Jan. 28, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| After the Chinese Communist Party announced that all counties previously designated as impoverished in the country have been removed from the poverty list, a video uploader MOCA from Liangshan Prefecture in Sichuan Province was found to have died of poverty and illness. | |
| The state media quickly dispelled the rumors, claiming that MOCA is under investigation for fraud. | |
| Some analysts believe that the strong reaction by the state media could be because MOCA's death by poverty exposes the claim of China being a moderately prosperous society as false. | |
| On March 12, 2020, the CCP State Council held a press conference on the decisive battle to eliminate poverty. | |
| Liu Yongfu, director of the Poverty Alleviation Office, introduced the criteria, which include an annual income of 4,000 yuan. | |
| No worries about food and clothing and basic education, medical protection, and housing security. | |
| In November 2020, the Sichuan government announced that the province had achieved total poverty eradication. | |
| In January, the CCP's state media said that all of China's poor counties have been removed from the poverty list, which is a Chinese miracle in the history of human poverty reduction. | |
| However, less than two months later, a video game live streamer named Mocha died in a rented house in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, due to poverty and illness. | |
| The Liangshan Prefecture in Sichuan Province is a famous poverty-stricken area in China. | |
| Mocha uploaded on Bilibili, B-Sight, a Chinese video-sharing website. | |
| Because of his poor health, he was unable to work outside. | |
| His friends subsidized him by buying a computer for him to be able to make a living by creating videos. | |
| Mocha had been contributing and livestreaming on B-Site since February 2020. | |
| Among the existing 95 posts of his, 28 videos are clips from game livestreaming, and the remaining 67 videos were about his daily life. | |
| Moko was abandoned by his parents when he was a child and lived with his grandmother. | |
| After her death, his life became more difficult. | |
| He ate instant noodles for a long time and became diabetic due to malnutrition. | |
| Later, he was stricken with a tumor and died alone with no money for medical treatment. | |
| The news of Mocha's death due to poverty became a hot search on Weibo. | |
| On January 19, Mocha's friends sent out an obituary in the group. | |
| Mocha passed away early this month, exact time unknown, due to poverty and illness. | |
| Let us send our sincere condolences and remembrance to Mocha, who is strong and tough. | |
| Why did the death of MOCA attract so much attention? | |
| Some netizens say that MOCA died of ketoacid gnosis, which simply means starvation. | |
| On January 23rd, Citron Daily, a media outlet of the Citron Provincial CCP Committee, published an article that alluded to MOCA's eccentricity and laziness. | |
| At the same time, the state media also emphasized that Mocha's family was not a poor household. | |
| I'm really speechless. | |
| Even this can be called a fraud. | |
| I'm speechless. | |
| This person used death to prove his poverty and illness. | |
| He bought drugs by the tablet. | |
| What fraud is there? | |
| Who did he cheat? | |
| Chinese people are like ants. | |
| Every life, every taxpayer's life under such a regime is an ant. | |
| If you can't create value for it, it won't take you seriously. | |
| Online commentary suggests that the state media is eager to publish an article that dispels rumors that Mocha died of poverty, which disrupts the narrative of China's harmonious heyday of moderate prosperity. | |
| If it's too embarrassing, it falsifies, it fabricates, it covers up the truth. | |
| That's all, isn't it? | |
| Because this is something that the CCP can't explain. | |
| A life disappeared in this way, in such poverty and hardship. | |
| It needs to cover it up to address the social repercussions. | |
| Government crime is the biggest root cause of social problems, because a measure by the government would radiate to many fields, so it'll bring great harm to this society and to this country. | |
| Shengxue, a Chinese-Canadian writer, believes that poverty alleviation in China is already an industry. | |
| Many corrupt CCP officials live on this poverty alleviation industrial chain. | |
| Under the authoritarian group of the CCP, it is also an image project. | |
| Shengxue noted that there are a large number of invisible mocha in China. | |
| Shengxue said that such stories will continue to be revealed, and mocha is certainly not the last one. | |
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