The Mysterious Death of Ex-Premier Li Keqiang

           (Janet Huang’s post from the VISION TIME NEWS on 18 June 2025.) 

The Mysterious Death of Li Keqiang and the Fractures Splitting China’s Leadership: The sudden death of former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in October 2023 sent shockwaves across China — but for many, the official account was met with deep skepticism. Authorities claimed Li died of a sudden heart attack while swimming, but rumors of foul play have persisted.

Now, a dramatic allegation has surfaced, adding fuel to those suspicions. A figure claiming inside knowledge — using the pseudonym “Nothing to Say” — has come forward with what he describes as a detailed account of a state-sanctioned assassination.

According to this whistleblower, Li’s death was no tragic accident but rather a cold, calculated execution code-named Operation 23107, ordered from within the Chinese state apparatus itself.

Shockwave of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's Death

         (Jennifer Zeng’s post from the JAPAN FORWARD on 07 November 2023.) 

Shockwave of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's Death: End of Old Era, or Beginning of New One? Li Keqiang's death shocked many and has raised some uncomfortable questions about the consolidation of power and future of China, reports author Jennifer Zeng.

Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's death has sent shockwaves through Chinese society. He passed away suddenly after only seven months out of office, drawing massive attention both domestically and abroad.

With the cremation of his body, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities are forcibly seeking to quell this shockwave. Some lament that Li's passing marks the end of an era. But does it also herald the beginning of another?

Why Li Keqiang's death is dangerous for Xi Jinping

             (Stephen McDonell’s post from the BBC NEWS UK on 27 Oct 2023.)

The death of a leader in China can usher in big changes, it did after Mao Zedong, or can lead to political upheaval, like it did when grieving for Hu Yaobang morphed into the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

For this reason, the passing of former premier Li Keqiang has already triggered various measures to ensure that stability is maintained. A crackdown on VPN use is under way to reduce the access of Chinese citizens to the parts of the internet not controlled by the Communist Party.

The Party doesn't want mourning for a popular, liberal, former number two leader to generate wider criticism of the current administration, led by Xi Jinping. It is not just that Li died so suddenly, suffering a heart attack just months after stepping down, but because of what he represented: a way of potentially governing China with different priorities to those of the General Secretary Xi.

Li Keqiang: Ex-Premier sidelined by Xi Jinping dies at 68

             (Yvette Tan’s post from the BBC NEWS UK on 27 Oct 2023.)

Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang has died of a heart attack aged 68. State media said he died at 10 minutes past midnight on Friday (October 27, 2023) despite "all-out" efforts to revive him. Li was once tipped to be the country's future leader but was overtaken by President Xi Jinping.

A trained economist, he held the second highest-ranked position in China, though in recent years, he was widely isolated amongst China's top leadership. He was the only incumbent top official who didn't belong to Mr Xi's loyalists group.

"Li's death means the loss of a prominent moderating voice within the senior levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with no one apparently being able to take over the mantle," Ian Chong, non resident scholar at the Carnegie China think tank told the BBC. "This probably means even less restraint on Mr Xi's exercise of power and authority."

Billion Bahts Police Corruption in Thailand’s Maesot

             (Based on the post from the PEOPLE’s SPRING on 05 July 2025.)

There are about 250,000 Burmese living in the frontier Thai-Myanmar Border Town of Maesot, either legally or illegally. They all must pay, unofficially of course, the Thai Police in Maesot to live in peace there and also earn a living among only 100,000 Thai locals.

As non-citizens, no Burmese has Thai Identity Card, and they are all forced to carry a basic identity card called The Police Card at the monthly cost of 600 bahts (roughly US$ 15). The Police Card allowed the Burmese to be out and about in Maesot Town from 6 am to 8 pm. Outside of that time they would be arrested if they are outside and required to pay the arresting police a bribe of from 10,000 (US$ 250) to 50,000 (US$ 1,250) bahts.

On top of that Police Card the Burmese there have to pay for additional cards such as Motorbike Cards at the monthly cost of 1,500 bahts (US$ 40) to own and ride a motorbike and Sam-lor Cards at the monthly cost of 5,000 bahts (US$ 150) to operate a Three-Wheeler Bike carrier business.

Coup in Communist China: Xi Jinping Removed?

          (Nivedita Dash’s post from the INDIA.COM on 04 July 2025.)

Either dead or in prison?

Xi Jinping’s oldest enemy ready to end Xi’s rule in China, silent coup on against super powerful Chinese president: Chinese President Xi Jinping has been missing for the past two weeks as he has not been seen anywhere between late May and early June.

Various questions are arising due to the absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping for the last two weeks. Is Chinese President Xi Jinping’s power coming to an end? Is there a plot for a coup in China?. There is no news of him even in the Chinese government’s mouthpiece People’s Daily, although he used to be a part of its news every day.

Meanwhile, news of other Communist Party leaders hosting visiting dignitaries in Beijing’s grand hall made headlines. China has a history of senior leaders being quietly removed from power. In such a situation, it is not meaningless to ask whether similar preparations are going on against Xi Jinping as well.

Paetongtarn’s Thai Government on the Brink of Collapse

             (Patrick Martin’s post from the ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA on 19 June 2025.)

Thailand's government on brink of collapse after key coalition party withdraws support following leaked call: The phone call between Hun Sen and Paetongtarn Shinawatra has had massive political repercussions in Thailand. 

Political leaks are usually damaging but rarely bring a government to the brink of collapse. A leaked phone call has done just that in Thailand. The chat between Thailand's prime minister and a former Cambodian leader comes as the relationship sours over a border dispute that has stemmed from the death of a soldier. Here's how that death and a leaked phone call have brought a government to its knees.

What happened at the 'Emerald Triangle? Late last month, a Cambodian soldier was killed in a skirmish in a contested zone known as the "Emerald Triangle", where the borders of Cambodia, Thailand and Laos meet. Both the Thai and Cambodian armies said they acted in self-defence.

Paki-Muslim-Mayor Mamdani Will Freeze NYC Rents!

       (From “Rent Control Is Bad Economics But Good Politics” on 10 April 2017.)

I used to live nearly five years in a rent-control apartment in the swanky Upper East Side of New York City from 2011 to 2015. I paid US$2,500 a month for a one-bed-room rundown 5th floor walk-up on E64 Street between First Avenue and York Avenue. In 2012 the comparable non-rent control flats in the area were asking for at least 3,000 a month and my unit seemed to be an extremely good bargain.

Only later I realised that the sub-letter (my unofficial landlord named Michael) was paying less than 750 a month as legally-controlled-rent for that flat to the real owner a large corporation which owned the whole block of nearly 500 rent control apartments. He was making more than 1,750 a month for that rent control flat and he had managed (illegally of course) altogether five rent control flats in the very popular Upper East Side area.

The full story of my flat eventually came out from Michael one night as he told me in half-drunk. The flat was and still in the name of his old mother who is fully retired and now living in sunny Florida like many other retired New Yorkers do. Instead of returning the flat to the owners she, blatantly against the city laws, is still hanging on to her rent control flat, then letting her own son manage the flat, and sharing the profits from sub-letting her flat at just below market-rent but well above controlled-rent.

Toyota Hybrids Vs Battery Electric Vehicles

            (Staff post from the CAR EXPERT and the FACE BOOK on 14 June2025.)

Toyota says its hybrids have saved nine million EVs worth of CO2: Toyota's boss claims its 27 million hybrids produced to date have saved carbon emissions equivalent to nine million EVs.

Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda has reinforced his company’s commitment to prioritising hybrid vehicles (HEVs) over battery-electric vehicles (EVs or BEVs), outlining that hybrids are its ideal way forward in terms of reducing total CO2 emissions.

Speaking through an interpreter in a recent interview with Automotive News, Toyoda-san said Toyota is as committed to reducing the environmental impact of cars as any other brand, but has adopted a cost- and time-effective way to go about reducing its carbon emissions.