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.
Xishan Senior High School in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, required students to purchase a "smart device kit" priced at 4,280 RMB, with a service life of only three years. Parents questioned why the price far exceeded similar products on the market, believing that the costs of building an "AI campus" were being shifted onto students.
On September 8, a blogger posted a video refuting the argument that a two-day weekend would paralyze the service industry, sparking widespread discussion. The account has since been banned from publishing new content.
Hongtu Middle School in Datian County, Fujian Province, required students from the third grade of primary school to senior high school grade 3 to participate in social practice training every semester, charging a fee of 288 yuan. Taking leave was prohibited in principle; those needing leave had to go through layered approval by the head teacher, grade leader, and principal, which sparked dissatisfaction among parents.
On September 21, it was circulated online that the Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes distributed by Huawei's Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU had expired, causing multiple employees to experience symptoms such as diarrhea and allergies after consumption. Huawei created an internal shared Excel sheet specifically to track the physical reactions of employees who ate the mooncakes.
To pass Walmart's social responsibility audit, Guangxi Wuzhou Tianmijia Bee Industry required employees to memorize false statements to cover up long-term mandatory overtime without days off, wage withholding, illegal employment practices, and lack of fire safety facilities, while also carrying out hasty temporary renovations to cope with the inspection.
Recently, after a netizen commented "I heard it's a mild stroke" under a popular science video about geriatric diseases, their account was restricted from commenting and sending danmaku, and all comments in the related video's comment section were wiped out.
On September 20, the Yibin Sanjiang Public Security Bureau announced that a 33-year-old man surnamed Lin was administratively detained and fined for fabricating and spreading a rumor online that an employee at the Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) Yibin base was forbidden by a shift supervisor from using the restroom. Previously, on September 10, REPT BATTERO had clarified that the employee had lost emotional control due to a resignation dispute, and the claim about restricted restroom access was untrue.
On September 20, villagers in Shangliangkeng Village, Dapo Town, Gaozhou, Maoming, Guangdong, clashed with relevant personnel while trying to stop their crops from being forcibly cleared, resulting in one death and three injuries. On September 21, a large number of villagers went to the gate of the Dapo Town government to hang banners for rights defense, with a large number of law enforcement personnel maintaining order at the scene.