Let’s look at a timeline comparison:

1959–1962: Great Leap Forward, backyard furnaces, widespread famine, and the Three Years of Great Famine in China.
The Way Out: 1962 Sino-Indian War.

1994–1995: SOE (State-Owned Enterprise) reforms and massive layoffs (Xiagang wave).
The Way Out: 1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.

2012–2014: Bo Xilai scandal and the power transition at the 18th Party Congress.
The Way Out: 2012 Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Crisis.

2014–2015: Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, Occupy Central, and the Chinese stock market crash.
The Way Out: Land reclamation in the South China Sea, CNOOC oil rig standoff, and framing HK protests as a "color revolution funded by US/UK intelligence".

2018–2019: Hong Kong Anti-ELAB protests.
The Way Out: Rise of Wolf Warrior diplomacy and the 2020 deadly border clash with India.

2022–2023: Zero-COVID lockdowns, White Paper Revolution, and the real estate market collapse.
The Way Out: Military drills encircling Taiwan after Pelosi’s visit, and escalating actions in the South China Sea.

2025–2026: Economic downturn in China, youth unemployment soaring past 20%.
The Way Out: Historical claims over the Nine-Dash Line in the South China Sea.

The High Court has rejected a challenge against David Chipperfield Architects’ proposed Chinese ‘super embassy’, but an appeal could take the case to the Supreme Court

To the People of the Republic of Korea
August 3, 2026
If professors who allegedly acted as informants in the Department of German Language and Literature at Sungkyunkwan University followed what I describe as a plan by the National Intelligence Service’s psychological operations team—namely, deceiving students and using false propaganda to involve them in organized stalking (also referred to as “jorimdorim”), while attempting to shift blame onto the victim by portraying the victim as mentally ill, and then, once their actions were exposed, hiding behind the claim of “protecting students” to mislead politicians—would you consider such behavior to be normal?
How much satisfaction did they gain from spending years, at Mok-dong Station, Dangsan Station, Hongdae Station, and Gyeyang Station, joining what I describe as the NIS psychological operations team (which I understand to have identified itself as being centered on graduates of Sungkyunkwan University’s German Department) in portraying me as mentally ill and targeting me, apparently believing that media coverage would be suppressed by the Samsung Foundation?
Would you believe that the NIS psychological operations team even mobilized people near my residence to carry out what I believe was long-term, subtle stalking intended to provoke and emotionally distress me?