China has a knife violence problem
And the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t like to talk about it
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So, here we are in Guangxi province in southern China—
where in April, Xi Jinping did an inspection tour.
Yep, the mountains look good.
Yep, your tiny kitchen looks good.
Yep, the giant red star looks imposing.
But the day after Xi Jinping’s visit, there was a brutal knife stabbing in the same region
that killed 2 people and injured 16.
Including children.
“The suspect’s wife worked as a teacher in the kindergarten.
The two couples divorced because of a quarrel.
The man then climbed the fence and broke into the kindergarten and knifed people.
‘Even his own son was hacked to death.’”
Now there’s no evidence suggesting that this knifing was related to Xi Jinping’s
inspection tour the day before.
But for the Chinese Communist Party, the timing was very inconvenient.
Social media platforms like Weibo quickly blocked users from discussing the incident.
But perhaps this knifing was just an isolated event.
At least that’s how state-run media report on it every time it happens: as if it’s
a very rare event with absolutely no larger context.
But unfortunately, knife attacks happen a lot in China.
Back in 2010, the Chinese government publicly promised to prevent these incidents—even
though they, um, almost never happen.
They’ve given the death penalty to a number of the perpetrators, and they’ve also tightened
public surveillance measures.
But that clearly hasn’t solved the problem.
In 2018 in Chongqing, a 39-year-old woman assaulted a group of kindergarteners with
a kitchen knife.
In 2020, in Guanxi, a 50-year-old security guard attacked 39 students and teachers at
a kindergarten.
According to Ding Xueliang, a sociology professor in Hong Kong: ‘The Chinese society has generated
enormous pressure on individuals and some of those individuals have perhaps had emotional
and psychological problems.
They want to cause general attention from the population and attacking kids perhaps
is the best way from their perspective of achieving this objective.’
Chinese society appears harmonious if you look at state run media reports.
But there’s a huge amount of pent up anger.
And people aren’t even allowed to talk about it!
There’s no outlet.A video that circulated online this May shows a man in Nanjing running
over his ex-wife with a car in public.
The man later ran out of his car swinging a knife, and injured 7 nearby pedestrians.
In May this year, a woman brought a fruit knife into the Shanghai Business Center and
attacked 5 people.
Earlier in June, a man in Anhui in Eastern China attacked people in the street with a
knife.
These acts of violence seem to be getting worse.
And they’re not just knife attacks.
In May, a man drove a car through a red light on purpose—plowing right through dozens
of pedestrians in a crosswalk.
“The suspect, a hairdresser surnamed Liu, had decided to take revenge against society
after losing money in a failed investment scheme.”
“The police said Liu had not been drinking or on drugs... nor did he have a history of
mental illness: He was clear-minded when he committed his crime.”
These “revenge against society” attacks are some of the darkest social issues facing
China.
So much for everything being harmonious.
If you haven’t heard about it, it may be that Chinese state-run media are too busy
to cover it.
Instead they spend their energy on more productive things, like criticizing America’s gun violence.
You see, according to state-run media, China can offer lessons to the US in protecting
human rights.
“The US should learn from China and genuinely protect human rights.
If the US does not control its guns, problems caused by firearms in the foreseeable future
will continue plaguing US society.”
Now, they’re right—the US does have a problem with mass shootings.
But in China, no one is allowed to have guns.
And there are still essentially the same problems.
But with knives.
And cars.
And yet, according to Chinese state media, rampant gun violence makes the U.S. a proven
hypocrite on human rights.
Gun ownership and deaths are out of control in the US.
And how can the US police the world when it can’t even protect its own people?
Surely if the US adopts China’s model of authoritarian harmony, that will solve everything.
As long as you censor what gets reported.
And now to do what Chinese state-run media would never do: Answer a question from a supporter!
Oh, especially a Freedom Fighter: “I think the best way to handle the CCP is to boycott
all Chinese goods.
Can you think of any other way to hurt the CCP?”
You make a good point, Freedom Fighter.
The way to hurt the CCP is to go after the money.
But it should be about more than just boycotting goods.
That’s a great way you, as an individual, can help.
But what can have a larger impact is if Western governments—I’m looking at you, America
—stop their companies from investing in China.
The CCP is running out of cash.
Especially American dollars.
It needs dollars to sustain its own currency.
So one thing China’s doing is opening domestic bond markets.
They’re trying to get foreigners to invest their American dollars into China, with the
promise of big returns.
They want you to think: Wow, they’re giving me an opportunity to make money!
They’re not giving you an opportunity to make money.
They’re giving themselves an opportunity to make money.
But American investment companies are pitching it.
And American investors are snapping it up.
You’re giving the CCP the money it needs to sustain its authoritarian regime!
And also, it’s a trap!!!
You’re not going to get your money back, stupid.
Don’t do it!
The US government has already restricted investments in certain Chinese companies with military
ties.
But Wall Street needs to know that investing in China is bad for their bottom line.
If the world stopped pumping money into China, that would hurt the CCP.
Badly.
In fact, it would eventually bring down the CCP.
But it’s a long road ahead.
Thanks for your question, Freedom Fighter.
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