In the latter half of 2025, a phrase began circulating widely on Chinese social media: “The Kill Line” (杀线). It is not a slogan invented by policymakers or academics, nor a meme meant purely for ridicule. It is a sharp, unsettling, and revealing metaphor used by ordinary Chinese commentators to describe how American society appears from the outside. The Kill Line names an invisible threshold in the United States: a point at which a single shock, medical, financial, or legal, can push an otherwise productive middle-class citizen into irreversible collapse.
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The Kill Line exposes how deeply American culture has internalized the idea that survival must be earned continuously, without interruption. It reveals how quickly empathy collapses once someone falls out of productivity. It shows how social trust erodes when people know that one misstep can erase decades of effort.
This is Chinese propaganda. Techniques used in the article and comments include:
https://rsf.org/en/country/china China ranks 178/180 on freedom of press.
“The Tiananmen Square massacre refers to the violent suppression of pro-democracy protests in Beijing, China, that occurred from June 3 to June 4, 1989. The Chinese government deployed troops to clear the square, resulting in the deaths of hundreds to thousands of unarmed protesters.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China
Chinese state actors are extremely active on the fediverse. They know they can’t cut off every head of a hydra, so the next next best thing is to flood it with disinformation .
A think-tank estimate puts China’s nationwide internet censorship spending at at least US $13.6 billion per year as of 2020.
An oft-cited historical figure (from 2013 Chinese sources) suggested ~2 million people were involved in censorship and information control efforts at that time.
Beyond the national apparatus, provincial and local governments operate their own monitoring setups, meaning there’s a decentralized mass of censorship functionaries nationwide.
Millions of Chinese are dedicated to destroying truth. No society can flourish in darkness. Poo bear will fail, although, in the short term they can propagandized the world with disinformation with successes in different areas. Humanity is truth. Without truth, there can be no humanity.