December 12, 2022
According to a December 7 article from Reuters, China just “announced the most sweeping changes to its resolute anti-COVID regime since the pandemic began three years ago,” largely in response to the largest mass protests the regime has seen since Tiananmen Square in 1989.
The December 2022 issue of Global Market Perspective identified the mass protests as a manifestation of extreme negative mood cresting in the wake of “the bear market of the past 21 months in Chinese stocks.” And zooming out, the Chinese stock market saw its all-time high more than 15 years ago.
Socionomists have found that negative mood trends are prime environments for authoritarian vs. anti-authoritarian conflict.
Learn more in our classic article, “Authoritarianism vs. Anti-Authoritarianism: The Tension Boils Over as Negative Mood Deepens.”
If you look closely, you can see patterns in social mood that help you predict social trends. Learn more with the Socionomics Premier Membership.
The Socionomist enables you to see trend-shaping waves of social mood, as reflected by the stock market — and capitalize on them. The April 2023 issue looks at negative social mood’s influence on the tumultuous history of the Mexican Revolution. Mood Riffs topics include President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, challenges facing corporate giants, the new workplace trend known as Bare-Minimum Monday, and British Columbia’s effort to relax laws governing hard drugs. Read the April issue when you become a Socionomics Premier Member. 
