lmao 2025 has been a good year, hasn't it.
Most of are thinking of geopolitics, but I have some other things to add too.
Although we still have 2 weeks left in the year, has anyone noticed that 2025 has gone by without a single mass casualty incident with knives and car rammings, when before sadly these were happening quite a bit in China? Things are still not all hunky dory in the Mainland with the real estate recession, youth unemployment, and stagnant consumer spending. Still, as hard as things are, clearly something has been to done to mitigate the number of crazies and down on their luck people who wish to take their anger out on society.
Perhaps its tighter control measures that the greater public is best not knowing about. But I like to think its that through the hardships, Chinese society is becoming more cohesive and imbued with a greater sense of responsibility towards the greater good. Whether it can be kept up remains to be seen, but hey for now consider it one of the government's more understated achievements of 2025.