Pro-CCP Mainland Spouse Has a Breakdown! Hit a Hunan Deputy Party Secretary, and the Whole Family Disappeared? Changsha Deployed Five Major Departments, Mobilized Tens of Thousands of Police and Chengguan, and Confiscated Delivery E-bikes? Little Pinks Are Crying En Masse
In Changsha, a traffic accident occurred where a food delivery worker's e-bike knocked down an elderly person, which subsequently escalated into a 100-day rectification campaign mobilizing five major departments, including the police (Public Security), traffic police, chengguan, and fire services. Online rumors claimed that the elderly person hit was the Deputy Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, sparking heated discussions. The video uses this incident to explore the phenomenon of "rule of man" in Chinese society, where the system is efficiently mobilized due to harm inflicted upon the privileged class, and further discusses deep-seated social and economic issues such as delivery workers facing tight delivery times, e-bike modifications, local government tax revenue, and platform algorithms.
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This afternoon, Xi Jinping traveled to the United States despite illness, and right now during this trip, he is expected to arrive in the United States around 4 AM. Meanwhile, what is China doing? Removing various military leaders and replacing leaders in some provincial governments, right? Ensuring that no one attempts a coup. But last week, there was another thing that we Taiwanese found completely baffling, and it happened in Hunan, specifically in Changsha. On September 17, Changsha suddenly erupted with a large-scale joint enforcement operation involving the police (Public Security), traffic police, chengguan, fire department, and a chaotic mix of five major departments swarming onto the streets. Look at that feeling—it’s like another pandemic is about to break out, or some armed rebellion and uprising is being suppressed, right? Like some anti-Qing elements going to suppress people like Sun Yat-sen—you get that kind of illusion because the scene looks terrifying.
But why did this happen? I believe our audience must be puzzled. The reason is that on September 15, a food delivery worker riding his little e-bike accidentally knocked down an elderly person. Sounds very ordinary, right? Doesn't this kind of traffic accident happen every day all over the world? But does China care that much about human rights? Would an elderly person being hit trigger a joint enforcement rectification by 5 departments? Moreover, in China, many people riding e-bikes haphazardly on sidewalks is a common sight. But why did this city mobilize five major departments for joint enforcement over the past two days? They even held a press conference for what they called—not mourning a hundred children, but a 100-day campaign, a 100-day action. What are they trying to manage? They are going to manage these Chinese citizens: buying vehicles and getting license plates, modifying bikes and parking them, and whether you are legally and compliant-charging your vehicle at charging stations. Otherwise, it might explode while charging! And delivery workers—they are going to crack down on delivery workers, and optimize the delivery workers... uh, o-optimize what organs of the delivery workers? This elderly person actually managed to trigger this 100-day action within two days simply by getting hit.
As a result, Chinese internet users provided the answer on the internet that very day: it turns out that the elderly person who was hit was actually the Deputy Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee. Oh, and afterward, as we Taiwanese listen to this, we will feel like this kind of sensational short video on Douyin has actually played out—it has played out in reality. Of course, at present, the CCP will not confirm this news, but Chinese internet platforms are going wild with rumors. Do you know what the reaction of Chinese netizens is? "How could this be? It must be a rumor! How could you accidentally hit the Deputy Secretary? That's impossible! That's someone our little pinks would never get to see in a lifetime, let alone Xi Jinping." But what was their reaction? "Ah, no wonder! No wonder there was a joint enforcement operation by five major departments with such high efficiency." See, this is the genuine reaction of Chinese netizens, because what truly makes people believe such a story is never the story itself, nor how absurd it might be, but rather how deeply familiar they are with how that system springs into action in their own society, right?
To put it bluntly, if your children go missing today and cannot be found after several years, they might be in northern Myanmar, or perhaps serving as a 'chained woman' in someone's home, or even living within the household of a Politburo Standing Committee member. However, if the child of a 'Zhao family' member—not even someone of high rank, just a bureau or division chief—goes missing, the Sky Net system can find them immediately, right? The Haiyan system, right? And the human trafficker would be severely punished. Is it possible that Changsha didn't have these problems before? Delivery drivers hitting people, illegal vehicle modifications, or traffic violations—these existed, right? And to take a step back, the whole world has these problems, and the entire Hunan Province has them too. But why, within two days of this old man being hit, did only Changsha in Hunan Province launch this campaign? Doesn't this indirectly confirm it? Only when the interests of the 'Zhao family' are harmed do they know how to rectify so-called chaos, and they do it with such urgency—not just one department, but five departments acting together.
What does this represent, everyone? It means it's not that the traffic police or the police captain suddenly decided, 'Hey, electric bikes are a bit chaotic, let's clean it up, everyone is breaking the law, riding recklessly, hitting people, right?' The official statement is that it is targeting the prominent chaos in the current electric bicycle sector. Is this statement wrong? Actually, it's not wrong. But the problem is, for a long-standing issue, why this sudden joint enforcement, and why this show-like presence on the streets, as if they are occupying the city, as if the city is under martial law? The authorities have not answered why this happened so suddenly. Of course, one cannot rule out formalism, and the plot of those Douyin short videos I just mentioned is being performed—perhaps now they are 'Hongguo' short dramas or reality shows. On the night of September 15th, wasn't this delivery driver riding an electric bike? And didn't he hit an old man who was out for a walk? That deputy secretary? And it is rumored that this old man—and here comes the more dramatic part—the delivery driver didn't know who he had hit at the time. He even said the old man was 'touching porcelain' (faking an injury), and the two sides got into an argument. After the traffic police arrived, they initially also thought the old man was faking it and didn't know his identity, right? Then this old man started showing off: 'I am that deputy secretary, I am your so-and-so, one phone call from me can summon hundreds of captains to discipline you.' This triggered everyone's ridicule: 'If you are a deputy secretary, then I am Xi Jinping's son. You are a deputy secretary? Then I can go pat Peng Liyuan's butt. I can just pat it, call her over and I can pat it.' It's just that absurd.
Until the very end, this old man called his secretary and contacted the traffic police captain. After their leaders appeared, the nature of the situation changed. Everyone said, 'I'm sorry, your honor, I had eyes but failed to recognize Mount Tai, please spare me.' Isn't this exactly what I just said? The plot of those Chinese AI short dramas is actually playing out in real life on the night of September 15th. So, while we in Taiwan are still laughing at why Chinese short dramas are so absurd, ridiculous, and what kind of brain-dead shows they are, we didn't expect that this is actually their real-life situation being used as material for AI short dramas. Of course, setting aside science fiction, when people in our own country make videos, most of them refer to our social conditions. Why do they have so many of these videos? It's just like that, isn't it? So you see, the gap in life, values, and forms of life between the two sides of the strait is so huge, what kind of unification are you talking about? What kind of unification is that?
What I am first interested in is not even whether this deputy secretary was caught, but why such a story sounds so reasonable in the context of Chinese society, but sounds so absurd in Taiwan? When China was experiencing massive flooding over the past few months, some young Taiwanese people really thought, 'Damn, is this AI? How could it flood like this in 2026?' But it really did flood like that. I'm not saying that all law enforcement in China should be like this, but it is indeed mostly like this. For the same matter, if the identity of the victim is different, the administrative attention and law enforcement they receive are completely different, right? That's why I keep asking this question: if the person hit that night had been a truly ordinary old man? If it had been the parents of migrant workers? What would have happened? What if it had been a worker who had just finished their shift? What if it had been an auntie who had just packed up her barbecue stall? If it were an ordinary old man with no background, would there still be a joint enforcement by five major departments two days later, and would officials above be acting so arrogantly and holding such an angry press conference? Believe me, there definitely wouldn't be.
But coincidentally, in the same city, nine months ago, there really was a group of delivery drivers who took their grievances to the streets, and that time there were a lot of delivery drivers. Let's go back to December 22, 2025. Also in Changsha, at the Heneng Puli community, delivery drivers were delivering food into the community and were told they couldn't ride their electric bikes in, that they had to go downstairs, push the bikes in, or walk. But community residents could ride their electric bikes in and out freely. So, the delivery drivers were very angry, and a fierce conflict broke out. Some delivery drivers even refused to take orders. But often, you only know after you accept an order that it is to be delivered to such a community. Many people said, 'Because the identity of the delivery driver is unknown, it's normal not to let you ride in, right?' But what is the problem?
Many food delivery platforms in China are not like foodpanda or Uber Eats in Taiwan, where it doesn't really matter if you are a little late, right? And if they tell you, 'I'm sorry, please understand, we were late for this reason,' we wouldn't be complaining or making a fuss; we'd just say, 'Well, it's human nature,' and wait a bit, right? But in the system over in China, if you are late, even by a little, money is deducted immediately. If you are late, you might even have to pay a penalty equivalent to the earnings of three or five orders. You end up losing money, and sometimes being late once or twice means you've worked the whole day for nothing, or even have to pay out of your own pocket—you're essentially paying to work as a delivery driver, right? So, I think it's perfectly normal for them to have these demands. If there weren't these demands regarding delivery times, everyone could take their time, and they wouldn't be targeted, and residents wouldn't be bossing them around. If those behaviors didn't exist, I believe there wouldn't be so many protests.
The Changsha municipal government announced a '100-day rectification' campaign, which includes a measure to optimize delivery dispatching—the very demand made nine months ago. So, do you see the absurdity in this? This delivery driver hit an elderly person on September 15th, and the excuse given was, 'Because I was about to be late, I had no choice, so I accidentally hit you, and I'm sorry, but aren't you also trying to scam me?' and so on. Perhaps they heard this demand and said, 'Okay, we will optimize the delivery time for this platform,' meaning, 'Don't deduct all their money for being one, two, or three minutes late,' which is why they implemented it. Although this does solve the problem for the delivery drivers, what if you hadn't hit that person today? So, if we look at the root of the problem, isn't this still a society ruled by men?
To put it bluntly, if you were in a society ruled by law, you wouldn't need to hit anyone, you wouldn't need to hit the mayor, you wouldn't need to hit Chiang Wan-an, and you certainly wouldn't need to hit Judge Bao; the matter would be handled according to legal procedures and the demands of public representatives, right? And this issue isn't just happening in Changsha. Let's look a bit further south to Shenzhen. There are millions of electric bikes on the road in Shenzhen, right? In April 2026—a slip of the tongue—parts of Shenzhen also began large-scale crackdowns on these electric bikes. What is the comprehensive dynamic? Afterward, a large number of videos showing 'one-size-fits-all' enforcement began to circulate. But this situation has actually been common in China over the last three years, or rather, the last five years, especially in the Guangdong region. There are often these inexplicable new regulations, concentrated over a few months, where they start confiscating electric bikes in large numbers. If you have money, you pay to get it back; if you don't, you buy a new one. After you buy a new one, they confiscate it again a few months later, and you buy another one.
Why? Because China's fiscal revenue is becoming increasingly tight, so they confiscate your property and turn it into fiscal fines to supplement local taxes. Why? Because after the tax reform under Zhu Rongji, many taxes have to be remitted to the central government. With China's current economic downturn, your foreign exchange is supported by volume, and the average unit price is lower than it was in 2018. So now, there's no other way, and there will only be more and more of these messy fees and administrative penalties used to fleece the people. I've been mentioning these things in my videos over the last few days, right? So look, when the tools people rely on for their livelihood can be confiscated, what else can the people do? You know that China's unemployment rate is rising, and the number of people in flexible employment is increasing. Even the food delivery sector is becoming saturated. If you keep confiscating their electric bikes, what can they do, right? I have never denied the Chinese government's governance capability; on the contrary, its ability to act is actually very strong. But they are lazy and prefer 'one-size-fits-all' policies. So the real question worth asking is: what conditions can trigger the Chinese government to use its truly powerful, non-'one-size-fits-all' governance capabilities?
Let's look at an even more fundamental issue. After modifications by the CCP government, what is the maximum speed of an electric bike in China? 25 km/h. That might be even lower than the electric scooters we have in Taiwan. While this can reduce the risk of accidents—meaning if you hit someone, it might not be fatal—the problem arises: why do so many Chinese delivery riders want to modify their bikes to increase the speed limit to 40 or even 60 km/h? Because on all the major platforms in China, as we mentioned earlier, there are strict time limits for deliveries. What are the consequences if you are late for your next order? It's equivalent to working a whole day for nothing, or even having to pay out of pocket for three days' worth of earnings. Yet the government tells you that your electric bike cannot exceed 25 km/h, right?
On the other hand, Chinese platforms tell you, the algorithm tells you to deliver it within 5 minutes today, or within 10 minutes today. But logically speaking, considering traffic lights and other additional factors, plus a 25-kilometer distance, it is highly likely that you will exceed the delivery time. Do the people know where the problem lies? Is it the government? The platform? Or the unreasonable customer? Or is it your own lack of quality? Whose problem is it exactly? So the Chinese government is very clever; it disperses the contradictions it should have solved among all entrepreneurs and capitalists, and onto the infighting between the people. And then the government comes out and says, 'Alright, I, the upright official, am here to help you solve the problem.' The Little Pinks send their heads to the government, saying, 'Thank you, government, for letting us not get our pay deducted and for letting us earn money.' So in China, for a law to be pushed forward, does it really have to hit someone, or make someone with power get hurt, for it to actually be implemented? For example, in the past few months, the whole of China has been paying great attention to the rights of animals and pets. But if today, one of the pets of a 'Zhao family' member were really treated like this, then believe me, it might be legislated within two days, and there would be a major crackdown within two days: 'Who the fuck is abusing animals and pets?' That's the end of today's video.
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