Day: August 22, 2025

Operation Honey Pot: Paste this emoji 🍯 in your comment below.People in the Chinese city Jiangyou are rioting, calling for an end to the CCP, after a video of a schoolyard bulling of a 14 year old girl went viral.

Taiwan responds to China’s attempt to shoehorn language about Taiwan into a statement with India during a thaw in icy ties. TaiwanPlus sits down with a defense analyst to discuss how Taiwan can counter gray zone warfare impacting its undersea cables. And a robotics exhibition showcases how Taiwan plugs into a humanoid future.Plus:-Washington is seeking to gain equity in foreign companies that were granted CHIPS Act grants—including Taiwan’s TSMC.-Switzerland, Austria and Hungary have been named as possible hosts for Russia-Ukraine peace talks.Some small and medium-sized machinery manufacturers in Taiwan are temporarily cutting operations to four-day workweeks as they navigate U.S. tariff impacts.

In early August 2025, a brutal bullying case in Jiangyou, Sichuan, ignited one of the most explosive grassroots protests China has seen in years. Thousands took to the streets demanding justice—not just for one girl, but against a system that protects the powerful and silences the weak. As police cracked down with violence and censorship, citizens pushed back with fury and courage. Pamphlets and posters calling for a national movement have appeared. Could this be the spark that ignites a broader awakening—like the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement that ended the Qing Dynasty?

The empire that once stunned the world with skyscrapers, highways, and unstoppable construction is now facing its greatest collapse. China’s cement industry, once the foundation of its economic miracle, is crumbling—and with it, the illusion of endless growth.For decades, cement symbolized China’s rise. Entire cities were built in record time, fueled by real estate booms and massive infrastructure projects. But now, cement production has fallen to its weakest level since 2009, signaling a devastating slowdown in domestic demand. This is not a small dip—it’s the collapse of the very engine that powered China’s global rise.Behind the cement crash lies a much deeper crisis: a collapsing property market, bankrupt developers, stalled projects, shrinking loans, and fading consumer confidence. The construction frenzy that once defined China’s unstoppable growth is over, replaced by uncertainty, inefficiency, and structural decline.Meanwhile, the US-China trade war looms in the background, threatening even more instability. As Beijing struggles with a fragile ceasefire and global pressure, the cracks in its economic foundation are widening.This is the story of how China’s miracle is unraveling—from cement to skyscrapers, from real estate to trade wars. The boom is over. The question is: what replaces it?#ChinaCollapse #EconomicCrisis #USChina