Tag: authoritarian instability
Social Protests in China Surged 50 Percent in 2025
Freedom House's China Dissent Monitor recorded 1,392 protest incidents in the third quarter of 2025 alone...
Xi Jinping Under Growing Pressure as Military Distrust Rises and Taiwan War Risks Fade
By Wu Jialong Reports surrounding the alleged detention of Zhang Youxia remain clouded by uncertainty...
Reports of Breakdown in PLA Command Channels as Analysts Warn of Leadership Vacuum
By Li Deyan After Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping moved swiftly to detain Central Military...
China’s Military Power Struggle and the Shadow of the 1991 Soviet Coup
In recent days, the arrests of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli—two senior People’s Liberation Army (PLA)...
Leaked ‘Doomsday Assessment’ Inside the CCP: The Scenarios Beijing Fears Most
Beijing today is gripped by a compounded fear: “Soviet-style institutional sclerosis” layered atop the...