Poverty Alleviation—Yet Another Tool to Control Xinjiang
In the name of fighting poverty, the CCP moves impoverished households from across China to Xinjiang, while sends Uyghurs to other provinces for forced labor.
Poverty in China
After Forced Demolitions, Farmers Left with No Means to Survive
Amid the economic downturn, the CCP deprives farmers of their primary sources of income by destroying pig sheds and gardens.
“Welfare for Autocrats”: How China Uses Welfare as a Tool for Surveillance
A new book by Jennifer Pan shows how the CCP, under the pretext of “elimination of poverty,” uses its “Dibao” livelihood guarantee program to better watch over political and religious dissidents.
Farmers on China’s Poverty Alleviation: ‘We’re Doomed to Death’
To reach President Xi Jinping’s poverty alleviation goals on time, local governments destroyed farmers’ homes and farmland amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Believers Forced to Prove Loyalty to the State with Money
China’s religious groups are happy to help when disasters strike. But much of their efforts, and collected donations, are exploited by the government.
Wu Huayan: Dying of Hunger in a China “Without Poverty”
Xi Jinping claimed poverty would disappear by 2020. Here is 2020, and here is a young student who died of malnutrition.
The Time Is Up. Is Xi Jinping’s Poverty Alleviation a Hoax?
As the deadline “to lift all impoverished households out of poverty by 2020” is approaching, the CCP is hailing its “great achievements.” People see it differently.
Who Will Pay for Xi Jinping’s “Vanity Projects”?
With China’s economic downturn, ordinary citizens are left to suffer as a result of failing policies that were supposed to help them initially.
Building China’s Image on the Ruins of Citizens’ Wellbeing
Ahead of Military World Games in Hubei Province’s capital Wuhan, the government is “beautifying” the city by destroying people’s homes and businesses.
