Selanjutnya, kumpulan pembaruan singkat dari dalam China. Pertama, gelombang baru COVID-19 sedang menyebar di China, dan laporan mengatakan generasi muda terpukul keras oleh gelombang ini. Di Zhengzhou, China Tengah, sebuah rumah sakit merawat lebih dari 1.700 pasien perawatan darurat, semuanya berusia 18 hingga 25 tahun, pada bulan September saja.
Selain masalah kesehatan, ‘bank run’ masih berlangsung. Hal ini terjadi bersamaan dengan ketakutan terkait raksasa real estat Evergrande, serta kesengsaraan utangnya yang parah. Ratusan orang terlihat awal pekan ini memenuhi gedung bank regional di provinsi Hebei.
Selanjutnya, pegawai negara China melakukan pemogokan. Gambar spanduk merah yang digantung di depan kompleks negara di China Selatan menjadi viral di media sosial. Spanduk itu bertuliskan bahwa tiga puluh satu anggota staf keluar sebagai bentuk protes. Motivasi mereka masih belum jelas. Protes serupa juga terjadi di wilayah lain di seluruh China.
Dan, rekor kelahiran terendah baru di China. Angka tersebut turun 10% tahun lalu, menjadi hanya 9,5 juta pada 2022. Ini merupakan angka terendah dalam lebih dari 70 tahun.
Bergerak ke kasus pelanggaran HAM. Seorang wanita berusia 87 tahun dari provinsi Gansu, China, telah dijatuhi hukuman 6 tahun 9 bulan penjara. Dia adalah salah satu dari 104 praktisi Falun Gong yang menerima hukuman penjara bulan lalu.
Next, a round-up of quick updates from inside China.
First, a new wave of COVID-19 is spreading in China,
and reports say young people are getting hit hard by the wave.
In central China's Zhengzhou, a single hospital treated over 1,700 emergency care patients,
all of them 18 to 25 years old, in September alone.
This time, I truly understand what it means to lose the sense of smell,
lose hearing, and have a headache so severe it feels like it's going to explode.
Besides the health scares, bank runs are still in progress.
It's happening alongside fears about real estate giant Evergrande and its severe debt woes.
Hundreds were seen earlier this week filling up the building of a regional bank in Hebei province.
Evergrande's liability tops 328 billion dollars,
making it the world's most indebted developer.
A possible collapse would send shockwaves through China's banking system.
Next, Chinese state staffers are going on strike.
A picture of a red banner hanging in front of a state complex in southern China
is going viral on social media.
It reads that 31 staff members are walking out in protest.
Their motivation remains unclear.
Strikes are rare in China, largely because of fear of retaliation from authorities.
But China's economic troubles appear to be leaving citizens with few options.
Some local governments under the Chinese Communist Party
haven't paid their employees for over eight months.
Similar protests have broken out in other areas across China.
And a new record low for births in China.
The figure tumbled 10 percent last year to just 9.5 million in 2022.
It's the lowest figure in over 70 years.
An aging demographic has the potential to slow China's economy.
That's as revenue drops and state debt increases due to soaring health and welfare costs.
Moving to a case of human rights violations,
an 87-year-old woman from China's Gansu province
has been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison.
She's one of the 104 fallen gong practitioners who received jail sentences last month.
The news comes from the U.S.-based Minghui website.
A platform that tracks the Chinese regime's persecution of the fallen gong spiritual discipline.
Due to China's information blockade,
the real number of arrests and detentions could be much higher.
Fallen gong practitioners adhere to three guiding principles.
Truthfulness, compassion and tolerance.
The Chinese Communist Party has persecuted the faith group for over two decades.
Investigations say methods include forced organ harvesting.
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