This video explores the long-standing superstition of backroom diplomacy in U.S. diplomacy toward China and its dangers. The speaker points out that the CCP has repeatedly violated both public and private promises, yet certain interest groups and China experts in Washington still blindly believe in closed-door negotiations. The video reviews the drawbacks of the backroom model since Nixon's visit to China, analyzes the tactics used by the CCP to hoodwink Western dignitaries through information control and cultural misinterpretation, and calls on Washington to abandon appeasement and illusions toward Beijing, adhere to diplomatic principles of transparency, record-keeping, and verification, and force the CCP to change using the truth in the sunlight.
On September 20, Bailuo Cleaning Company in Yuhua District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, owed sanitation workers four months of wages, leading a large number of employees to strike and go to the company headquarters to collectively demand unpaid wages and defend their rights.
On September 19, a Chinese citizen in Russia was asked to pay a fine of 100,000 rubles on the grounds of a residency registration issue during a local police check. Although the person stated that the landlord had already handled the registration, the police insisted on either paying the fine or being taken to the police station.
On September 19, science popularization blogger Heshenbao published an article reviewing his experience as a docent at the National Museum from 2011 to 2021, pointing out that dispatched labor employees and officially budgeted staff receive unequal pay for equal work, and promotion channels are limited. He criticized the system for shifting fiscal costs onto the ideals of young people, depleting employees' drive, and called for fulfilling corresponding obligations based on one's employment status.
On September 20, at the Longtan Industrial Park in Bobai, Yulin, Guangxi, 7 workers who had been owed over 500,000 yuan in back pay for nearly 5 years by Yulin Yongda Fire Protection Engineering Co., Ltd. hung a banner in front of the company branch to demand their unpaid wages.
On September 18, after the completion of a project by Zhengzhou Engineering Co., Ltd. of China Railway Seventh Group in Zhengzhou, Henan, it was accused of defaulting on workers' wages. Multiple workers went to the company to collectively defend their rights and demand payment of arrears.
On September 19, two men hung blue tarps printed with slogans such as "Please stop animal abuse" on both sides of a truck, calling for legislation to protect stray animals through public welfare promotion, and stated they would persist in their actions without fearing pressure.
On September 15, a blogger posted a video recounting how, after their father's death, their aunt arranged a ghost marriage for him, and their grandmother's grave was illegally excavated, with her remains sold for a ghost marriage. In the comments section, multiple netizens described their own relatives' remains being stolen and sold or being forced into ghost marriages, exposing the vicious custom in some regions of treating female corpses as commodities.
On September 19, a sudden mudslide near the Shijiagou Tunnel in Zhiliuhe Village, Gesala Township, Yanyuan County, Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province, resulted in 2 deaths and 3 missing persons. Rescue operations are currently underway.