by Fong Yuen

Without a hint of shame, the Ministry of Wolf Warrior Affairs’ spokesperson Zhao Lijian said, " The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese people are deeply affectionate and connected in flesh and in blood. The Chinese people are the copper walls and iron façades of the CCP. No one can dream of shattering them.” The usual cliché used by the CCP to kidnap the Chinese people has, this time, attracted the ridicule of many Chinese netizens.

“Damned be those who never think of us when times are going well; and with their mouthfuls of people as cannon fodder when they’re not!” “How are bodies of flesh and blood copper walls and iron façades again?” “You are the knife and I am the fish, such deep affections.” “Let the people be the shields?” “Shouldn’t the Party be the people’s copper walls and iron façades?”

Not only that, but in response to almost all of the recent official statements around internal affairs and diplomacy have met with mocking cynicism and sharp-tongued comments from netizens, who have been having a field day with the sting, a spectacle indeed from the outside.

The mainland practice of requiring netizens to register with their real names when going virtual and purchasing their phones have long been around. Anything said by anyone on the Internet could be traced back to them, and the government will make you pay. Under such strict monitoring and surveillance, why is there still a landslide of dissatisfaction with the government coming from the netizens?

In the past, everyone was only concerned about making money, and devoted their time and energy to work and business. As long as they were fed and sheltered, they did not question the world; recently, more and more mainland people have become emboldened to enter the grey area with sarcastic remarks. Their sneering words were not meant to change the world, but more for momentary satisfaction.

Such a widespread response on the Internet could not have been possible under the ever-increasing social surveillance, so has the government relaxed network control? If the government has indeed opened up the Internet, it is an act no different from a suicide; Is it that the government has been so troubled internally and externally, that they have no time to deal with the rants of the lowly peasants? The public security and national security are ironclad, and should not have allowed for such lax; is it because the tsunami of public grievances is too gigantic, that there is no point in catching them all? Seems unlikely. The stability maintenance team is colossal, with armies of wu maos everywhere. There is no reason to indulge in the noise of people’s resistance.

The CCP governs with lies and violence. In dealing with the majority of its people, it uses lies to brainwash and paralyze the mind; in dealing with the very few protesters of human rights, it uses violence to suppress and oppress. Since Xi Jinping came to power, he has taken the country on a regression to the para-political society of the Cultural Revolution era. With wolf warrior diplomacy on the outside, he has offended the majority of the planet; with strictly surveilled social life on the inside, politics have penetrated every corner of civilian life. This national policy that counters the trend of the epoch has aroused skepticism and dissatisfaction among most Chinese people. Despite the 100% control of media by the government, the Internet is infinitely large, and whispers are difficult to be banned, and the CCP’s political lies have been bankrupted.

In order to consolidate its dominant position, the CCP has no limit. In recent years, there have been social incidents such as demobilized soldiers defending their rights, truck drivers protesting, low-end population being expelled, cities being forcefully closed under the epidemic, etc. From the recent floods, food shortages, foreign trade blockades, issues in finance, healthcare, and employment, unrests in Hong Kong, Taiwan’s resistance towards the CCP, to the very recent trend of banning Mongolian in Inner Mongolia, there has not been a moment of peace and calm in China.

For every vicious societal event, the CCP has used bribery on one hand, and violence on the other, to pacify. Yet pacify does not mean resolve, but the contradictions have now been concealed, and accumulated in society. People’s frustration runs underground. Comes the tiniest trigger, all the deeply embedded mines detonate altogether. All kinds of “negative energies” on the Internet are foreshadowing the detonation of collapse at the deepest layer of society – when individual societal disturbances are set off, there will be smokes all around. How to stabilize the world?

Since the CCP came to power, it has experienced three political crises. First was a three-year famine, in which 40 million people died of starvation. The CCP blamed the man-made disaster god, and attributed it to natural disasters; Second was the Cultural Revolution, in which the economy was on the verge of collapse due to political turmoil. Eventually, old Mao died and the Gang of Four fell apart. Deng Xiaoping fixed it; Third was the price reform coupled with the death of Hu Yaobang, which led to the Tiananmen Massacre. A complete disaster was suppressed by the use of force.

In the first crisis, the initial momentum of the CCP’s regime was still there; the second crisis banked on Mao’s personal prestige; in the third crisis, the violent suppression by the army brought about a new life. Three crises, all survived. The CCP was saved from collapse.

This crisis is a lot more serious. Economic development is stagnated, societal problems are too numerous. Xi Jinping is the one almighty authority, and politics are regressing. The Chinese people’s expectations for political reform have turned hopeless, and instead, replaced by the prospect of famine. Not to mention being diplomatically handicapped and overwhelmed by collective Western attacks. This crisis is all-rounded and deep-seated, and there is no prospect of a way out.

It is too late for the CCP to turn back. International and domestic contradictions have intensified and conflicts are following one after another. Unrests are surging at the bottom, while uneasiness plagues the top. China is brewing huge vicissitudes that come only once in a century. Cai Xia predicted immense chaos within five years. That is the truth told by an insider.

“As China faces her greatest peril,” a national anthem being sung daily, now it is about to come true.

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