your WeChat, Alipay, and all bank cards, put you on the "discredited persons subject to enforcement" blacklist, preventing you from even taking a high-speed train, and even your children's future schooling and job hunting would be implicated by "political vetting." If you dared to go to the government to pull up banners to defend your rights, what greeted you were the handcuffs of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."
Taking the people's money, not giving them the house, and then using state violence and credit blacklists to force the people to continue paying off debts for the greed of the elites, otherwise obliterating you socially. This is the most shameless, naked "legalized robbery" in human financial history! When countless ordinary people wept bitterly in the ruins of unfinished buildings, watching the reinforced concrete they traded their life's blood for overgrow with weeds, the economic extraction of the totalitarian system reached its zenith. They not only squeezed dry your money and the blood and sweat of your three generations, but even your last shred of hope and baseline for this society were completely crushed within that pile of cold, unfinished rebar.
5. Draining the Land and Future Generations: The "Extinction of Descendants" Style of Ecological Extraction
In the eyes of this totalitarian system, not only are ordinary people at the bottom "human mines," but this vast land with a five-thousand-year civilization is equally a "natural mine." The so-called "economic miracle" of the totalitarian government not only overdrafted the labor of the Chinese people, but was built upon an extremely barbaric, irreversible physical severing of the survival foundation for the descendants of the Chinese nation.
During the frenzied rush of "GDP above all else" over the past forty years, local governments and red elites, to seize the maximum economic benefit in the shortest time and transfer US dollars overseas, tacitly approved and even encouraged highly polluting enterprises to discharge waste recklessly across China. Clear waters and green mountains turned into toxic rivers flowing with chemical wastewater, groundwater was thoroughly polluted by heavy metals, and countless villages living by the water turned into shocking "cancer villages." In the heavy industrial belt of the north, every winter, the sun-blocking toxic smog causes tens of thousands to suffer from terminal respiratory diseases. The elites took their blood-stained profits and ran off to Vancouver and Zurich, where there is fresh air; while what is left for ordinary Chinese people at the bottom is thoroughly poisoned water, air, and soil. This "extinction of descendants" style of extraction, which exploits even nature itself, proves that the totalitarian system is a doomsday machine that not only eats people but will also entirely gnaw away the survival foundation of the Chinese nation.
Chapter 10: The Modern "Salt and Iron Monopoly" and Invisible Regressive Taxation: How Monopoly State-Owned Enterprises Extract the Marrow of the People's Survival Needs
Today's CCP, despite frequently mouthing "market economy" and "free trade" on international stages, operates on an underlying economic code that, once stripped bare, remains the remnant of the feudal autocracy's "salt and iron monopoly" invented by Emperor Wu of Han over two thousand years ago to extort the people's wealth to fund wars. However, armed with modern high-tech and state violence, this "salt and iron monopoly" has been upgraded into the most precise and most despicable extreme blood-sucking model in human history. They use public instruments for private gain, and through absolute monopoly over the rigid survival needs of the entire population, they carry out a daily extraction to the very marrow.
1. Tearing Off the Facade of "Ownership by the Whole People": Hereditary "Party Assets" and "Red Manors"
In the Constitution and textbooks, the CCP grandiosely declares that central and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are "enterprises owned by the whole people," claiming their profits belong to the people of the whole country. This can be called the greatest monumental lie in the history of human economics. In a normal free market, if an enterprise wants to survive, it must please consumers through fair competition, lowering prices, and improving quality. But the foundation of China's monopoly SOEs (such as PetroChina, Sinopec, State Grid, China Tobacco, and the three major telecom operators) is absolutely not commercial competitiveness, but naked state violence. They use administrative monopolies and gun barrels to legally exclude, and even criminalize, any civil competitors who dare to enter these fields. Even more shameless is that these monopoly industries, which boast hundreds of billions or trillions in high profits, have long become the "private reserve plots" of red elite families and systemic inbreeding.
Ordinary people smoke the world's most harmful carcinogens, pay the world's heaviest tobacco taxes, and pump the world's most expensive and impurity-laden gasoline; yet at the other end of this massive blood-sucking tube, inside China Tobacco, State Grid, and even major state-owned banks, the sickening phenomenon of hereditary succession plays out openly, with "three generations of tobacco workers," "three generations of power workers," and "three generations of railway workers." Within these monopoly giants, high-paying positions and power flow only within the bloodlines of their own families, just like noble titles in feudal times. The 1.4 billion ordinary Chinese don't even have the qualification to enter as formal employees, yet they are forcibly crowned with the empty title of "masters of the enterprise." Over a billion slaves at the bottom have thus been reduced to blood-and-sweat ATMs feeding these few red elite families and paying their bills. These are fundamentally not "state-owned enterprises"; they are out-and-out "Party enterprises" and "family assets."
2. The Cruelest Meat Grinder of Invisible Regressive Taxation: The Exploitation Trap of Robbing the Poor to Subsidize the Rich
In a normal modern civilized society, the basic principle of taxation is the "progressive tax"—meaning the rich pay more taxes, while the poor pay less or even receive subsidies, in order to regulate wealth and achieve social fairness. But in China, this rigid fee-charging system controlled by monopoly SOEs is essentially an extremely cruel "invisible regressive tax." It unknowingly drains the last drop of blood from the veins of the poor.
As long as you need to turn on a light, cook, heat your home, or drive to earn a living, you must pay bills to these monopoly giants that contain extremely high "monopoly profits" and "invisible taxes." To a super-rich elite worth hundreds of millions, a few hundred yuan in electricity bills or a few thousand yuan in gas money a month is not even a drop in the bucket; but to a food delivery rider braving the wind and rain fourteen hours a day, or a factory worker toiling on the assembly line, the exorbitant prices of gas, electricity, and rent directly devour half or even two-thirds of their meager income. The totalitarian government deliberately suppresses direct taxes (such as property taxes) while relying extremely heavily on "indirect taxes" added to the necessities of survival. The viciousness of this system in economic terms is: it forces the poorest people to bear the highest relative cost of running the entire country. This is the most shameless "robbing the poor to subsidize the rich" in human history; it leaves the beasts of burden at the bottom without even a chance to catch their breath.
3. Open Theft and Fraud: Freewheeling Electric Meters and the Rogue Logic of "One Liter of Oil Equals 800 Milliliters"
If the high prices brought by administrative monopoly are merely "extortion," then under the absolute protection of power, these state-owned enterprises have actually degenerated into bottomless parasites, thieves, and fraudsters. When power is unchecked, they dare to openly rape even basic physics common sense and mathematical laws.
The Physical Spectacle of "Nationwide Electricity Theft" On macro data, the Chinese power system once produced a joke that shocked the world: According to official data published by the National Bureau of Statistics and the National Energy Administration, there unexpectedly appeared multiple times the absurd spectacle where the "total societal electricity consumption" was greater than the "electricity generation." As everyone knows, electrical energy cannot be stored losslessly on a massive scale, and there are inevitably line losses during grid transmission. Consumption being greater than generation violates the most basic common sense in physics. This is equivalent to the authorities openly admitting in their data that there is massive "falsification of electricity consumption" and "legalized electricity theft" within the national monopoly power system.
In microscopic reality, countless ordinary people are direct victims of this state-level fraud. The author of this book has personally experienced this hair-raising robbery: When you leave home, having explicitly pulled down all main breakers to ensure no electrical appliances are running, you stare at the "smart meter" at your door, only to find the numbers on the meter are still spinning like crazy! This is absolutely no technical glitch; this is a "blood-sucking backdoor" implanted into the underlying code of smart meters by the monopoly system. When you take the ironclad evidence recorded on your phone to question these monopoly giants at the power supply bureau, not only do they show no guilt whatsoever, but they fob you off with extremely dismissive and even unreasonable excuses (such as "induced electricity caused by aging wires"). The subtext of their lofty, arrogant faces is: "I am robbing you in broad daylight, if you are so capable, stop using electricity!"
The Absurdity of Calling a Deer a Horse: 1 Liter of Oil Equals 800 Milliliters If the theft by the power system still wears an "intelligent" cloak, then the fraud in the fuel monopoly sector is an open insult to the intelligence of 1.4 billion people in broad daylight. In 2023, a massive controversy erupted on the Chinese internet regarding "exactly how much is in one liter of oil" from state-owned oil companies. Countless drivers discovered at gas stations that cars with a nominal 50-liter fuel tank were actually being pumped with 55 or even 60 liters of gas by PetroChina and Sinopec dispensers. In common sense, one thousand milliliters absolutely equals one liter. But in the sophistry of monopoly oligarchs facing public questioning, a rogue logic unique to totalitarianism absurdly emerged: "Volume units are not measurement units," "Due to thermal expansion, our 1 liter of oil at the gas station is actually only over 800 milliliters." This is a modern version of "pointing at a deer and calling it a horse." Through their own internal so-called "industry standards," they forcibly shrank an internationally recognized unit of volume by nearly twenty percent. It's exactly as if you went to buy a pound of pork, and the butcher pointed a gun at your head and told you: "At my meat stand, a pound is only eight ounces." Under this rogue logic, China's monopoly SOEs combine the traits of robbers (forced monopoly), fraudsters (altering weights and measures), and thieves (manipulating meters in the background), unscrupulously harvesting the blood and sweat of ordinary people. The law cannot control them, because the ones who make the laws and standards are exactly the masters of these robbers.
4. Extremely Cruel Biological Folding: The "At All Costs" of High-Ranking Cadre Wards and the Despair of the Poor
After scraping together massive, even infinite societal wealth, this totalitarian government not only resolutely refuses to provide free education and universal healthcare welfare for civilians like democratic countries do, but instead uses all this people's fat and blood to build an impregnable "absolute special supply empire." This privilege is reflected not only in wealth but extremely cruelly in the "right to survive on a biological level."
The Massive Divide Between Special Supply Food and the "Poisoned Society" Today, when food safety has completely collapsed and ordinary people eat various chemical additives every day, the ruling group enjoys the strictest food security in the world. When it was exposed that the cooking oil of ordinary people was transported in tankers that had previously carried chemical coal-to-liquid oil in mixed loads, and when babies were drinking poisoned milk powder containing melamine; on the dining tables of the elites was the special supply water from Yuquanshan in Beijing, and the special supply organic rice from Wuchang in Heilongjiang. These special supply farms are surrounded by high barbed wire fences and guarded by armed police with live ammunition, resolutely enforcing physical segregation from the toxic air and toxic food breathed and consumed by ordinary people.
The Blood-Sucking Black Hole of High-Ranking Cadre Wards: "At All Costs" However, the most hair-raising folding occurs in China's extremely deformed "dual-track medical system." In all the top Tier 3A hospitals across China, there hides a mysterious area where ordinary people are absolutely forbidden to set foot—the "High-Ranking Cadre Ward" (Gaogan Bingfang). Here, they possess the world's most advanced imported medical equipment, the most luxurious suites, and the best expert teams on standby 24 hours a day. In the CCP's official documents and medical directives, there are four extremely blunt and bloody words regarding the life preservation of these retired high-ranking bureaucrats—"At all costs" (Buxi yiqie daijia).
The truth behind these four words is the blood and tears of countless families. As long as a high-ranking official still has a breath, even if he is brain-dead, even if he has completely lost consciousness like a vegetative state patient, as long as medical machines can maintain his heartbeat, the hospital will use any means necessary to prolong his life. Why? Because as long as this high official's EKG is still beating, his family can continue to enjoy massive political privileges, astonishing retirement benefits, and the umbrella of power. To maintain the lives of these political vegetables, a high-ranking cadre ward can burn through tens of thousands or even over a hundred thousand yuan in medical bills a day. Their hospitalization over a few years can easily squander tens or hundreds of millions of state medical insurance funds. No matter how expensive the imported targeted drugs required are, no matter how scarce fresh blood or even young, healthy organs are, the special supply system will mobilize the state machine to take whatever it needs.
The Lives of the Poor: A "Price" as Light as a Feather Medical resources and the total pool of medical insurance funds are finite; this is an extremely cruel zero-sum game: The "at all costs" approach that treats the totalitarian's own lives as "heavy as Mount Tai" inevitably means that the lives of bottom-tier citizens are "as light as a feather" in their eyes, treated as the "price" that can be sacrificed at will.
Outside the luxury of the high-ranking cadre wards lies the extremely desperate tragedy of the populace. Countless bottom-tier peasants and workers who have worked hard all their lives face bankruptcy once diagnosed with cancer or severe illness. Because they have no money for surgery fees, and because the medical insurance reimbursement ratio is extremely low and excludes the vast majority of specialty drugs, how many desperate fathers chose to drink pesticide or jump off buildings to commit suicide so as not to burden their children? How many young parents, driven to a dead end, can only humbly share "Shuidichou" (crowdfunding for medical bills) in their WeChat moments, begging equally poor relatives and friends for money to save their children's lives?
While ordinary people face having their medication stopped, life support pulled, and death in hospital corridors because they cannot pay a few thousand yuan in deposit, in the high-ranking cadre wards upstairs lie retired cadres covered in tubes, daily consuming medical insurance funds that could save a hundred commoners. The sole purpose of the totalitarian rulers' existence is to turn the state machine into a special supply pipeline for the minority to suck the bone marrow of the majority. In this cruel empire, they not only stole your money, stole the labor of the rest of your life, they even openly stole the right to survive for you and your family through privileged medical plunder. The flesh and blood of 1.4 billion Chinese people are squeezed dry to the last drop of juice by this totalitarian juicer named the "Republic."
Chapter 11: State-Level Splitting of Spoils Under the Baton of Power: Grand Narratives, the Truth of Involution, and the Financial Iron Curtain Sealing All Exits
The totalitarian system is not just an inhumane bottom-tier juicer; it is also a super money laundering machine disguised under the names of "national rise" and "national rejuvenation." When the dictator monopolizes all resources, capital, and policies in his own hands, the so-called "concentrating resources to accomplish big things" often evolves into "concentrating resources to accomplish great evils," and even degenerates into a feast where elite groups unscrupulously engage in "state-level splitting of spoils." In the economic net set by totalitarianism, whether it is the bottom-tier laborers selling their physical strength, or the middle-class elites who think they have achieved class mobility, ultimately, none can escape the tragic fate of being thoroughly harvested or even beaten behind closed doors.
1. The Facade of the Grand Narrative: The "Great Leap Forward in Chips" and the Feast of State-Level Money Laundering and Splitting of Spoils
Whenever the totalitarian system faces technological blockades or sanctions from the outside, their most customary trick is to fan extreme nationalist sentiments, raising the grand narrative banners of "breaking through choke-hold technologies" and "independent research and development." Then, national finance uses this as an excuse to legitimately disburse astronomical subsidy funds amounting to hundreds of billions or trillions. But the vast majority of this massive sum, enough to change a country's technological destiny, does not flow to genuine scientific researchers at all; it precisely falls into the pockets of the elite groups and their "white gloves."
The Hundred-Billion Absurdity of Wuhan HSMC The most absurd and shameless specimen of this is the globally shocking semiconductor scam of "Wuhan Hongxin" (HSMC). In 2017, a company with no background in the semiconductor industry and whose core founders even had forged resumes, actually hung up its shingle in Wuhan, claiming an investment of 128 billion yuan to directly conquer 7-nanometer or even higher-level lithography technology. Under the political frenzy of the totalitarian system's "campaign-style chip making," the local government, for political achievements and even unspoken transfer of interests, gave it green lights all the way, providing massive financial appropriations and land. The fraudsters merely forged a few blueprints, bought a few second-hand production machines, and extracted massive funds from the government; they even immediately mortgaged an ASML lithography machine—revered as the "treasure of the factory"—to the bank to extract huge loans before it was even unboxed. Ultimately, when the capital chain broke and the Ponzi scheme imploded, what was left to society was just a pile of scrap metal and a weed-overgrown unfinished construction site. But what is most terrifying is: where did the hundreds of billions of people's fat and blood go? These funds had long been laundered white through the form of legal "subsidies" and complex shell companies, perfectly transferred into the overseas accounts of the white gloves of the elites.
New Energy Subsidy Fraud and the Backlash of the "Big Fund" Wuhan HSMC is by no means an isolated case. From the wildly rampant "new energy vehicle subsidy fraud" in earlier years—where countless enterprises built piles of empty car shells without batteries and left them rusting in wastelands just to defraud the state of massive subsidies; to later, the "National Big Fund" leading chip investments, whose top executives were almost completely purged in "uprooting" style anti-corruption investigations. All this irrefutably proves: In a black box system lacking transparent supervision, lacking press freedom and independent auditing, any grand narrative flying the banner of "national strategy" is essentially a state-level feast of spoils-sharing where the elite class legally plunders the national treasury, converting the blood-and-sweat money of all taxpayers into private family assets.
2. The Ultimate Truth of "Involution": One-Sided Crushing Through the Loss of Bargaining Power and Passive "Beasts of Burden"
When the elite class at the top cuts away all the richest slices of the cake, what is left for the over a billion ordinary Chinese people is only brutal "involution" (Neijuan). In recent years, the word "involution" has triggered the deepest resonance in Chinese society. Official scholars and capitalists try to explain involution as "too large a population," "limited resources," or "young people not working hard enough" and having "poor stress resistance." But this is a lie that entirely reverses cause and effect!
The Underlying Logic of the Deprivation of Bargaining Power There is only one ultimate truth to involution: In this totalitarian country, the people at the bottom have been completely stripped of their right to associate, thereby entirely losing all right to speak and bargaining power. In normal modern civilized countries, when capital begins to extremely exploit workers, laborers have two legal weapons: one is to use votes to change a government that favors capital; the other is to legally form independent unions, using collective strikes as leverage to conduct open, fair, and equal games and negotiations with management. But in China, the government strictly forbids laborers from spontaneously associating. The so-called "All-China Federation of Trade Unions" is nothing but an appendage of the bureaucratic system, and often even stands on the side of management and government stability maintenance. Because they have no votes, no independent unions, and no solidarity from the news media in their hands, laborers at the bottom, when facing capital, are like lone wolves whose teeth and claws have been pulled out, facing massive, fully armed hunters; apart from "passive acceptance," there is absolutely no room for bargaining.
The Dark Marriage Between Algorithmic Capital and Totalitarian Violence This loss of bargaining power has evolved into a suffocating survival dead end in the internet platform economy. Taking food delivery riders as an example, platforms, pursuing extreme profit, use big data algorithms to compress delivery times to physical limits. If riders do not run red lights or ride against traffic, they are doomed to face harsh fines. This is essentially capital using algorithms to kill. However, when riders attempt to unite to strike and protest the injustice of the algorithm (like the ordeal of the head of the "Delivery Jianghu Knights Alliance" in Beijing), those who come out to suppress them are often not the platform, but the stability-maintenance police of the totalitarian government. The system uses gun barrels to monopolize all channels for voicing out, forcing people at the bottom to engage in undignified bottom-line competition with their peers—you are willing to do 996, he is willing to do 007; you want 5000 yuan, he only wants 3000 yuan and can forego social security. The so-called involution is the totalitarian ruler holding a gun to your head, forcing you to trample on each other in a mud pit where you can never get ahead, causing the most hardworking generation of the Chinese nation to completely degenerate into "beasts of burden" (Niuma) exhausted by running within the system.
3. Financial Refugees and the Cruel Harvesting of "Fattening for the Kill": The Shredder of the Middle Class
If the totalitarian system sucks the marrow of the poor at the bottom, what about the middle class who have received higher education and accumulated some wealth? The answer is equally cold-blooded, and the harvesting methods are even more cruel.
Over the past decade, countless earth-shattering financial disasters have erupted in China: from the chain implosions of P2P online lending platforms that once drove the whole nation crazy, to the crashing collapse of trust wealth management empires like the "Zhongzhi Enterprise Group," and the A-share market, mockingly called a "meat grinder," characterized by systemic short-selling and malicious reductions by major shareholders. Every explosion means that the half-life savings of tens of thousands of middle-class families are instantly zeroed out.
The Totalitarian Logic of "Fattening for the Kill" These financial disasters are by no means mere market risks, but the deliberate indulgence of the government "fattening for the kill." In the early stages, to absorb excess societal liquidity or to transfuse blood to local government financing vehicles, the government deliberately indulged or even endorsed these shadow banks and financial platforms with elite capital backgrounds, allowing them to grow wildly and frantically accumulate wealth. When the bubble was blown to the maximum, and the elites and insiders had already made a fortune and cashed out, the government immediately changed its face, carrying out violent deleveraging under the name of "preventing financial risks," allowing the platforms to explode across the board.
The Rogue Behavior of Killing Without Burying What is most hair-raising is the way it is handled post-explosion. Faced with tens of millions of "financial refugees" who have lost everything and been impoverished overnight, the government not only fails to activate state power to pursue the massive stolen funds transferred away by the elites across borders; instead, it turns the guns of stability maintenance onto the victims. When these desperate middle classes—many of whom were once teachers, doctors, and civil servants within the system, once the firmest supporters of this system—take to the streets, trying to kneel in front of the banking and insurance regulatory commissions or local government gates to demand answers; what greets them are the riot shields and pepper spray of special police, and criminal detention under the name of "disrupting social stability." This robber logic of "robbing your money and then breaking your legs" is the ultimate trump card of the totalitarian system dead-set on protecting its black box operations: In the eyes of totalitarianism, the wealth of the middle class is nothing but pigs raised in a pen; as long as the time is right, they can be slaughtered at any time, and the pigs are absolutely not allowed to let out any screams.
4. Wealth Plunder from the Sinking Ship Perspective: Foreign Exchange Controls and the Financial Iron Curtain of "Beating Dogs Behind Closed Doors"
After completing the extreme extraction of the bottom class and the violent harvesting of the middle class, totalitarian rulers deploy the ultimate financial weapon maintaining the operation of this empire of exploitation—draconian foreign exchange controls relying entirely on the will of administrative executives, without any legal basis.
The source of this blockade stems from the extremely cold-blooded and clear-headed "sinking ship perspective" of the totalitarian ruling class. They know better than anyone that this totalitarian ship, patched together by violence and lies, has long been riddled with holes in its bilge and will eventually sink. Viewed from the "God's perspective" of the dictator and the red elites: The massive amounts of RMB paper money printed domestically by running the money printers are fundamentally not real wealth. They are just a pile of "vouchers" used to control ordinary people and keep slaves working. Domestically, all money is merely "temporarily" placed in the pockets of ordinary people; as long as the government needs it, it can take it all back at any time through inflation or directly freezing accounts. Only US dollars, euros, and gold that can freely circulate internationally are the real hard currency that can save lives at the moment the ship sinks!
Welding Shut the Escape Pods: The Iron Curtain of Beating Dogs Behind Closed Doors Therefore, elite families have early on, through underground banks and fake trades, transferred trillions of dollars in real money to Switzerland, the US, and offshore islands. But when they saw that ordinary entrepreneurs and the middle class were also trying to exchange foreign currency to protect themselves, they felt an abyssal fear. What they saw was not normal economic flow, but slaves running away! It was the real money they had worked hard to rob leaking out through the cracks! For every penny that leaks out, they lose a penny of fuel that can save their lives internationally.
Therefore, they absolutely do not tolerate slaves jumping ship with real money. They tore off all jurisprudential disguises of so-called "RMB internationalization," deploying the most rogue administrative means to tightly plug all loopholes for capital outflow. Ordinary people seeking to exchange foreign currency for overseas travel face all kinds of deliberate hurdles or direct refusal. And against private entrepreneurs trying to remit their legitimate profits overseas, the state machine directly bared its fangs. Not only are underground banks violently purged, but many entrepreneurs who remitted money overseas through normal commercial channels are directly slapped with the crimes of "illegal foreign exchange trading" or "money laundering," and their assets are fully confiscated. The dictator uses administrative brute force to tightly cover the purse of the national foreign exchange reserves.
The essence of this financial iron curtain is just four words: "Guan men da gou" (Beating dogs behind closed doors). Totalitarian rulers are frantically welding shut all escape pods for civilians on the tilting deck. Ordinary people can only watch helplessly as the savings they traded half their lives for evaporate little by little within the iron curtain of totalitarian inflation and asset depreciation, turning into fuel for the dictator's dying gasps. At this point, an "Empire of Human Mines" that extracts from 1.4 billion people without any blind spots—from flesh to spirit, from birth, aging, illness, and death to financial lifelines—has completed its final puzzle piece.
Part IV: The Panopticon and Cognitive Castration (Technological Stability Maintenance and Thought Control)
[Part Introduction] If Part III's "Empire of Human Mines" exposed the totalitarian system's extreme extraction of Chinese people's bodies and wealth, then this volume will touch upon the deepest and most despair-inducing evil of totalitarian rule—the forced tampering of the citizens' brain codes and comprehensive physical gaze. The dictator is extremely clear-headed: Merely confiscating material wealth is not enough. As long as slaves still retain normal logical thinking, as long as there is the slightest circulation of truth in society, the spark of resistance can never be extinguished. Therefore, they must deploy state power with the highest technology to create a panopticon without high walls, and conduct a thorough "cognitive castration" of 1.4 billion people from flesh to soul.
Chapter 12: Institutionalized Schizophrenia and Lies Written into the Constitution: The Brainwashing of "Doublethink" and Obedience Testing
Over half a century ago, British author George Orwell, in his dystopian masterpiece 1984, painted an ultimate terrifying picture of totalitarian rule for all of humanity. However, while Orwell wrote this book to sound an alarm for the free world, the totalitarian rulers of the CCP treated 1984 as the perfect operational manual, using modern high-tech to turn it into a suffocating reality on Chinese soil. The highest realm of totalitarian brainwashing is fundamentally not about making you believe a specific lie, but about fundamentally destroying the logical common sense in your brain, making you completely lose the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood.
1. Logical Rape: The Socialized Mass Production of "Doublethink"
In 1984, the core psychological control technique of totalitarian rule is called "Doublethink"—that is, forcing a person to simultaneously accept two contradictory, diametrically opposed beliefs in the same brain, and to consider both to be absolutely correct. The CCP has turned this literary imagination into an extremely cruel reality, establishing a perfectly closed-loop "brainwashing assembly line" across the entire society.
From children's songs in kindergarten, to middle school political textbooks, to university Marxist philosophy classes, and to the mandatory clock-in "Xuexi Qiangguo" (Study to Make the Nation Strong) APP within the system, the core of this assembly line is fundamentally not about imparting any noble faith, but about subjecting citizens to an extremely cruel "logical rape." They forcibly invent a plethora of political monstrosities that are logically absolutely mutually exclusive and extremely absurd. The most typical is "the people's democratic dictatorship." In the normal common sense of modern human civilization, "democracy" means power belongs to the majority and is restricted, while "dictatorship" means absolute violent suppression unrestricted by law. Forcibly stitching these two words together is as schizophrenic as saying "a kind-hearted rapist" or "freezing fire."
But the totalitarian system specifically wants to use such words that violate common sense to rape your brain. When generations of young students, in order to pass entrance exams and survive in society, have to memorize these contradictory dogmas every day, and have to solemnly demonstrate that "the absence of press freedom is true freedom" and "Chinese-style dictatorship is the greatest democracy," the logical circuits in their brains are completely burned out in this repeated self-deception. Ultimately, this country mass-produces generation after generation of "political giant babies" who have completely lost the ability for independent thought and critical reasoning, only able to act as repeaters of official slogans.
2. Self-Contradictory Theories and the Absolute Hegemony of the "Ministry of Truth"
The ideology of the CCP is, essentially, a "Frankenstein's monster" cobbled together full of loopholes to maintain vested interests. Yesterday they were shouting in textbooks, "Capitalists are the exploiting class and must be eliminated"; today, to develop the economy, they can suggest with a straight face, "Let capitalists join the Party (The Three Represents)." While enjoying the massive surplus dividends brought by globalized free trade, they frantically fan extreme xenophobic hate education in domestic media and schools; while cursing US imperialism as the root of all evil on the Xinwen Lianbo, they crazily transfer their wives, children, mistresses, and huge corrupt funds to the United States.
Faced with this theory that is utterly impossible to self-justify in reality and whose flaws even a three-year-old can see, their only solution is to rely on the modern version of the "Ministry of Truth"—the Propaganda Department, the Cyberspace Administration, and the massive internet censorship machine. The "Ministry of Truth" not only monopolizes present information but also monopolizes the absolute right to interpret history. Just like the famous quote in 1984: "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." When fatal contradictions appear in the dictator's theory, when historical truths (such as the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution, the June 4th Tiananmen Square protests) threaten to puncture their "great, glorious, and correct" facade at any moment, the Ministry of Truth strikes immediately. They delete posts across the internet, ban accounts, and conduct cross-provincial arrests of netizens who speak the truth; they revise textbooks, lightly downplaying the Great Famine as "three years of natural disasters" or even "arduous exploration"; they block search keywords, using state brute force to insist that round is square, and black is white.
The system demands that the entire population maintain absolute loyalty to this tampered history, but this is essentially an "institutionalized schizophrenia." Because living in this country, you must force yourself to forget what officials just said yesterday, and can only unconditionally believe what officials are saying today, even if today's slogans are completely opposite to yesterday's.
3. Pointing at a Deer and Calling it a Horse: The Essence of the Lie as the "Ultimate Obedience Test"
Many people, especially Western observers, often feel extremely puzzled: The fake, grand, empty, and extremely retarded slogans on the Xinwen Lianbo (such as "whole-process people's democracy," "the East is rising, and the West is declining"), even the imperial literati who draft them don't believe them, the anchors who read them don't believe them, and the dictator himself certainly doesn't believe them. So why still overwhelmingly spend vast amounts of money to force over a billion ordinary people to study and listen to them every day?
The answer is hidden in the darkest political wisdom in China from two thousand years ago—Zhao Gao's "pointing at a deer and calling it a horse." The totalitarian system forcing you to listen to lies is fundamentally not to convince you logically, nor to raise your awareness, but to subject you to a massive and cruel "obedience test."
When the authorities grandiosely utter a monumental lie that even a three-year-old can see through, they are not reasoning with you; they are showing you the knife. When you clearly know he is lying, and he knows you know he is lying, and even you know he knows you know he is lying; yet, in order to keep your job, in order not to be slapped with the charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" and put in handcuffs, you have to lower your originally proudly raised head, close your eyes, and loudly repeat this lie along with him... At the very moment you open your mouth to echo the lie, your human dignity is completely destroyed, and your spine is broken. You have not only yielded to violence, but you have also extremely humiliatingly become a co-conspirator of this system of lies. You have officially degenerated from a citizen with an independent personality into a cowardly slave under the totalitarian system. This atomized individual, whose spine is thoroughly broken and who can sell out common sense for survival, is exactly the perfect human mine that totalitarian rulers need and feel most reassured by. This is the ultimate evil purpose of brainwashing with lies: It seeks to kill not the truth, but human dignity.
4. Lies Entering the Constitution: The Highest Sanctification of Rogue Logic
This obedience test on the citizenry has reached its peak under the manipulation of today's dictator, and its most culminating manifestation is the open rape of the state's "Constitution," elevating this schizophrenia to the highest altar of national jurisprudence.
In the 2018 constitutional amendment, the outside world often only focused on the clause "abolishing the term limits of the State President," which exposed his imperial ambitions. But in fact, that constitutional amendment also contained a more fatal and more insulting move: They forcibly stuffed the phrase, "The leadership of the Communist Party of China is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics," directly into Article 1 of the main text of the "Constitution."
In any modern jurisprudence, the constitution is a contract used to restrict public power and guarantee citizens' rights. Yet the CCP wrote the absolute leadership power of a political party, the get-out-of-jail-free card of one-party dictatorship, directly into the highest contract of the state. This equals using the most rigorous legal provisions in the country's highest law to protect the most absurd robber logic. It openly declares to the 1.4 billion Chinese people and the whole world: "We no longer need any logical fig leaves. This country is forever our family's private property. No matter how badly we do, you cannot replace us. We have forever engraved the mafia rules that demand your schizophrenia and absolute obedience onto your altar!"
And on the day of the constitutional amendment vote, the hair-raising "2958 votes in favor, 2 votes against, 3 abstentions" in the Great Hall of the People (in fact, even those few opposing votes were later believed to be a fig leaf deliberately arranged by the authorities to appear "democratic") was the climax of this terror machine demonstrating its absolute despotic power to the world. Among the nearly three thousand suited so-called "delegates," not a single person dared to stand up and point out the absurdity within. When the highest hall of power in the whole country is reduced to a shameless show of expressing loyalty, this country is already completely dead in spirit and jurisprudence. The totalitarian system completed its ultimate closed loop: In the panopticon, everyone is not only deprived of the right to speak, but also deprived of the right to remain silent; you not only have to obey, but you must also smile broadly and shout "Long live!"
5. Tearing Apart Ethical Baselines: Students Reporting Teachers and the Spiritual Foundation of a Mutually Destructive Society
The most evil aspect of totalitarian brainwashing is not only that it makes people stupid, but it makes people evil. They know deeply that for the panopticon to truly operate, they must plant the seed of informing (snitching) in everyone's heart, completely destroying the most basic trust and warmth between people.
In recent years, within the education system, the authorities have openly encouraged and even instituted the hair-raising "informant" (Xinxi yuan) system as a political task. They encourage "students to report teachers" and "children to denounce parents." When university professors are recorded and reported by their own students simply for speaking a piece of true history in class, and are subsequently fired or even thrown into jail, the nauseating remnants of the Cultural Revolution era are officially resurrected today. When classrooms are filled with undercover informants, when the most basic trust between teachers and students, camaraderie among classmates, and even family ethics are forcibly torn apart by "absolute political loyalty," totalitarian rulers successfully extinguish the last safe haven of human society based on warmth. In this country, you cannot trust anyone, because the student sitting across from you, your partner, could at any time send you to court for political performance. This thorough destruction of ethical baselines is precisely the spiritual foundation of the atomized, mutually destructive society.
Chapter 13: The High-Tech Digital Cage: Skynet, the National Anti-Fraud Center, and the Indiscriminate Panopticon
At the end of the 18th century, British philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed a hair-raising architectural concept—the "Panopticon." Its core design is to set up a watchtower with dark one-way glass in the center of a circular prison. Due to clever lighting design, the prisoners in the surrounding cells can never see whether the jailer in the tower is staring at them. Therefore, prisoners can only psychologically assume that they are "under surveillance at every moment." Ultimately, out of fear of the unknown gaze, prisoners will consciously discipline themselves, even if the watchtower is completely empty. More than two hundred years later, British author George Orwell, in his dystopian masterpiece 1984, concretized this terror with a "Telescreen" that can never be turned off, writing that famous cautionary quote: "Big Brother is watching you."
However, whether it is Bentham's architectural imagination or Orwell's literary prophecy, when faced with this ancient Eastern totalitarian empire, they both seem too conservative and impoverished. The surveillance capabilities of historical totalitarian states, whether the former Soviet KGB or the East German Stasi, were all limited by physical bottlenecks—you cannot hire half the citizens to spy on the other half, because secret police also need to sleep and consume massive financial resources. But in China today, CCP totalitarianism has perfectly stitched together the most cutting-edge information technology and artificial intelligence algorithms of modern civilization with the darkest people-controlling techniques of the "Book of Lord Shang" from two thousand years ago. They simply do not need to build physical circular high walls; instead, utilizing the blood-and-sweat money of 1.4 billion Chinese people, they have woven an invisible cyber dragnet across the land and internet, creating the first "all-weather, blind-spot-free, fully automated" digital totalitarian panopticon in human history.
1. The Ultimate Lockdown of Physical Space and the Nationwide Rehearsal of the "Xinjiang Model"
Dictators through the ages have always faced an insurmountable physical obstacle in their ruling techniques—the so-called "imperial power does not reach below the county level." In past eras, due to backward communication and transportation, there were always hidden corners, mountains, or urban villages in bottom-tier society where resisters could breathe and hide. But in China today, the "hidden corners" in physical space have been completely eradicated by high-tech.
The Ultimate Test Field of the "Xinjiang Model" All this did not happen overnight; totalitarian rulers had already completed the practical polishing of this surveillance system in an extremely cruel "ultimate test field"—Xinjiang. Many years ago, under the name of "anti-terrorism," the totalitarian government implemented the most rigorous and extreme grid-style digital stability maintenance in human history in Xinjiang. There, there is a convenience police station every few hundred meters; the mobile phone of every ethnic minority civilian is forced to install a trojan software codenamed "Clean Net Guard"; on the streets, at gas stations, and at bazaars, ubiquitous checkpoints compulsorily collect individuals' irises, blood DNA, voiceprints, and facial data. Xinjiang became a massive open-air concentration camp. Countless innocent civilians were precisely targeted by high-tech algorithms simply because they used a certain overseas chat software, or had a phone call with overseas relatives, and were subsequently locked into so-called "Vocational Skills Education and Training Centers" (re-education camps).
When this "Xinjiang Model" proved to be extremely efficient in suppressing social resistance, the totalitarian government, without any hesitation, immediately, smoothly, and seamlessly copied this extreme fascist stability-maintenance model—originally aimed at ethnic minorities—onto the 1.4 billion Han Chinese people in the interior. This proves that the terror of totalitarianism never distinguishes between ethnicities; in the eyes of the totalitarian machine, 1.4 billion people are all cyber lab rats needing to be strictly guarded and imprisoned.
The Skynet Project and the Dimensional Strike of AI Algorithms Over the past decade, under the hypocritical guise of "Safe Cities" and "fighting crime," the totalitarian government has squandered trillions in state treasury funds to massively roll out the notorious "Skynet Project" (Tianwang) and "Sharp Eyes Project" (Xueliang) nationwide. Currently, hundreds of millions of high-definition surveillance cameras are densely installed in China's streets, alleys, highway hubs, subway stations, residential gates, and even on utility poles in remote villages. With less than one-fifth of the world's population, China accounts for more than half of the total number of surveillance cameras globally. In this dragnet, for a person to hide their tracks has become an absolute luxury.
Even more terrifying is that these are not just physical probes used to review video afterward. With the technological "evil-doing" support of bottomless Chinese AI giants like SenseTime, Megvii, and Hikvision, these cameras are comprehensively connected to public security big data centers with extremely strong computing power (such as the "Haiyan System"). Surveillance has long crossed the traditional "recording" stage and entered the cyberpunk era of "real-time intelligent analysis." When you show even half a face in a crowded train station, the facial recognition algorithm can match your real name, ID number, home address, and whether you have a petition record within fractions of a second. Moreover, even if you are wearing a mask, sunglasses, and a thick hat in the winter smog, the system can instantly lock onto you in a vast sea of people through extremely perverse "gait recognition" technology—solely through your walking posture, stride frequency, and skeletal dynamics.
The cost of maintaining this world-class panopticon is extremely terrifying. The CCP's annual "public security expenditure" (i.e., stability-maintenance budget) has consistently and overtly exceeded the massive national defense budget for years. What a cruel dark humor this is: The 1.4 billion "human mines" paid high taxes with the blood and sweat gained by overdrawing their lives, and the slave master used this taxpayers' money to purchase AI servers with stronger computing power, higher-definition facial recognition probes, and spyware, and then, in turn, put these high-tech shackles tightly around the necks of all taxpayers! You not only have to endure the slavery of being monitored around the clock, you even have to pay out of your own pocket the full cost of the whip and equipment the slave master uses to enslave you.
2. Close-Fitting Electronic Shackles: The "National Anti-Fraud Center" and Round-the-Clock Cyber Possession
If the street-level "Skynet" and "Sharp Eyes Project" only monitor your physical shell, then the true terror and despicability of the totalitarian system lies in their insertion of surveillance tentacles, like aliens, directly into everyone's pockets, living rooms, and even the headboards of their beds.
In today's digital age, smartphones have become a "digital external organ" inseparable from modern people. It contains all your assets, your social network, your private photos, and even the deepest thought trajectories of your heart. In China, this mobile phone you bought with your own money has been thoroughly commandeered by the totalitarian government, reduced to a set of portable "electronic shackles" powered on 24/7.
State-Level Spyware in Sheep's Clothing: The "National Anti-Fraud Center" In recent years, an official APP named "National Anti-Fraud Center," under the hypocritical guise of "preventing telecom network fraud and protecting the property safety of the masses," has been extremely barbarically and forcefully promoted nationwide. The terror of this software lies in the fact that, from the bottom up, it violates all software security common sense and personal privacy protection principles. Upon installation, it extremely aggressively demands access to almost all core permissions at the bottom layer of the phone: reading contacts, intercepting SMS, viewing call logs, scanning storage space files, acquiring precise location, and even demanding permission to invoke the microphone and camera in the background at any time.
This is absolutely not a defensive anti-virus tool, but a "state-level trojan and spyware" possessing the highest system permissions. It can not only monitor all dynamics on your phone in real time, but it also acts like an electronic domestic security police hiding in your phone, silently scanning in the background whether you have installed overseas software deemed "non-compliant" by officials (such as Telegram, WhatsApp, X/Twitter, YouTube), and scanning whether you have used VPN software to bypass the firewall. As long as the system determines that you have browsed so-called "overseas reactionary websites," or had a phone call with a sensitive person strictly monitored by officials, it will immediately generate logs in the background and issue the highest-level alarm to the big data surveillance center of the local public security bureau. Over the past few years, countless ordinary Chinese netizens who merely bypassed the firewall to browse real news and watch overseas entertainment videos had their doors knocked on by police the very next day, suffering interrogation, fines, and even administrative detention, precisely because they installed this so-called "Anti-Fraud APP."
Rogue-Style Forced Installation and Bottom-Layer Police-Enterprise Collusion Officials declare at press conferences that this APP is for "voluntary installation," but in actual operation, it reveals a bottomless mafia-style rogue behavior. Governments at all levels make the installation rate a rigid mandate for evaluating grassroots cadres. Thus, police forcefully stop pedestrians on main streets and subway entrances to check phones; without installation, you cannot enter the station. Schools demand students and even parents forcefully install it, otherwise, children are not allowed to attend class. Enterprises demand employees forcefully install it and check in with screenshots, otherwise, that month's salary is deducted. Even when you go to a government agency to process an ID card, go to a bank branch to withdraw your own money, or go to the community to register a rental, you are forcefully tied to the installation record of this APP by the watchdogs of public power. If you do not surrender your digital privacy, you cannot move a single step in this society.
Besides this overt spyware, the CCP furthermore, through the Cybersecurity Law, forces all internet hardware and software giants like Tencent (WeChat), Alibaba (Alipay), ByteDance (Douyin), Huawei, and Xiaomi to thoroughly open backdoors to the government. Every WeChat transfer record of yours, every private complaint complaining about the government, every picture of social injustice shared with friends, and even the hardware operating system at the bottom of the phone (such as the surveillance module built into HarmonyOS), are running naked in real-time under this massive surveillance network of police-enterprise collusion. In WeChat, a super national application used by over a billion people, chat records are subjected to semantic analysis and sensitive word matching in real-time by supercomputers. Once a political red line is triggered, the mildest consequence is permanent account suspension, and the severe consequence is domestic security knocking on your door.
This is an extremely absurd "thief crying 'catch the thief'" magical reality: A totalitarian government that commits political fraud against the common people in the news every day, indulges elites in financial fraud in the stock market, and empties six wallets using land finance—the biggest fraudster—actually forces ordinary people to install surveillance software under the banner of "anti-fraud." What they are guarding against are absolutely not telecom scammers in northern Myanmar; they are guarding against the 1.4 billion ordinary people seeing the truest lies and blood-and-tears of this country.
3. The Digital Legacy of the Health Code and the Dimensional Strike of "Social Death"
Although the three years of extreme pandemic lockdowns ended hastily in an extremely tragic manner, the most evil political invention left to Chinese society by that era—the "Health Code"—did not completely disappear along with it. On the contrary, it opened a door to ultimate digital slavery for totalitarian rulers, letting them taste the sweetness of instantly executing a citizen in the virtual world.
"One-Click Zeroing" of Personal Freedom and Digital Strangulation The emergence of the health code demonstrated an extremely tempting and highly efficient fact to the supreme power: In an era of comprehensive digitalization, depriving a citizen of their ability to resist and personal freedom no longer requires deploying riot police, court trials, and prisons—physical methods that are clumsy, expensive, and prone to triggering public backlash.
Just as we profoundly analyzed in Chapter 8, during the globally shocking Henan village bank rights-defense incident, in addition to the public physical beatings by the "white-clad mafia," the authorities launched an even more terrifying, more futuristic dystopian "dimensional strike" on the digital level. When thousands of bankrupt depositors purchased high-speed rail tickets to Zhengzhou, government officials in Henan merely sat in air-conditioned rooms, tapped the keyboard a few times in the background, and "precisely assigned a red code" to these rights-defending depositors scattered across the country. The moment the red code lit up, although the physical bodies of these depositors were still in their own homes, their social attributes were instantly paralyzed. They could not take any public transportation, could not buy plane tickets, could not check into hotels, could not enter a supermarket to buy a bite of bread, and even the security guards of their own residential compounds would not let them step half a step out of the gate.
Your physical body is still breathing, and you have not yet carried out any substantive resistance, but your "digital identity" has already been executed by a totalitarian algorithm with one click. This digital strangulation that directly cuts off all of a person's physical displacement capabilities is an open rape of the modern rule of law. It proves that the totalitarian regime can switch so-called epidemic prevention tools into precise stability-maintenance weapons of mass destruction at any time.
Digital RMB and the Social Credit System: The Ultimate Financial Closed Loop This digital totalitarianism did not stop at travel control. The totalitarian government is seamlessly transplanting the underlying control logic of the health code into the "Digital Renminbi" (e-CNY), which is being vigorously promoted and seeks to completely replace paper currency, as well as into the long-planned "Social Credit System."
When physical paper currency is completely eliminated and digital RMB is fully rolled out, every penny of yours, your entire net worth, will become a string of codes absolutely controlled by the central bank's core servers. This is absolutely not ordinary electronic payment like Alipay or WeChat; the digital RMB is "programmable currency" in its underlying architecture. What does this mean? It means the totalitarian system can set an "expiration date" on your money (forcing you to consume it within a specific time to stimulate the economy), and can set a "scope of use" (forbidding you to buy foreign exchange or specific commodities). Even more fatal is that, if one day you post online criticizing the local government, or you participate in a strike defending your rights, or refuse to pay the mortgage for an unfinished building, the totalitarian system can not only instantly ban your social accounts like in the past, they can also directionally freeze your digital RMB wallet in one-tenth of a second!
You will be unable to buy a steamed bun, unable to pump a drop of gas, unable to pay rent, unable to buy even a bottle of life-saving medicine. Without any physical harm, without any police coming to your door, you will face total "Social Death" in this society. This "dimensional strike," using the complete severing of all survival resources to force your submission, is ten thousand times colder than the muzzle of the Gestapo. It completely hands over the survival lifeline of 1.4 billion people into the hands of an unchecked totalitarian algorithm.
4. The Indiscriminate Panopticon: The Mutual Imprisonment of Masters, Jailers, and Slaves
In the illusion of many ordinary people, this massive and precise high-tech surveillance network is merely used to suppress ordinary people at the bottom and dissidents. As long as one honestly acts as an obedient subject and doesn't talk about politics, these cameras have nothing to do with oneself. However, the deepest dark logic of the totalitarian system is: In this panopticon, absolutely no one is truly safe, including those who wield the whip.
The Highest Directive of Monitors: Staring Dead at Those Within the System What the supreme dictator deeply distrusts and guards against day and night the most is surprisingly not the unarmed ordinary people, but those bureaucrats at all levels and generals holding heavy troops who maintain the rule for him. Because ordinary people only have keyboards and A4 paper in their hands, while officials and generals have power, resources, and gun barrels.
Therefore, the highest-level algorithmic computing power and the strictest monitoring permissions of this "Skynet" and digital surveillance system, which cost huge sums of money, are extremely covertly directed at the interior of the state machine. All Politburo members, provincial governors, theater commanders, and high officials of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission—the whereabouts of their special vehicles, private communication records, and even the objects of their meetings in various private clubs—are monitored around the clock and cross-analyzed with big data by special intelligence agencies controlled by the supreme dictator (the Central Security Bureau and national security high-ups).
As long as the algorithm discovers a high official has excessively close contact with a specific interest group, or utters any words "recklessly discussing the central committee" disrespectful to the supreme leader during private gatherings, the Sword of Damocles will fall immediately, and the special case group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection will knock on his door the next day. This is why officialdom in China today presents an extremely neurotic state of fear. Officials tremble even when having a private meal with old classmates; before entering the offices of certain high-ranking cadres, all electronic devices must be compulsorily confiscated; and even when discussing some extremely subtle personnel transfers, they only dare to gesture with their hands in environments covered by loud background music. They do not know if their driver is an informant, do not know if their secretary is domestic security, and even less do they know if the customized phone they carry is recording their heartbeats and voiceprints twenty-four hours a day.
What a desperate system this is: The thugs and the slaves are locked in the same prison; the master uses the exact same artificial intelligence algorithm monitoring civilians to stare dead at the jailers helping him guard the prison; and the master himself lives constantly in the boundless delusion and extreme fear of possibly being assassinated or betrayed. There are no winners in this panopticon; everyone is a prisoner alienated by power.
5. Cognitive Castration and Self-Censorship: The Ultimate Destruction of the Soul
When the dragnet is complete, the most terrifying achievement of this high-tech digital cage is not how many petitioners it accurately arrested every day, nor how many protest marches it prevented. Its deepest, most evil victory is that it has extremely successfully reshaped the psychological structure and linguistic system of the 1.4 billion Chinese people.
When every person, from childhood to adulthood, knows incomparably clearly: Whether you send the most ordinary complaint message on WeChat, walk through an intersection without streetlights, or pause briefly on a mobile browser to read an overseas article, there are countless tireless electronic "eyes" and cold "algorithms" staring at you in the background... a highly toxic poison named "Self-censorship" deeply penetrates every person's bone marrow and subconscious like cancer cells.
The Mutation of Language and the Aphasic Society Out of a basic instinct for survival, people begin to feel fear. To protect themselves, people proactively castrate their own words. On the Chinese internet, the most deformed and twisted scene in the history of human language was born: To escape the ubiquitous sensitive word censorship machines, Chinese netizens have to proactively use countless Pinyin acronyms, deliberate typos, and extremely obscure code words to communicate. They use "zf" for government, "jc" for police, "within the system" for the Communist Party, and even the supreme leader's name has become a "Voldemort-style taboo" that cannot be typed out freely on any occasion. A civilization possessing a rich vocabulary of five thousand years has had its expressive ability forcibly dimensionally reduced to a primitive cryptographic stage. People not only lose their voice online, but also begin to proactively sever social ties in reality. People proactively keep their distance from "sensitive persons" who dare to speak the truth; even when conversing at the family dinner table in reality, once the topic touches upon politics or social injustice, people will subconsciously lower their voices, look around, or hurriedly put their phones in another room.
The Destruction of the Soul: The Prison Built in One's Own Heart At this point, the ultimate evil goal of the digital panopticon has been fully achieved—the oppressors no longer even need to constantly brandish whips on the streets, no longer need to build real prison high walls everywhere. Because the 1.4 billion oppressed have extremely obediently built an airtight prison in their own minds, in the depths of their own souls. They not only moved into this invisible prison themselves but also proactively took up the whip, constantly lashing and scrutinizing every one of their own thoughts.
The totalitarian system, using high-tech surveillance, successfully completed the "cognitive castration" of 1.4 billion people. They not only destroyed the spontaneous organizations of Chinese society and confiscated the meager wealth of the bottom masses; ultimately, using boundless cyber fear, they strangled humanity's most precious soul, courage, and dignity. They have thoroughly reduced this land, which once birthed countless brilliant thoughts, into a silent, despairing digital ghost town where everyone is guarding against each other.
Chapter 14: The Paralysis of the Social Immune System and the Moral Wasteland: The Empire Where Media and Courts Are Surnamed "Party" and the Blind Ride the Blind
A healthy modern civilized society is like an extremely precise and vital massive organism. Within this organism, there must exist an "immune system" that maintains its survival and prevents its decay: News media, representing the society's eyes, ears, and warning mechanism, are like sensitive "white blood cells," responsible for discovering viruses and hidden dangers on the social body at the first instance; while an independent judiciary, representing the bottom line and justice of society, is the "surgical scalpel," responsible for fairly excising the tumors of corruption and crime.
However, to maintain its absolute, unchallenged monopoly rule, the totalitarian system tolerates no force capable of supervising power. Therefore, the CCP conducted an extremely cruel and thorough "targeted demolition" of this immune system of Chinese society. In this process, the totalitarian machine not only destroyed the conscience attempting to awaken society but also detonated a moral nuclear bomb in the hearts of over a billion people. When the early warning aircraft was smashed and the scalpel became a murder weapon in the master's hand, this massive empire inevitably headed toward systemic decay and a moral nuclear wasteland.
1. "Party Media Surnamed Party" and the Annihilation of Conscience: The Death of Investigative Journalism and the Extinguishing of the Social Searchlight
News media are termed the "Fourth Estate" in modern political science, independent of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Its bounden duty is to supervise public power and unearth covered-up truths. But in China today, when the supreme dictator inspected China Central Television (CCTV) and the news screen openly displayed the sycophantic slogan, "Party Media is Surnamed Party, Absolute Loyalty, Please Inspect," the Chinese news media's qualification to report the truth was thoroughly stripped away in jurisprudence and reality, wholesale deteriorating into the private flesh-megaphones of power and accomplices of suppression.
The Fall of Cui Yongyuan: The Complete Death of Public Supervision Once upon a time, from the late 1990s to the beginning of this century, the Chinese journalism community (such as Southern Weekly, Southern Metropolis Daily, and CCTV's early investigative programs) still retained a glimmer of weak space to investigate the suffering of the people. And Cui Yongyuan was once a banner of the Chinese television industry, praised by countless ordinary people as the "conscience of society."
He not only persisted in investigating the dark interests behind genetically modified food, desperately calling for the protection of ordinary people's food safety; later, he single-handedly tore open the shocking dark curtain of the "Yin-Yang contracts" in the entertainment industry and film capital circles. We must deeply understand that what he exposed was not just the tax evasion of a few glamorous stars; his tearing directly touched upon the most unfathomable money-laundering network of elite capital in China. In a normal country ruled by law, such a "whistleblower" would be regarded as a national hero, receiving the highest protection of state law, and judicial organs would immediately follow the vine to eradicate the deeply entrenched corruption network.
But in totalitarian China, facing this heroic act of exposing the black box, the outcome was extremely despairing. When Cui Yongyuan's report triggered massive shockwaves across society, and even unearthed the corrupt protective umbrellas within the public security system, the totalitarian machine's spearhead was not aimed at those elites frantically sucking blood, but unhesitatingly and extremely coldly pointed at the "person who raised the problem." Cui Yongyuan not only suffered a complete "network-wide ban" on the internet, with all his social accounts silenced and emptied; he also received death threats and was subjected to strict "border control" (banned from leaving the country) by authorities, amounting to house arrest. A conscience that pleaded for the people was thus forcibly erased by the totalitarian machine, evaporating from the world.
Cui Yongyuan's tragedy is a blood-and-tears boundary stone marking the end of an era. It proclaimed to the whole society: In China, investigative journalism is completely dead, and public intellectuals have been collectively silenced. Any individual who dares to expose the vested interest groups of the elite, no matter how dazzling you once were or how high a reputation you enjoyed among the people, as long as you block the totalitarian system's path to wealth, you will be crushed by this machine like a bug. When the searchlights of society are all smashed, all that remains is boundless darkness and the bottom class left to be slaughtered.
2. The Ultimate Backlash of Strangling the Social Warning System: The Tragedy of Li Wenliang and Systemic Human-Made Disasters
The price of strangling society's eyes and ears is extremely painful. When society loses professional early warning aircraft like investigative journalists, and when ordinary people face imprisonment just for letting out a cry of alarm on the internet, the totalitarian system mistakenly thinks it has eliminated all noise; but in fact, what they will inevitably usher in is an extremely tragic historical backlash.
The Admonishment Letter and Fatal "Political Security" At the end of 2019, in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, ophthalmologist Li Wenliang merely sent a few early epidemic warnings in a private WeChat group of university classmates, reminding peers who were doctors to take precautions. This was fundamentally a very weak, yet most precious, "white blood cell alarm" of the social immune system. This was a spontaneous early warning based on medical common sense and human conscience.
However, the stability-maintenance nerve of the totalitarian system is ten thousand times more sensitive and developed than its epidemic prevention nerve. In the eyes of totalitarian officials, a few commoners dying is not a crisis at all, but if "panic" rumors arise in their jurisdiction, destroying the political security and achievements of the "excellent situation," that is an earth-shattering disaster that would cost them their official hats. Thus, Li Wenliang immediately suffered late-night summons by the public security organs, was forced to sign that world-shocking Letter of Admonishment full of power arrogance and humiliation, and was slapped with the political charge of "spreading rumors, severely disrupting social order." To make an example of others, the Wuhan Public Security Bureau even broadcast the news of "investigating and punishing 8 rumor-mongers" in a continuous loop during prime time on CCTV, using this to intimidate medical personnel and ordinary people across the country into keeping their mouths shut.
The Evil of the System Paid Back with Mountains of Corpses and Seas of Blood To whitewash peace and to create the false political achievement of "preventable and controllable," the authorities stifled the whistleblower's mouth alive. They thought that by solving the person who raised the problem, the problem would cease to exist. The result was that the virus ravaged frantically among the un-warned, completely defenseless population, ultimately leading to an unprecedented catastrophe that swept the country and the globe, causing millions of innocent lives to tragically pass away and the global economy to suffer heavy blows. And Li Wenliang himself also paid his young life in extreme suppression and viral erosion, becoming the most tragic victim in this totalitarian human-made disaster.
The death of Li Wenliang was absolutely not the personal mistake of a few grassroots police officers; it was the inevitable result of the backlash triggered after the totalitarian system destroyed the social immune system. It proved with mountains of corpses and seas of blood an extremely cold truth: A regime that places "political stability maintenance" above scientific common sense, and values the "face of the regime" more heavily than the lives of millions of civilians, is itself a super political virus far deadlier than any natural virus.
3. "Courts Surnamed Party": The Despair of Commoners Suing Officials and the Iron Law that "House Slaves Don't Bite Their Masters"
If the media is the early warning aircraft of society, then the judiciary is the last line of defense for society to maintain fairness and justice and calm conflicts. When the rights of ordinary people are infringed, the court should be the place where they reason things out. However, in China, this line of defense is not only a mere formality, but has mutated into a vicious dog in the hands of the totalitarian master. After deeply exploring in Chapter 4 how the totalitarian system uses "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" and extrajudicial black jails to deal with political dissidents, in this section, we turn our gaze to the vast ordinary commoners. In everyday civil and administrative disputes, how does this corrupt judicial system drive ordinary people into a dead end?
Openly Rejecting Judicial Independence and the Essence of the "House Slave" The common sense of judicial independence is that a judge, when presiding over a trial, only obeys legal provisions and conscience, and is free from any interference by administrative executives. But the President of the CCP's Supreme People's Court once openly and murderously declared at a national conference: "We must dare to draw our swords against erroneous Western thoughts like 'judicial independence'!" and repeatedly emphasized, "Courts must absolutely obey the leadership of the Party; courts must be surnamed Party." In jurisprudential logic, this is equivalent to the country's highest judicial organ openly admitting its own complete corruption and illegitimacy. Because since courts are "surnamed Party," handling cases under the absolute leadership of the Party committee's "Political and Legal Affairs Commission," they are no longer neutral arbiters serving as public instruments of the state, but have been thoroughly reduced to the "house slaves" of the Communist Party.
The Dead End of "Commoners Suing Officials": The Referee is the Player Common sense tells us: A house slave absolutely will not, and dare not, bite his master. When an ordinary commoner, because the house his ancestors lived in for generations was illegally and forcibly demolished by the local government at an extremely low price, or because his deposits in a state-owned bank were baselessly frozen (like the Henan village bank incident), heads to the court attempting to sue the local government or monopoly state-owned enterprises, he faces a completely despair-inducing dead end.
In this "Min Gao Guan" (commoner suing an official) lawsuit, before the judge even bangs the gavel, the commoner's doomed defeat is already predetermined. Because the judge sitting on the bench has his official appointment, salary, and bonuses all held in the hands of the defendant (the local government Party committee)! What is written in the judge's verdict is not justice and legal provisions at all, but the "stability maintenance instructions" of the Party Secretary behind the scenes. Not only will the court not protect the lawful property of the weak, it will cooperate with the local government, ruling that the commoner "loses the case," and even slaps them with the charge of "persistent and unreasonable petitioning." This institutionalized perversion of the law completely blocks the last path to survival for bottom-tier people seeking lawful relief. When the law cannot uphold justice, when the referee is himself the athlete playing a rigged game, ordinary people have no avenue for reasoning left other than desperately kneeling to petition, or, when driven to a dead end, resorting to extreme violent revenge (such as the countless tragic cases of desperate bottom-tier people murdering village officials or taking revenge on society in the streets). This rogue judiciary is precisely the most fundamental pusher forcing the bottom tier toward violent mutual harm.
4. "If You Didn't Hit Her, Why Did You Help Her Up?": The Moral Nuclear Wasteland Created by Judicial Arrogance
The comprehensive collapse of macroscopic institutions and the extreme rogue behavior of the national judiciary not only destroyed the fairness of society; its even more terrifying effect is sending extremely malicious signals to the whole society, ultimately projecting as the complete collapse and degradation of universal morality at the micro level.
The Soul-Searching Question That Will Stink for Ten Thousand Years In the "Nanjing Peng Yu Case" that shocked China and the world, a kind-hearted young man, Peng Yu, helped up an old lady who had fallen at a bus stop and took her to the hospital, only to be bitten back by the old lady and her family, who insisted he was the one who hit her, using this to carry out massive extortion. If in a normal, judicially fair society, the judge should have upheld the modern rule of law principle of "he who asserts must prove," using the law to protect kindness and punish the extortionists when the plaintiff could not produce solid evidence. However, this "surnamed Party" local judge, Wang Hao, not only ruled that Peng Yu must compensate without solid evidence, but even issued that soul-searching question that will stink for ten thousand years to Peng Yu in the solemn courtroom: "If you didn't hit her, why did you help her up?"
State-Endorsed Rogue Laws and the Mutually Destructive Jungle These simple words are absolutely not just the personal logical error of an incompetent judge; they are the perfect condensation and declaration of the dark values of the entire CCP totalitarian system at the level of the state machine! The subtext of this verdict is extremely sinister: In this jungle society dominated by totalitarianism, everyone must be extremely selfish; selfless kindness should absolutely not exist; any behavior that does not conform to "extreme egoism" is seen by officials as "illogical" and will inevitably be severely punished by the law.
When this verdict, full of arrogance and prejudice, was endorsed by the state judicial machine and spread nationwide, it was like a moral nuclear bomb of immense yield, directly blowing apart the moral spine of the 1.4 billion Chinese people. At the national level, it established the rogue law that "doing good is a crime" and "good people must suffer losses" in the highest form of law. Due to the inaction of public power and its disguised encouragement of evildoers (extortionists), people at the bottom, out of self-protection and to avoid bringing disaster upon themselves leading to bankruptcy, could only be forced toward extreme apathy. From then on, hair-raising tragic scenes appeared on the streets of China: seeing a white-haired elderly person fall and bleed, people avoided them like the plague, scattering and not daring to approach; a two-year-old girl, Little Yueyue, was cruelly run over by two cars in an alley, and a full eighteen passersby walked past her, yet turned a blind eye and watched coldly.
The totalitarian system not only squeezed dry the wealth in ordinary people's pockets with exorbitant housing prices and monopolized healthcare; through this everyday judicial adjudication that turns black into white and calls a deer a horse, it thoroughly destroyed the last bit of gentleness and empathy accumulated over thousands of years in the hearts of Chinese people. They completely turned a nation of etiquette with a five-thousand-year civilizational heritage into a moral nuclear wasteland where people guard against each other and the strong prey on the weak. Because rulers deeply know: Only by letting the people completely degenerate morally into a tray of selfish loose sand can the throne of totalitarianism sit most stably.
5. A Blind Man Riding a Blind Horse: Information Cocoons and the Dictator's Ultimate Dead End
Totalitarian rulers destroyed the society's immune system, gagged all criticism, eliminated all independent investigative journalists, turned the media into repeating machines that only sing praises, and turned the courts into house slaves wiping the power's backside. The dictator sits in the Forbidden City, looking at the empire that appears silent and peaceful, thinking this has bought eternal stability for his regime. However, they have fallen into an extremely fatal, irreversible philosophical and managerial dead end.
When the dictator banned Cui Yongyuan's investigations, admonished Li Wenliang's alarms, arrested all the "whistleblowers," and cleared all the truth-telling "white blood cells" out of sight; when the internet only permits the false carnival of "the good days are yet to come"... the dictator himself has thoroughly lost the ability to perceive the real world.
At the top of this power pyramid, surrounding the dictator are no longer honest ministers capable of pointing out problems, but entirely sycophants well-versed in "obedience tests," political eunuchs flattering and fawning, and corrupt officials whitewashing peace. Inside the system, "deceiving superiors while bullying subordinates" became the sole rule of survival. Lower-level officials, to cater to the superior's will and to save their official hats from being chopped off by the "anti-corruption" butcher's knife, inevitably systematically conceal disasters, falsify economic data, and cover up mass incidents. This is like a blind man riding a herd of blind horses whose eyes have been tightly blindfolded.
The dictator sits high in the "information cocoon" woven by his own absolute power, looking at the water-injected GDP data and the false memorials of universal peace submitted from below, thinking he controls everything, but in reality, he has long become blind and deaf. He does not know that local government debt has reached a point where they must rely on cross-provincial robbery (deep-sea fishing) to pay salaries; he does not know that the youth at the bottom are so desperate that they have completely given up the idea of reproducing; he does not know that foreign capital is withdrawing from this land at a 100-meter sprint pace.
Without the early warning aircraft of news media, without the error correction of an independent judiciary, without the braking system of civil society, this mad totalitarian war chariot named the CCP has lost all its steering wheels and braking devices. It is sprinting at top speed towards a bottomless abyss, while the dictator sitting in the driver's cabin is still intoxicated by the illusion of "the rise of a great nation," thinking he is driving on the broad road to the sea of stars. Plunging into the abyss and being smashed to pieces by the gravity of history is merely a matter of time. This is the most despairing, ultimate dead end that all totalitarian tyrannies attempting to strangle the social immune system are doomed never to escape!

Part V: The Great Collapse (Internal and External Backlash and the Bankruptcy of the Ponzi Scheme)
[Part Introduction] When a regime tramples the constitution underfoot, completely destroys the social immune system, and drives 1.4 billion people into a desperate mutually destructive jungle, it might gain a sense of absolute security in the short term by relying on bayonets and surveillance. However, rule that violates common sense and goes against human nature must inevitably pay an extremely tragic price. Beneath the superficial prosperity of the "rise of a great nation" boasted by the totalitarian system, hides an extremely fatal core: the complete bankruptcy of national credit. This giant ship named "totalitarian autocracy," like the Titanic, has long been riddled with holes in its bilge and is frantically taking on water. A society-wide fleeing of the ship and a systemic collapse have vigorously raised the ultimate curtain on the totalitarian defeat.
Chapter 15: The Bankruptcy of Trust and the "Sinking Ship Mentality": The Great Fleeing Inside and Outside the System and the Closing of the Country
The most core foundation for a country's long-term stability and economic prosperity is not high-rise buildings, nor aircraft carriers and high-speed rails, but a single concept—"secure property and confidence." Only when ordinary people believe their private property can be absolutely protected by law, and entrepreneurs believe that policies possess long-term certainty, will they invest in the future and raise families on this land. But in China today, when everyone has soberly seen through the totalitarian system's bottom cards: that power can "call a deer a horse" at any time, can openly rob in the name of "common prosperity," and can destroy trillion-level industries (like tutoring, gaming, and internet giants) overnight just because of one word from the supreme leader... the long-term trust of this country has been completely zeroed out. In this bandit manor where even the constitution can be altered at will, no clear-headed person dares to make long-term plans for their family and wealth. Despair has spawned this unprecedented great escape.
1. The Complete Zeroing of Trust: The "Run-ology" (Run) Frenzy in the Bandit Manor In the past few years, a vocabulary filled with black humor yet extremely desolate was born on the Chinese internet—"Run-ology" (Runxue, sounding like the English word "Run"). It is no longer a privilege of a few elites, but has become a collective escape crossing all classes and sweeping the entire society.
The Massive Capital Retreat of the Wealthy and Middle Class At the top of the wealth pyramid, tycoons and private entrepreneurs are the most sensitive group to the political climate. They were once the beneficiaries of this system, but when they saw big shots like Jack Ma being purged and private enterprises being forcibly implanted with Party branches, they realized with terror: In China, no matter how much money you make, in the face of power, you are nothing but a fattened pig waiting to be slaughtered. Thus, they exhaust all efforts, through underground banks, fake trade, cryptocurrencies, and all other means, to liquidate domestic assets and frantically transfer them to offshore trusts in Singapore, Switzerland, and elsewhere. Those middle-class elites who once owned tens of millions of assets in tier-one cities are also selling off their domestic real estate en masse, willing to accept pay cuts or even abandon their glamorous domestic careers, fighting desperately just to exchange for a North American green card or a European residence visa.
The Death Trek of the Bottom-Tier Commoners: The World-Shocking "Walking the Line" (Zouxian) If the fleeing of the rich is to preserve wealth, then what is most shocking and most effectively punctures the totalitarian "prosperous age" facade is the desperate great escape of countless bottom-tier commoners. Over the past two years, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of ordinary Chinese people at the bottom, who have no money for investment immigration and no high degrees to apply for tech visas, would rather sell their few meager belongings, take their wives and children, and fly to Ecuador in South America. Then, they join the massive refugee ranks, trekking through the Darien Gap—a jungle filled with venomous snakes, gangs, and deadly perils—experiencing months of life-and-death ordeals, just to be smuggled into the United States via "walking the line."
This is an extremely resounding slap in the face for the CCP! The official media brag every day about "the East rising and the West declining" and "China being the safest country in the world," but the footsteps of the people are the most honest ballots. When the people of a country would rather risk being robbed by gangs or killed by tropical diseases to traverse primitive jungles halfway across the globe to defect to what officials call the "evil empire in deep waters and scorching fire," the bottom cards of this sinking totalitarian ship have been completely seen through by the whole world! What they are fleeing is not poverty, but that suffocating despair, the bottomless exploitation where they are forever crushed at will as "human mines."
2. The "Sinking Ship Mentality" and the Black Humor of "Naked Officials": The Crazy Money Laundering Machine of Underground Banks
If the "Run" of the common people stems from despair, then the "Run" of high-ranking officials within the system and the elite class is the most comical and shameless black humor in the totalitarian world.
Anti-American "Naked Officials" and Schizophrenia On the rostrum, those high-ranking officials within the system who are full of "patriotism" and demand the masses "be vigilant against infiltration by hostile Western forces" in daily meetings, behind the scenes exhaust all means to frantically transfer the people's fat and blood gained from corruption outward. They transfer their wives, children, mistresses, along with hundreds or thousands of offshore accounts filled with US dollars, all to the "evil capitalist countries" (US, Canada, Australia) that they curse day and night to "suffer." And they themselves remain in the country alone as "naked officials" (Luoguan). Their only purpose in staying domestically is: to continue holding power, continue taking bribes, and continue funneling black money to their overseas families. Once there is a disturbance domestically or the disciplinary commission comes knocking, their pockets have already prepared several foreign passports under different names, ready to board a plane and flee at any time.
The Madness of Underground Banks and Money Laundering Networks To meet the needs of elites and tycoons to exchange massive amounts of RMB for US dollars and transfer them out of the country, China has spawned an extremely massive underground bank network with immense capabilities, deeply colluding with official power. These underground banks have long departed from the low-level model of "knocking heads carrying cash." Under the operation of the elite's white gloves, they use fake import and export trade contracts of state-owned enterprises, the VIP junket networks of Macau casinos, shell companies in Hong Kong, and even the latest cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, to "legally" launder hundreds of millions of China's foreign exchange reserves out of the country every day under the regulators' noses. This top-down, tacitly understood "sinking ship mentality" within the system provides the most fatal proof: Even the ruling class themselves, even the ministers and provincial party secretaries making policies, do not believe this regime has a tomorrow! They know better than ordinary people just how rotten this totalitarian edifice has become; every meeting they hold now is nothing but scrambling for the last deck space on the lifeboat before the ship sinks.
3. The Bayonets of the Supervising Squad: Illegal Border Controls and "Beating Dogs Behind Closed Doors"
Facing the terrifying speed at which real gold and silver foreign exchange reserves are draining, and facing the mass exodus of highly educated "premium beasts of burden," the dictator sitting on the dragon throne felt abyssal fear. The baseline logic of totalitarian rule is: This ship can sink, but the slaves and wealth on the ship absolutely cannot run. You must stay, be buried with me, or become the fuel for my dying gasps. To block this unprecedented great rout, they tore off the last mask of hypocrisy, deploying the most rogue, most barbaric method—"beating dogs behind closed doors" (Guan men da gou).
The Financial Iron Curtain Welding Shut the Escape Hatch In the financial sector, the mesh of foreign exchange controls was instantly shrunk to the absolute minimum. The state-stipulated legal exchange quota of "fifty thousand US dollars per person per year" became waste paper in actual operation. Ordinary people trying to exchange a few thousand dollars to travel abroad or pay their children's tuition are met with extremely strict interrogation, all kinds of obstacles, or outright refusal by banks. And against those private entrepreneurs attempting to transfer their life savings out of the country, the state machine directly bared its fangs. Not only were underground banks violently purged, but many entrepreneurs who remitted legitimate profits overseas through normal commercial channels were directly slapped with the crimes of "illegal foreign exchange trading" or "money laundering," and their assets were fully confiscated. The dictator used administrative brute force to tightly cover the purse strings of the national foreign exchange reserves.
The Terrifying Lockdown of Physical Space: Border Controls and Passport Clipping If restricting capital outflow is financial blockade, then the physical lockdown of "people" has completely turned China into a giant open-air prison. At customs and airports, the totalitarian machine uses administrative directives lacking any legal basis to carry out hair-raising interceptions against massive numbers of ordinary civilians. Using extremely absurd excuses like "preventing telecom fraud" and "protecting national security," they arbitrarily place countless ordinary people, entrepreneurs, rights-defense lawyers, and even low-level civil servants within the system on "border control" (Biankong - restricted exit) lists. At exit ports, border police will even interrogate passengers on the spot about their purpose of exit. If they feel the reason is "insufficient," they will directly pull out scissors and, in front of everyone, snip the citizen's private passport, instantly stripping you of the right to leave this country.
What a cruel doomsday scenario this is! The Titanic is slowly sinking into the icy ocean, and the lower decks are completely flooded. Yet the high-and-mighty totalitarian supervising squad not only fails to organize civilian evacuation, but holding bayonets, frantically welds shut all doors and windows leading to the deck, and cuts all the ropes to the lifeboats. They use naked state violence to forcibly bind 1.4 billion ordinary people to this sinking broken ship. The dictator's logic is cold-blooded to the extreme: As long as the doors are shut, the capital that cannot escape will ultimately be harvested in inflation; the human mines that cannot escape will ultimately have to stay generation after generation to repay the unpayable astronomical national debt for the elite. This is the final fascist-style "beating dogs behind closed doors" imposed by the totalitarian system on the entire citizenry on the eve of its collapse.
Chapter 16: Resistance by Severing the Bloodline: Sterilization, "Lying Flat" Under Extreme Pressure, and the Descent of Purgatory
In the long river of humanity's history of resisting totalitarian tyranny, it is usually accompanied by roars on the streets, burning barricades, and bloody revolutions. However, the most fatal mistake of the CCP's totalitarian rulers was treating the endurance of the Chinese people as a physical black hole that could be squeezed infinitely. When astronomical housing prices emptied the wallets of three generations, when the involution of 996 stripped away human dignity, when the Hukou and special supply systems completely folded and firmly locked social classes, the totalitarian machine finally forced out on Chinese soil a resistance that is the largest in human history, the most silent, but also the most bone-chillingly despairing for the rulers—universal sterilization (voluntary childlessness) and complete lying flat (Tangping).
This is a "severing the bloodline" style of resistance that requires no organization, no leaders, and even leaves the bayonets of the totalitarian stability-maintenance machine with nowhere to apply force. When the "human mines" refuse to reproduce, this totalitarian meat grinder that operated for over seventy years by extracting the demographic dividend has finally reached its physical limit and the descent of purgatory.
1. "We Are the Last Generation": The Ultimate Nonviolent Disobedience of the Slaves
To understand the shocking power of this silent revolution, we must return to the spring of 2022, full of magic realism and terror. During the extremely cruel extreme lockdown in Shanghai, public power tore off all facades of the rule of law, wantonly breaking down doors and forcibly dragging COVID-negative civilians to makeshift hospitals (Fangcang) for quarantine. When several fully armed "Dabai" (police in white hazmat suits) pointed at the nose of a young man refusing illegal forced transfer, viciously threatening: "If you don't cooperate, you will face public security punishment, and it will affect your three generations!" In this totalitarian society, "affecting three generations"—that is, stripping your descendants of the right to take civil service exams, attend school, and survive—was once the most vicious and foolproof soft underbelly used by CCP rulers to blackmail ordinary people.
However, that young man in thin pajamas did not kneel, did not fly into a rage, but extremely calmly, even with a hint of desolation, fired back a sentence that shocked the whole world: "Sorry, we are the last generation, thank you."
These thirteen short words (in Chinese), like a lightning bolt piercing the totalitarian dark night, instantly struck the souls of 1.4 billion bottom-tier Chinese youth, becoming the most tragic swan song of this era. Behind this sentence lies an extremely profound rebellion in political science and sociology. It proclaimed the complete bankruptcy of the totalitarian rulers' "soft underbelly deterrence": Since this country has no ballots, we will vote with our wombs; since we have no weapons in our hands to overthrow you, we will use "non-reproduction" to completely starve you to death. Not marrying, not buying a house, not having children—this is absolutely not the "youth laziness" or "lack of struggling spirit" criticized by official media, but the ultimate and only "asymmetric warfare" the bottom-tier populace could find when facing a stability-maintenance machine so powerful it induces suffocation.
You can use the charge of picking quarrels and provoking trouble to throw me in jail, you can use the health code to lock down my travel, you can even drive tanks to crush my flesh; but your high-and-mighty power, your cold bayonets, can never force me to give birth to the next "little human mine" for you on this land full of sin, exploitation, and mutual harm, to be arbitrarily exploited by you! The slaves, through self-extinction, personally cut off the slave masters' greedy dream of sucking blood generation after generation. This is not only a complete non-cooperation with tyranny, it is a profound contempt and total denial of the grand narrative of the so-called "great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" under this deformed system.
2. Statistical Self-Deception: Youth Unemployment and the Collapsed Future
This "severing the bloodline" style of resistance, superimposed with the totalitarian system's frantic strangulation of the private economy (such as destroying the tutoring industry overnight with red-head documents, and heavily hammering internet tech giants), directly caused the complete stalling of China's economic engine, bearing the most bitter fruit—an extremely terrifying wave of youth unemployment.
In the past few years, countless Chinese youth who emptied their parents' half-life savings and studied hard for over ten years to graduate from university, discovered with terror that the "Chinese Dream" they were once promised had turned into a mirage. Enterprises are frantically laying off workers, and the single-plank bridge of civil service exams is crowded with desperate master's and doctoral students. Millions upon millions of young people with bachelor's degrees, just to survive, are forced to take off their scholars' gowns, put on yellow and blue uniforms, and degenerate into food delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers fighting for their lives under the algorithmic whip. When the official youth unemployment rate for 16-24 year-olds published by the Chinese government consecutively soared in the summer of 2023, even breaking the extremely dangerous red line of 21.3% (if measured by real statistical methods, the actual unemployment rate could be over 40%), the CCP totalitarian government displayed its consistent rogue nature.
If You Can't Solve Unemployment, Solve the Statistical Data Faced with this powder keg capable of triggering massive social unrest, the government's response was not to review policies or release market vitality, but to directly use administrative power to openly announce: "Suspend the release of youth unemployment data." What a laughable and pathetic burying of one's head in the sand! In this empire extremely dependent on lies, as long as you close your eyes, the abyss does not exist; as long as you smash the thermometer, the country has no fever. They even invented a series of extremely twisted, shameless vocabularies like "full-time children," "slow employment," and "light physical flexible employment" to cover up the cruel truth of massive youth unemployment. However, the lies of the statistics bureau can fool the Xinwen Lianbo, but they cannot fool the shriveled wallets and despairing eyes of young people. When the most creative and energetic young generation is forcibly excluded from social macro-production, forced to "lie flat" in rented rooms and live off their parents, the future of this country has already been completely overdrafted and shattered.
3. The Terrifying Demographic Inversion: The Abyss of 1 Supporting 4 or Even 1 Supporting 8
The sterilization resistance of the "last generation" and the youth unemployment wave are pushing China into an irredeemable demographic purgatory. The core foundation for China becoming the "world's factory" over the past few decades was possessing the world's largest and most age-healthy army of cheap labor. However, due to the extremely cruel, anti-human "One-Child Policy" that forced abortions and sterilizations on several generations, coupled with the current "universal non-marriage and non-reproduction" forced by exorbitant survival costs, China's demographic structure is undergoing a catastrophic cliff-like collapse.
In just the next ten to twenty years, China will face the most terrifying "inverted pyramid" aging structure ever seen in human history. A young person at the bottom working on an assembly line or delivering food will not only face the risk of being demoted or laid off at any time; he will also face the abyss of "1 supporting 4 or even 1 supporting 8" (a couple of only children needing to support four elderly parents from both sides, and possibly even the grandparents' generation). In a normal democratic welfare state, this pressure would be underwritten by the state's comprehensive universal healthcare and high pensions. But in China, a country where wealth is completely monopolized by totalitarian interest groups, the government not only refuses to provide welfare safety nets, but instead, under the name of "traditional Chinese virtues," unreservedly shifts the heavy burden of supporting the elderly entirely onto the already overwhelmed young people.
4. The Ultimate Cruel Exploitation: Slaves Spending Money to Support the Masters and the Whips
However, the family burden of 1 supporting 4 is merely the surface of this purgatory. What truly induces suffocation and extreme anger is the political economy exploitation truth hidden behind this macro demographic inversion. That remaining young labor force at the bottom still struggling bitterly on the assembly lines—who exactly do their meager wages and the blood and sweat extracted by invisible taxes go to support?
First, they must support the massive and extravagantly luxurious retired bureaucratic special supply system. Those retired cadres who once threw their weight around within the system now receive high pensions of ten or twenty thousand, even tens of thousands a month, lying in the "at all costs" high-ranking cadre wards, consuming thousands or tens of thousands of medical insurance funds every day. Meanwhile, the migrant worker moving bricks on a construction site, paying expensive social security, can only receive a rural pension of over a hundred yuan a month when old. Bottom-tier youth are using their own blood to continue transfusing and prolonging the lives of those totalitarian bureaucrats who sucked their parents' blood for a lifetime.
Second, they must pay in full the cost of the "whip" that suppresses them. This is an extremely cruel exploitation scene unique to totalitarian societies, brimming with black humor: To prevent these desperate young people from rising up in rebellion, the totalitarian government must hire millions of riot police, grid managers, and internet censors. And this astronomical "stability-maintenance budget" exceeding trillions entirely comes from the taxes created by bottom-tier laborers. The enslaved not only have to endure bottomless enslavement, but they must also pay out of their own pockets the massive cost of the surveillance cameras and batons the slave masters use to suppress them!
5. The Dead Knot of Silent Detonation: Totalitarianism Will Eventually Starve to Death in Its Own Lies
Faced with this "severing the bloodline" style of comprehensive lying flat, the totalitarian machine felt true helplessness for the first time. In the past, encountering resistance, they could deploy tanks; encountering debt, they could print money. But today, facing thousands upon thousands of young people refusing to marry, refusing to have children, refusing to take out loans to buy houses, totalitarian violence is completely ineffective. Because bayonets can force people to kneel, can lock people in makeshift hospitals, but bayonets alone cannot physically force a desperate slave to produce a child from a barren womb, much less conjure GDP out of thin air. When the leeks (chives) refuse to grow, when the human mines actively sever the veins, the real estate Ponzi scheme loses its bag-holders, local finances lose their source of revenue, and the gears of the stability-maintenance machine will completely jam due to the lack of financial lubrication.
The CCP totalitarianism once vainly attempted to treat the Chinese people as infinitely squeezable dry batteries. But they forgot that even the best dry batteries have a day when they exhaust their energy and are completely scrapped. The swan song of the "last generation" is the final curse issued to this blood-sucking system by the 1.4 billion dry batteries before they are completely scrapped. This sterilization and lying flat under extreme extraction is not only the helpless protest of young people against their tragic fate, it is the ultimate weapon directly severing the main artery of totalitarian autocracy. In this war of attrition without gunpowder, no violent armed uprising is needed; that seemingly invincible totalitarian monster will ultimately, because it has completely lost its parasitic host, be starved to death alive in the demographic and economic purgatory it personally created!
Chapter 17: The Global Backlash Against the "Zero Human Rights Advantage": Exporting Slavery and the Ambitions of the "Rogue Oligarch"
In the survival and operational logic of the totalitarian system, extreme internal extraction and infinite external expansion are always the two indispensable legs supporting its massive body. The totalitarian machine is like an eternally hungry parasite. When domestic "human mines" choose "sterilization and lying flat" due to extremely high survival costs and cruel involution, when land finance completely collapses, and the domestic consumer market becomes a pool of dead water because the common people have been drained dry, this starving meat grinder will inevitably cast its greedy and bloodshot gaze overseas.
The CCP attempts to comprehensively package and upgrade the slavery exploitation model that has been tried and tested domestically, and then duplicate and export it to the whole world. They vainly attempt to exploit the open loopholes of the global free trade system, using an evil economic weapon called the "Zero Human Rights Advantage" to establish the absolute hegemony of a "rogue oligarch" in the global supply chain, and thereby use totalitarian rules to rewrite the modern civilizational order of humanity. However, this bottomless arrogance and wolf-warrior-like insolence ultimately thoroughly awakened the slumbering free world, inviting an unprecedented global backlash enough to suffocate the totalitarian system.
1. The Dimensional Strike of the "Zero Human Rights Advantage": Destroying the Free Market with the Blood and Sweat of 1.4 Billion Slaves
During the golden era of globalization over the past nearly thirty years, Western mainstream economists and politicians have been immersed in a beautiful "Engagement" illusion: They naively believed that as long as China was brought into the World Trade Organization (WTO), as long as China was allowed to participate in the global division of labor, the rules of free trade and economic prosperity would inevitably force China to abide by international norms, spawn a massive middle class, and ultimately push China toward political democracy and the rule of law. Western politicians at the time even optimistically asserted that attempting to maintain a dictatorship in the internet age was as impossible as "trying to nail Jell-O to the wall."
But history ruthlessly proved that they committed an extremely fatal historical mistake—they completely underestimated the evil baseline of the CCP totalitarian system, and entirely failed to understand the cruel truth of the Chinese economy's so-called "invincible competitiveness." The reason "Made in China" could sweep the globe at staggeringly low prices over the past twenty years and defeat countless established Western enterprises was fundamentally not due to any outstanding technological innovation, nor any advanced enterprise management, but because the CCP tightly held an ultimate weapon that Western civilized countries absolutely could not and dared not copy: the "Zero Human Rights Advantage."
In a normal democratic country ruled by law, enterprises participating in market competition must bear extremely heavy "civilization costs":
•	Labor rights costs: Enterprises must comply with strict "Labor Laws," must guarantee the eight-hour workday and two days off; must allow workers to form independent unions. When capital exploitation becomes excessive, unions have the right to organize legal strikes to fight for higher wages and benefits.
•	Social safety net costs: Enterprises must pay comprehensive medical, unemployment, and pension insurance for employees, bearing extremely high social security responsibilities.
•	Environmental protection costs: Enterprises absolutely cannot randomly discharge sewage and toxic gases, must spend huge sums to install environmental protection equipment to protect the green mountains and clear waters of the whole society.
However, in totalitarian China, all these "civilization costs" are directly "forced to zero" by the state violence machine. China has no independent unions. Any labor leader attempting to organize strikes and demand wages for workers (like the youth in the Jasic labor movement) will be thrown into black jails by special police under the heavy crimes of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" or "gathering a crowd to disrupt social order"; labor laws are virtually waste paper in the face of local governments' "attracting investment" political achievements. Bottom-tier labor (especially the more than 200 million migrant workers and assembly line factory girls who completely lack urban benefits and are treated like second-class citizens) are forced to accept the undignified 996 or even 007 extreme overtime; regarding occupational disease protection, countless miners and dust workers contract pneumoconiosis but have nowhere to turn, even resorting to opening their chests to inspect their lungs; regarding environmental protection, local governments have long tacitly allowed enterprises to discharge carcinogenic industrial wastewater directly into groundwater and toxic gases into the sky, using the life and health of several generations as the price in exchange for the extreme compression of production costs.
When a German industrial worker or an American Rust Belt worker, strictly protected by unions, working eight hours a day, and enjoying paid annual leave, is forced to compete with a Chinese slave who has no minimum wage guarantee, works continuously at high intensity for twelve hours in a toxic-gas-filled workshop, and lacks even the most basic right to protest, this competition is from the very beginning extremely deformed and unfair. This is fundamentally not "free market competition" in the classical economic sense; this is an asymmetric economic war launched by the totalitarian system using the flesh and blood of "1.4 billion slaves" as ammunition. The CCP precisely used this "Zero Human Rights Advantage," built upon piles of white bones and endless blood and sweat, to slaughter indiscriminately in globalization, causing the hollowing out of industries in the Western world and turning all of China into a massive, cruel super sweatshop.
2. State-Level Blood-Sucking Subsidies and "Rogue Dumping": Using Taxpayers' Money to Eliminate Global Competitors
If it were merely the cruel exploitation of cheap labor, the ambition of the totalitarian system would not be enough to threaten the dominance of the entire world. As industries upgraded, in order to also occupy an absolute monopoly position in the global high-end supply chain, they pulled out an even more rogue and destructive move—state capitalism's whole-nation subsidies and crazy dumping below cost.
In strategic emerging industries like photovoltaic panels, wind power equipment, new energy electric vehicles (EV), and even 5G communication equipment, the CCP mobilized the whole-nation system, using extremely massive state fiscal subsidy funds to conduct bottomless blood transfusions for these selected "national enterprises." But we must ask: Where exactly did this astronomical subsidy fund, easily reaching hundreds of billions or trillions, come from? The totalitarian government itself does not create wealth. These astronomical funds are invisible taxes that the totalitarian government extracted and squeezed to the limit from the 1.4 billion poor people domestically through extremely concealed methods—such as freewheeling electric meters, monopolizing the world's most expensive refined oil prices, collecting endless highway tolls, and land finance! They use the blood-and-sweat taxes paid by domestic ordinary people starving themselves and emptying six wallets to subsidize those enterprises charging forward in the international market. Backed by the nation's astronomical capital, these Chinese enterprises absolutely do not need to consider normal commercial profit cycles when going overseas; they can even unscrupulously dump products on the European, North American, and global markets at "below manufacturing cost" fire-sale prices.
This dumping, devoid of any commercial logic and purely reliant on the blood transfusion of state power, has a singular and malicious ultimate purpose: "To starve and destroy the normal enterprise groups of Western civilized countries." Those Western private enterprises that completely rely on market financing, must answer to shareholders, and are responsible for their own profits and losses, simply cannot withstand this rogue tactic of countries wielding "infinite blood packs." The moment they lower prices, Chinese enterprises, subsidized by the government, lower them even further, until Western enterprises are thoroughly driven into bankruptcy. As a result, the once-glorious European photovoltaic industry was wiped out in droves, old-line American manufacturing faced a devastating disaster, and massive numbers of Western workers lost their jobs. The CCP's role in international trade is exactly like a fatal cancer cell sneaking into a host's body. They use the "open and inclusive" market rules of the free world to bottomlessly suck the host's nutrients; but when foreign enterprises want to enter the Chinese market, they face extremely stringent barriers such as forced technology transfers, internet firewall blockades, and negative lists for foreign investment access. The CCP plots, after growing strong, to completely backlash and kill this global free trade system that once nourished their rise.
3. Debt Traps and the Export of Corruption: The Dictators' Conspiracy in the "Belt and Road"
When the domestic real estate bubble burst and heavy industries like steel and cement experienced severe overcapacity, the totalitarian government turned its gaze to the vast developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, meticulously concocting the grand and highly deceptive "Belt and Road" (BRI) initiative. Official media overwhelmingly proclaimed this was to "build a community with a shared future for mankind" and to help backward countries build infrastructure. But as long as this hypocritical veil is peeled back, its core essence is the CCP exporting corruption, exporting autocracy to the world, and meticulously crafting massive and fatal "debt traps" for poor countries.
In implementing the "Belt and Road," the CCP's operational logic has essential differences from international financial institutions led by Western democracies (like the World Bank and IMF). When Western institutions provide infrastructure loans, they usually attach extremely strict conditions: there must be transparent anti-corruption reviews, strict environmental assessments must be passed, and human rights assessments protecting local labor must be guaranteed. But the CCP's loans flaunt the golden signboard of "attaching no political conditions" and "absolutely not interfering in internal affairs." In the real context of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this sentence is actually an extremely tempting criminal invitation issued to all the dictatorial military governments, warlords, and corrupt officials of the Third World.
The CCP's state-owned banks (such as Exim Bank and China Development Bank) provide these poor countries with tens of billions of dollars in high-interest loans for constructing grand "vanity projects" like luxurious presidential palaces, deep-water ports with no economic benefit whatsoever, or modern railways built in jungles with almost no passengers. In this process, the projects must be designated to be constructed by Chinese state-owned enterprises, must use China's excess building materials, and Chinese labor. What is darker is that Chinese SOEs, through highly opaque backroom deals, stuff massive kickbacks amounting to tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars directly into the Swiss bank accounts of local dictators, politicians, and their families, thereby effortlessly and regardless of cost securing the monopoly rights to the projects.
This so-called "cooperation" is an extremely cruel pillage of the local bottom-tier populace. When these poor countries face a bottomless sovereign default crisis because the vanity projects cannot generate profit and they ultimately cannot even pay the interest on the massive debts, the CCP immediately tears off the hypocritical mask of "great power friendship," revealing the hideous face of a loan shark creditor. They forcibly take over the core strategic assets of these countries through extremely unequal collateral clauses signed in advance. The most classic blood-and-tears case is the Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka, which, due to inability to repay Chinese debt, was forced to lease this highly strategic deep-water port to China for 99 years; in some African and Central Asian countries, national power grids, core highways, and extremely precious lithium and cobalt mine resources have also been completely controlled by Chinese enterprises seizing the opportunity. Through the "Belt and Road" strategy, the CCP not only successfully shifted domestic excess backward capacity and debt crises to the poor countries of the world, but also successfully propped up, bought off, and consolidated a large batch of pro-China dictatorial regimes in these countries. They used money to buy countless "yes" votes on international stages like the UN General Assembly and the World Health Organization (WHO), attempting to pull strings outside Western civilizational rules to build a "Totalitarian Rogue Club" absolutely dominated by the CCP.
4. The Ultimate Ambition of the Wolf Warrior: Turning the Global Supply Chain into a Noose for Political Extortion
When the CCP, through the extreme dumping of the "Zero Human Rights Advantage" and the global expansion of "debt traps," gradually seized absolute market shares in global rare earth mining and smelting, green energy supply chains, battery manufacturing, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and parts of the 5G communication supply chain, the dictator sitting on the dragon throne fell into extreme arrogance. They believed they had ushered in the historical turning point of "the East rising and the West declining," believed that "the great nation has risen," and could finally look at eye level or even look down upon the entire civilized world.
Thus, they impatiently tore off the hypocritical disguise of "hiding capabilities and biding time, never taking the lead" set during the Deng Xiaoping era over the past few decades, thoroughly swapping it for an unreasonable, claw-baring "Wolf Warrior" (Zhanlang) face, exposing to the whole world their ultimate ambition as a "rogue oligarch." They were no longer satisfied with merely earning economic profits, but began to directly weaponize and politicize the global supply chain, turning it into a noose to extort and kidnap the free world.
Devastating Revenge Against Australia: When the Australian government, merely out of common sense responsible for all humanity's health, legally and reasonably proposed at the World Health Assembly that "an independent international investigation into the origin of the COVID-19 virus is needed," the CCP immediately flew into a rage out of humiliation. They imposed extremely rogue, devastating high-tariff sanctions on Australian wine, coal, barley, and lobsters, attempting to use the economic big stick to force a sovereign state to shut up.
Transnational Bullying of Lithuania: When the small Baltic nation of Lithuania, merely acting out of the legitimate rights of a sovereign state, allowed the establishment of a representative office under the name "Taiwan," the CCP not only immediately cut off bilateral trade with Lithuania but extended the bullying to long-arm jurisdiction—they arrogantly threatened all European multinational companies (such as the famous German auto parts giant Continental) that they must completely eliminate Lithuanian-produced components from their supply chains, otherwise, the multinational's entire products would not be allowed to be sold in the Chinese market.
Armed Intimidation and Geopolitical Roguery: In the South China Sea, they completely ignored the lawful ruling of the International Tribunal in The Hague, frantically building artificial islands, comprehensively militarizing reefs with missile deployments, and even using warship water cannons and coast guard vessels to maliciously ram the lawful resupply ships of the Philippines; in the Taiwan Strait, they not only cut off official communication but frequently dispatched large fleets of bombers and fighter jets to fly around the island, issuing naked war massacre threats to a democratic beacon with over twenty million people.
The totalitarian system openly displays an extremely terrifying and bottomless mafia logic to the whole world: "If you want to do business with China and make money, you must kneel down and accept my political censorship; I not only want to earn your money, I also want to strip you of the right to criticize me, and even demand that you obediently hand over your democratic propositions, freedom of speech, and national dignity."
5. The Awakening of the Civilized World and the Massive Backlash of Comprehensive Decoupling
Dictators are always deeply blinded by the "information cocoons" they manufacture using bayonets and lies. They superstitiously believe power can invert black and white, superstitiously believe money can buy all foreign politicians and capitalists, yet seriously underestimate the free world's determination to defend the bottom lines of modern civilization, and underestimate the powerful error-correction capabilities of democratic countries when facing survival crises.
The extreme arrogance of the "Wolf Warrior diplomacy" striking out in all directions, the frantic cover-up of the truth of human-to-human transmission and admonishing of whistleblowers in the early stages of the pandemic, the open tearing up of the historical promise of "One Country, Two Systems" in the UN-registered Sino-British Joint Declaration alongside the National Security Law suppression of Hong Kong, and the covert financial and public opinion indulgence of Russia's invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine... This series of undisguised, rogue actions frantically testing the bottom lines of humanity, finally acted like a blow to the head, thoroughly awakening the entire slumbering free world.
"Small Yard, High Fence" and the Descent of the Tech Iron Curtain Western countries finally awoke from their thirty-year illusion, extremely soberly realizing: The CCP is not only a tyranny brutally suppressing 1.4 billion people internally and building a panopticon, it is also a fascist monster externally attempting to use mafia rogue rules to subvert the post-WWII international order based on rules. If allowed to control humanity's future core technologies and global supply chains, the entire human civilization will face the danger of being enslaved by digital totalitarianism.
An unprecedented global massive backlash descended vigorously. The United States, along with its European and Indo-Pacific allies, no longer harbors any illusions about political transformation for the CCP, and resolutely pressed the nuclear buttons of "De-risking" and "Decoupling." In the technology sector, an iron curtain far more insurmountable than during the Cold War instantly fell. Represented by the US CHIPS and Science Act, the free world joined forces to use the tightest technological blockades to directly cut off all export channels to China, from the Dutch ASML's high-end EUV lithography machines, to Japanese semiconductor materials, to Nvidia's most advanced AI computing chips; they even issued bans completely prohibiting US citizens and green card holders from providing R&D services to Chinese semiconductor enterprises. This is an extremely cold-blooded pulling of fuel from under the cauldron, directly cutting off the main artery through which the totalitarian government attempted to dominate the globe in AI and high-tech military fields, locking its technology tree tightly in a low-end, backward stage.
The Mighty Great Retreat of the Global Supply Chain In the economic sector, foreign multinational enterprises that once flooded in greedily for China's cheap labor and massive market, discovered with terror that China had become a lawless place full of political landmines and uncertainties (the arbitrary abuse of the new Counter-Espionage Law made all foreign executives and due diligence agencies in China feel endangered, liable to face arrest risks at any time).
A mighty "China Plus One" great retreat kicked off. Apple, Samsung, Dell, and countless European manufacturing giants are urgently transferring core supply chains regardless of cost to "Friend-shoring" countries like Vietnam, India, and Mexico. At the same time, Western countries are awakening one after another, striking heavy blows, erecting tariff barriers up to 100% and anti-subsidy investigations, resolutely resisting the CCP's malicious dumping of electric vehicles (EV) and photovoltaic products using state subsidies. China's once-proud status as the "World's Factory" is being completely hollowed out at a visible speed, and the massive sea of export orders is receding like a tide.
6. The Swan Song of the Isolated Island: The Desperate Run After the Blood Transfusion Tubes Are Cut
On the international stage, the CCP's arrogant plot attempting to buy the whole world with money and hijack it with a massive market ultimately declared total bankruptcy. Today, totalitarian China has been reduced to a giant isolated island on the geopolitical map of the world, highly guarded against and completely isolated by the civilized world. Looking globally, their so-called "old friends" and "strategic partners" are only Russia, North Korea, Iran, and the Afghan Taliban—"international pariahs" similarly severely sanctioned by the international community and whose domestic populations live in misery. This "Axis of Evil" formed by dictators, seemingly baring fangs and brandishing claws, is actually a mob of extremely weak, mutually utilizing individuals ready to sell each other out at any time.
The retribution of history came so swiftly and fatally. Totalitarian rulers once vainly attempted to use the "Zero Human Rights Advantage" to suck the blood of the whole world like leeches, to fill the giant black hole caused by extreme corruption and the massive stability-maintenance machine inside their system. But when the civilized world completely awakened, when external technological input and capital blood transfusion tubes were extremely coldly cut off one by one, when plummeting exports led to the bankruptcy of tens of millions of domestic factories and the unemployment of migrant workers, and when the foreign exchange reserves relied upon to maintain the exchange rate shrank drastically, the foundation of the totalitarian edifice began its most violent physical tremors.
Internally, the extreme extraction of 1.4 billion people has forced the whole society into "sterilization and lying flat," completely severing the demographic dividend; externally, the rogue wolf warrior diplomatic style has invited an iron wall of containment from the global civilized camp. In this ultimate showdown between human civilization and totalitarian barbarism, the CCP has not only been completely stripped of the qualification to dominate the future, but has also lost the ability to maintain the status quo amidst economic blood loss. As the internal and external nooses are pulled tighter and tighter, this crazy totalitarian war chariot, having lost external fuel supply, can only accelerate towards that final destruction track leading to the graveyard of history in the despair of a closed country and a collapsed tax base.
Chapter 18: The Collapse of the Tax Base and the Totalitarian Endgame: Exhausted Stability Maintenance Funds, Machine Stoppage, and the Iron Law of Economics
When the totalitarian system's internal politics and foreign diplomacy both walk into a dead end, when "sterilization and lying flat" completely cuts off the internal demographic dividend, and when the civilized world's "decoupling and severing of chains" ruthlessly pulls out the external technology and capital blood transfusion tubes, this massive and cruel state machine finally inevitably crashes into a wall of sighs named "objective economic laws."
Totalitarian rulers possess an almost arrogant, fatal superstition: They believe that as long as power is concentrated to the absolute apex, as long as there are enough gun barrels in hand and the bayonets of stability maintenance are sharp enough, they can shape society as they please, create wealth, and even reverse the wheels of history. However, the coldest iron law of economics tells us: The totalitarian system itself never creates any wealth; it is merely a super blood-sucking machine that frantically devours, transfers, and squanders societal wealth.
When the blood-sucking speed of this machine far exceeds the blood-making speed of civil society, when the massive volume of the parasite completely crushes the dying host, an exhaustion of stability-maintenance funds and machine stoppage caused by the "collapse of the tax base" becomes the ultimate endgame that all totalitarian tyrannies cannot escape, no matter how they struggle.
1. Bayonets Cannot Create GDP: The Ultimate Dead Knot of the Totalitarian Ponzi Scheme
In the grand narrative crafted by official CCP at immense cost, the "economic miracle" of the past forty years has been blown up day after day as the great victory of "institutional advantage," and even as ironclad proof that "totalitarianism can defeat the free market." But this is entirely a shameless lie taking credit for the work of Heaven (others).
The Covered-Up Super Ponzi Scheme China's past economic hyper-growth was essentially a super Ponzi scheme built on the foundation of "infinite overdraft of the demographic dividend" and "bottomless blood transfusion from globalization." It was the heartbreaking diligence and blood and sweat of hundreds of millions of Chinese bottom-tier migrant workers, superimposed with the industrial chains greedily transferred by Western capital, that collectively covered up the extremely inefficient, bloated, and corrupt undertone of the totalitarian system. And today, when the younger generation refuses to reproduce causing the demographic dividend to completely sever, and when the Western world suddenly awakens and lowers the iron curtain of technology and trade, these two engines driving the Ponzi scheme simultaneously and thoroughly stall, tying the dead knot tightly.
The Expense of Violence and "The Fatal Conceit" The dictator superstitiously believes in the omnipotence of power, suffering from what Hayek called "The Fatal Conceit." They think they can plan a broad road of "high-quality development" using red-head documents, can regulate the flow of foreign capital using the Counter-Espionage Law, and can legally rob private entrepreneurs using the slogan of "common prosperity" to fill the state treasury. They overlook a most fatal common sense—violence is extremely expensive, and violence can absolutely never bring prosperity.
The cold gleam of bayonets might force ordinary people to kneel on the streets, might lock wage-demanding workers and rights-defenders in black jails, might force all media to fabricate the illusion of an "economic bright theory" every day; but bayonets uniquely cannot force desperate slaves to birth children from barren wombs, cannot force entrepreneurs full of fear and living precariously to take loans to invest and build factories, and even less can they conjure up even one cent of real GDP out of thin air on an economic wasteland.
When entrepreneurs choose to liquidate assets and "run" overseas, when young people choose the "low desire lying flat" of not buying houses, not marrying, and not consuming, when the astronomical orders from the West recede like the tide, the real tax base of Chinese society (corporate profits and private consumption) is undergoing a catastrophic cliff-like collapse. Simultaneously, to suppress the immense societal resentment generated by economic collapse and skyrocketing unemployment, the totalitarian government is forced to exponentially, logarithmically increase stability-maintenance expenditures. On one side is the cliff-like plunge of the tax base, on the other is the nuclear-explosion-level growth of stability-maintenance spending. When the speed of blood-sucking falls far short of the speed of blood loss, the massive debt black hole of local governments finally spirals completely out of control, and the noose of the totalitarian economy perfectly slips around its own neck.
2. "Deep-Sea Fishing": Legalized Robbery and Mafiazation Under the Exhaustion of Stability Maintenance Funds
Accompanied by the collapse of the tax base, the first to feel the suffocation of death are local governments at all levels. When "land finance" vanishes like a bubble, and the heavy interest of urban investment bonds presses them until they can't breathe, many central and western provinces and tier-three/four cities cannot even pay the salaries of civil servants, teachers, and grassroots police within the system anymore.
When the stability-maintenance machine faces "exhaustion of rations," this Leviathan, having lost all rule-of-law constraints, immediately tears off the last bit of its hypocritical mask, revealing the most hideous, primitive eating habits of a robber. To get money to pay salaries and maintain the operation of the regime's grassroots, public power at all levels has launched a crazy doomsday carnival of wealth accumulation. The most hair-raising among them, and the most destructive to the Chinese economy, is the "deep-sea fishing" (Yuanyang Bulao) sweeping the nation's business community.
The Jungle Law of Cross-Provincial Robbery The so-called "deep-sea fishing" is essentially "cross-provincial kidnapping and legalized robbery" conducted by local public security organs due to financial depletion, under the cover of the legal cloak of state public power. Those police bureaus in poor counties and poor cities inland that cannot pay salaries stare like hungry wolves at high-quality private enterprises in economically developed coastal areas like Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu. They do not need solid evidence; they only need to arbitrarily concoct a trumped-up charge like "suspected network pyramid scheme," "illegal business operation," "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," or "fraud," and they can directly dispatch large numbers of police officers across thousands of kilometers to cross-provincially arrest company bosses and executives.
Once a person is detained out of province, the legitimate liquid funds in the enterprise account, often amounting to tens or hundreds of millions, are immediately "frozen out of province." The subsequent operation is a complete mafia kidnapping and extortion model: The out-of-province public security will release clear hints to the family or enterprise that they must pay an astronomical "settlement fee," "bail," or "fine" to exchange for the boss's personal freedom, otherwise, they will be detained indefinitely. These forcibly deducted legitimate assets of private enterprises magically transform into the "fines and confiscation income" of the inland local government, brazenly used to pay performance bonuses to local police, year-end bonuses to bureaucrats, and fill the huge holes in local finances.
The Self-Destruct Mechanism of Killing the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs This mafia-like operation endorsed by the state machine and conspired in by the police, prosecutors, and courts has delivered a devastating final blow to China's already dying private economy. Countless previously healthy enterprises capable of providing massive jobs and taxes locally, simply because police in some distant county needed their salaries paid, had their capital chains snap in an instant under a freeze order, collapsing with a crash. When public power thoroughly degenerates into bandits robbing across provinces, when all legal provisions become ransom notes, absolutely no entrepreneur in the entire society dares to conduct normal commercial activities. Everyone moves the funds out of their accounts, stops all investments, and completely "lies flat."
To quench a momentary financial thirst, the totalitarian system bottomlessly kills the goose that lays the golden eggs, personally strangling the only remaining blood-making organs. This crazy "internal plundering" signals that the totalitarian machine's conventional extraction capability (regular taxation) has completely failed. It has mutated into a terrifying "autoimmune disease"—only able to quench thirst with poison by frantically devouring its own healthy flesh and blood and eating its own future.
3. The Price Tag of Loyalty and the Betrayal of Mercenaries: The Meat Grinder Losing Its Financial Lubricant
On the surface, the totalitarian system looks extremely powerful and indestructible. This illusion stems from its massive, armed-to-the-teeth, pervasive stability-maintenance thug force (millions of regular police, special police, armed police, as well as tens of millions of Chengguan, Nongguan, grid managers, Dabai, and internet censors). The dictator mistakenly believes that as long as this force is held tightly in hand, the regime is as solid as a rock; even if all commoners starve to death, the empire will last forever. But he overlooked a most fatal political science common sense—in China today, the essence of this massive stability-maintenance machine is a "mercenary army" with absolutely no faith to speak of.
Running Naked After Losing Ideology In the Mao Zedong era, the stability-maintenance machine might still have retained some fanatical ideological brainwashing. Those fanatical Red Guards and thugs might have killed for free or sacrificed themselves for the so-called "communist faith" or to "defend the great leader." But having gone through forty years of baptism by money, the extreme corruption of officialdom, and the universal cynicism of the entire population, today's system has long lacked any sacred faith whatsoever.
The reason bottom-tier riot police are willing to hold shields under the scorching sun, waving batons at rights-defending village bank depositors and unfinished building owners; the reason internet censors are willing to work all night deleting posts criticizing the government like machines; the reason Chengguan are willing to overturn the stalls of bottom-tier street vendors... is absolutely not because they are loyal to the supreme leader sitting in the Forbidden City, but simply because this job brings them a decent salary, on-time generous housing provident funds, enviable medical insurance, and the gray rent-seeking space brought by the tiny power in their hands.
In this cold, cruel totalitarian machine, loyalty has a clear price tag; it is an absolute equivalent exchange for financial feeding.
The Fatal Backlash of Exhausted Stability Maintenance Funds So, when finances thoroughly dry up and the day the treasury hits bottom truly arrives, what will happen? When the financial black hole of local governments grows so large they can no longer borrow new debt; when the super inflation brought by the central government running the money printers turns bottom-tier police salaries into waste paper that can't even buy a few loaves of bread; when grassroots auxiliary police, grid managers, and stability-maintenance secret agents go six months without receiving a penny in salary, or even face large-scale layoffs... this "loyalty transaction" maintaining the operation of totalitarianism completely goes bankrupt.
Imagine that destined endgame scene: A grassroots police officer or special police officer who hasn't been paid for six months in a row, whose off-plan apartment bought by emptying six wallets is left unfinished, and whose sick old mother is kicked out of the hospital because she can't afford treatment. When ordered by superiors to suppress tens of thousands of angry protesting unemployed armies and rights-defending masses on the streets, he will absolutely no longer risk his life for that dictator hiding behind the high walls of Zhongnanhai who stripped him of his rice bowl and scraped the country bare.
He will extremely coldly lower the riot shield in his hand and take off that uniform representing state violence and suppression. Even more so, feeling an extreme sense of deception and betrayal, these highly trained stability maintainers will be the first to turn their guns around, bringing chests full of anger and hatred, to join the mighty ranks of the resisters.
Countless bloody lessons in history prove: The collapse of totalitarian regimes is often not because the rebels' weapons are advanced, but because the dictator can no longer afford the military pay of the suppressors. When the capital chain used to buy loyalty is completely broken, that state violence machine that once acted like an extension of the arm, making countless ordinary people tremble with fear, will instantly turn into loose sand, even mutating into the fiercest raging waves that swallow the dictator.
4. Machine Stoppage and the Totalitarian Endgame: The Death Knell on the Ruins of Tyranny
With the ultimate collapse of the financial system, Chinese society will usher in the most magical-realist and also most gratifying "machine stoppage" moment of totalitarian rule.
That "panopticon" that once made 1.4 billion people feel unparalleled suffocation will fall into a large-scale system blackout because local governments cannot afford the exorbitant electricity bills and the massive cloud server rental and broadband fees; that once-omnipotent "Skynet system," capable of instantly locking onto civilians via gait recognition, will turn into a pile of useless plastic scrap hanging on utility poles after losing maintenance funds; those "50 Cent Party" members, "Little Pinks," and comment-control water armies who were once arrogant on the internet, calling a deer a horse and banning accounts at will, will instantly vanish from the internet because they can't get their posting rewards, allowing true public opinion to erupt like a volcano.
When the illusion of state violence and high-tech surveillance is instantly stripped away, the frailty of the totalitarian system will be thoroughly exposed. That supreme dictator, sitting high above, styling himself an "emperor of the millennium," thinking he could control everything and point the direction for the world's development, will discover with terror that all his supreme directives and red-head documents cannot even pass through the red high walls of Zhongnanhai. Civil and military officials scatter like monkeys when the tree falls. Those sycophants, cruel officials, and elites who usually wept bitterly in meetings shouting "absolute loyalty" and "profound comprehension" will, at the fastest speed, taking their scraped-together US dollars and multi-country passports, board private jets flying overseas; or, to leave a way out for themselves in the future great reckoning, they will turn around and sell out the dictator's most core secrets to the angry masses.
The dictator spent his whole life, using extremely cruel violence, monumental lies, bottomless economic extraction, and cutting-edge high-tech brainwashing, trying to build an unsinkable empire of a thousand years. But to his death, he won't understand a truth: A regime that violates the most basic bottom lines of human nature, violates common sense and economic laws, and treats 1.4 billion people as slaves and consumables, every second of its existence is an overdraft on history, and ultimately must be repaid with interest at the price of national ruin and family destruction.
Bayonets cannot create wealth; fear cannot bring prosperity. You can deceive everyone for a time, even deceive some people for a lifetime, but you can never deceive mathematical laws and ironclad economic rules. When the tax base completely collapses, when the tolling bell of exhausted stability maintenance funds echoes in the skies over the Divine Land, this CCP totalitarian edifice, stained with blood and once so massive as to induce despair, will inevitably disintegrate with a crash like a sand sculpture amidst the wails of financial depletion and the roars of awakening of 1.4 billion people. This is the objective law of history that allows no resistance, and even more, the doomed final fate for all totalitarian tyrannies that betray the people!
Part VI: Dawn Over the Ruins (Marching Toward the Republic and the "Chinese Magna Carta of Liberty")
[Part Introduction] If the first five parts were the long night dismantling the old world, then this volume is the dawning light welcoming the descent of the new world. When the behemoth of the totalitarian system crashes down in the garbage time of history, when the red shackles that bound the Chinese for nearly a century finally shatter, the Chinese nation will face an unprecedented historical crossroads. Destroying an old world is merely a prelude; building a new world is the true test. The first step to rebuilding civilization upon the bloody ruins of the old system is to thoroughly shred the malicious lie of "Chinese Exceptionalism"; the second step is to completely discard the slave mentality of hoping for a "wise ruler" (Mingjun) that has persisted for thousands of years. We will seek a path for this deeply suffering nation, using a social contract of national consensus—the "Chinese Magna Carta of Liberty"—to completely end the millennia of slave history on this land, welcoming the republican rebirth of 1.4 billion fully realized citizens.
Chapter 19: Puncturing the Malicious Lie of "Chinese Exceptionalism": The Beacon of Taiwan and the Ironclad Proof of Asian Modern Civilization
When the totalitarian system reaches a dead end economically, loses all legitimacy in domestic politics, and faces an unstoppable historical avalanche, the dictator often brings out a final fig leaf used to deceive themselves and bewitch the people—"Chinese Exceptionalism" (Zhongguo Teshu Lun).
The first step to rebuilding modern political civilization on the bloody ruins of the old system is absolutely not just overthrowing a regime, but necessarily thoroughly tearing to shreds this political lie that has bound the minds of Chinese people for nearly a century and been repeatedly instilled by the official propaganda machine. To defend bottomless dictatorial rule, the CCP's imperial literati and massive propaganda machine have meticulously concocted an extremely absurd and malicious logical trap over the past few decades: They declare to the whole world and the Chinese people that "China's national conditions are special," even not hesitating to openly insult 1.4 billion compatriots by claiming "the quality (Suzhi) of Chinese people is too low; implementing democracy will lead to national chaos."
This is the final psychological defense line of totalitarian rule, and also a state-level psychological manipulation (PUA) imposed on the entire Chinese nation. As long as ordinary people believe this "quality theory" and "special national conditions theory" in daily brainwashing, a very sad Stockholm syndrome will arise in their subconscious: believing that even if the Communist Party is rotten, corrupt, and cruel, it is the only force on this land capable of holding the fort and maintaining order, thus willingly giving up the right to pursue freedom and silently enduring the fate of being exploited.
However, a lie is ultimately a lie. As long as we surgically dismantle it using the most basic logical common sense and ironclad proofs of world modern civilizational development, we will find that this is nothing but the ultimate spiritual intimidation carried out by a shameless robber against the victims in order to forever occupy the stolen national wealth.
1. The Extremely Schizophrenic Dictatorial Narrative: "Great" When Sacrifice is Needed, "Inferior" When Rights Are Demanded
"Chinese people have low quality and are unsuitable for democracy"—this is the most shameless, untenable, and highly schizophrenic robber logic in the history of human political thought. In this official narrative, the CCP has shown the world nauseating double standards and extreme political arrogance toward its own people.
The Arbitrarily Switched "Quality of the People" Toggle When the state needs to amass wealth, needs the flesh and blood of the bottom layer to fill fiscal deficits, needs cannon fodder to maintain the regime's survival, totalitarian rulers will, on the Xinwen Lianbo and at various grand ceremonies, tearfully and affectionately tout: "The Chinese people are the greatest, most hardworking, most selfless, and wisest people in the world!" When the "human mines" are needed for endless 996 and 007 overtime, to earn massive foreign exchange for the system to support the huge bureaucratic machine; when major natural or human-made disasters like floods and earthquakes occur, the government is absent, and ordinary people need to donate money, goods, and risk their lives to help themselves and each other; when the unfinished building crisis strikes and local urban investment bonds are about to explode, needing bottom-tier commoners to empty "six wallets" and overdraft three generations' future to fill the financial black holes left by the elite... ordinary Chinese people in the mouth of this regime are always a great group that "understands the greater good, considers the big picture," and "possesses an extremely high spirit of dedication."
However, this set of eulogies has an extremely cold-blooded and precise switch. Once these "great, hardworking, and wise" people demand to exercise the most basic rights explicitly granted to them by the "Constitution of the People's Republic of China"—demanding a real ballot to pick out their own mayor and district head; demanding the establishment of independent unions not controlled by officials to protect their blood-and-sweat wages; demanding the news media enjoy the freedom to report the truth; demanding officials at all levels disclose personal and family assets to stop corruption... the ruling class and their imperial literati will immediately change into a condescending, hideous face. Through various official forums, the mouths of imperial scholars, and the keyboards of internet troll armies, they will extremely maliciously belittle their own citizens: "The quality of the Chinese commoners is too low, there are too many illiterates, they don't understand what democracy is at all; once elections are opened, they will inevitably be hijacked by populism, and the country will definitely fall into chaos and be torn apart!"
An Arrogant Logical Rape and Political Paradox What kind of arrogant, deranged logical rape is this?! If we follow the totalitarian's "inferior quality theory" for basic logical deduction, the CCP immediately falls into a political paradox from which it can never extricate itself: If the Chinese people are truly "low-quality" to the extreme, lacking the intelligence to pick out a qualified mayor, district head, or even village head with a thin ballot, lacking even the basic discernment of who is speaking for them in public affairs; then how did this same group of so-called "low-quality ignorant masses" miraculously possess the superb political awareness to "firmly support totalitarian rule," "profoundly comprehend the supreme leader's deep thoughts," and "unswervingly follow the Party"?
Even more ironically, in its official party history narrative, the CCP always claims to be "the choice of history, the choice of the people." If 1.4 billion people are truly a group of "low-quality ignorant masses" who cannot even decide their own fate, then what right does the Communist Party "chosen" by this group of ignorant masses have to tout itself as "The Three Represents" and "the representative of advanced productive forces"? If the soil is inferior, how can the regime growing from it be great, glorious, and correct?
The Thief Crying "Stop Thief" Intimidation of "National Chaos" The dictators tightly cover the ballot boxes, doggedly monopolize absolute power, and use tanks and machine guns to suppress any civilian attempting to speak out, not at all because they fear the low quality of the people will lead to "national chaos." What they truly fear to the bone deep in their hearts is that the quality of the common people is actually extremely high, and the people's eyes are actually bright as snow! They deeply know that once these citizens, oppressed for over seventy years, have real ballots, freedom of speech, and freedom of association, the very first thing 1.4 billion people will do is absolutely not to slaughter each other and create chaos, but will immediately use ballots and laws to drive all these greedy vampires entrenched on the body of the state out of power, send them to the historical tribunal, and reckon with their trillions in assets hidden overseas and their mountains of blood debts!
The totalitarian system keeps saying "without us there would be national chaos," but looking throughout history since the CCP founded the state, from the killings of Land Reform, the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the thirty million starved in the Great Leap Forward, to the armed struggle catastrophe of the ten-year Cultural Revolution, the crushing by tanks at Tiananmen Square on June 4th, and the humanitarian disasters caused by three years of extreme lockdowns... which one of all these "national chaos" and mountains of corpses in modern Chinese history was caused by the people's ballots? They were all single-handedly created by this totalitarian monster possessing absolute power unchecked by anything! They themselves are the sole root of turmoil, yet shamelessly use "preventing turmoil" as an excuse to continue depriving the people of freedom.
2. The Paradox of "Special National Conditions": The Slap from India and the Civilizational Proof of Japan and South Korea
When the "quality theory" goes completely bankrupt under basic logical deduction, the CCP's imperial literati and politicians of the strategic fooling agency quickly throw out another seemingly grand, but actually malicious smokescreen: "China's national conditions are too complex, the population is too large, the foundation is too thin. Therefore, Western constitutional democracy does not acclimate in China; we can only practice centralized dictatorship." But this is entirely a monumental lie that cannot withstand the test of world history and collapses at the first blow in the face of objective data.
The False Proposition of Population and Complex National Conditions: The Resounding Slap from India The CCP most likes to use "a major country of 1.4 billion people, extremely difficult to govern like a tray of loose sand" to defend its dictatorial autocracy. However, regarding "massive population" and "degree of complexity in national conditions," India, also in Asia, is undoubtedly the best reference frame in the world, and the one that makes the CCP look the worst.
India's total population has now surpassed China's, becoming the world's most populous country. Compared to China's over 90% main ethnic group (Han) and highly unified spoken and written language (Mandarin and Chinese characters), India's national conditions are truly "hell-level complex": India has hundreds of completely different intricately intertwined languages, extremely sharp and even bloody religious conflicts (the blood feud between Hinduism and Islam), retains remnants of the strictest and most backward caste system in human history, and at the beginning of its nationhood in 1947, faced an absolutely poor and illiterate population far larger than China's in 1949.
If according to the CCP's rogue logic that "complex national conditions, massive population, and low education level dictate the absolute necessity of totalitarian dictatorship, otherwise it will surely fall apart," India should have fallen apart and fallen into national chaos ten thousand times over, and could not possibly have survived to this day.
However, what is the historical fact? Since shaking off British colonial rule and gaining independence in 1947, India resolutely rejected totalitarian autocracy and established a democratic constitutional system. Even when it was poorest and had the highest illiteracy rate, they still insisted on letting bottom-tier commoners decide the fate of the country through ballots. Although India's democracy still has many flaws like corruption and inefficiency, it has steadily maintained the largest-scale democratic elections in the world. Even greater is that India did not collapse because of democracy; on the contrary, precisely through the powerful "buffer zone" effect and extremely high political elasticity of the democratic system, it successfully resolved countless ethnic and religious conflicts that were almost enough to destroy the country. Moreover, because of the rule of law and press freedom, India has never experienced an absurd tragedy like China's Great Leap Forward, where tens of millions starved to death in peacetime during the decades since its independence! Today, relying on its young population and open system, India is ushering in a comprehensive takeoff in economy and technology. India's massive and vivid existence uses ironclad facts to fiercely slap the CCP's vicious lie that "a large population and complex national conditions demand dictatorship."
The Lie of Cultural Inferiority: The Modern Civilizational Ironclad Proof of Japan and South Korea When the population theory and complex national conditions theory go bankrupt again, the CCP's imperial literati do not hesitate to embark on an extremely perverse path—insanely engaging in "self-racial deprecation and cultural castration" of the Chinese nation. They often hint in academic lectures and official articles: The Eastern Confucian cultural sphere inherently possesses a certain "slavish" inferior root, believing the yellow race in their bones likes to obey authority and stresses collectivism, therefore is only suitable to be ruled by strong power; the Western democratic constitutionalism emphasizing individual rights, freedom, and equality does not fit the genes of East Asians at all.
However, as long as we look at the East Asian map, Japan and South Korea, which belong to the same Confucian cultural sphere and were deeply influenced by ancient traditional Chinese culture, thoroughly shatter this shameless lie full of racial discrimination.
Japan after WWII, on a nuclear wasteland completely bombed to ashes by atomic and incendiary bombs, faced the desperate situation of lost national sovereignty and total economic collapse. But they did not choose to return to totalitarianism; instead, through being forced and self-awakening, they established the separation of three powers, the parliamentary cabinet system, and modern democratic constitutionalism. And South Korea's journey is even more moving. The South Korean people did not have democracy fall from the sky. They experienced decades of military dictatorship, but in the 1980s, South Korean youth, workers, and ordinary citizens, represented by the Gwangju Uprising, used their blood, lives, and moving, continuous civil resistance to finally force the Chun Doo-hwan military government to hand over power, successfully overthrowing the dictatorial rule and moving toward a complete democratization process.
Today, whether it is Japan or South Korea, these two countries have not lost their East Asian traditional culture because they implemented a democratic system (Japan completely retained the Emperor and traditional etiquette, and South Korea is deeply stamped with Confucian respect for teachers). On the contrary, precisely because they have a free market of ideas and the absolute protection of private property rights by the rule of law, they leaped into the ranks of the world's most developed, affluent, and technologically advanced modernized nations.
The history of Japan and South Korea irrefutably proves to the whole world an extremely great truth: Freedom, democracy, rule of law, and human rights are absolutely not an "exclusive patent of Western white people," much less an "unacclimatized foreign political concept," but are political science and physical laws pursued universally by all humanity and aligning with human nature! The reason China has not moved toward prosperity, freedom, and the rule of law to this day is fundamentally not due to any "special national conditions" or "cultural inferiority root." It is purely because that totalitarian monster named the "Communist Party of China," entrenched over this country, holding millions of standing troops and Skynet surveillance, is holding a death grip on the throat of the Chinese nation moving toward modern civilization.
3. The Ultimate Sword Piercing the Lie: The Beacon of Taiwan of the Same Root and Origin
If India's massive scale and Japan and South Korea's high level of development still left the totalitarian rulers with a final sliver of room for sophistry (they could quibble: "India was colonized by the British after all," "Japan and South Korea are not Chinese after all, there are cultural differences"), then the island of Taiwan, suspended alone in the southeast sea, separated only by a strip of water, is the most fatal, most impeccable ultimate sword to completely pierce all the CCP's lies of "Chinese Exceptionalism"!
We must answer an extremely profound geopolitical and psychological question: Why have successive supreme rulers of the CCP held an almost pathological, hysterical hatred towards Taiwan? Why would they rather pour countless trillions of military budget into building aircraft carriers and missiles, at the cost of being completely isolated in international diplomacy, rather risk the outbreak of World War III with the entire free world, and still murderously clamor for "armed reunification" and "keep the island, not the people" on the Xinwen Lianbo every day?
This is fundamentally not for any illusory "great national cause," much less for any "sacred and inviolable territorial integrity." We must know, if the CCP truly cared about territorial integrity, why did they actively recognize the independence of Outer Mongolia back then, causing China to lose a massive northern shield? Why, when facing Russia, did they extremely readily sign border treaties, legally handing over fertile northern territories (like the Outer Khingan Mountains, Sakhalin Island) equivalent to dozens of times the area of Taiwan forever to Russia?
The true reason the CCP hates Taiwan to the bone and wishes to eliminate it is fundamentally not those thirty-six thousand square kilometers of land, but the "system" practiced on the island of Taiwan! Because Taiwan is a living, glaring beacon slapping the face of totalitarian rulers every minute of every second! The existence of Taiwan is like a flawless "demon-revealing mirror," thoroughly illuminating the hypocritical, cruel, and illegitimate historical true form of CCP totalitarianism!
The Perfect Control Experiment: The Perfect Fusion of Chinese Culture and Democratic Constitutionalism Taiwan and the mainland share the same ancestors and roots, flowing with exactly the same blood of the Chinese nation, speaking the same Chinese language, writing the same Chinese characters; even in the preservation of traditional culture, Taiwan is far purer and deeper than the mainland, which experienced the ravages of "Destroying the Four Olds" and the ten-year catastrophe of the "Cultural Revolution." Taiwan completely preserved traditional Chinese characters, retained the Confucian foundation of gentleness, kindness, respectfulness, frugality, and yielding; folk beliefs (Mazu, Buddhism, Daoism) and clan concepts thrive endlessly there, having suffered no destruction from political violence.
However, what kind of world-shocking miracle has this very group of the most authentic, purest Chinese people, with completely no so-called "Western white genes," created on the island of Taiwan today?
Economically, they are not only extremely prosperous (Taiwan's per capita GDP has far exceeded mainland China's, stepping into the ranks of developed economies), but also, relying on a free and open academic environment and absolute protection of private property rights, nurtured tech behemoths like TSMC, firmly mastering the lifeblood of the world's most core, high-end semiconductor chips, becoming the indispensable silicon shield for the entire world's silicon-based civilization.
Politically, the Taiwanese completely shook off the early authoritarian rule and martial law system of the Kuomintang. From Chiang Ching-kuo lifting the ban on parties and media in his later years to today, Taiwan has established an extremely mature, stable, and vibrant democratic election system. In Taiwan, whether you are an aunt selling vegetables at the market, a taxi driver working from dawn to dusk, or a billionaire corporate mogul, in front of the ballot box, everyone possesses absolutely equal, sacred, and inviolable political power. If Taiwan's president performs poorly, or if policies go against public opinion, ordinary people can legally take to the streets to protest (like the "Sunflower Student Movement"), and can use a real ballot to directly kick him out of office in the quadrennial election. Taiwan's judiciary is highly independent, even capable of putting handcuffs on a corrupt former president and sending him to jail.
In terms of livelihood security, Taiwan possesses a universal, globally top-ranked health insurance system. In Taiwan, there will absolutely never occur the desperate tragedy of the mainland, where getting cancer or a major illness means jumping off a building to commit suicide because one cannot afford hundreds of thousands in surgery fees, or extremely humbly begging on the internet through "Shuidichou." In terms of freedom of speech, Taiwan possesses absolute press freedom; the media can recklessly criticize and mock the supreme leader, and talk shows can make jokes about any political figure, without worrying about the police knocking on the door in the middle of the night for a "cross-provincial pursuit," let alone worrying about being slapped with the pocket crime of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."
The Great Truth Declared to 1.4 Billion People by the Beacon of Taiwan This radiant mirror of Taiwan uses the real lives of twenty-three million Chinese people to extremely clearly declare a great truth to the whole world, especially to the 1.4 billion mainland compatriots under totalitarian high pressure:
The cultural genes of the Chinese nation are not only absolutely not in conflict with democratic constitutionalism and universal values, but Chinese people completely possess extremely high political literacy, and can practice democracy, freedom, and the rule of law better and more civilized than the vast majority of Western countries in the world! Chinese people are absolutely not born slaves, and Chinese people absolutely do not possess cheap bones that like to be controlled by an emperor! Chinese people deserve modern democracy, deserve freedom of speech, deserve sacred ballots, and even more deserve the human dignity of being free from oppression by the fear of strong power!
The existence of Taiwan causes those brainwashing lies meticulously woven by the CCP using trillions in stability-maintenance funds—"Chinese people have low quality," "China's national conditions are unsuitable for democracy," "Without the Communist Party, China would be torn apart"—to go completely bankrupt, shattering into unrecyclable political garbage. It makes the 1.4 billion mainlanders soberly and agonizingly see: Both are descendants of Yan and Huang, both equally hardworking and brave, why can compatriots across the strait stand up and with dignity be the masters of the country, while we must be stripped of all basic human rights, locked tight by high-tech surveillance, and reduced to "human mines" and beasts of burden arbitrarily crushed by totalitarian rulers just to protect the glory and wealth of family elites?!
What destroyed China's prosperity was never any democratic constitutionalism; what created social turmoil was absolutely never any freedom of speech; what truly locked the process of China's modernization, creating countless blood, tears, famines, and sufferings over the past century, is exactly that totalitarian poison hand styling itself as the "Great Savior," which in reality sucked dry the marrow of the Chinese nation.
When "Chinese Exceptionalism," this final, most shameless fig leaf, is completely torn to shreds and burned by the light of the beacon of Taiwan, the last line of defense in thought, logic, and jurisprudence of the totalitarian system has crashed down silently. Above the ruins of this lie, the ideological awakening of 1.4 billion Chinese people has been completed. The dawning light of smashing the chains and marching toward the republic will surely be like an erupting red sun, unstoppable by any totalitarian darkness.
Chapter 20: The Mighty Current of History: The Twilight of Dictators and the Demise of the Rogue Club
When we elevate our gaze dissecting the totalitarian system from the suffocating domestic "panopticon" and "empire of human mines," casting it towards the broader global geopolitical vision and the long river of human history, we will extremely clearly see an even grander, more unsparing picture.
The evolution of human political civilization has never been a blind collision without rules, nor is it a pendulum casually swinging between different systems; it follows an extremely cold, directionally clear, and absolutely irreversible law of physics of "decreasing entropy"—from autocracy to democracy, from slavery to freedom, from barbaric plunder by strong power to a contract society based on rules.
When the totalitarian rulers in Beijing attempt to use tank treads, the network firewall (GFW), and pervasive high-tech AI surveillance to block this mighty torrent of freedom, they simply do not realize that what they are fighting against is not only the painfully awakening minds of the 1.4 billion Chinese people, but the mighty overall current of history formed through countless baptisms of blood and fire over the past two hundred years by all of humanity—a current where those who submit to it prosper, and those who resist it perish.
1. Two Hundred Years of Real Data: Dictators Are Becoming an Irretrievable "Endangered Species"
To maintain their extremely fragile ruling legitimacy domestically, the CCP's imperial scholars and politicians of the "Strategic Fooling Agency" meticulously concoct grand narratives in their studies and official media day after day, such as the "theory of Western democratic decline," "the East rising and the West declining," and "the institutional superiority of the totalitarian system's concentration of resources to accomplish big things." They attempt to instill an illusory misconception into the 1.4 billion citizens tightly wrapped in the information cocoon: Totalitarian autocracy is not only not obsolete, but amidst the chaos of Western democracy, it represents the future direction of human development.
However, lies can never cover up ironclad data. As long as we open the world political map of the past two hundred years and look at the real statistical data and the evolutionary trend of history, this self-deceiving, megalomaniacal illusion is instantly smashed to pieces.
The Ultimate Evolution of the Historical Map and the Irresistible Wave of Democratization Let us turn the hands of time back two hundred years to the early 19th century. On the Earth at that time, monarchical autocracy, feudal dynasties, and totalitarian empires were the absolute mainstream configuration on this planet (such as the Qing Empire, Tsarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Habsburg Dynasty), while so-called democratic constitutionalism only flickered with extremely weak, extinguishable-at-any-moment sparks on the North American continent and in a few small corners of Western Europe.
However, accompanied by the roar of machines in the Industrial Revolution, the awakening of human rights from the Enlightenment, and every leap in information dissemination technology, the wheels of history crushed one seemingly invincible, armed-to-the-teeth totalitarian empire after another with overwhelming force.
The First World War thoroughly shattered the four major autocratic empires—Tsarist Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire—sweeping divine right and imperial power into the garbage dump of history; The Second World War saw all humanity pay the tragic price of tens of millions of lives to completely bury the extreme military totalitarian systems of the fascist Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan; By the 1970s and 1980s, Latin America, Southern Europe, and East Asia (including South Korea, the Philippines, and the Taiwan region) erupted in the roaring "Third Wave of Democratization," where a batch of military governments and right-wing dictators (like Pinochet, Chun Doo-hwan, Marcos) handed over power amidst the roars of the people; On that winter night in 1991, the ultimate symbol of the Cold War—the massive Soviet red empire possessing tens of thousands of nuclear warheads and millions of steel torrents that once made the entire Western world tremble—crumbled with a crash like a sand sculpture overnight because it exhausted its economic potential and the trust of its people, and the nations of Eastern Europe were reborn one after another.
Today, no matter how the CCP's mouthpieces quibble, an irrefutable objective fact lies before the whole world: On this planet, almost all developed, wealthy, technologically advanced countries with strong innovation capabilities, where people enjoy the dignity of being free from fear, are all countries practicing constitutional democracy with checks and balances on power. In contrast, those countries that still stubbornly cling to totalitarian autocracy and refuse to transition to modern civilization are, without exception, all deeply mired in the desperate mud of poverty, turmoil, corruption, international sanctions, and closed doors.
Political Zombies Swept into the Garbage Dump of History Cruel historical data unsparingly declares: Totalitarian autocracy has long lost any historical legitimacy and evolutionary vitality. Those dictators who were once invincible, killed like flies, and thought they could ride roughshod over the people forever—whether Hitler of Nazi Germany, Ceaușescu of Romania, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, or Gaddafi of Libya—all possessed massive armies and secret service systems while alive, but their ultimate ends, without exception, were either shooting themselves in bunkers or being dragged out of sewers and sent to the gallows by the angry people.
In this modern global civilizational network with freedom, human rights, the rule of law, and open markets as the underlying codes, dictators are dying out at an unprecedented speed, completely reduced to a universally despised "endangered species" on this planet. CCP totalitarianism is by no means some "new form" of human civilization. It is merely a massive "political zombie" in this long and cruel historical elimination tournament, barely clinging to life to this day relying on its extremely massive national volume and utterly cruel blood-sucking methods.
2. The General Backer of the Totalitarian Club: Squeezing National Blood and Sweat to Support the "New Axis of Evil"
Faced with the pressure of the mighty current of the world, the top rulers of the CCP not only failed to display any political wisdom to conform to history and return power to the people, but instead fell into extreme doomsday panic and persecution paranoia. They know better than anyone in their hearts: There is a "lips and teeth" (interdependent) effect among totalitarian regimes. Once surrounding dictatorial regimes, even rogue regimes, all fall, China will become the last and largest totalitarian isolated island on this planet, and the sea of fire of free democracy will inevitably spread across the border, completely swallowing the CCP's rule.
Therefore, to desperately hold onto the dragon throne of one family and one party in the Forbidden City, the CCP did not hesitate to stand on the absolute opposite side of all human modern civilization and universal values. Not only do they implement fascist suppression domestically, but internationally, they openly act as the "general backer" and largest financier of global rogue regimes, cruel dictators, and terrorists.
Using the Bones and Blood of 1.4 Billion People to Prolong the Lives of Dictatorial Scoundrels On the international diplomatic stage, the CCP abandoned all moral bottom lines, rallying around Russia, Iran, North Korea, the Afghan Taliban, and a group of notorious dictatorial regimes spurned by civilized society, covertly forming an anti-human "New Axis of Evil." To maintain the survival of this "Totalitarian Rogue Club," the CCP displayed a "generosity" that made the entire free world shudder.
Transfusing Blood for Wars of Aggression: When Putin brazenly launched a cruel war of aggression against Ukraine, causing devastation to lives, and faced severe economic and technological sanctions from almost all civilized countries in the world, the top CCP leadership openly proclaimed "Sino-Russian cooperation has no limits." Not only did they covertly provide Russia with military components (such as drone parts, military-grade chips, heavy trucks) through complex white-glove companies, but they frantically bought Russian oil and natural gas that couldn't be sold due to sanctions at prices far higher than reasonable international market ranges, using real gold and silver to directly transfuse blood into Putin's blood-stained war machine.
Feeding the Rogue Dog of Nuclear Deterrence: When the Kim dynasty in North Korea saw its domestic population starving and could not even guarantee basic electricity, yet was still frantically test-firing intercontinental ballistic missiles and even threatening world peace with nuclear weapons, the CCP continuously sent food and energy across the Yalu River to maintain the regime's survival, desperately preserving this most absurd and brutal totalitarian regime in human history from collapsing, merely to use it as a "mad dog" to disgust the free world geopolitically.
Scheckbuch Diplomacy and Debt Shackles: In Africa and Latin America, the CCP engages in "money diplomacy." With a stroke of a pen, they forgive tens of billions of dollars in debt owed by African dictatorial military governments, and even provide gratuitous aid to build extremely luxurious stadiums, presidential palaces, and parliament buildings. The CCP's sole purpose in doing this is merely to exchange for these rogue states' "yes" votes at the UN Human Rights Council regarding the CCP's atrocious human rights record in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, whitewashing its brutal rule.
The Ultimate Cruelty of Totalitarian Logic: Better to Give to Friendly Nations Than to House Slaves Behind this worldwide scattering of money hides the most anti-human, most nauseating cold-blooded logic of totalitarian rule. Those hundreds of billions, trillions of massive funds continuously funneled to Russia, North Korea, and African dictators didn't fall from the sky! That is the heart's blood boiled out of China's 1.4 billion bottom-tier "human mines" working 12 hours a day on Foxconn assembly lines! That is the land tax paid by Chinese commoners bearing thirty-year high-interest mortgages and emptying six wallets! That is the blood-and-sweat fines harshly deducted by platform algorithms from food delivery riders in the wind and rain!
When countless elderly people in remote mountainous areas of China can only get a little over a hundred yuan in rural pension a month and can only wait to die in despair because they can't afford to see a doctor; when countless left-behind children in rural areas can't even get a nutritious lunch with meat; when tens of millions of university graduates face a desperate wave of unemployment... the CCP dictators sign away hundreds of billions of US dollars to the international rogue club without changing expression. The dictator's calculation is extremely sinister: They would rather squander all the country's foreign exchange reserves and future, rather forcibly drain the fat and blood of 1.4 billion ordinary Chinese people to the last drop, than not buy a little bit more stability-maintenance breathing room for their extremely corrupt, foul-smelling dictatorial camp. The eternal regret of the late Qing Dynasty that countless Chinese people nailed to the pillar of historical shame—"Better to give to friendly nations than to house slaves"—is not only perfectly inherited in today's totalitarian China of the 21st century, but is performed into reality on a scale thousands of times more massive and deranged.
3. The Comprehensive Counterattack of the Civilized World: From Appeasement Illusions to Ultimate Containment
During the golden age of globalization over the past nearly thirty years, the Western free world (especially the United States) harbored an extremely naive, romanticized "appeasement illusion" towards the CCP. Western mainstream elites engaged in wishful thinking: As long as China is allowed to join the WTO, as long as the doors to Western markets, capital, and technology are completely opened to China to help China develop its economy; then, when the wallets of the Chinese people bulge, when China births a massive middle class of hundreds of millions, the middle class's desire for private property and rights will inevitably force China to move toward political democratization.
This is the so-called "Engagement" policy that dominated Western policy toward China for decades. For this beautiful illusion, Western capital not only transferred massive amounts of technology, factories, and supply chains to China, but for over twenty years, turned a "blind eye" to the CCP's fascist acts of cruelly suppressing the June 4th student movement, cruelly persecuting domestic faith groups, and frantically cracking down on rights-defense lawyers, just to get a piece of the pie in this massive market.
The Completely Torn Camouflage and the Awakening of the Free World However, Westerners did not understand the greed and evil of totalitarianism. A modern version of the story of "The Farmer and the Viper" played out extremely tragically on the stage of international geopolitics.
Not only did the CCP not move toward democracy as the West hoped, but they extremely insidiously exploited the massive economic volume gained from thirty years of Western blood transfusion to arm the totalitarian machine to the teeth. Economically: They exploited the West's openness to frantically steal intellectual property, engage in state-forced technology transfer, and use massive state subsidies to carry out "zero human rights" rogue dumping, destroying traditional manufacturing in Europe and America. Politically: They used their massive economic volume to conduct "economic coercion," forcing Western multinational companies, Hollywood movies, and even NBA teams into humiliating "self-censorship" on the Taiwan issue and Chinese human rights issues, attempting to extend totalitarian speech censorship globally. Diplomatically and on Human Rights: They engaged in aggressive "Wolf Warrior diplomacy," openly tore up the UN-registered Sino-British Joint Declaration, thoroughly destroyed Hong Kong's freedom and democracy using the National Security Law; culminating in their frantic cover-up of the truth of human-to-human transmission and admonishing of whistleblowing doctors in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, ultimately triggering an unprecedented catastrophe that swept the globe, cost tens of millions of lives, and severely damaged the economy.
Coupled with the CCP's open financial and public opinion indulgence of Russia's invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine... this series of undisguised, rogue actions frantically testing the bottom lines of humanity, finally acted like a blow to the head, thoroughly awakening the entire slumbering free world to the true face of this ungrateful, extremely dangerous fascist monster.
The free world finally woke up as if from a dream. After paying an extremely tragic price, they finally understood a blood-stained lesson: A totalitarian system will absolutely not undergo political reform automatically because of economic prosperity. On the contrary, if you transfuse blood into a dictatorial regime, they will only use the money earned to buy thicker whips to lash their own people, manufacture more bullets and warships to threaten neighboring countries, and ultimately export dictatorial darkness and fear to the whole world.
Global Net-Closing: The Insurmountable Tech Iron Curtain and Geopolitical Containment When the civilized world thoroughly discarded illusions, an unprecedented global containment unfolded vigorously. This is no longer simple trade friction between China and the US, but an ultimate decisive battle concerning the future survival of human civilization and who will write the rules of the world.
The Cliff-Like Decoupling of Tech and Capital: From the US CHIPS and Science Act to the precise decoupling strategy of "Small Yard, High Fence," the free world joined hands to use the tightest technological blockade to directly cut off all pipelines for the CCP to acquire high-end semiconductor manufacturing equipment (EUV lithography machines), semiconductor materials, and Nvidia's most advanced AI computing chips; they even issued bans completely forbidding US citizens and green card holders from providing R&D services to Chinese semiconductor enterprises. This is an extremely cold-blooded pulling of fuel from under the cauldron, directly cutting off the main artery through which the totalitarian government attempted to dominate the globe in AI and high-tech military fields, locking its technology tree tightly in a low-end, backward stage.
The Steel Defense Line of Geopolitics: From the institutionalization of the US-Japan-India-Australia "Quad," to the establishment of the "AUKUS" nuclear submarine alliance among the US, UK, and Australia, to NATO unprecedentedly extending its strategic perspective to the Asia-Pacific region. A steel defense line formed by global democratic nations, armed to the teeth, has pinned the CCP and its totalitarian rogue allies firmly into the closed corner of the Eurasian continent.
The external main arteries that once continuously infused nutrients, technology, and US dollars into the totalitarian machine are being cut off one by one, extremely coldly and resolutely. Having lost the free world's technological inputs and open markets, the CCP high-level's struggle to implement so-called "economic internal circulation" is nothing more than burning inside an oxygen-deprived, sealed container; all struggles will only accelerate its own process of suffocation and destruction.
4. The Net of History Closing In: The Twilight of Dictators and the Irreversible Law of Cycles
Anyone who attempts to resist gravity will eventually fall; any regime that moves against the tide and attempts to defy the common sense of modern civilization ultimately cannot escape the fate of being crushed by common sense.
Today, the CCP totalitarian system is facing a perfect storm of "internal collapse and external strangulation."
Domestically: The CCP's decades of extreme extraction have completely touched the absolute bottom lines of biology and economics. The youth sterilization and lying flat, symbolized by the "last generation," has cut off the high-quality human mines for the next decades; the frantic withdrawal of foreign capital and the complete disillusionment of private enterprises have led to the cliff-like shrinking of the tax base and the total blood-collapse of local finances. The massive gears of the totalitarian machine are emitting extremely piercing, near-jamming friction sounds due to the lack of money and fresh blood lubrication.
Internationally: The "rogue club" they exhaust national strength to support, even at the cost of starving their own people, is similarly mired in mud and tottering. Russia's successive retreats and exhaustion of national strength on the Ukrainian battlefield, and the continuous, unending anti-dictatorship female protests in Iran, all prove to the world: The totalitarian camp, seemingly baring fangs and claws, is actually a group of weak paper tigers internally riddled with holes. There is no true morality among these dictators, only mafia-style interest exchanges; once the building is about to collapse, they will definitely bite and sell each other out for their own survival.
The cycle of history is extremely cruel and absolutely just. Dictators are always prone to overestimating the deterrent power of the violence in their hands, and vastly underestimating the yearning for freedom and the hatred for tyranny deep within human souls.
That the CCP totalitarianism could linger on or even temporarily appear prosperous over the past seventy-odd years is fundamentally not because their totalitarian system has any bullshit "special advantages." It is merely because they extremely luckily hitched a ride on the historical train of the end of the Cold War and Western-led globalization. Through bottomlessly overdrafting the basic human rights of 1.4 billion Chinese, overdrafting China's natural environment of thousands of years, and overdrafting the future of descendants, they exchanged for a short-term terminal lucidity of a few decades.
But now, this stolen free ride has completely reached the terminal station. All overdrafts have reached their limits, and all historical bills have arrived at the moment where they must be repaid with interest at the cost of blood.
When we overlook this era from the macro vantage point of history, all the threads are extremely clear: In the face of the mighty tide of the free and democratic world, the CCP and the rogue club composed of its dictators are nothing but a foul-smelling stream flowing against the current in the long river of history.
When the external blood transfusion tubes are thoroughly unplugged, when internal finances dry up unable to pay stability-maintenance military wages, when 1.4 billion people no longer fear but choose complete non-cooperation, this crazy totalitarian war chariot that has operated for a century, crushing countless innocent lives, has thoroughly reached a dead end.
The demise of the rogue club is not only inevitable, it is imminent. The twilight of dictators has long since quietly fallen, and the countdown of the death knell announcing the end of totalitarianism is echoing with deafening, unstoppable roars in the skies above this tottering totalitarian empire! What awaits them will surely be the most ruthless and most complete judgment of history.
Chapter 21: Reconstructing the Social Contract: The Baseline Consensus for Marching Toward the Republic and the "Chinese Magna Carta of Liberty"
When the garbage time of history reaches its end, when the behemoth of the totalitarian system crashes down amidst the desperate exhaustion from within and without, when the red shackles that bound the Chinese for nearly a century finally shatter into mud, above these ruins covered in blood, tears, absurdity, and trauma, the Chinese nation will face an unprecedented, and also the most perilous, historical crossroads.
Destroying an old world is merely a prelude; building a new world is the true, ultimate test for this nation. Looking throughout China's thousands of years of history, we have staged too many cycles of order and chaos of "changing the king's banner on the city wall." If, after the collapse of the old totalitarian system, we still cling to the old subject mentality, still kneel in the ruins pleading and hoping for a new "wise ruler" or "great savior" to descend and save the common people, then the specter of totalitarianism will surely resurrect in a borrowed corpse, and the unsolvable dead loop of history will inevitably drag us into the abyss once again.
Therefore, the dawning light of marching toward the republic is absolutely not just a simple change of regime; it must be built upon a thorough, bone-scraping ideological enlightenment of the entire nation's soul, and a nationwide baseline consensus that brooks no trampling by any careerist. This is not just the physical process of smashing the chains, but the ultimate spiritual metamorphosis of 1.4 billion Chinese people from "subjects" and "human mines" waiting to be slaughtered, into fully realized "citizens" who straighten their spines and hold ballots in their hands.
1. Completely Breaking the Millennium-Old Myth: There Is No Savior, Only a Sacred Contract
Looking back at thousands of years of Chinese history, when the common people at the bottom suffered tyranny and extreme hardship, they always habitually knelt in the mud, bitterly hoping in despair for the descent of a "Blue Sky Grand Master" (an upright official), or placing their hopes on a wise and martial "True Dragon Son of Heaven" to carry out the way of heaven. During the process of seizing power and founding the state, the Communist Party of China extremely precisely and insidiously exploited this traditional slave mentality of the Chinese people. Through bottomless deification campaigns, they dressed themselves up as the "Great Savior," deified the leader, and thus naturally stole absolute power unchecked by anything.
The post-CCP era of China must undergo the most thorough, most agonizing ideological awakening: There has never been any savior in this world. The New China does not need great men, much less gods; we only need a contract!
The most basic common sense of modern political civilization is that a country's long-term stability and peace can absolutely not, and dare not, be built upon the "moral self-awareness" and "original aspiration" of a certain leader or political group. Because human nature is inherently selfish, power inherently possesses the greed for infinite expansion and corruption. Any unchecked power, even if it initially flew the noblest banners, will ultimately evolve into a man-eating beast.
Therefore, upon the bloody ruins of the totalitarian system, we must reconstruct a brand-new social contract truly belonging to all citizens—let us tentatively call it the "Chinese Magna Carta of Liberty". The underlying logic of this Magna Carta will thoroughly overturn the two-thousand-year Qin system tradition: It is no longer a tool used by rulers condescendingly to "manage" and oppress the people, but the highest political baseline jointly reached by 1.4 billion Chinese citizens to protect their own rights.
This Magna Carta must establish an ironclad common sense for everyone: State power must be securely locked in the cage of institutions; the government is not the parent of the people, but merely a "property management company" hired by the citizens using taxpayers' money; and the people are the only, absolute, and inviolable masters of this land. If the property management company performs poorly, or dares to bare its teeth at the property owners, the owners have the absolute right to immediately dismiss it via ballots!
2. The Uncompromising Baseline: Private Property Rights and the Right to Bear Arms to Defend Against Tyranny
In this future constitutional consensus, to thoroughly sever any possibility of careerists or interest groups vainly attempting to restore the totalitarian system, the "Chinese Magna Carta of Liberty" must establish several foundational principles. These principles are the lifeblood of modern civilization, absolute bottom lines that cannot be shaken, leaving no room for compromise or retreat:
Abolishing Thought Crimes and the Absolute Guarantee of Freedom of Speech In the future New China, all political "pocket crimes" with totalitarian colors, such as "inciting subversion of state power," "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," and "illegal association," must be completely erased from the criminal law. Under the supreme protection of the Magna Carta, citizens' criticism, questioning, mocking, and even cursing of the government, the ruling party, and the supreme leader is an inalienable natural right, falling under the absolute protection scope of freedom of speech. The government has no right to establish any form of news censorship agency. Modern "Ministries of Truth" like the Propaganda Department and Cyberspace Administration must be permanently dissolved and nailed to the pillar of historical shame. No one shall be incriminated for their speech; this is the first line of defense preventing power from entering a black box.
The Ultimate Establishment of the Sacred and Inviolable Nature of Private Property The economic root of why CCP totalitarianism could so extremely easily turn common people into slaves and pinch everyone's soft underbelly is that through violent "Land Reform" and "public-private partnerships," they monopolized all land and means of production in China (the so-called "public ownership" and "collective ownership"). When the state controls all the rice bowls, the people have no choice but to kneel and beg for food. Therefore, the first step in marching toward the republic is that the ownership of land and the right to free trade must be completely returned to every citizen in the form of law. "Private property is sacred and inviolable" must be written on the first page of the Magna Carta in the most eye-catching letters. Without the absolute independence of private property rights, there is absolutely no independence of personal personality. As long as the government can still arbitrarily "beat local tyrants and divide land" in the name of "national construction," as long as bulldozers can still forcibly demolish commoners' houses without court permission, freedom will forever be a mirage built on sand.
Ultimate Deterrence: The Right to Bear Arms to Defend Against Tyranny This is a historical lesson deliberately concealed, even demonized over the past decades, but extremely cruel and vitally important for Chinese people who have experienced extreme tyranny: If laws lose the protection of the physical power of the masses, once encountering a rogue government, they immediately turn into waste paper; if the people are forever in a completely disarmed state, they can only be like captive cattle and horses, allowing robbers holding gun barrels to arbitrarily slaughter them.
Imagine, if during the three years of extreme lockdowns, the people had weapons for defense in their hands, would those "Dabai" and black security guards with no law enforcement power at all still dare to arbitrarily kick open civilians' doors and forcibly drag ordinary people into makeshift hospitals like dogs? Would they still dare to use sheet metal to weld shut the fire escape routes of entire buildings, causing innocents to die tragically in fires?
To fundamentally cut off the delusions of any future careerists, warlords, or political parties rebuilding tyranny, this Magna Carta must break the "banning weapons to control the people" logic of thousands of years of autocratic rule, explicitly endowing and guaranteeing citizens the right to carry and possess weapons to defend against tyranny (like the core spirit of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution). This is absolutely not to encourage violent conflicts in society; on the contrary, it is the most powerful, most effective "baseline deterrence." When public power attempts to go completely dark, when government armies and police turn their guns on unarmed people, when all courts become accomplices of power and lose their relief function, armed defense is the last resort for free citizens to resist tyranny and protect their families.
Rulers must constantly live in a highly clear fear: "If I dare to cross the red line of the constitution, if I dare to arbitrarily trample on the dignity of the people, the people have the capability, the legal right, to use physical means to drive me from power." Only when the people not only possess ballots but also possess the baseline capability to overturn the table, can the people enjoy true, lasting security free from fear.
3. The Return of Sunny Rule of Law: The Sunshine Act, Public Order and Good Morals, and the Demise of "Police and Bandits Are One Family"
Once true freedom, democracy, and the separation of three powers are realized, the most intuitive and fundamental change in Chinese society is that the law will completely return from the ruler's whip to the people's shield.
The Sunshine Act and the End of Systemic Corruption The root of the bottomless, increasingly corrupt black hole of graft within the CCP's totalitarian system lies in their resolute rejection of power transparency, vainly attempting to use the "family law" of the internal black box to substitute for social supervision. And in the future constitutional society, that "Sunshine Act" (mandatory official asset disclosure system) that the totalitarian system strictly defended against and viewed as a flood or a beast for decades, will naturally be comprehensively implemented as water flows to form a channel. From the supreme head of state, cabinet ministers, to provincial governors, down to grassroots district and town heads, any official who holds public power and receives taxpayer salary, along with their immediate family members, must absolutely and without reservation publicly disclose all domestic and foreign real estate, deposits, stocks, and trust assets on the internet to 1.4 billion citizens. Any act of concealing assets will be deemed a severe criminal felony. The systemic corruption problem that has plagued Chinese society for thousands of years, seemingly indelible and even considered a "cultural inferior root," will definitely receive a thorough reckoning and resolution under the exposure of sunlight and the ruthless supervision of ballots. Corruption will absolutely no longer be the default "unspoken rule" in Chinese society; it will be mercilessly swept into the garbage dump of history.
The Reconstruction of the Moral Wasteland and the Bankruptcy of Police-Bandit Collusion At the same time, as long as society possesses an independent and impartial judicial system, those "public orders and good morals" lost under totalitarian extraction, those distorted interpersonal relationships, will naturally take root and sprout again on this land. In a sunny, open, transparent society ruled by law, judges are only loyal to the law itself, no longer subjected to the behind-the-scenes manipulation of any "Political and Legal Affairs Commission Secretary." When malicious verdicts like the "Nanjing Peng Yu Case" that point at a deer and call it a horse and invert black and white are thoroughly overturned and held accountable; when courageous acts for justice can receive the highest legal praise and substantive protection, while extortionist scammers face extremely severe punishment; the gentleness and sense of justice hidden in the hearts of Chinese people for five thousand years will be instantly activated.
Having lost unchecked power as a protective umbrella, the arrogance of the ruling class, the dark violence of the law enforcement class, and the phenomenon of "police and bandits are one family" (Jing-fei yijia) where public power and mafia-like forces colluded long-term to prey on the common people, will inevitably collapse on their own. Courts are no longer the "house slaves surnamed Party," no longer accomplices helping local governments suppress petitioners, but become the most trustworthy, rock-solid guardian deities of justice for ordinary citizens when they are infringed upon.
4. Shattering the Shackles on the People's Livelihood: Welfare Reconstruction and Labor Dignity Under Democratic Constitutionalism
What makes ordinary people feel most despairing and pained in Chinese society today are the three great mountains pressing heavily on the heads of the bottom-tier commoners: unable to afford major illnesses, unable to afford good schooling, and no provisions for old age. The totalitarian government's imperial literati have long brainwashed citizens, making them think this is because China "has too many people, a thin foundation, and is still a developing country," so ordinary people just have to suffer grievances. But this is an out-and-out, extremely malicious lie.
The Wealth Swallowed by Totalitarianism and the Instant Leap in People's Livelihood We must clearly see through an extremely shocking reality: China today is fundamentally not some poor and blank backward country; it has completely accumulated all the hardware wealth needed for a massive modern industrial society! China's total productive capacity, steel output, infrastructure capability, and foreign exchange reserves have long been enough to let 1.4 billion people live a dignified, decent, and unhurried life. The ultimate reason why ordinary people rise early and stay up late yet still live lives worse than beasts of burden, precarious and insecure, is singular—the massive wealth created by 1.4 billion people has been thoroughly stolen by the totalitarian system!
This wealth, which should have been used for national welfare, was transferred by corrupt officials to Swiss bank accounts; was used to build extremely horrifyingly expensive high-ranking cadre special supply wards and privileged sanatoriums; was used for the "Skynet surveillance" and stability-maintenance armies that exceed national defense budgets annually just to suppress ordinary people; was used for "rogue diplomacy massive money-scattering" in Africa and Latin America to buy UN votes!
If totalitarianism is overthrown, in an egalitarian country ruled by law, how will these sufferings be resolved? The answer is: Not only can they be perfectly resolved, but due to China's massive industrial volume, civil welfare can achieve an almost instantaneous giant leap. Referring to Taiwan of the same root and origin, and the experience of the vast majority of democratic countries in the world, when ballots truly return to the hands of the people, when the government no longer needs to spend trillions annually to feed massive "riot police," Chengguan, and internet censors, when the trillion-dollar stolen funds of corrupt officials hidden overseas are recovered into the national treasury by democratic governments' transnational mechanisms... the future democratic government, to gain the votes of the people and ruling legitimacy, will inevitably directly and fully invest this massive recovered wealth into the livelihood of the entire population.
Establishing a free baseline medical system covering the entire population and eliminating the urban-rural gap; implementing twelve years or even higher-limit free high-quality compulsory education; completely abolishing the sickening systemic privileged dual-track system, establishing a completely equal retirement pension system for officials and citizens... These welfares, painted as "unattainable utopias" in the totalitarian context, are not only economically pressure-free under democratic constitutionalism, but are the most basic contractual obligations a democratically elected government must fulfill.
Labor Dignity and the End of "Involution" In the future republican society, the income and dignity of ordinary laborers will usher in substantive skyrocketing. Laborers will be endowed with the absolute political rights prescribed by the Magna Carta—to form true, powerful independent unions uncontrolled by the government and capitalists. Facing the extreme extraction of capital (like 996, food delivery algorithm exploitation), workers no longer need to jump off buildings to protest; they can legally organize collective strikes and demonstrations, conducting open, fair, and equal games and negotiations with management within the framework of the law. When ordinary people have ballots in their hands deciding the mayor's stay or departure, have the right to strike capable of halting a factory, and have independent courts backing them, the leverage of wealth distribution in the whole society will inevitably and irreversibly tilt toward bottom-tier laborers. That agonizing, extreme "involution" forcing young people into sterilization and lying flat will vanish into thin air and completely disappear along with the fall of the totalitarian system. Labor will no longer be drudgery, but a decent way to earn a decent living.
5. Uprooting the Malignant Tumor: The Absolute Prerequisite for Marching Toward Civilization
Before looking forward to all this beautiful, hope-filled future, we must face an extremely cold political prerequisite with no room for compromise: If the Communist Party of China, this blood-sucking malignant tumor, is not completely uprooted, it is absolutely impossible for China to achieve democracy; and if democratic constitutionalism is not achieved, the desperate beast-of-burden-like lives of ordinary people will never improve even a tiny bit.
The Communist Party of China is absolutely not a normal modern political party; it is like an extremely massive, greedy, and bottomless malignant tumor growing on the body of the Chinese nation. Through over seventy years of violent suppression and lie-based brainwashing, they illegally monopolized all political power and economic lifelines of the state, grabbing the vast majority of China's resources and profits. The industrial society dividends that bottom-tier commoners should have enjoyed have all been sucked dry to the roots by this tumor.
Any attempt to seek so-called "moderate reform" within this totalitarian system, or hoping that some high-level dictator suddenly "discovers his conscience," implements inner-party democracy, and eventually moves toward constitutionalism, is tantamount to asking a tiger for its skin. It is extremely ignorant of historical laws, and even more a betrayal of the deep suffering of 1.4 billion people. How could a tumor surviving on sucking blood voluntarily give up sucking blood?
Thoroughly overthrowing CCP totalitarianism is not only the political enlightenment of a minority of intellectuals, not only the inevitable law of the evolution of world history, it is the only way out for 1.4 billion bottom-tier commoners to allow themselves and their descendants to live on like capitalized Human Beings. This is a decisive battle with no retreat; if this massive totalitarian corpse is not thoroughly cremated, New China cannot possibly welcome a true dawn.
6. The Imminent Rejuvenation: Unleashing the Majestic Power of 1.4 Billion People and Universal Prosperity
We must extremely soberly and firmly recognize a core thesis: China's suffering stems from the CCP's totalitarian system, but the true hope for China's rise always lies with the hardworking and wise Chinese people.
Never underestimate the terrifying potential of this ancient nation. Given the astonishing creativity Chinese people have displayed over thousands of years, their indomitable endurance in adversity, their extremely high computing power and intelligence, as well as their almost fanatical desire for a better life—once they truly break free from the heavy chains placed around their necks by the totalitarian system; once true freedom, democracy, rule of law, and constitutionalism are realized, establishing modern civilizational institutions that are fair, just, open, and equal; the massive potential of 1.4 billion Chinese people, ruthlessly suppressed, distorted, and depleted by the totalitarian system for a whole century, will instantly, like a suppressed active volcano, erupt with a majestic power that shocks the globe!
By then, on the vast land of China, there will no longer be second-class citizen discrimination created by the Hukou system, no longer the extremely inefficient and corrupt SOE monopolies, no longer the political fear of being taken away by domestic security police in the middle of the night, and even less the "deep-sea fishing" style cross-provincial robberies targeting private entrepreneurs. The wisdom and energy of the Chinese people will be completely liberated from mutual calculation, mutual harm, and coping with endless declarations of political stance, entirely thrown into true technological innovation, cultural prosperity, and wealth creation.
In a future without the totalitarian vampires, Chinese people will truly live a modernized life of equality, freedom, dignity, and "universal prosperity." Relying on China's existing massive industrial manufacturing capacity, rich resource endowment, and the world's largest, extremely high-quality population base, achieving and even comprehensively surpassing the living standards and social governance heights of developed European and American countries is absolutely not some unattainable utopian fantasy, but a historical inevitability that is just around the corner as soon as the totalitarian shackles are smashed!
What hinders the Chinese nation from marching toward true great rejuvenation has never been any illusory "hostile foreign forces" spoken of by official mouthpieces, nor is it Western sanctions; what truly tightly grips the throat of China's development is precisely the CCP totalitarian ruling group sitting on the heads of the people right at this moment, holding a whip and sucking the marrow.
7. A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire and the Dawning Light (Epilogue of the Book)
The long night is ending, and a single spark will surely start a prairie fire.
All ideological enlightenment and jurisprudential reconstruction must ultimately translate into practical actions that break the fear. The totalitarian system, relying on its massive standing army, hundreds of millions of surveillance probes, and brutal suppression methods, looks like an invincible steel great wall. But in the face of the mighty torrent of historical common sense and the unstoppable awakening hearts of 1.4 billion people, it is nothing more than a sand sculpture already riddled with holes inside, ready to collapse at the first touch.
Here, we issue the deepest and most solemn call to every compatriot who reads this The Root of All Evil: An Anatomy of the CCP, who identifies with universal values, and whose heart still yearns for the light:
Please do not succumb to despair in the fear manufactured by totalitarianism, please do not continue to sink in the mutual harm and apathy at the bottom. Even if we are still in the darkest cyber cage at this moment, please, in a safe network environment, pass the spark of truth, the common sense of this book, to every soul around you that can still be awakened. Please, in your heart, sign your name as a free person in advance to that impending "Chinese Magna Carta of Liberty."
No matter how profound the long night is, there will eventually be the moment it is torn apart; no matter how tragic the ruins of tyranny are, the most dazzling flowers of freedom will surely bloom upon them.
When we close the heavy pages of this book and look back at those darkest years intertwined with lies, famines, bloody forced demolitions, astronomical mortgages, unfinished buildings, meat grinders, soft-underbelly threats, and digital cages, we should turn our grief and anger into a bone-deep memory: The blood and tears of generations of Chinese people absolutely must not have flowed in vain. Those pioneers and martyrs who paid with their lives and freedom to speak the truth in the totalitarian meat grinder—whether Lin Zhao, Liu Xiaobo, or Li Wenliang, Peng Lifa, or those brave youths who held up white paper—their sacrifices will surely transform into the last handful of dirt burying totalitarianism, transforming into the most solid cornerstone of the republic's rebirth.
When that red malignant tumor parasitic for a century is completely uprooted, when the creativity and dignity of 1.4 billion people are thoroughly unleashed, when the tiny sparks of anonymous joint signatures finally start a prairie fire turning into the entire nation's majestic faith in pursuing freedom—a clean, just, democratic, rule-of-law, universally prosperous New China will surely wash away the bloodstains of a century of humiliation, standing majestically in the East of the world!
That is the dawning light belonging to 1.4 billion fully realized citizens, and even more so, the most magnificent, most spectacular, and greatest rebirth from the ashes in the entire history of human civilization!
[End of the Book]