On January 26, the official website of the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts said that Chen Liyan, the former principal of the Academy and an artist known for his paintings praising the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), passed away on the morning of January 25, aged 83.

After China lifted the “zero-COVID” pandemic prevention measures in December last year, the COVID pandemic broke out strongly again across the country.

Chinese police have openly followed a CNN reporter crew as they attempted to explore the real COVID situation in rural China.

For the Lunar New Year, CNN’s Beijing-based correspondent Selina Wang went to Dali Village, Guizhou province, where the Dong ethnic group resides. The instant they arrived, they were met by six government officials.

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Apple is silently imposing the mainland’s internet censorship on Hong Kong users despite its ‘privacy is a fundamental human right’ motto.

According to The Intercept, Hong Kong users discovered that Apple’s web browser Safari was blocking access to code-sharing website GitLab, warning that it carried “unverified information” that could be harmful to visitors.

The U.S. government recently took the initiative to launch a game with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the African continent. The "One Belt, One Road" initiative promoted by the CCP for many years has plunged many countries into debt crises. Faced with that situation, the U.S. mercilessly took action, pushing Beijing into a dilemma.

In December last year, the National School of Development of Peking University reported that the number of infected people nationwide was about 900 million. The pandemic sequelae became one of the focuses of public attention. Chinese are worried about being re-infected during the second peak.

Temperatures at Mohe, Heilongjiang's official international weather station, fell below -50 °C (-58 °F). This set the lowest temperature record in 54 years, dating back to January 20, 1969. In addition, 13 provincial capitals in northern China continued to face the coldest morning since the onset of winter on January 24.

Among them, the coldest place is Beijing, which reached -15.4 °C (4.2 °F). According to weather.com, the last time Beijing reached this low temperature was more than 40 years ago, on January 28, 1977.

Google said on Thursday, January 26, that it blocked over 50,000 pieces of content shared by a Chinese regime-tied propaganda network last year.

According to Bloomberg, Google researchers said the Chinese group, also known as “Spamouflage Dragon” and “Dragonbridge,” spread spam and disinformation on social media posts with political content that is in line with the interests of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Statistics have confirmed that China’s population is officially shrinking because more people die than are born. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) encouragement campaign for more births is underway.

However, observers say that this is not the solution, but on the contrary, it will put pressure on Chinese women today.

The Chinese government has abandoned its zero-COVID policy, but the high economic costs accumulated over the past three years complicate economic recovery.

Some media outlets reported that medical staff in mainland China worked long hours to cope with the surge of patients. However, their wages fell, and they were still owed.

According to Wang Ning, a person in the medical field in Jiangsu province, China, revealed in an interview with RFA on January 25, internal data of the health system and the Civil Affairs Bureau show that since the beginning of December, 2022, the number of people canceling their hukou (household registration) in Jiangsu has increased by 3 to 5 times compared to the same period the previous year, and even higher in some places: "Some of my friends are civil servants, they have to handle the removal of hukou, the number is 3 times higher than usual. I heard some relevant data from people doing funeral services in the suburbs saying that the death toll from the pandemic is almost 4 to 5 times higher."

The incident occurred on Air China flight CA8524 from Xi'an to Wenzhou. The flight encountered strong air currents at high altitudes, causing severe turbulence and the plane to suddenly drop.

Some information about the frontline warships of the Chinese navy revealed by the Chinese media shows that the real strength of the Chinese navy is far behind that of the U.S. and far below the required strength of a conventional navy.

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Before the pandemic, Chinese tourists, who formerly accounted for a quarter of a trillion dollars in yearly global travel spending, made up about a third of Thailand's visitors.
As Reuters reported, entrepreneurs eagerly await the return of Chinese visitors to the tourist island of Phuket in Thailand.

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