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In 2025, China’s disinformationcampaigns have metastasized into full-scale psychologicalwarfare. No longer content with censorship at home, Beijing has declared war on truth itself. This is not “soft power.” This is sabotage dressed in the language of diplomacy, algorithmic colonization wrapped in hashtags and AI-generated smog. From Manila to Montreal, from Twitter to TikTok, China is vomiting out fake narratives with mechanical precision and imperial arrogance. Here's how the CCP poisons the global information stream, erases reality, and reshapes it to its liking with malice, method, and military coordination.

On June 16, 2025, Chinese authorities sentenced Sherab, the abbot of Yena Monastery, to four years in prison. Gonpo, the monastery’s chief administrator, received a three-year sentence. Both men were charged for leading peaceful protests against the construction of the massive Gangtuo hydropower dam project a part of China’s 13-dam cascade planned for the upper reaches of the Drichu.

In a closed-door meeting that reeked more of imperial theatre than spiritual dialogue, Xi Jinping met with Gyaltsen Norbu, the Chinese Communist Party’s handpicked "Panchen Lama" on June 6, 2025, inside the iron-clad walls of Zhongnanhai. The message was clear: Tibetan Buddhism will bow or it will break.

As China orchestrates a grand celebration marking the 60th anniversary of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), it unveils not just a commemorative logo, but a calculated narrative shift—insisting on the term “Xizang” in all official communications. This is no benign rebranding. It is an Orwellian erasure, a political maneuver to overwrite centuries of Tibetan identity with a Sinicized label.

The Chinese government has once again used soft power and cultural manipulation to insert its political agenda into international spaces, this time at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF). The screening of Chinese propaganda films that depict Tibet as “Xizang” is not cultural exchange; it is a strategic attempt to rewrite history and normalize occupation through media.

China’s economic machine, once a relentless engine of growth and industrial dominance, now sputters under the weight of its own contradictions. Behind the façade of official statistics lies a reality of stagnation, structural decay, and mounting fiscal stress that even Beijing’s iron control can no longer conceal. Though first-quarter GDP in 2025 posted a 5.4% increase, much of this figure was propped up by artificially accelerated exports aimed at dodging an onslaught of new U.S. tariffs, rather than reflecting genuine economic vitality. This desperate maneuvering points to deeper weaknesses: an overdependence on external demand, and a faltering capacity to generate internal growth.

On May 12, 2025, the People’s Republic of China released its first-ever White Paper on national security, a document that lays bare the regime’s priorities with chilling clarity. At its core, the White Paper is not about national security in the conventional sense. It is an open declaration that the survival of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the bedrock of China’s security. Political loyalty to Xi Jinping Thought is not only encouraged—it is demanded.

That grim possibility is now staring U.S. security agencies in the face after damning discoveries revealed that Chinese-manufactured power inverters—widely installed in American solar farms—contain hidden “kill switches” and covert cellular radios. These components, invisible in public documentation, may allow Beijing to remotely manipulate, disable, or even destroy critical sections of Western power infrastructure. And these devices aren’t rare. Chinese giants like Huawei, Sungrow, and Ginlong Solis dominate the inverter market, supplying over 200 gigawatts worth of tech to European countries alone in 2022. Their presence is deep, their reach long—and now, their intent increasingly suspect.

In a scathing indictment of Beijing’s ongoing ethnic engineering, Human Rights Watch has exposed a 25-year campaign of forced relocations in Tibet, uprooting over 930,000 rural Tibetans from their ancestral lands under the pretense of “poverty alleviation” and “ecological protection.” The report, titled “Educate the Masses to Change Their Minds,” published May 22, 2024, shreds the Chinese government’s façade of “voluntary development” and lays bare a state-directed policy of displacement, coercion, and cultural erasure.

In a development that has jolted the already tense South China Sea theater, Philippine security agencies have arrested a group of Chinese nationals for conducting unauthorized surveillance and mapping of sensitive military installations across Luzon. The incident, now under intense investigation, is the latest episode in Beijing’s expanding campaign of clandestine infiltration—this time, not on disputed reefs, but within the sovereign mainland of a neighboring democracy.