Shanghai, China – For over 70 years, The CCP has ruled China with an iron fist. They’ve called it “stability.” They’ve called it “unity.” But for the people living under it, the truth has always been the same:
Fear disguised as order.
Long before WWII, China was already burning from within. The CCP and The ROC clashed over rulership of China. Chaos ruled the countryside. Cities changed hands like poker chips. And the people? They were just the pot.
When WWII arrived, the chaos was paused — not ended. The two sides made a temporary truce to deal with external invaders. But the moment the war ended, the knives came back out.
And who tipped the scales?
The United States.
The CCP received massive weapons shipments, funding, and logistical support during WWII — not because they were liked, but because they were useful.
By the time the dust settled, The ROC had been routed, driven out, forced to flee across the strait to Taiwan. The victors didn’t just seize power — they rewrote the social contract.
“We will give you prosperity and security,” they said, “if you support The CCP.”
The people, beaten down by decades of war, agreed.
And what followed has been described — not by foreign journalists, but by survivors — as “hell on earth.”
And How Has China Fared Under The CCP?
The answer depends on how much suffering you’re willing to overlook.
The CCP promised prosperity and security. Instead, the people of China got famine, fear, and falsehoods—delivered with military precision.
There was the Great Famine, where tens of millions starved while officials inflated crop numbers to impress party superiors. Then came the Thought Reform Campaigns of the 1950s—millions dragged into confessions and denunciations to prove their loyalty.
The Laogai and Laojiao forced labor systems turned dissent into prison sentences and “re-education” into a death sentence. The Hukou system locked entire generations into geographic cages, while the Danwei and Dang’an systems turned workplaces into surveillance nests and personal files into lifelong leashes.
The one-child policy tore families apart, the Great Firewall shut the nation off from global truth, and the Cultural Revolution dismantled tradition under the pretense of progress. You have to worry about your neighbors snitching on you with those neighborhood committees. And a Social Credit System made sure every action, every word, every unpaid bill is recorded and judged—assigning every Chinese person a number to measure your worth.
And now?
Emperor for Life Xi Jinping rules through digital chains, facial recognition, and a surveillance state so pervasive that even breathing wrong near a government building can land you in prison.
The Chinese Dream
But hey — it hasn’t all been bad, right? The CCP kept their end of the deal, didn’t they?
After all, they did deliver on that little thing called prosperity.
The largest infrastructure boom in the modern world? CCP.
The biggest housing construction surge in human history? CCP.
Highways to nowhere, cities without people, apartment towers taller than ambition? Also CCP.
So explosive was the “wealth creation” that every Chinese family wound up with 500 homes… …for their one child.
And when that one child got married? 1,000 homes. All for a single grandchild, who probably doesn't even live there.
“What are the Chinese gonna go with all these homes and no people?” said Lauren Hill, 46, a former real estate agent. “They got ghost cities, ghost condos, ghost staircases. You can buy three homes and still have no place to live.”
“We told them,” said John Matthew’s, 61. “We warned them they were in a bubble, just like we were during the Great Financial Crisis. They laughed at us and said, ‘We know. But the money is good.’ Now all they got is bad loans and unfinished homes.”
“Now that The GCE — The Great Chinese Experiment — is over,” said Andrew Yarger, 52, A construction auditor, “and what did you get? Lost land. Lost fortune. And homes that collapse before you get the keys.”
“They called it prosperity,” said Ming Yue, 52. “But all it gave us was debt, cracks in the wall, and a government that owns the ground under our feet.”