Lost Control! Chinese People Will No Longer Silently Endure the CCP!

Xi Jinping is the destroyer of China. Overthrow him. A nationwide wave of furious protests is spreading, with fighters rising up one after another. The Chinese people will no longer silently endure the CCP. Shocking uprising. Inside China's student prison. Students smash dormitories. Campus in chaos. Instructors flee. 2026 will be the worst Chinese New Year yet. Hundreds of millions can't afford to go home. China has never been this poor. Zhongnanhai power struggle escalates. Xi Jinping overhauls the entire military. Experts warn Taiwan must remain vigilant. Greek Air Force colonel arrested, suspected of leaking NATO secrets to the Chinese Communist Party. Welcome to today's episode of Decoding China. Everything you need to understand the latest developments is right here. Xi Jinping is the destroyer of China. Overthrow him. A nationwide wave of furious protests is spreading, with fighters rising up one after another. The Chinese people will no longer silently endure the CCP. The Chinese Communist Party has increasingly lost public support. More and more Chinese citizens are openly criticizing the Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping. Recently, a video that spread rapidly across international social media showed a shocking scene on Beijing Road in Guangzhou. The footage is believed to have been recorded by a Russian tourist. In the video, a shirtless young man with his hands bound was seen pacing back and forth in the middle of the street, consumed by rage, repeatedly shouting, the lives of poor people don't matter, right? Communist Party! Standing beside him was a young woman in a pink skirt. Surrounding them were multiple Chinese police officers and a large crowd of onlookers. The person filming appeared confused, with Russian subtitles reading, Does anyone understand Chinese? What is he saying? The video quickly went viral overseas, triggering a wave of angry reactions. Many netizens asked, Why are his hands tied? Aren't poor people human? They pointed out that housing prices have swallowed the earnings of three generations. Young people are unemployed, lying flat, and even sleeping on the streets, while the wealthy buy luxury homes and flaunt their assets. The Communist Party talks about common prosperity every day, yet the rich grow richer while the poor can barely afford food. Many commented bluntly that if this video had been filmed by a Chinese citizen, not only would it have been deleted, but the person involved might have already disappeared. On the same day, January 31st, another video surfaced showing a woman on a public street openly denouncing Xi Jinping. Fighting back tears, she shouted that her father had died in prison, that his body had been frozen for six years, and that the family still did not know the cause of death. She cried out, Xi Jinping! Look at the suffering of the Chinese people! Why have you destroyed China like this? Arrest me! I can't take it anymore! It has only been in recent years that the Chinese people have dared to publicly criticize the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping. In late 2019, the outbreak of COVID-19 and the Party's strict three-year zero-COVID policy caused countless humanitarian disasters, sparking uproar both within China and abroad. In November 2022, protests erupted in various cities across China, including the White Paper Revolution, where crowds in Shanghai chanted slogans calling for Xi Jinping's resignation and the fall of the Communist Party. Since then, waves of open opposition to the CCP have continued to erupt. In Shanghai, crowds openly chanted slogans of direct confrontation with the regime. Down with the government! Down with the Communist Party! Freedom belongs to the people! By March 2025, resistance was no longer confined to the young. A 70-year-old petitioner in Shanghai, Liu Dongbao, stood outside the Discipline Inspection Commission and openly shouted slogans opposing the Communist Party. Then, on December 17, 2025, at People's Park in Shanghai, a large group of petitioners displayed case files of long-running wrongful convictions and collectively repeated the same slogans that had echoed during the White Paper movement in broad daylight and in front of security forces. On the same day, a woman in the Shanghai subway shouted, Down with the judiciary! Down with the Communist Party! More and more Chinese citizens are choosing to confront their fears and reject silence. In Shaanxi, a mass protest erupted following the death of a student named Deng Changxin at a vocational school as police beat and forcibly detained the victim's uncle. Tens of thousands of angry protesters took to the streets, clashing with police and making this the largest protest of 2025. In Guizhou, farmers forced to abandon traditional burials demanded that the authorities first dig up Xi Jinping's ancestral tomb. On January 20, 2026, villagers in Yunnan threw bricks and stones to successfully repel a demolition team. Meanwhile, as Lunar New Year approached, wage protests spread nationwide. Workers in Hainan, Shaanxi, Guangxi, and Shenzhen blocked factory gates, surrounded construction sites, and laid out mats in public spaces to demand unpaid wages. In late January, villagers from Zhufang village in Wuhan, Hubei province, went to the Wuhan Petition Bureau to demand compensation that had been withheld for 10 years. On the social media platform X, netizens commented, Petitioning is useless. Your suffering is caused by the system, so either endure it or retaliate. Petitioning really isn't worth it. The CCP's petition bureaus are just a placebo for the people and don't actually solve any problems. Only by completely overthrowing the CCP can China's social problems be permanently solved. The economy is collapsing. People's lives are miserable. The CCP is the root cause of all these disasters. Commentator Du Jun believes that as China's economy continues to decline, more and more people are recognizing that the CCP is the root cause of all the disasters. On January 22nd, a netizen in Shenzhen, Guangdong, posted a video showing homeless people sleeping on the streets and setting up mats in public spaces. All the grandiose propaganda about prosperity has turned into a joke. In recent years, the economy has continued to weaken while the CCP has silenced scholars who expose the harsh economic realities. On January 30th, China's Ministry of Finance was forced to admit that fiscal revenue in 2025 fell by 1.7%, a rare occurrence in four decades. Manufacturing, non-manufacturing, and composite PMI indices all dropped below 50, while over 30% of companies reported losses. China is increasingly becoming a gig economy nation with more than 200 million people surviving on precarious work. At the Meijiukiao labor market in Beijing, hundreds gather from 4 a.m., working 12-hour shifts without meals. Most are older workers laid off by factories, lacking skills, forced to sell personal data, or even blood to survive, while state media continues to paint a picture of economic recovery. In stark contrast to the worsening lives of ordinary people, power struggles within the CCP have intensified. In January this year, Xi Jinping arrested Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, sending shockwaves internationally. At the same time, revelations about the enormous wealth of Xi Jinping's family spread rapidly overseas. On the evening of January 31st, Canada-based Chinese writer Shan Sui posted on X that she had received an urgent demand to delete a post. Screenshots showed the post referenced disclosures by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, stating that China was purchasing Venezuelan oil at extremely low prices to offset debt, oil allegedly controlled by Xi Jinping's sister, Xi Qiaoqiao, generating tens of billions of yuan in annual profit. In December, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, requiring the public release of a report on the wealth, financial assets, and business interests of top CCP leaders, including the general secretary and members of the Politburo Standing Committee. When questioned, China's foreign ministry reacted angrily, but avoided directly addressing the issue of officials' wealth. Commentator Tang Hao noted that the CCP fears disclosure because it could spark widespread anti-party sentiment, be exploited in internal power struggles, and expose the scale of elite profiteering to the world. As the world now awaits the Trump administration's investigation into the wealth and corruption of top CCP leaders, this move may mark a critical step toward holding the regime accountable and alleviating the suffering of the Chinese people. Shocking Uprising Inside China's Student Prison Students smash dormitories, campus in chaos, instructors flee. A shocking uprising has erupted inside what is officially called a school, but in reality functions as a student prison in Dezhou, Shandong Province, China. On the evening of February 1, videos rapidly circulated online showing scenes of unprecedented chaos. Students smashing dormitory windows, tearing down doors, overturning beds, and even destroying the iron bars used to confine them. In full view of teachers and administrators standing below, a system of coercive control that had lasted for years collapsed in an instant. That night, there were no slogans or organized chants, only the sound of shattering glass, twisted metal, and long-suppressed rage finally erupting. Students who had endured confinement, punishment, and abuse broke through dormitory doors and iron restraints, flooding out. Notably, at the very moment real resistance erupted, the instructors, men accustomed to wielding sticks, beating, and intimidating students, disappeared entirely from the scene. According to a student surnamed Zhu from Xinkai County, Henan Province, who had been detained at the facility since July last year and was only released in January, the school held approximately 200 to 300 students divided into three sections. The uprising was initiated by students from the most restrictive section, where punishment was the harshest. The immediate trigger was the beating of a student carried out by a so-called student assistant. In response, students collectively rebelled, smashing facilities and engaging in violent confrontations with instructors, leaving multiple students injured. As the situation spiraled out of control, instructors and some students fled the compound. Police later intervened and sealed off the entire facility. On paper, the institution presents itself as a character education and youth correction center. In practice, it represents a typical model of China's so-called internet addiction treatment and behavior correction schools run under militarized management, sealed off from the outside world, and maintained through fear and punishment. Former insiders describe most instructors as ex-conscripts who had completed only short-term mandatory military service. Management methods were overtly violent. Beatings with sticks, solitary confinement, and psychological humiliation were routine. Living conditions were crude, food was of extremely poor quality, and cases of students being abused to death were not uncommon. Local residents confirmed that the incident sent shockwaves through Dezhu. A man surnamed Li from Shandong said his sister had been sent to the facility for two months. After her release, she revealed that most of the instructors were actually gang members involved in gambling and other illegal activities. In the female dormitories, all the students smoked. Most had tattoos, and some had full-arm tattoos. Prohibited substances and sexual relationships were rampant, and anyone who broke the rules was locked in isolation rooms. One student was reportedly detained simply for revealing that the tuition fee per semester was 36,000 yuan, approximately 5,000 US dollars. Despite efforts to suppress information, the incident spread rapidly online. Many openly called it an uprising inside a private prison and stated plainly What occurred in Dezhu is not an isolated case. Across China, such institutions have long operated in a legal gray zone, enforcing obedience through terror rather than addressing psychological root causes. Many families send their children to these places to avoid confronting broken parent-child relationships, outsourcing responsibility to violent systems. Behind high walls, tragedy repeats itself. The rage of today's students is the inevitable outcome of years of buried suffering. One of the most horrifying examples is the case of Yuzhong Academy in Nancheng, Jiangxi Province. In December 2024, a parent sent his 14-year-old daughter, Wang Lin, to the academy because she refused to attend school. Five months later, she was dead from abuse. When her parents arrived at the hospital, her body was covered in bruises. After more than 20 days of hospitalization, she died. Police later discovered that all her letters home pleading for help, describing vomiting and chest pain, had been intercepted by a male instructor, citing internal rules banning expressions of homesickness or requests to contact parents. Yuzhong Academy had already been exposed in 2017 for beatings with steel dragon whips, 10-day solitary confinement, forced labor, food poisoning, and conditions resembling a concentration camp. Although the academy was shut down in 2020, the heaviest sentence handed down was only two years and 10 months, sparking outrage over what many called a mockery of justice. Student resistance has continued to spread. At the same time, reports of teachers cursing students, students dying mysteriously on campus, and children and young adults disappearing nationwide have fueled growing fear. Surveillance cameras blanket the country, yet they protect no one. When a man was filmed using a slingshot to destroy street cameras, countless netizens applauded. One widely shared remark summed up the mood. China's firewall blinds and deafens the people, while surveillance cameras serve as thieves' eyes fixed on the public. Destroying the cameras means striking directly at those eyes, and China is moving ever closer to a breaking point. 2026 will be the worst Chinese New Year yet. Hundreds of millions can't afford to go home. China has never been this poor. Ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, heart-wrenching conversations have spread widely across social media. They do more than evoke sympathy. They expose a bleak economic reality now gripping China. Many workers admit they dare not return home for the holidays because they have no money. Some are already weighed down by debt. For them, the New Year is no longer a season of reunion, but a source of deep psychological pressure. Across Chinese platforms, the voices of middle-aged people, the traditional backbone of families and society, have grown increasingly prominent. In today's labor market, the age of 40 has become a hard cutoff. Employers view middle-aged workers as too old, too costly, and insufficiently flexible. When layoffs occur, they are often the first to be let go. Yet these same people shoulder the heaviest burdens. Children's education, mortgage payments, car loans, and everyday household expenses. Once unemployed, re-entering the job market becomes extraordinarily difficult. Many are pushed into temporary or casual work, earning unstable wages and sometimes not being paid at all. Some arrive at informal labor markets as early as four or five in the morning, waiting for any chance of work, only to earn a few hundred to one or two thousand yuan if they are fortunate. Even surviving has become hard. One worker said quietly, next year may be even worse. Meanwhile, scenes of shops closing, transferring ownership, or hanging for rent signs have become commonplace in major cities. On streets only a few hundred meters long, supermarkets, convenience stores, and restaurants are packed tightly together. One shop finishes renovations and opens for trial business, only to shut down days later. Others change names and owners repeatedly within a single year, leaving behind not just empty storefronts, but the ruined savings of entire families. Even those who ran stable businesses for decades have not escaped this downturn. A woman who had operated a home appliance store for over 20 years recalled that she once employed several workers and hired nannies for her children. Now only she and her husband remain. I even envy nannies now, she said. At least they still have a stable monthly income. This erosion is not confined to smaller cities. In Shanghai, long seen as a symbol of prosperity, netizens lament that once vibrant shopping streets, malls, and food districts have vanished one after another. Each familiar name is followed by the same refrain. Once bustling, now gone. Against this backdrop, disturbing images continue to circulate. People are seen rummaging through trash bins in the freezing early hours of the morning. These scenes stand in stark contrast to official claims about high, average household savings. If people really had that much money, one netizen scoffed, no one would be digging through garbage in the cold. Yet while hardship spreads, the authorities continue to stage displays that strike many as grotesquely out of touch. Dressing concrete bollards and street trees in sweaters was praised by state media as a sign of humanitarian care. Online, the reaction was swift and furious. Netizens juxtaposed images of well-clothed bollards with children in remote mountain regions shivering without winter clothes and asked a simple question, who truly needs protection? In addition, images of homeless people flooding the streets, people freezing to death and being abandoned have been exposed beneath the CCP's false propaganda of prosperity. Around the same time, a scholar from within the system published research estimating that China has more than 10 million homeless people. The article was swiftly censored and removed. Nevertheless, its core argument continued to resonate. The crisis is not caused by mysterious market forces, but by a deeply distorted system of distribution. When wealth accumulates at the top, the rest of society is left in the cold. According to this analysis, every economic crisis produces winners. Large corporations expand their market share. Financial institutions acquire distressed assets at bargain prices. And multinational capital gains access to cheaper labor. For them, crisis becomes opportunity. For ordinary people, it brings unemployment, falling incomes, evaporating assets, and mounting debt. By framing everything as an economic crisis, the authorities are able to evade responsibility, reducing questions of justice to technical issues and urging the public to endure temporary hardship. But inequality and distribution is not an accident of economics. It is a human-made problem. It cannot be resolved through slogans or propaganda. Many now argue that the real crisis is the collapse of trust and the breakdown of the social contract. When hard work no longer leads to a livable future, when obeying the rules yields less reward than connections or speculation, disillusionment takes root. The growing trend of young people choosing to lie flat is, at its core, a rejection of an unfair system. As one netizen observed, China has never lacked people who see the truth. In the past, fear kept them silent. Today, as reality grows increasingly harsh, more are choosing to speak out. Although he did not name the Chinese Communist Party directly, everyone understands that his words point squarely at a brutal and incompetent authority. Zhongnanhai power struggle escalates. Xi Jinping overhauls the entire military. Experts warn Taiwan must remain vigilant. Following the fall of Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Yuxia and Joint Staff Department Chief of Staff Liu Zhenli, a rare power vacuum has emerged in the CCP's military command system. Many key positions remain unfilled, directly impacting the PLA's actual combat coordination capabilities. However, experts warn that CCP leader Xi Jinping is unlikely to abandon his ambition to attack Taiwan. Not only Taiwan, but the United States and Japan should not view this period of structural reorganization in Beijing as a safe period. A military insider, Mr. Shen, recently told the Epoch Times that the conflict between Zhang Yuxia and Xi Jinping was not sudden but the result of long-term accumulation. The core contradiction centers on the Taiwan issue. Zhang Yuxia, along with most senior generals, opposes an armed attack on Taiwan, believing it would cause severe casualties and equipment losses, and could even wipe out entire branches of the military, while Xi Jinping remains determined to pursue it. Senior international affairs editor Tang Hao commented, Xi Jinping wants to launch an assault to seize Taiwan before 2027 in order to cement his historical status and secure a third term at the 21st Party Congress. But Zhang Yuxia insisted it would only be appropriate after 2035. Why? Because old Zhang knows best the actual combat capabilities of the troops. Since the 20th Party Congress, the number of publicly announced fallen active-duty generals has reached 15, with another 20 generals having disappeared. Recently, not only has the long-vacant position of Beijing garrison commander, empty for nearly a year, been filled, but new military and political officials have also taken office in the Shanghai garrison district, as well as the provincial military districts of Anhui, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hainan, Jilin, and Sichuan. According to reports from CCP mouthpiece media, these personnel changes occurred before the fall of Zhang Yuxia and Liu Zhenli. Su Ziyun, director of the Institute for National Defense and Security Research at Taiwan's National Defense University, stated, This shows Xi Jinping is playing a very big chess game. Although internal struggles within the CCP are surging beneath the surface, and the purge of senior military leaders has caused severe shockwaves, the CCP leader's ambition to attack Taiwan has not diminished. He is currently redeploying his personnel. Greek Air Force Colonel Arrested, Suspected of Leaking NATO Secrets to the Chinese Communist Party. Greek authorities have recently disclosed a highly sensitive military insider case that has drawn widespread attention. On February 5th, the Hellenic National Defense General Staff, KITHA, confirmed that the Ministry of Defense had arrested an active duty service member on suspicion of leaking extremely sensitive military information to a third party, an act believed to have caused serious harm to Greece's national security interests. According to an official military statement, the arrest was carried out early that morning, inside a strictly controlled military zone. The operation was led by military judicial authorities, conducted in coordination with multiple agencies from allied countries, and executed under the direct supervision of the public prosecutor's office. Greek defense officials stated that clear preliminary evidence indicates the officer violated military criminal law by illegally collecting and transmitting classified materials closely tied to national defense and military security. Multiple Greek media outlets subsequently revealed that the suspect is a senior Air Force officer holding the rank of colonel, a position that grants access to a large volume of high-level classified military information. Some reports further indicated that the officer has admitted to engaging in espionage activities on behalf of the Chinese Communist regime. Initial findings from the investigation show that the suspect used specialized encrypted communications software to transmit sensitive data related to the Hellenic Air Force, the overall armed forces, and even internal materials associated with NATO to China. As of press time, Chinese authorities have not issued any immediate response to the allegations. Greek officials stressed that the recipient of the leaked information was neither a neighboring country nor one of Greece's traditional security rivals. According to informed sources, the beneficiary of the intelligence was Communist China. This incident is not an isolated case. Greece has previously uncovered similar activities. In July 2025, four Chinese nationals were detained near Tanagra Air Base, where advanced Rafale fighter jets are deployed. The individuals were suspected of photographing the aircraft and surrounding military industrial facilities while posing as tourists. Notably, one of the detainees was a miner. Greek police seized a substantial volume of images and data related to the base's operations, prompting authorities to launch a comprehensive investigation. The case heightened concerns that the activity may have been part of a broader intelligence-gathering effort and raised alarms over whether Beijing is systematically probing Europe's advanced military technologies. Greece is not alone in confronting such threats. In recent months, several European countries have handled comparable cases. On February 4th, French prosecutors announced the arrest of four individuals suspected of conducting espionage activities for the Chinese Communist Party on French soil, including two Chinese nationals. The suspects were accused of attempting to exploit Starlink to steal sensitive data from the French government and military. Investigations into the case remain ongoing. We'd love to hear your perspective. Leave a comment below and share your thoughts. If you found this video helpful, please share it with your friends. Your support keeps us going and inspires us to deliver even better content. 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