{"id":714552,"date":"2026-01-23T04:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/714552\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:38:21","slug":"taiwans-china-monitoring-report-warns-of-social-friction-as-economy-sags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/714552\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s &#8216;China Monitoring Report&#8217; warns of social friction as economy sags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Beijing&#8217;s &#8216;Stalin-style purges&#8217; affect governing capacity, independent experts say<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F1%2F7%2F7%2F2%2F12042771-1-eng-GB%2F876c3fe81459-2025-07-14T140017Z_37563598_RC2BMFACFC4O_RTRMADP_3_CHINA-ECONOMY-GDP.JPG?width=780&amp;fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto\" alt=\"20260122 shanghai skyline\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Shanghai&#8217;s financial district: Researchers in Taiwan have developed dozens of monitoring indicators to\u00a0understand China&#8217;s political, economic and social conditions. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>THOMPSON CHAU<\/p>\n<p>January 23, 2026 08:03 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TAIPEI &#8212; China&#8217;s prolonged economic weakness could fuel social discontent, erode public confidence and further undermine the social contract that has underpinned &#8220;reform and opening up&#8221; of the world&#8217;s No. 2 economy for decades, contends a report released Friday in Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Beijing&#8217;s &#8216;Stalin-style purges&#8217; affect governing capacity, independent experts say Shanghai&#8217;s financial district: Researchers in Taiwan have developed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1395,1700,109678,51339,2963,213803,10022,213802,16,15,16741],"class_list":{"0":"post-714552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-friction","12":"tag-monitoring","13":"tag-report","14":"tag-sags","15":"tag-social","16":"tag-taiwans","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-warns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115942569182488137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}