Thailand Secretly Repatriated a Group of Uyghurs Last Month, Drawing Strong Condemnation from Western Countries
The Thai government repatriated a group of Uyghurs to China in a secret operation, sparking strong condemnation from Western countries.
The Thai government repatriated a group of Uyghurs to China in a secret operation, sparking strong condemnation from Western countries.
In February 2025, data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange showed that the net inflow of foreign direct investment into China in 2024 was only about $4.5 billion, the lowest since 1991 and just 2% of the 2021 peak of $344.1 billion.
In February 2025, Meituan, JD.com and several other platforms successively issued announcements stating that they would gradually start paying social insurance for food delivery riders. Media professional Xiang Dongliang calculated that Meituan has about 820,000 full-time and stable riders, and that paying the five social insurances and the housing provident fund at the minimum contribution base would cost 15.5 billion yuan per year, exceeding Meituan's net profit of more than 13.8 billion yuan in 2023. He believes the platforms cannot bear the full cost and will merely open accounts to make the deductions on riders' behalf.
In January 2025, John Rogers, a former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve, was arrested. A U.S. Department of Justice announcement dated January 31, 2025, stated that Rogers worked as a part-time professor at a Chinese university in 2023 and received approximately $450,000 in compensation, and prosecutors accused him of providing Federal Reserve internal materials to Chinese personnel.
A 26-year-old man was intercepted and arrested by police while attempting to attack then-Cabinet nominee Bessent at the Capitol with a homemade incendiary device and a knife; he was sentenced to 73 months in prison on August 18, 2026.
ByteDance issued an internal email notice directly canceling non-productive holiday benefits such as Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival gift boxes, and even canceling the 2026 Spring Festival red envelopes as well.
OpenAI and SoftBank proposed the massive Stargate project in 2025 to build AI infrastructure.
Chen Xi, Wang Xiaohong, Cai Qi and others are suspected of setting an ambush at the Central Party School, taking coercive action against Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli.
On January 20, 2025, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek officially released the open-source inference model DeepSeek-R1, shaking the global tech community and sparking discussion of chip export controls due to its low cost and high performance.
On January 19, an elderly person with a first-degree visual disability in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, reported that since 2017, their subsidies were cancelled under the pretext of poverty alleviation. Subsequent applications for 'wufu' (five-guarantee) status yielded no benefits, and after petitioning, their disability subsidy was also cancelled, leaving them in a desperate situation.
According to forecasts by CCP statistics departments cited in the video, China's working-age population will decrease by 250 million between 2025 and 2050, weakening the demographic foundation for home purchases and credit expansion.
Sources claim that Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli directed the military to control the venue during the Fourth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee; it is alleged that Hu Jintao had not agreed to handle the top figure at the venue; this claim has no public reports to corroborate it.
Affected by the downturn in the real estate market, China's land finance revenue dropped to 4.15 trillion yuan, which has been halved compared to the peak in 2021.
According to Wall Street Journal data, the Chinese Communist Party disciplined nearly one million officials in 2025, with charges ranging from bribery and keeping mistresses to disloyalty and superstitious activities.
Official data shows that in 2025, nearly 160,000 people nationwide were disciplined for issues such as "inaction, arbitrary actions, and fraud," a year-on-year increase of 16%.
In 2025, China's annual birth population was only 7.92 million, hitting the lowest record since the implementation of the two-child policy in 2016.
The article states that China's exports reached $3.8 trillion last year, setting a record trade surplus of $1.2 trillion, the largest in history.
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2025, nationwide sales of newly built commercial housing totaled 8,393.7 billion yuan, down 12.6% year on year; in 2021, commercial housing sales were 18,193.0 billion yuan.
At the end of 2025, Heilongjiang's permanent resident population was 30.01 million, with an urbanization rate of 68.98%, close to the threshold of 30 million people.
According to information on the official website of the National Financial Regulatory Administration, as of December 23, 2025, 226 village banks had completed deregistration and withdrawal that year, compared with 83 in 2024.
The video claims that by the end of 2025, Guizhou's explicit government debt balance rose to 82.2% of GDP, and exceeded 600% when hidden debt is included; no public source can be found for this figure.
Ministry of Finance data: In 2025, national general public budget revenue was 21.6 trillion yuan, down 1.7% year on year; expenditure was 28.74 trillion yuan, up 1% year on year.
China's General Administration of Customs released data on January 14: in 2025, the country's total value of goods imports and exports was 45.47 trillion yuan, up 3.8% year on year, marking 9 consecutive years of growth since 2017.
According to CB Insights, global private AI company funding hit a record $225.8 billion in 2025, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI accounting for a combined $86.3 billion, or 38% of total AI funding.
In the first three quarters of 2025, China's net direct investment was negative.
In 2025, China's use of foreign capital fell 9.5% year-on-year, marking the third consecutive year of decline.
In 2025, China's high-tech industry actually used 241.8 billion yuan in foreign investment, down 15.6% year on year.
In 2025, China's birth population was 7.92 million, with a birth rate of only 5.63 per thousand, ranking second to last in the world.
The Chinese Communist Party has launched the "Qinglang" campaign to crack down on self-media, stipulating that individuals without qualifications in the financial, medical, and legal fields are barred from speaking out.
According to data calculated by a major influencer on X, China's construction industry workforce dropped from 58.77 million to 51.14 million for the whole year of 2025, a decrease of 7.62 million within one year, with a drop rate of 12.97%.
Data from the Ministry of Education shows that fresh graduates in 2025 will reach 12.22 million, with more than half entering the flexible employment sector.
In 2025, the number of blue-collar workers in China grew to 427 million, while white-collar jobs decreased significantly, indicating a structural downgrade in employment.
Zhang Jianhua, subordinate to Ma Xingrui at the State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, has been investigated and expelled from the CCP for accepting gifts and money and seeking profits for relatives.
China-Brazil bilateral trade volume reached $188 billion in 2025, ranking first in Latin America, yet Brazil's GDP growth rate over the past 15 years ranks second to last among major Latin American countries.
Poland's draft defense budget for 2025 shows that the budget will decrease from 198.1 billion zlotys in 2027.
Germany's 2025 defense budget plan will spend 241 billion euros.
Tainan was struck by a windstorm and flooding, with some coastal areas suffering severe damage. Communications equipment was blown down, and district offices in several areas were unable to relay disaster information in time.
After the typhoon, the central government subsidized Tainan City in promoting the undergrounding of pipelines to reduce the risk of communication disruptions caused by typhoons.
According to the program, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee was originally supposed to be held in 2025, with its main task being to put forward proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan, but the meeting was postponed to 2026.
Huawei has released its financial report for the full year 2025. The group's overall revenue was 880.9 billion yuan, up 2% year on year; among them, terminal business revenue was 344.5 billion yuan, and intelligent automotive solutions business revenue was 45 billion yuan, up 72% year on year.
Seres posted revenue of 165.1 billion yuan in 2025, up 14% year on year, but net profit attributable to parent company shareholders was about 6 billion yuan, nearly flat with the previous year, while earnings per share declined.
The Qindu District Court in Xianyang City issued a first-instance verdict against ten forced-demolition personnel on the charge of intentional destruction of property, handing down suspended sentences and a two-year prison term.
Russia's gold reserves have dropped from more than 400 tonnes before the war to 139 tonnes.
In 2025, Guangzhou's land transfer revenue fell 23.6% year on year, while land transfer revenue at the municipal level dropped even more sharply, by 37.2%.
In 2025 alone, Shanghai's debt balance increased by 132.9 billion yuan, most of which was used to replenish government funds and repay the principal of maturing bonds.
Jiangxi Province's audit authorities conducted an audit of the 2025 provincial budget execution and other fiscal revenue and expenditure, and produced a work report.
China's non-tax revenue increased from 2.98 trillion yuan in 2021 to 3.96 trillion yuan in 2025.
In 2025, China's annual social security contributions increased to 12.6 trillion yuan, higher than the 9.47 trillion yuan recorded in 2021.
The Ministry of Justice reported that a county fire brigade in Henan assigned administrative fine quotas to 23 townships and subdistricts, requiring no fewer than 2 fines per month totaling at least 2,000 yuan.
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council announced the revocation of Li Dongxian's Taiwanese nationality, on the grounds that he was found to hold a Chinese identity card.