The great helmsman of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, has driven China's economy straight into the mud.
Unemployment is soaring, the fiscal deficit is collapsing like an avalanche, and the people are struggling to survive — yet he continues to revel in the illusion of "common prosperity".
The era of reform and opening once lifted millions from abject poverty to modest well-being. Today, his policies are shuttering factories and laying off workers.
As the people's rice bowls shatter, his grip on power only tightens.

— Dedicated to the 104th "Founding Anniversary" of the Chinese Communist Party