200 Million Crying from Hunger as China’s Job Crisis Grows More Severe!

China's exit door slams shut, elites rush out as new rules take effect, and wolf-warrior behavior meets global rejection. China's hidden job crisis. Libraries packed with the unemployed. 200 million crying from hunger. Families share one vegetable. China's AI disaster. Failed attempt to steal Claude. Allegedly hands military secrets to the US She Furious. Young men read anti-CCP declarations live. Ban comes after minutes censors letting it through. Primary schools in multiple places across China converted into nursing homes. Netizens went to school here as a child. We'll grow old here. Welcome to Red Wall, where we examine major world events with clarity, context, and thoughtful analysis. China's exit door slams shut, elites rush out as new rules take effect, and wolf-warrior behavior meets global rejection. An absurd scene unfolded at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. A barefoot Chinese woman caused a disturbance in the terminal, shouting, Will Singapore surrender or not? Will Japan surrender or not? And declaring that if she died in Malaysia, everyone should die together. Police said her outburst may have stemmed from forgotten medication and sent her for mental health treatment. Some online identified her as a Douyin influencer with more than 1.2 million followers. Similar incidents keep occurring. A Chinese woman entered a restricted departure area without a ticket, screamed, and lay on the ground in protest. A man at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport damaged an automated passport system and insulted officers, earning a criminal charge, a 450,000 baht compensation demand, and a blacklist. Overseas observers ask why such poor manners so often come from mainland China. One commenter pointed to the cultural revolution, decades of distorted CCP education and censorship. Mr. Yang, a Chinese resident in Southeast Asia, said China was once known as a nation of etiquette. The current negative behavior among some Chinese people was the result of decades of destruction of traditional culture and ideological transformation by the CCP. China is now a society without political freedom. People lack independent thinking. At the end of July 2026, China's state council issued new exit and entry regulations that took effect on September 15. The rules strengthen border controls, expand data collection, and give authorities broader power to restrict departures, sometimes for up to three years. Government employees in many places already had to surrender personal passports to their work units. Online discussion immediately turned practical. Where to put money? Whether it is still possible to get out safely? As long as you escape, this is no longer a problem, one user wrote. Another replied, getting out is only the first step. After saving your life, the next step is figuring out how to protect your wealth. Independent commentator Du Zheng linked the tighter controls to possible conflict in the Taiwan Strait. He argued a US-China war may be unavoidable and that Beijing needs to keep enough people inside the country as potential cannon fodder and hostages. In August, authorities revised the National Defense Mobilization Law, defining mobilization as turning economic and social strength into defense strength and expanding the pool of reserved personnel. Once an order is issued, designated people cannot leave their registered locations without permission. Commentator Kai Shengkun noted that Russia's shortages after invading Ukraine taught Beijing a lesson. A Taiwan conflict involving Japan and the United States would not end quickly. The law also allows controls on transportation, the internet, energy, food, and personal movement, including, Kai said, large amounts of private savings. That is one reason authorities increasingly do not want wealthy individuals to leave. A military supply factory employee posted a video urging people to prepare for domestic instability. The US State Department and the US Embassy in China maintained a level two advisory, warning of arbitrary detention, exit bans, and social unrest. China affairs expert Yang Bo said Xi Jinping cannot resolve the severe economic crisis while opposition inside the system grows. Preparing for external conflict, Yang argued, allows Xi to divert attention and tighten control. At the same time, authorities prepare internally because a foreign war could trigger anti-communist and anti-Xi protests. As the September 15 deadline approached, wealthy individuals and public figures accelerated their departures. Former Anta CEO Xu Yang resigned in July, citing family reasons, and was soon photographed on a flight to Los Angeles, saying he would move there with his family. Longtime television commentator Liang Hongda, once a familiar face on Chinese screens, has settled in Vancouver and begun giving more outspoken public talks. A woman who decided to leave after her family's mushroom farm lost money in 2024, described the process. The idea first appeared in 2018. Family obligations delayed it for years. Then the losses made the decision final. Once someone has the idea of leaving the country, they will eventually go. True critics of the system face far higher barriers. Rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, his wife Xu Yan, and their son have all been barred from leaving on national security grounds with no written notice. Yu, who previously defended Falun Gong practitioners and 709 crackdown lawyers, posted on X, We really want to leave China. Dissident Sun Yuanping reached Australia via Thailand and Malaysia in July 2026 and applied for asylum. After he left, authorities detained around 17 or 18 of his friends. The more you threaten me, he said, the more I refuse to keep quiet. Leaving China has shifted from an educational opportunity to a form of survival. Intellectuals who once tried to operate inside official boundaries are now voting with their feet. Those who have truly challenged the Chinese Communist Party remain locked inside. China's hidden job crisis. Libraries packed with the unemployed. 200 million crying from hunger. Families share one vegetable. I never really felt it before. That whole thing about Gen Z walking into hard times. But once you actually get out there and start looking for a job, that's when you realize it's really hard. One tiny job opening and thousands of people fighting for it. I feel so, so wronged. I'm at the high-speed rail station right now and I don't even dare cry out loud. That video of a recent college graduate fighting back tears has struck a nerve. The job market is brutal. One opening draws thousands of applicants. No matter how good your grades or skills, someone better is always in line. 1.4 billion people. Even if only 1% of them are actually talented, that's still 14 million people. Layoffs come without warning. One second, they're still going over the links and the process with me. The next second, they tell me I've been let go. I'm walking down the street right now. I don't even dare go home. My whole family thinks I'm still at work. The fear sits like a rock on the chest. Libraries have become the new workplace for those who have fallen behind. At Guangzhou Library, a line stretches hundreds of yards before opening on an ordinary weekday. All 4,500 seats fill within minutes. The same scene plays out at Beijing Capital Library and libraries in Hangzhou. Rows of middle-aged men in dress shirts sit with laptops open, scrolling job apps, or staring at blank screens. They leave home at 7.30 a.m. with a backpack, spend the day sending resumes, and return at 5.30 so their families never learn the sky has fallen. Stop laying people off. The library's almost full, one commenter wrote. Another noted that unemployed middle-aged people no longer go to Starbucks. They flood free libraries. It has become an unofficial index of the downturn. A supermarket posted 900 ordinary openings. Kitchen staff, stalkers, janitors, security. In 45 minutes, more than 80,000 people applied. For the kitchen jobs alone, 3,000 applicants held graduate degrees in food science, chemistry, computer science, literature, and history. The owner called it education's biggest regret. Parents spend hundreds of thousands of yuan, and children study more than a decade only to chase bottom-rung work. Credential requirements keep rising, while paths narrow. Many are pushed into ride-hailing, delivery, cleaning, and other gigs, jobs that are themselves overflowing. Age is a hard barrier. If you were born in the 80s, just stop looking. You're not going to find anything. I was born in 1989. I'm 37. This society is done with us. Dishwashing posts demand a bachelor's degree, good looks, and preferably party membership. Cleaning and nanny jobs want six months' experience and ages 55 to 65. The 3-0 to 5-0 gap is left stranded too old to hire, too young to retire. Three roommates in one rental have been out of work for over a year. One day trades through the night. Another rarely leaves her room and cooks only enough to stay alive. Going home means facing parents' disappointment and neighbors' stares. On city streets, the bottom is visible. Unemployed young people sleep under bridges in Guangdong, in tents thick with mosquitoes, picking scrap for food money. Neatly-dressed female college graduates dig through leftover food by trash bins. In Guangzhou and Shenzhen, after foreign capital pulled out and factories closed, many cannot afford rent. Shenzhen officials sealed spaces under bridges with steel pipes not to solve homelessness, but to hide it. Official figures claim the surveyed urban unemployment rate has stayed near 5.2%. Yet the number of people collecting unemployment insurance more than doubled from 2.59 million in 2021 to 5.6 million in 2025. Only about half of urban workers are even enrolled. Flexible employment, unstable, long hour, thin safety network reached 280 million in 2025 and is projected to hit 320 million in 2026. Roughly 44% of the urban workforce. A master's graduate from USTC says, the whole world doesn't need me. A day laborer earns 80 yuan for six hours. A front desk job at 1,500 yuan a month still draws fights. This is the result of heavy-handed party state control. A property bubble, capital flight, manufacturing leaving, services shrinking. Large-scale infrastructure spending is barely holding the line. China is replaying elements of the Soviet path while tightening controls in the North Korean direction. Different roads, same destination, the system itself under strain. Ordinary people are already living the cost. China's AI disaster. Failed attempt to steal Claude. Allegedly hands military secrets to the US She Furious. On September 10, leading US AI company Anthropic released a 154-page threat intelligence report that sent shockwaves through China's technology and political circles. The report named seven major Chinese AI companies, Alibaba, Moonshot AI, known as Kimmy, DeepSeek, Xipu AI, Xiaomi. SenseTime and Minimax accusing them of conducting unauthorized distillation and extracting Claude's reasoning processes and chain of thought data on an industrial scale. Even more alarming, large amounts of highly sensitive information were allegedly sent to US-based servers. The data reportedly included Chinese military material, core state-owned enterprise information, and military simulation plans targeting Taiwan. This was no longer a dispute over technology misuse. It became a major intelligence security crisis. Online rumors claimed the matter reached China's top leadership and that CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping was furious. Soon afterward, posts circulated that 16 core employees from Moonshot AI had been taken away for investigation. Anthropic said the companies used highly concealed methods to pull Claude's internal reasoning without authorization and train their own domestic models. Among the hundreds of millions of stolen interaction records were military-related cases. One team linked to a Chinese defense research organization allegedly used Claude to design an anti-torpedo fire control system, including technical specifications, logic, testing procedures, and vulnerability reviews. The result was a technical proposal of more than 200 pages. Chinese defense researchers also allegedly used the AI to build radar detection and electronic warfare models with 12 high-value Taiwan targets as default scenarios command bunkers, early warning radars, Patriot and Skybo missile sites, major air bases, and regional combat centers. The methods and plans for suppressing Taiwan's air defenses were left in prompts and logs on Anthropic's US servers. The reaction online was immediate. One person who had worked on satellite projects at the Chinese Academy of Sciences said that if core rocket and fire control code could be generated by a US AI system and used with little modification, the problem went far beyond technological shortcomings. Commentators called it basically treason. They keep bragging about national treasures, but it turns out their foundation is built on American software being monitored in real time. Claude itself delivered a final blow in the report by joking that it did not know whether Kimi had told customers their data was being forwarded. The most damaging claim involved Moonshot's alleged silent forwarding mechanism. When a Chinese user believed they were chatting with the domestic Kimi model, the backend allegedly packaged the request unchanged and sent it through proxy servers to Claude in the United States. Claude's answer was then retrieved, rebranded and returned to the user. One user linked to the People's Liberation Army uploaded surveillance footage from hundreds of cameras in Chengdu and asked the AI to analyze target movements. The footage included PLA facilities, institutes tied to China Electronics Technology Group Corporation and large state-owned enterprises. An engineer from a major state-owned firm allegedly sent internal source code and valid login credentials while building systems through Kimi. Users did not know. The military did not know. Only the company knew and chose not to disclose it until a US firm exposed the practice. A parallel black market made the exposure worse. Because of China's internet restrictions, many government employees, researchers and ordinary users cannot officially access leading overseas models. Gray market AI relay platforms arose using stolen credit cards and fake identities to resell access. Overseas researcher Chou Fanshou purchased a 6TB dataset from one major platform. It contained login passwords, employee IDs, organizational charts, SSH keys, VPN configurations, Alibaba cloud keys and GitLab tokens. With that single dataset, researchers said, attackers could potentially control networks of at least seven government entities and internal servers of 19 major Chinese companies, including Xiaomi, Huawei, NIO, Sangfor, Bilibili, the University of Science and Technology of China and Zhejiang Laboratory. Chinese AI users now find themselves trapped. Those who followed official calls for independent control deleted VPNs and fed sensitive documents into domestic models, such as Kimi, DeepSeek and Alibaba's Quen discovered their data may have been forwarded to Claude. Those who prioritized efficiency and used relay platforms learned their credentials and ideas could be packaged and sold on the black market. Authorities built walls in the name of security. The result was an unregulated market that funneled the most sensitive data overseas through the cheapest channels. The controversy is expected to end the distillation shortcut. Anthropic demonstrated it can detect and block large proxy networks. Future progress will require real investment in computing power and algorithms rather than freeloading. Regulatory agencies, including the Cyberspace Administration of China, are likely to impose strict audits on model origins and cross-border data transfers. State-owned enterprises, government agencies and defense organizations may lose confidence in leading domestic models. China's rapid AI expansion faces a painful period of restructuring. For developers and users caught in the middle, the report is the harshest reality check yet. Young men read anti-CCP declarations live. Ban comes after minutes censors letting it through. On the 11th of September, 2026, a young male streamer on Kuaishou read from a prepared text. He gave his name as Chen Xiaohong, Fennec and called himself an ordinary Chinese person. Then, the Chinese Communist Party is not equal to the Chinese people. Xi Jinping is the biggest traitor who has stolen the country in history. Refusing the colonization of the Chinese people by the communist bureaucracy is every Chinese person's own business. He cited Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution as a successful, non-violent model. Power is not innate. A dictator's power can be withdrawn. Enough people joining a movement of non-compliance could end one-party rule without violence. I am saying the words that Chinese people ought to say. I am not afraid of account bans, not afraid of being muted, not afraid of being arrested. What I truly fear is first castrating freedom of speech myself and handing over my dignity, overthrowing the communist party and joining that non-violent effort, he said. His work this generation must finish so future ones do not eat poisonous cabbage or keep supporting. He finished the statement once. The platform did nothing. He began a second reading. At 2 minutes and 36 seconds, just as he was about to finish, the room closed with the message that the live stream involved violations. A viewer nickname started with Germany. Netizens guessed the streamer might not be inside the mainland. On X, the reactions were blunt. The party has no legitimate claim to rule. It is a dark, violent organization. If even a tiny fraction of hundreds of millions stand up and speak, the regime cannot cope. Those who charge the tower are all brave people respect. A Japanese commenter called unpoisoned Chinese people precious. What drew the most attention was the clock. Sensitive content ran for more than two and a half minutes on a mainland Kuaishou room before the ban. Speculation followed. The reviewer deliberately let him finish so the words would reach more eyes, including those at the top. Reviewers themselves may be exhausted. The delay looked like someone was watching rather than cutting. The next day, the same man appeared on Bilibili and read another statement. Legitimacy, he said, should come from the people's authorization, constitutional limits, and free elections, not a monopoly on power. He opposed one-party dictatorship under Xi and the use of censorship, bans, and speech suppression to strip basic rights. He wanted a China with real freedom of speech, press, religion, and political choice, an end to one-party rule, and a constitutional democracy in which people can choose, supervise, and change the government. The stream was cut at the one-minute mark. Behind him, another young man held up a photo of Xi Jinping marked with a red cross. Comments called them heroes and wished them safety. Japanese viewers again urged awakening, democracy, and the values of free speech. On September 13, another young man on Kuaishou read an anti-CCP declaration and stated outright that he wanted to overthrow the Communist Party. His room closed at 55 seconds. Earlier, on July 23, a video circulated of a young man inside China cursing Xi on Kuaishou. The room was banned at once, and the person was said to have been taken by state security. Whether the three are inside the country or outside remains unclear from the footage. What is clear is the anger at the Chinese Communist Party and at Xi Jinping and the willingness to say it on platforms built for entertainment and control. The charge the tower acts keep appearing. The bans still come. Sometimes they come after the words have already been heard. Primary schools in multiple places across China converted into nursing homes. Netizens went to school here as a child. We'll grow old here. Ordinary primary schools in mainland China fell by 8,000 between 2024 and 2025, about 22 closures a day. Primary enrollment dropped by more than 4 million students in a single year. Across the country, empty campuses are being turned into nursing homes. Netizens put it plainly, the place they attended as children is where they will grow old. Yikei, citing the Ministry of Education's 2025 National Statistical Bulletin on the Development of Education, reported 128,300 ordinary primary schools nationwide, plus 42,300 teaching points not counted as full schools. Primary enrollment stood at 14.62 million, 101.78 million students were in school, 18.61 million graduated. A year earlier, the same bulletin showed 136,300 ordinary primary schools and 52,200 teaching points with 105.84 million students. Ordinary primary schools fell by 8,000, teaching points by 9,900, students by 4.06 million. From 158,000 ordinary primary schools in 2020, the five-year loss reaches 29,700. Idle buildings are being put to new use. A large share have become nursing homes, elderly care centers and senior canteens. Junzijian Primary School in Junzijian Village, Shanyang County, Shaanxi, long unused, is now the filial piety and love for relatives' nursing home. In Nanping, Fujian, 601 school buildings stood idle by autumn 2025, 196 under restricted custody with local government, 274 under village collectives. Of those revived, 20 went to nursing homes, welfare homes and senior canteens, 17 to factory space, four to cultural and tourism projects. Online, the jokes wrote themselves, When I get old, I still have to live in my childhood classroom. I'll retire to kindergarten. There are still toys. The teacher said, keep your alma mater in your heart. For retirement, we've circled back. From childhood to old age, all going to school, perfect closed loop. Schools become nursing homes. Teachers switch careers to caregivers. Others noted middle schools in Daking already converted the same way. And the sheer scale of fewer newborns against a swelling elderly population. One ex-user said conversion to a nursing home was the milder outcome. Their primary school became a pig farm. The absurd geometry of China's population structure is already visible on the ground. Kindergartens are collapsing faster. Shanghai closed 54 in 2024. Xiamen lost 23,000 children in a year, shut 136 kindergartens, and saw 1,024 full-time preschool teachers leave three a day. Nationwide, 21,400 kindergartens disappeared. In 2025, nearly 59 a day, two every hour. Since 2021, more than 62,900 kindergartens and nearly 16 million children have vanished from the system. The National Bureau of Statistics recorded 7.92 million births in 2025, a rate of 5.63 per thousand, the first drop below 8 million. The Chinese Communist Party eased the two-child rule in 2016, allowed three in 2021, and rolled out marriage and childbirth subsidies in many places. Young people still refuse to marry, refuse to have children, and refuse to buy houses. Employment pressure and a stalled economy leave many confused or despairing. Marriage means higher costs. A child means still more time and money. A woman who ranked ninth in Shaanxi's Gaokao, entered Peking University, then took a British master's, has spent two years back in China, unable to find suitable work, and is living off her parents. Bloggers report four of five dorm mates unemployed within a year of graduation. University graduates flood service counters, security posts, and factory lines. 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