Corruption, Editor's Pick

The Inside Scoop on Evergrande: Looted and Devoured by Parasites (Part 2)

According to public information statistics, from Evergrande’s listing in 2009 up to before the crisis unfolded in 2020, Xu Jiayin’s nominal share alone amounted to 44.7 billion Yuan (US$6.27B). According to media reports at home and abroad, by 2023, Xu Jiayin will receive more than 50 billion Yuan in dividends (US$7.01B). A veteran observer in ...

Michael Segarty

China Evergrande's fall on the stock market.

Cracking Down on Deceptive Drifters: Facebook’s Sweep of Chinese Troll Accounts

If you’ve been an active user of Facebook recently, you may have noticed some changes to your newsfeed. Facebook’s latest sweep has deleted thousands of accounts linked to Chinese troll armies.  As Facebook calls them, these deceptive drifters were set up to manipulate public opinion by spreading propaganda and conspiracy theories. They targeted both Chinese ...

Viena Abdon

Facebook.

Mainland Chinese Mother Arrested for Attempted Bribe of a Hong Kong Headmaster

A mainland Chinese woman in Hong Kong wanted to send her son to a local primary school. However, after her son failed the initial interview for admission to the school, the mother attempted a bribe the headmaster with HK$20,000. The headmaster reported the case to the authorities, and Li Kwan-ping, 45, was charged with attempting ...

Emma Lu

A birdseye view of some Hong Kong school students during an excursion.

Inside China’s Most Unbelievable Scam | Local Government Involved in Fraud

Recently, a highly unbelievable fraud case has been widely discussed on the Internet in mainland China, but all related reports have since been deleted. The main instigator behind the fraud was the municipal government of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, which involved the wages of thousands of migrant workers and hundreds of millions of project funds. ...

China Observer

A 100 Yuan note.

The Cruel and Oppressive Rule of Jiang Zemin

The death of Former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Jiang Zemin was officially announced on November 30. Reportedly, he was 96 at the time of death. As expected, the CCP authorities dutifully praised him, but how do the Chinese people view him? Chinese-Canadian journalist and writer Sheng Xue tweeted: “Jiang Zemin is the tyrant of ...

Michael Segarty

The former Jiang Zemin.