Huawei Boss's Whole Family Fleeing With the Money? Daughter Breaks Down and Lashes Out at Netizens: "With One Phone Call, I Can Kill You Poor Bastards" — China Continues to Lead by a Wide Margin

This episode explores the heated online discussions surrounding rumors that Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and his entire family have fled the country, along with the controversy over remarks made by his youngest daughter, Annabel Yao (Yao Anna). It also analyzes the "North Koreanization" and jittery social atmosphere seen recently across various parts of China (such as Beijing), including tightened management of rental housing, hospitals checking medical staff passports, and stricter exit screenings at customs. Furthermore, it delves into the crisis of confidence and economic pressure faced by the CCP's rule behind these events.

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First, let's talk about Huawei's "little princess" having a meltdown, publicly cursing China's lower classes on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) telling them to go die. We will talk more about this later. With the new September 15 regulations, has the CCP really begun tightening prevention against those Chinese who have the capability to leave? And the Taiwanese who are treated as Chinese? Especially those who have some resources, skills, or can even start over abroad? What I've seen over these past few days has turned into another kind of anxiety: Is your passport still in your own hands? Are the exit records real or fake? Will any skills, knowledge, and education you carry in your head leave China along with you? This new September 15 regulation has only been in effect for three or four days, right? What they are worried about right now is fundamentally not an ordinary Chinese person going to Japan for 5 days or traveling to Taiwan for a bit, but rather that once this group of people leaves, the confidence of the entire nation of China will go with them.

Many Chinese netizens have clearly felt this in recent days and shared it on overseas internet platforms as well as Xiaozhou ARK and Xiaohongshu (RedNote). They said, what is the most direct feeling over the past few days? It's not that we are completely unable to leave, but rather that most people can indeed still pass through customs and enter/exit normally. However, not only have customs officers begun asking a huge number of questions upon entry and exit, but when you are randomly selected, they ask for even finer details. Some people were even asked to fill out another form detailing why they want to go abroad: Are you really going to Don Quijote in Japan to buy things? How many beauty devices do you plan to buy? And so on. But that feeling has already changed—you are no longer just a person preparing to go abroad; you feel more like you first have to prove that you really are going to Don Quijote in Japan to buy beauty devices, that you really intend to buy Japanese medicine to bring back, or that you really want to visit Senso-ji Temple. Of course, some people were indeed restricted from exiting/entering, and they shared posts saying the reason given was "providing false information." That is extremely vague. For such a serious matter, you don't arrest them and put them in prison, but instead at customs you just prohibit them from leaving due to providing false information and tell them to resolve it themselves? Being told at departure that you provided false information should be a matter for the customs of the destination country, right? How could it be your own country's customs? For example, if you go to Japan today, okay, you go through customs in Tokyo or Osaka, and if Japanese customs suspects you forged documents or that your purpose for visiting Japan is not genuine, they refuse entry. That is usually done by foreign customs. So this operation by the CCP is meant to make Chinese people get used to it, making them personally step on landmines regarding their basic human dignity. "Today I personally ran into a trap and was interviewed by customs for an hour. Today, just like usual, I scanned my passport, but it showed that I needed to go to the manual counter. After I went to the manual counter, I was directly taken by staff to an interrogation room. I never expected that during departure, customs would actually check so strictly. Of course, this kind of situation never happened before. Visa-free travel doesn't mean passing customs casually; entries and exits can be inspected at any time. At minor levels, you get detained and questioned, missing your flight; at worst, it impacts your ability to successfully leave the country." I think China has a set of practices that is very interesting: it rarely explains clearly to you all at once what you can or cannot do starting today. Today they ask one extra question, tomorrow you submit one extra paper; when withdrawing money at the bank, the procedures get more and more complex. After a few months, everyone gets used to it, thinking: "Oh, going abroad was originally supposed to be this complicated. What are you Taiwanese babbling about? Isn't it like this all over the world?"

Recently, some people on the internet have been talking about what? It was written very clearly: a major development happened in Beijing. Originally, a person lived in a rented apartment in Beijing, and occasionally a boyfriend, girlfriend, or relatives and friends would drop by to chat. If you didn't register, the local police station was conducting joint nighttime checks nearby, so you had to go make up the registration quickly, or else, as the final line put it, "please bear the consequences yourself." Seeing this felt increasingly absurd to me. Now the CCP even requires reporting when Chinese people fall in love or invite friends and relatives to their rented apartments or residences, especially in Beijing. In the past, the scariest thing about visiting a girlfriend's house for the first time was meeting her dad; now, the first sentence upon entering might be: "Honey, I'm sleeping here tonight, did you report to the police (Public Security)?" Recently, Beijing has really stepped up inspections of daily rental rooms and short-term apartments. If someone rents out by the day without registering occupant information according to regulations, or even if registered, if you invite a close friend or any friend in Beijing over temporarily, not only will the landlord be fined, but the informant can also receive a snitch bonus from the police. Because failing to register might lead to public security incidents—it's so terrifying, with a bunch of Xianzhong attacks (indiscriminate revenge attacks on the public). Is it really at this level of extreme nervousness and fear? Are they really that lacking in confidence? And where do I think the most crucial point lies? Because this happens to coincide with other security measures in Beijing right now, and the timing is really interesting, right? Around mid-October or late October this year at the latest, the CCP Central Committee's Fifth Plenary Session will be held. And what is the tone they set for this? Full-scale strict governance over the party. This is actually extremely tense and terrifying; it seeks to rectify everything starting from inside the party. If they are so strict with their own people inside the system, then it's not hard to understand why so many of China's policies starting this year look so North Korean-style and so backward, right? Furthermore, while Beijing is tightening control and screening of the migrant population—taking rental management to such extremes—it has also pushed drone controls to a total ban across the entire region. What on earth is Xi Jinping in Zhongnanhai defending against, and what is he so afraid of?

Speaking of this, recently some people also stated that their passports have been registered and put under control. Where? Some hospitals in China are requiring medical staff, doctors, and even cleaning workers and other employees to hand over their passports, as well as their so-called Exit-Entry Permits for Travelling to and from Hong Kong and Macao, to the hospital's human resources department for record-filing and registration. They will even specifically write down whether you are a staff member inside the system or outside the system—meaning formal employees, contract workers, and outsourced workers all have to be registered. Doesn't that sound very strange? What does a hospital have to do with personnel control? Now, think about it: when are doctors and nurses needed the most? Combined with China's wartime economy that we've talked about over the past month or two, are they preparing for a war? Will there be a massive demand for medical care? Might a large number of PLA soldiers and civilians need such a huge volume of medical capacity due to something? We put a question mark on this. Moreover, the hospital knows you might hand in a fake passport, so they anticipated that you might have another one and will strictly check you. China is truly a magical place, I must say. From day one, many systems are designed not on the assumption that you will cooperate, but on the assumption that you won't.

Another even more famous Chinese entrepreneur's name has also popped up. That's right, it's Ren Zhengfei. Who is Ren Zhengfei? He is the big boss of Huawei, the chairman of Huawei. Rumors went viral all over the internet this past week that his whole family lost contact. Some even claimed that in the early hours of September 11, a minivan was seen driving out of his home, his hometown in Shenzhen, heading toward the Dapeng Peninsula. They even claimed that they fled to a nearby private island, and from that private island wanted to escape to Europe and the US. Following that, Huawei's internal chat logs began to leak and went viral online. They couldn't even contact his daughter Meng Wanzhou—the very famous one, right? So the current president and CEO of Huawei is very nervous. There are also online rumors circulating these days—or even stitched together from past years—showing videos of a massive number of PAP (People's Armed Police) and urban management officers moving into Huawei's headquarters. Let's put aside the fact that some people are misusing old videos from previous years of the armed police going to Huawei for stability maintenance; recently, there have indeed been quite a few Huawei employees taking collective free falls, so there are indeed a large number of police officers and public security personnel going to the scene to prevent such things from happening.

But do you know what? His younger daughter, Annabel Yao (Yao Anna), appeared at a public event in Beijing on September 14, and later she even posted these photos on Weibo for promotion. However, this Huawei princess, Annabel Yao, suddenly threw a massive tantrum this morning, fiercely chewing out a Chinese netizen, saying, "You are here on Xiaohongshu playing passive-aggressive games and trying to guide public opinion. Trash never knows what class it lives in. I can make your whole family disappear with a single phone call, whether I find the CCP's police, public security, armed police, or underworld thugs—take your pick."

Although Huawei is a famous patriotic enterprise, at the level of the Politburo Standing Committee or Xi Jinping, it is still just an external tail of the red families. If today in Taiwan, a legislator or a city councilor—even someone at the level of Mayor Chiang Wan-an—had their children or family members dare to bully people and abuse their privilege like this, it would cause a total public relations explosion. You know back when Chen Shui-bian was president, his daughter Chen Hanyu, and people like Chen Chih-chung, were chased by the media every day, even pursued all the way to New York, and the media still relentlessly pursued them. A president's children can be treated like this in a democratic country, yet a so-called patriotic enterprise that hasn't even gone public can utter such arrogant and outrageous words. Finally, the netizen stated that because they were hidden and even deleted by Xiaohongshu, many netizens initially thought it was Photoshop, but unexpectedly it was a fact. Why? Because the netizen who was chewed out kept on speaking out and even went to take photos at a Huawei store. I still advise everyone, especially friends inside the Great Firewall, not to think that after suffering for ten, twenty, thirty, or even forty years, you too can become Huawei's eldest princess or some sort of young master. Because in the CCP's country, given the current economic situation, ordinary people basically have no such opportunity. Moreover, they are still turning the blade inward; Huawei itself is currently facing the risk of internal struggle, and even BYD has suffered the exact same fate. Why? Because China's public finance is on the verge of collapse, and many of these policies discussed today are just like this, right? Therefore, never hold onto the mindset of: "I am currently the trash in the mouth of Huawei's little princess, but if I endure for twenty or thirty years, I can attain even half of Huawei's little princess's status, I can also enjoy privileges, and I can inflict the grievances I suffered in the past onto even more of the so-called lower-class people to showcase the suffering I once endured." Instead of thinking like this, why don't you change your perspective and turn China into a more democratic and free country with media capable of oversight and division of labor?

If today the children of Morris Chang, the founder of TSMC, or Robert Tsao, the founder of UMC, dared to utter such words on any social media platform—whether in Taiwan or the United States—do you think the government would cooperate in deleting the posts, the platforms would cooperate in deleting them, and there would be no news reports at all? Little Pinks, you need to understand that democracy and freedom protect the more vulnerable you and me, rather than the wealthy or political families. Yet, you side with Huawei's little princess, becoming what they consider garbage. Remember what the North Pole Catfish said? Her grandfather was only a bureau-level official, yet she could say things on par with Huawei's little princess. Then tell me, what kind of China do you really want? So no matter what, when such things are posted, whether true or false, they are meant to target someone—you can guess who. Because on the surface, Ren Zhengfei has fled. True or false, who is this humiliating? This is not just humiliating Huawei or Ren Zhengfei; its most crucial layer is questioning what Huawei has represented in recent years. It represents China's independent technological research and development, breaking through US blockades, domestic substitution, and when Meng Wanzhou returned to China, the CCP mobilized national power and party-wide efforts to turn her into a national narrative and a national hero. Furthermore, the relationship between their Ren family and Xi's family is so close. Now exit controls are becoming increasingly strict, and suddenly a rumor pops up on the internet: Xi Jinping's great general makes Xi Jinping hold up this kind of Huawei patriotic narrative, yet even Ren Zhengfei has fled and left a step ahead. Then tell me, how damaging is this? It doesn't even need to be true; as long as a portion of Chinese people feel it might not be entirely impossible. Now our domestic economy has turned into such a piece of shit, so this effect actually comes out, right? Because it strikes at the CCP's confidence, the Chinese people's faith in the CCP. Xi Jinping keeps telling everyone to believe in China's future, yet the most ridiculous rumor happens to involve your own most representative patriotic enterprise, and you don't even bother to deny the rumor. Therefore, if this really carries such political maneuvering, there is no need to rush to say that it must be the Jiang faction, the Tuanpai, or someone else severely beating up Xi Jinping, because the networks of those factions are indeed already very old. Moreover, just look at it now—who else is more powerful than Zhang Youxia to mess with Xi Jinping? But looking at it the other way around, currently, regarding Xi Jinping's downfall, who benefits? Besides the military faction, aren't the other group those we just mentioned—the Jiang faction and the Tuanpai—the official-merchant circles that benefited the most from reform and opening up and globalization? In recent years, they have been the ones most ruthlessly fleeced by Xi Jinping, even facing retroactive tax collection on overseas assets, with even overseas dividend profits and insurance policies continuing to be pursued for collection, and even retroactive collections exceeding 20 percent. After the richest people are sheared, the middle class will be sheared, and after the middle class is sheared, the relatively wealthy will be sheared. Unless you, Little Pink, really have a monthly income of one to two thousand or three to five thousand yuan, then maybe your turn won't come even ten years from now. But if your monthly income is 10,000 or 8,000 yuan, people with your social status might be up for harvesting in the next year or two. So, are those people who previously got rich by following China, following the whole world, and following the US in doing business satisfied with this route? Of course, it is hard for us on the outside to guess, but if a piece of news that even Ren Zhengfei is preparing to run can make Xi Jinping look this bad, and it goes viral, with Xi Jinping reportedly feeling unwell again and about to pass away and whatever—whether Xi Jinping has passed away or not, we can leave that aside for a moment, but his knees really do have this problem, which we can guess and even observe from many of his physical details. Of course, perhaps we are being a bit conspiratorial, and actually no one is manipulating these things at all, it's just that the social atmosphere in China has now reached such a jittery state that the slightest disturbance causes panic. Therefore, as long as someone accidentally speculates about a story of China's top tycoon running away, people will make up the rest themselves and let it go viral. But is there a possibility that Ren Zhengfei might have actually wanted to run, and was intercepted halfway, so this piece of news was indeed passed out, but the second half of the news was not transmitted? If that ends up being the answer, I would find it even more ruthless, because it means the real problem is not some anti-Xi faction, but that the confidence in trusting the CCP's system itself has experienced a huge loosening. In the past, if someone told you Ren Zhengfei ran, you would laugh, but now if someone tells you Ren Zhengfei ran, you might still think they are an idiot, but while saying those words you would hesitate for three to five seconds and think: since this matter came out first, let me check if BBC or other Western media reported it. Doesn't this prove one thing? These Chinese people are starting to trust European and American media. Isn't that precisely what the CCP fears the most?

So sometimes when we look at things, we need to look at another dimension: how does it shake the CCP? Often it might not be the event itself. Even if Ren Zhengfei truly ran away—back when China's economy was surging upward, the government didn't need to study every day how to retain talent, how to make money, or how to retain capital. Rich people got green cards and went to Singapore, but in the end they still had to come back to our country. That was because our country was very attractive; it was an era of opportunity, an era when a major power was ascending, so opportunities were abundant. But when real estate no longer rises, youth unemployment becomes more and more outrageous, and China's public finances become increasingly absurd, exit regulations multiply, and Xi Jinping's regime becomes increasingly unstable. Furthermore, China is now facing one of the most severe challenges in the world: no new young people are willing to take over the burden. Of course, developed countries all over the world are facing this problem of declining birth rates, and Taiwan is no exception. But compared to the baseline population that needs elder care and the baseline of borrowing future money to repay debts, China is the most terrifying. So now, if you have an extra child who stays in China and holds a Chinese passport, what they might face in 10 or 30 years could be 10 or even 15 times the pressure faced by a Taiwanese, a Japanese, or a South Korean.

Therefore, we can see that the CCP's current policies are merely taking painkillers, injecting cardiotonics, and administering adrenaline just to delay your time of death. But once these miracle drugs expire, all of your complications will burst out all at once. In order to protect your vital organs—such as your heart, kidneys, liver, and lungs—the blood in your body will sacrifice the peripheral blood vessels of your hands and feet. Your hands and feet might suffer necrosis, and you might have to be amputated, but you as a person can survive. China right now is following just such a template and routine: in the future you can indeed survive, but you will have no hands and no feet. That's the end of today's video.

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