Category: China

First order of business: No, this isn’t financial advice. Second order of business: taking a loan out in Yuan to profit from a Chinese collapse is a very bad idea.

China’s economy isn’t just slowing down — it’s eating itself alive to survive.In this episode of China Uncensored, Chris Chappell breaks down how China’s local governments are running out of money as land sales collapse, debt explodes, and revenue dries up. To stay afloat, officials are selling off future income, auctioning public assets, squeezing the private sector, and even using police to confiscate money in the name of “law enforcement.”From selling school cafeterias and parking spaces to retroactively demanding decades-old taxes and “ocean fishing” raids across provinces, China’s economic survival tactics are making the situation even worse. And as debt piles up and confidence collapses, even China’s own official data can’t hide how bad things have gotten.So the next time you hear about how strong China’s economy is, remember: when the tiger is hungry, the lamb doesn’t get a vote.

Operation Honey Pot: Paste this emoji 🍯 in your comment below.Thousands of Chinese “fishing boats” recently began moving in precise military-style formations in the East China Sea. They weren’t fishing. They were forming massive lines hundreds of miles long—and staying there for hours.

FBI and SWAT teams raided a Las Vegas home and uncovered a suspected illegal biological laboratory containing refrigerators and vials of unknown liquids. Investigators say the property may be connected to an ongoing federal case in California involving a Chinese-run biological lab.Thousands of samples have been sent for testing, hazmat crews are still cleaning the home, and multiple people—including a housecleaner and handyman—reportedly became ill after entering the garage where the lab was found.

Viral videos show PLA troop movements around Beijing and across multiple regions in China, including armored vehicles, missile units, helicopters, and ground forces. Are these deployments real—and who authorized them? This episode analyzes the footage, explains what these movements likely signal inside China’s elite power struggle, and breaks down whether they point to war preparation, internal pressure tactics, or growing instability within the PLA.

Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang weighs in on China’s military purge, U.S. trade partners reportedly shifting their gaze to China and more on ‘Varney & Co.’