{"id":386136,"date":"2026-01-23T13:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386136\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:41:23","slug":"taiwans-china-monitoring-report-warns-of-social-friction-as-economy-sags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386136\/","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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/7.jpeg\" 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":386137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,891,1294,16847,96517,1058,145931,8502,145930,56,54,55,905],"class_list":["post-386136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-friction","tag-monitoring","tag-report","tag-sags","tag-social","tag-taiwans","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}