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From AI surveillance grids to Taiwan drills, property crises to influencer bans — China’s tightrope is live. RagaDecode decodes its rise, and its risks.
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China, home to 1.4 billion people and a tech-military-industrial complex envied and feared globally, is both an economic giant and a deeply censored ecosystem. The ruling Communist Party, under Xi Jinping’s third term, has tightened internal control — expanding surveillance systems, clamping down on dissent in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and mainland student circles, and rolling out Social Credit systems in tandem with AI deployment. On the economic front, China faces growing pains — with property developer defaults, slowing exports, youth unemployment, and declining birth rates casting shadows over its “miracle” growth narrative. Diplomatically, Beijing’s posture remains assertive — conducting military drills near Taiwan, testing U.S. patience in the South China Sea, and expanding influence in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Domestically, nationalism is rising online, while celebrities, influencers, and even tech tycoons are rapidly de-platformed when they cross state lines. RagaDecode charts this tightly wound China — from underground poetry circles in Chengdu to drone factories in Shenzhen, decoding the quiet tension beneath the superpower stage.
