Chinese People Take to the Streets During Halloween! Confronting the CCP and Shouting at Xi Jinping: Do Chinese People Have No Human Rights? Even Little Pinks Wearing Hanfu Were Arrested, While Taiwanese Are Having a Blast

This video explores how during Halloween in 2024, places like Shanghai and other regions in China strictly banned citizens from festive dress-ups and cosplay, reporting and commenting on the phenomenon of large numbers of citizens taking to the streets only to be taken away and interrogated (“invited for tea”) by the police. The host contrasts this with the free and open Halloween atmospheres in Taiwan and Western countries, criticizing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for using the excuse of preventing stampedes or resisting foreign holidays to impose a one-size-fits-all control, showing a lack of cultural confidence, and using this to satirize the CCP totalitarian regime.

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This year in many urban streets of Shanghai, people were banned from playing Halloween characters, any cartoon movie characters, or wearing horror elements. As long as someone had a costume or makeup, the police would subjectively decide they were cosplaying and immediately turn them away. If turning them away failed, they would be put into a police car, taken to the Public Security Bureau for a statement, and released an hour or two later. And what is even more ridiculous is that some pro-CCP Taiwanese and Little Pinks are covering for it again, claiming that the CCP never said it banned Halloween, it just banned you from dressing up on the street—do you understand what this means?

A Taiwanese friend asked me, saying they heard that Halloween is banned in Shanghai. Is this true? Under unlicensed conditions, illegal gathering, assembly, and parades are not allowed, nor can you wear fancy costumes that affect traffic safety, cause crowds to gather, and disrupt social order. Is that so hard to understand? How did this turn into rumors that Shanghai banned Halloween? I didn't ban you from celebrating the Lunar New Year, but you can't give out red envelopes, you can't set off firecrackers, and you can't paste Spring Festival couplets—so what kind of New Year are you celebrating? What kind of wordplay are you playing at? I didn't say you couldn't come to my shop; I didn't say my restaurant doesn't serve meals, but you just can't enter my restaurant—what on earth are you talking about? Then he also said you can go inside shops to attend parties, but many Chinese business owners stated that their bars were warned not to host costume parties, and once discovered, they would be immediately shut down for days or even weeks. And what did these Chinese business owners say next? They said that dressing up on the street won't be interfered with by the police. Then what about those people who were taken away? You see, Chinese business owners, the whitewashing pro-CCP influencers, and the Little Pinks are all contradicting each other, clashing with one another, and passing the buck. Sigh, what kind of third-world or fourth-world country are you living in? Let's take everyone to watch the video of a Chinese live-streamer who was taken for tea for over two hours.

If you are dressed up, you will be taken away immediately. The current definition of this cosplay is: as long as you have a costume, makeup, and people taking photos with you, you are absolutely celebrating Halloween. Yes, with a costume and makeup. It is not allowed. If you want to go to the streets, you should return your clothes. If you are from out of town and want to come to the streets to see this, you should also cancel your plans. If you go to Happy Valley or Disney, there is no problem. The picture that was rumored before is accurate; except for Happy Valley and Disney, everything else, especially some streets in the city, is 100% prohibited. Yuyuan Road, I was the one who was taken for 'tea' on Yuyuan Road today. That, Pinglan, don't do that. You are spamming the screen; it's meaningless to spam like this. We are talking about the main streets, the main streets. But think about it from another angle: the fact that it is being managed this way this year is not entirely a bad thing, because it seems that more people came to participate in this activity this year than last year. Last year, order was barely maintained. If the foot traffic this year is even larger than last year, and order is harder to maintain and control, then the risk level would be much higher than last year. So you can imagine, if this risk cannot be controlled, who is going to take responsibility for it? There is no way to handle it. So, from a safety perspective, this angle is not wrong. Some people say that after I had 'tea,' my level of thinking became higher. Really, I stayed there for two hours, stayed there for two hours, and reflected for two hours. Yes, look, didn't someone just say that? Itaewon, Itaewon. It's like this, it's understandable, because a long time ago, the Bund in Shanghai, Itaewon, Shibuya, and many other places have all experienced this. Ah, stampede incidents, they carry great risks. There are Chinese netizens who feel that after he was caught by the police, his thinking level became that of the CCP. Your thinking has become 'higher,' why are you helping the CCP speak? He is even trying his best to whitewash for the Party, saying it is to prevent a repeat of the Itaewon stampede. If you put it that way, then you shouldn't drive, because driving leads to car accidents; you shouldn't take airplanes, because they might crash; you shouldn't walk, because you might get hit by a car. When Chinese people go home for the Spring Festival, they should all stop going. The crowd during the Spring Festival is even more terrifying. Why doesn't the CCP ban the Spring Festival travel rush? This crowd cannot compare to Halloween, right? Do you still remember this year, especially in that part of Hubei, the freezing rain, many people were trapped on the highway for three to five days, some even for over a week, and had to rely on people from nearby villages to sell them food to eat; why wasn't that banned? So this kind of 'one-size-fits-all' reasoning, why can people in Shanghai who have experienced more than two months of lockdown still say such things? I really cannot understand. Because they were worried that one person would spread the epidemic to everyone, they simply implemented 'special management' for everyone, 'one-size-fits-all,' 'dynamic zero-COVID,' and 'social-level clearance'—they have forgotten everything so quickly. Stampede incidents have also occurred in Japan, but have you seen South Korea or Japan ban people from going out on the streets to dress up for Halloween? The population of Shanghai is about the same as that of Taiwan. If I were the Shanghai government, what I should do is to carry out publicity and diversion half a month or even a month in advance. Shanghai is so big, divide the areas and divert the flow; each street and each district—Shanghai has so many districts—should hold Halloween activities separately, and then strengthen police force and crowd control. If this place is full, then you can go to other streets to dress up; there is no problem with that. It's not that you are not allowed to dress up, right? You can still dress up. Then strengthen police force and volunteer roadside guidance for security. Of course, this depends on the quality of the people. That is how New Year's Eve in Taiwan is handled; many staff members holding signs at MRT stations and on the roadside are holding signs, asking people not to trample, not to push, and everyone should line up and be diverted to enter. The police are also on the side to avoid stampede incidents; they won't ban people's freedom with a 'one-size-fits-all' approach just because they are afraid of stampede incidents, right? If you still have this kind of thinking, then you are still not awake, right? Let's continue to show you other videos.

Major news! Trump was chased around by security in Shanghai. As you can see, all those Chinese people dressed up as the Statue of Liberty were arrested. Many people, including the energetic young guy dressed like Wangwang we saw earlier, Trump, and the Chinese person dressed in Ming Dynasty attire, were all arrested. Did some kind of stampede happen? So I really feel quite pathetic. The Chinese Communist Party is quite pathetic. Over the past two days, the streets of Taiwan have been packed with people dressed up for Halloween, which is basically the case every year. There was even a pride parade yesterday on Saturday. According to reports I saw—if I remember correctly—about 180,000 to 190,000 people participated.

Last year during Halloween, I happened to be in Italy, and the streets were filled with kids asking for candy and people in various costumes. Although Halloween and Christmas originated in Europe and the Americas, sometimes the lively atmosphere of Halloween events in some Asian countries is even wilder than in the West. Christmas is the same; I spent Christmas in 2019 in the Czech Republic, including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day itself. Oh, I thought, is this what celebrating a holiday looks like? Oh, right, Prague—why does it feel like there's almost nobody around? Oh, it turns out everyone spends it at home, and they even get off work early because people don't really want to go out partying. Of course, there are people partying, but it's the opposite of the impression I've seen in Asia. So we can see from some leaked pictures that many people were also taken to the police station for

So I suggest, first go and overthrow those Xi Jinpings who are wearing Western suits and playing Winnie the Pooh. Why are they cosplaying as Winnie the Pooh? And what about those seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee, like Cai Qi and Li Qiang? Why are Chinese people wearing Western suits? They have no national self-confidence at all, they worship things foreign and fawn over foreign powers; they should be overthrown. Of course, in fact, Xi Jinping wants every Chinese person to experience the horror of Halloween firsthand, so what is the cosplay theme this year? Public Security and chengguan (urban management officers), a police state. You see Xi Jinping's painstaking efforts, right? With his vision, it is something that people like us will never be able to see clearly or explain, which is why he was able to become the General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission for a third term with only an elementary school education, right? The video ends here today. If you like this movie, and don't want to remember, be sure to follow me. I am Ba Xiaoqiao.