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1875 CHINA SOLDIERS
China Economic State Extraction
Charles Burton, co-host Gordon Chang: Facing severe real estate collapses and declining local government revenues, Xi Jinping's administration conducts a sweeping global tax hunt alongside extrajudicial asset seizures against wealthy citizens. Local authorities struggle with civil servant wage delays and falling consumer confidence. Furthermore, hostile state measures targeting private tech entrepreneurs and subsidized industrial overcapacity severely stifle innovation and strain trade relations with Western nations, reflecting systemic economic desperation and regime vulnerability during an unprecedented political third term. (3)