Chinese Dream Turns Nightmare: Citizens Rage After Xi's 14 Years Ravaging China

Wipe out the entire Communist Party clan. Dig up Xi Jinping's ancestors' graves. The fury of the Chinese people is erupting like a volcano. Years of accumulated hatred toward the barbaric crimes of the Chinese Communist Party, from suppressing religion and seizing ancestral graves to rampant corruption, has now transformed into calls to exterminate the families of officials, assassinate Xi Jinping, and overthrow the bloodthirsty dictatorship. From the suspected underground explosion assassination attempt on Xi, to slogans demanding the excavation of the Xi family's ancestral graves, and banners calling for the eradication of the entire CCP clan appearing from public toilets to streets, along with riots attacking government offices and clashing with police, the people are rising up everywhere. As the attacks grow increasingly bold and uncontrollable, the CCP's facade of control is crumbling. Desperation has overtaken fear. The regime that the CCP dreads is the very people it has long oppressed. A nationwide revolutionary uprising against the dictatorship looms ever closer. As China's economic slowdown deepens and governance pressures mount, the Chinese Communist Party is entering a period of heightened internal alarm. Public resentment toward those in power has accumulated for years, but in the past year, the frequency and intensity of confrontations have escalated sharply. What stands out most is the transformation of protest language itself. Slogans are no longer vague or symbolic. They now openly target the CCP regime and Xi Jinping personally. Banners calling for the overthrow of the CCP, the killing of Xi Jinping's family, and even the exhumation of Xi Jinping's ancestral graves have appeared in multiple locations. Reports of alleged bombing and assassination attempts aimed at Xi Jinping have also circulated, underscoring the depth of hostility now visible across society. One recent flashpoint followed the CCP's opaque handling of the December 17th explosion inside the G95 tunnel on Beijing's 7th Ring Expressway. In the absence of official explanations, multiple versions spread rapidly online. Some insider claims allege the explosion was part of an assassination attempt against Xi Jinping and that an individual described as a special task substitute, reportedly Xi Jinping's body double, may have been killed in the blast. Based on videos uploaded by netizens, the explosion in the tunnel produced flames shooting into the sky and billowing thick smoke. After the explosion, the tunnel was in complete disarray, littered with vehicle wreckage. Over 20 vehicles were severely damaged. The accident resulted in heavy deaths and injuries. Yet CCP official media have collectively remained silent. This is not the first time rumors of assassination attempts targeting Xi Jinping have appeared. Whether true or not, this shows the desires of the people. In late November, thousands of villagers in parts of Yunnan and Guizhou staged prolonged protests against government-mandated cremation policies. These demonstrations, organized spontaneously by farmers, continued for nearly a month. Protesters confronted officials directly, shouting, if the Communist Party wants to dig up ancestral graves, start with Xi Jinping's family grave. Do you dare? Villagers warned authorities that any attempt to forcibly exhume already buried remains would be met with resistance. At the same time, Xi Jinping's authoritarian policies have expanded beyond burial practices to include aggressive intervention in religious life. On December 23, residents in Zhongshan County, Heizhou City, Guangxi clashed with local authorities during a forced demolition of Longfu Temple. Multiple villagers were beaten to the ground. In mid-November, similar demolitions occurred in Linggao County, Hainan and Fuchuan County, Guangxi, targeting temples and clan ancestral halls and triggering physical confrontations. On November 17, in Milong Village, Henan Province, authorities deployed large numbers of police and demolition crews to surround a local temple. Video footage shows villagers facing shield-bearing personnel armed with batons. As statues were forcibly removed, villagers responded with a traditional ritual. Drums sounded while rice was thrown toward the demolition teams, an act symbolizing defiance rather than violence. Religious repression extended further. Beginning December 13, more than 1,000 police officers from areas including Hangzhou and Pingyang descended on Yayang Town, arresting local Christians. In just two days, more than 100 believers were detained. Additional arrests followed on December 16 and 17. Across China, religious and folk belief sites continue to be cleared under the pretext of illegal construction rectification. Analysts note that totalitarian systems cannot tolerate independent spiritual authority. Even ancestral worship or village temples are treated as latent threats to centralized power. These incidents represent only a fraction of recent unrest. According to the Freedom House Foundation's China Dissent Monitor, protests across China in 2025 increased by 45% compared with 2024. Evidence suggests that public consciousness has shifted. Resistance is evolving from narrow rights defense actions into politically aware opposition. Recently, banners were posted near a road sign in front of the Chiang police station in Suping County, Hunan Province. The banners read, Xi Jinping Step Down, Stop Organ Harvesting, End Dictatorship and Tyranny, CCP Step Down, Stop Human Rights Persecution, and other slogans calling for the elimination of the Communist Party, the overthrow of Xi Jinping, the restoration of freedom of speech, and an end to internet censorship. Notably, at the CCP's 9-to-3 parade, the shocking worldwide conversation between Xi Jinping and Putin on the topic of organ transplantation, living to 150 years old, also led to the rapid spread of China's toilet revolution, with slogans appearing in public toilets across many locations. The reported horrifying slogan content that directly challenges CCP official media, pointing straight at Xi Jinping's entire family, sparked widespread attention. The screenshot shows writing on what appears to be a public toilet door. You don't report killing ordinary people. You don't report killing officials. You don't report killing Li Keqiang. Will you report killing that dog, Xi Jinping's entire family or not? And boycott classes strike, remove the dictatorial national traitor Xi Jinping. As the economy continues to deteriorate, the CCP regime's sense of crisis has intensified. Each year, large numbers of migrant workers return home for the Lunar New Year. In response, the CCP's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs convened meetings urging rural areas to continue implementing returning migrant worker employment promotion actions aimed at preventing mass homeward migration and rural stagnation. Some overseas netizens commented that young people returning to the countryside have already seen the outside world and may be quietly planning anti-government organizations in rural areas, which they believe explains the government's growing nervousness. U.S. economist Li Henking pointed out that China's economic decline, housing market collapse, and the impact of the trade war have sharply reduced job opportunities for migrant workers. In the coming years, he warned, rural areas may face widespread extreme poverty, a scenario that deeply worries the CCP because it could evolve into organized anti-government resistance. Sun Liyong, coordinator of the Chinese Political and Religious Victims Support Association, stated, Hardly anyone believes in the CCP anymore. The people have long despised it. He added that slogans calling for the downfall of the Communist Party and Xi Jinping have appeared in Hebei, Jinan, and Guangxi for a long time. These expressions, he said, represent a helpless but revealing outlet for public anger. If one day people cannot afford food, Sun warned, uprisings will erupt across the country and the overthrow of tyranny will be imminent. What distinguishes the current wave of unrest is not only its frequency, but its psychological threshold. For decades, dissent in China was fragmented, cautious, and indirect. Today, slogans once unthinkable are being written openly, not because fear has vanished, but because desperation has overtaken it. Economic contraction, ideological rigidity, religious repression, and social immobility have combined to erode the CCP's core source of control—belief. History shows that regimes rarely fall when people are merely unhappy. They fall when fear no longer outweighs hopelessness. Xi Jinping's Chinese dream becomes a Chinese nightmare. Middle-class collapse, mass poverty, and ten signs of a nation on the verge of collapse. In 2012, Xi Jinping introduced the concept of the Chinese dream, defining it as the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, embodied in national prosperity, revitalization, and the well-being of the people. More than a decade later, the reality unfolding across China stands in stark contrast to that promise. Under Xi's leadership, the country has entered a period of profound disorder. Economic momentum has reversed, livelihoods have deteriorated, and daily survival has become increasingly difficult. What was once promoted as a national dream has, for many, turned into an era of widespread poverty. Foreign media once reported that a 2014 survey measuring Chinese citizens' perception of wealth found that 77 percent believed they were better off than they had been five years earlier. Today, that optimism has largely evaporated. The same indicator now stands at just 39 percent, suggesting that 61 percent of the population believes it is sliding toward poverty. The sense of material security that once underpinned social stability has eroded dramatically. Song Guoqing, a specialist in Chinese affairs and international strategy, has observed that Chinese society is now grappling with what he calls the Ten Hardships. Difficulty in securing food, clothing, education, employment, marriage, childbirth, housing, health care, retirement, and even funeral arrangements. These hardships span the entirety of life, from birth to death, leaving few areas untouched. In Song's assessment, China's economy has entered a deep crisis with ineffective remedies. And he identifies 10 alarming phenomena that define the country's current trajectory. One, extreme wealth inequality, the CCP's socialist illusion. Official Chinese government data show that 960 million people earned less than 2,000 yuan per month, approximately 282 U.S. dollars, accounting for nearly 70 percent of the population. At the same time, the wealthiest 1 percent controls roughly 90 percent of national wealth, leaving the remaining 99 percent to share just 10 percent. The World Bank estimates that around 200 million people in China live in poverty, with the wealth gap between the richest and poorest households reaching a staggering ratio of 359 to 1. Two, the rise of a social volcano. A study cited by the Wall Street Journal, conducted jointly by Chinese and foreign scholars, and referred to as the social volcano, found a profound shift in public attitudes. Chinese citizens have increasingly stopped blaming their poverty on personal shortcomings and now attribute it to structural inequality and an unjust economic system. Song describes this as implosive social resentment, a volatile mix of despair over personal survival and mounting dissatisfaction with Xi Jinping's regime. Three, deaths born of desperation. Several high-profile tragedies have shaken public opinion. A female employee at China International Capital Corporation reportedly died after being unable to keep up with mortgage payments following the real estate collapse. In another case, a graduate of a prestigious Beijing university was found dead from starvation in a rented apartment in Xi'an. Despite ranking first in multiple civil service exams, Xi was repeatedly rejected during interviews, highlighting the prevalence of connections, bribery, and backdoor arrangements in hiring. These cases, shocking as they are, represent only a fraction of the broader human toll of economic decline, unemployment, and housing collapse. Four, the plight of the elderly. China's National Bureau of Statistics reports that the population aged 60 and above has reached 290 million. By 2035, that figure is expected to exceed 400 million and by 2050, 500 million. As economic conditions worsen, elderly care has become one of China's most acute social crises. Song argues that China's welfare system is fundamentally skewed in favor of the wealthy, offering generous benefits to party cadres and elites while leaving the rural elderly with minimal support and profound hardship. Five, the rise of restaurant undertakers. In 2024 alone, nearly 3 million restaurant-related businesses were closed or deregistered. The trend intensified throughout 2025 and is projected to worsen further in 2026. Many new restaurants fail within weeks, some shutting down after just days. Amid this collapse, a new profession has emerged, so-called restaurant undertakers, businesses that collect leftover equipment and furnishings from failed eateries for resale. Six, vicious internal competition. Overcapacity, weak domestic demand, and mounting inventories have driven Chinese firms into brutal price wars. In the steel sector, data from the China Iron and Steel Association show that profits among major enterprises fell by roughly 56% year-on-year during the first nine months of 2025, with total profits shrinking to about 29 billion yuan, approximately 4 billion U.S. dollars. The solar industry has followed a similar path, with polysilicon and related products experiencing price collapses of 30 to 40 percent, pushing many firms into heavy losses. Seven, leading enterprises on the brink. Electric vehicles were promoted by Xi Jinping as a pillar of China's new industrial strategy, yet bankruptcies are spreading. Major players, such as Xiaomi, BYD, and Huawei, have reported significant losses. Public data indicate that BYD's debt alone approaches 600 billion yuan, or about 83.5 billion U.S. dollars, with a debt ratio exceeding 70%. Meanwhile, China's real estate sector continues its downward spiral. After Evergrande and Country Garden, even Vanka, one of China's largest developers, faces insolvency. Eight, the collapse of the middle class. Piano sales, once a marker of middle-class status, have plummeted. Since late 2024, tens of thousands of piano stores across China have closed. With 70% of household wealth tied to real estate, the housing collapse and mass layoffs have wiped out middle-class savings and pushed many families back into poverty. Nine, the unfinished generation. Xi Jinping's push for new productive forces has concentrated resources in advanced industries, leaving behind a highly educated cohort that missed earlier growth and cannot integrate into the new economy. This unfinished generation faces chronic underemployment or joblessness. In 2025, China produced 12.22 million university graduates. Youth unemployment has surged, with unofficial estimates exceeding 50%, far above the government's reported figures. Ten, mounting debt and fiscal exhaustion. By September 2025, official figures put local government debt at 53.7 trillion yuan, about 7.5 trillion U.S. dollars. Independent estimates suggest total liabilities, including hidden debt, may approach 134 trillion yuan, nearly equivalent to China's GDP. Much of this borrowing is used to service existing debt rather than fuel growth, creating a self-consuming financial cycle. All of these developments are unfolding amid economic contraction and expanding poverty. Yet the CCP continues to channel vast resources into prestige projects, foreign aid, and geopolitical ambitions, including massive funding for Africa, satellite initiatives to rival the United States, and grand infrastructure schemes. Song Guoqiang bluntly concludes that Xi Jinping's Chinese dream is not the people's dream of a better life, but rather Xi's personal imperial dream. As he put it with biting irony, Taken together, these 10 phenomena depict not a temporary downturn, but a structural unraveling. The contrast between official narratives and lived reality has grown impossible to ignore. When economic opportunity shrinks, social mobility stalls, and survival itself becomes uncertain, belief in grand slogans collapses. The Chinese dream, once framed as a collective aspiration, now risks being remembered as a symbol of unmet promises and deepening inequality. Xi Jinping stepped down. Communist Party stepped down. Nationwide resistance intensifies. Is the end of the CCP approaching? A lengthy essay titled A Proposal for Xi Jinping to Resign, authored by an individual identifying as an anti-CCP dissident, has recently spread rapidly online, igniting intense public debate. From its opening lines, the author, writing under the pseudonym Tiny Reverie, sets out a detailed argument urging Xi Jinping to step down. The essay accuses Xi of placing personal interests above those of the nation, possessing an intolerant and narrow disposition, and abusing state power for private ends. The article cites the case of Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen who published a book containing allegations and rumors involving Xi Jinping. According to the author, Beijing responded by orchestrating cross-border arrests of employees connected to Hong Kong's Causeway Bay bookstore and by dispatching agents to Thailand to abduct Gui Minhai. Gui was later compelled to appear on Chinese state television to confess, renounce his Swedish citizenship, restore his Chinese nationality, and ultimately serve a prison sentence. The author condemns the episode as an extreme example of treating state power as a personal instrument with far-reaching and dangerous consequences. The essay argues that as head of state, Xi Jinping had no justification for mobilizing the entire national security apparatus over a matter involving his personal reputation. If he believed he had been defamed, the author contends, Xi could have pursued redress through standard legal channels, as any ordinary citizen would. Instead, the article maintains Xi demonstrated that he is unfit to serve either as president or as a private individual entrusted with public authority. The author further criticizes Xi Jinping for amending presidential term limits in an effort to rule indefinitely, cultivating a personality cult, placing portraits of himself inside temples, and monopolizing front-page propaganda for extended periods. Xi is labeled a ruling counter-revolutionary for suppressing student movements and cracking down on contemporary social activism. The article also denounces Xi Jinping's expansive interpretation of counter-terrorism, accusing him of implementing concentration camp-style governance in Xinjiang, where large numbers of innocent people have been detained without due process. In Tibet, he is accused of suppressing local populations and forcibly dismantling religious traditions. The essay states that Xi enforces one-man rule, crushes freedom of speech, and refuses to tolerate dissent not only among the public, but even within the Communist Party itself. Economically, Xi Jinping is portrayed as recklessly interfering in the market, using ignorance to direct professionals, and pursuing grandiose projects for personal prestige rather than public benefit. Initiatives such as the Belt and Road, the Xiongan New Area, and the Greater Bay Area are described as all show and no substance, allegedly wasting tens of trillions in public wealth with little tangible return. The author further characterizes Xi Jinping as poorly educated, alleging that he has repeatedly embarrassed China on the international stage by reading incorrect scripts and making basic errors, thereby damaging the country's global image. The article also raises questions about academic misconduct related to Xi's doctoral degree from Tsinghua University. The essay points to Xi's handling of major crises as further evidence of unfitness for office. During the initial Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak and the catastrophic Zhengzhou floods, Xi is accused of failing to take responsibility or to personally oversee disaster relief efforts. Instead, the author claims Xi consistently evaded accountability. The article concludes that Xi Jinping lacks the capacity to continue serving as head of state and warns that his continued rule would bring profound disaster to both the country and its people. For these reasons, the author formally calls for Xi Jinping to resign. Political commentator New Highlands wrote on December 6th that a proposal for Xi Jinping to resign is neither unprecedented nor likely to be the last such appeal. Since Xi Jinping assumed the position of general secretary in 2013, open calls for him to step down have never truly ceased and have, in fact, grown increasingly frequent and direct. Key moments include Xu Zhiyong's open letter in 2020, the Sitong Bridge protest in Beijing in 2022, and the white paper movement following the Urumqi fire. During these events, crowds in Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities openly shouted slogans such as, Xi Jinping step down and Communist Party step down. The CCP authorities treat the phrase step down as synonymous with subverting state power, deploying the national security apparatus to conduct cross-provincial arrests. According to critics, this repression often extends beyond individuals to their families, reflecting what they describe as Xi Jinping's modern form of literary inquisition. The publication of a proposal for Xi Jinping to resign has also triggered fierce reactions online. Many netizens argue that the term proposal is far too mild and fails to capture the severity of the situation. Comments circulating online include statements such as, Xi Jinping clings to the CCP and refuses to let go. Sooner or later, he will enter the crematorium together with the evil CCP. Others wrote, whether Xi leaves or not no longer matters. What matters is the complete end of the Communist Party. Still others declared, it's not just Xi who must step down. The entire CCP must collapse and face judgment and reckoning. And that's it for this episode of China Today. Happy New Year, everyone! May 2026 bring you peace, good fortune, and everything you wish for. Please give a thumbs up, comment below, share with others, and subscribe to stay connected. Cheers to the New Year!