[US Trending] Huawei Brake Scandal Stuns the English-Speaking World | Zhang Wanying Denied Bail, Has Her Accomplice Returned to China? | Young People Re-reading Mao's Selected Works, and the More They Read, the More Something Feels Off | 2026 New Word: "Grievance Products" | National Day Turns into "Homework Week" as Students Pull All-Nighters to Catch Up

This episode covers several hot topics: First, it reports on the denial of bail for the female spy Zhang Wanying and the movements of her accomplices. Next, it details the public outcry and the decline in JAC Motors' stock price following the brake pedal bracket failure of the Huawei Maextro V800 during testing. It then mentions the 2026 buzzword 'resentment products' and the phenomenon of students rushing to finish homework during the National Day holiday. In the 'Foreign Media on China' segment, it analyzes the trend of young Chinese people re-reading the Selected Works of Mao Zedong and comparing them to their own current life situations. Finally, it reviews absurd videos, such as 'Little Pink' aunties singing red songs overseas, and includes interactive comments from netizens.

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Letting you hear the voices from outside the Great Firewall. Hello viewers, welcome to today's US Hot Search. First, let's update you on the latest news regarding the female spy Zhang Wanying. On October 7, Zhang Wanying offered three properties worth over $1.2 million as collateral and expressed willingness to wear an electronic ankle monitor to apply for bail, but was rejected by the Los Angeles Federal Court; the judge deemed her a flight risk. Although she has naturalized as a US citizen, she holds another Chinese passport that has yet to be found; her parents and siblings are all in China; she also has businesses and bank accounts in China, one of which had a deposit of $170,000. Furthermore, when declaring her assets, she claimed to own only one property, but when applying for bail, she presented three, showing inconsistencies in her statements. Meanwhile, CBS exposed the mysterious 'Person No. 1' who accompanied her to Seattle and is suspected of being involved in monitoring Lai Ching-te's son; he had purchased a one-way ticket to China about two weeks before the Chinese-American builder was arrested. The FBI subsequently searched his California residence; he has not been charged with any crime at this time. CBS also revealed that she attended the welcoming event for Xi Jinping's visit to the US in 2023, and the person accompanying her was Cai Chenghua, an overseas Chinese leader with ties to the CCP, who previously served as an overseas committee member and vice president of the Youth Committee of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. Zhang Wanying is currently charged with acting as an agent of the Chinese government without registration. Netizens said: 'Greedy and short-sighted. She was already a US citizen and could have lived a good life, but she chose to betray the country. Classic.' What exactly is Zhang Wanying's background, and how did the FBI track her down step by step? Tonight, Yao Yao Jiang will produce a special program to walk you through this timeline from beginning to end. Please stay tuned.

Our program has previously reported on quite a few negative news stories about Huawei electric vehicles, and it seems there really was no end to them. Recently, a shocking issue has emerged with Huawei-affiliated luxury electric vehicles. This time, it is not the car driving itself, but the brakes that could not hold up. On October 8, Dongchedi, an automotive testing influencer under ByteDance, released a test video stating that in continuous emergency braking tests, the brake pedal brackets of three Maextro V800s snapped one after another, with most failing to last even four braking attempts. Subsequently, Dongchedi disassembled the brake pedal of the Maextro V800 and discovered what can only be described as a 'tofu-dreg' engineering project in the domestic car industry. Currently, the Dongchedi app has added a first-tier entry point on the home screen for 'brake bracket breakage,' with a dedicated page for the V800. After the Dongchedi video went viral, netizens in the automotive community also offered their own analyses. The netizen below questioned whether Huawei had mixed up the accelerator and brake pedals. The Maextro brake pedal breakage incident continues to ferment. A screenshot of what is suspected to be internal response talking points from the Huawei team is circulating online. The screenshot states that for such videos, the response should be: this test constitutes a 'violent test,' and the pedal force in the video reached 4589N at one point, far exceeding the normal range of use. The screenshot also instructs the team not to actively search for or watch related videos to increase their popularity, not to proactively mention it to peer customers, and not to reply online. Maextro is an automotive brand jointly created by Huawei and JAC. So far, the only official response from JAC has been one sentence: 'We are paying attention.' However, what JAC is paying attention to is not just the broken brake pedals, but also the cliff-like plunge of its own stock. On the same day as the test video, JAC Motors hit the daily limit down in afternoon trading, finally closing at 24.72 yuan, a drop of 10%. Netizens have also expressed their distrust of Huawei's Maextro. On October 8, a Maextro V800 owner on Xiaohongshu posted a screenshot of a chat with a salesperson. The user had previously complained about the slow delivery of the car, but after watching the brake pedal bracket breakage test, they insisted on canceling the order. The owner said: 'I don't even want the deposit back, I definitely don't want the car.'

Previous videos criticizing Huawei products have also been dug up by netizens. On September 29, a Douyin influencer posted a video advising everyone not to buy brands that cannot be questioned; as a result, the comments in the video repeatedly named Huawei. Many humorous netizens began to imitate Dongchedi's video by testing the brake pedals of their own elderly three-wheeled vehicles. In the videos, even with violent stomping, the three-wheeler pedals remained intact; the implication being that luxury cars are not even as good as our family's three-wheeler. Huawei's propaganda, like the People's Daily, cannot be read in collected volumes. Netizens dug up a statement by Yu Chengdong at the 2025 Shenzhen Future Automotive Pioneer Conference: 'Huawei has strict quality standards; if these quality standards are not met, not a single car can leave the factory.' Even with such a serious problem as a broken brake pedal, Huawei still shamelessly claims its quality is higher than industry standards. Huawei Maextro responded to the brake pedal breakage, emphasizing that the braking system was developed and verified according to requirements higher than national and industry standards, while announcing the optimization of relevant components to provide a 'free upgrade option' for users who have already taken delivery. The official statement referred to Dongchedi's relevant test as 'non-standard extreme test conditions' and claimed that no similar breakage failures have occurred in actual user use. Isn't this a high-level smear? Calling a broken brake pedal 'higher than national standards'; the implication is: the national standard is too low, so it is still the Communist Party's problem. A netizen responded to Huawei's 'free upgrade' claim: What a 'free' offer, it has a rare sense of benevolence from the Zhao family masters, implying that users should be grateful, just like when the Zhao family masters locked us in our homes during the pandemic and we still had to thank the government.

At this point, shouldn't those Little Pinks shouting "far ahead" reflect on themselves? Not at all. After the video of a broken brake pedal leaked, a large number of auto bloggers collectively began to "whitewash" for Huawei, pointing the finger at the tester and claiming: The tester exerted too much force, and the pedal force reached 4589, equivalent to about 468 kilograms of force, joking that the tester possessed the "heaven-defying foot." However, a netizen analyzed the video frame by frame and found that 4589N appearing in the middle was an afterimage generated by screen refresh, which appeared when the instrument reading changed from 1589N to 452N, rather than a true measured value. In addition, an ordinary person with just one leg can never step out with 468 kilograms of force. Top world strongmen using both legs together can only step out with about 440 kilograms. Netizens therefore questioned that these auto bloggers were "whitewashing for public relations of Zunjie." Nowadays, Little Pinks supporting Huawei can no longer talk about technology or logic. This Huawei fan directly said that he can only brainlessly support Huawei, and the video was filled with nationalist sentiment. A netizen said: If a enterprise can only rely on sentiment to sustain itself, this enterprise should go bankrupt. It is that simple, and those who cannot figure it out are just lacking the basics.

On October 6, a netizen posted a video saying that a new term "resentment product" appeared in 2026, meaning: When the treatment of frontline grassroots employees is squeezed to the limit, the quality and service probability of products will drop sharply, and what consumers buy may just be a beautifully packaged box. The video bullet comments were all enterprise names such as "Huawei, BYD", "Chery", and "China Eastern Airlines". Everyone said, does the broken brake pedal of Huawei Zunjie have anything to do with "resentment products"? Please leave a message in the comments section. During the National Day holiday, Chinese parents and students reported through social media that students had too much homework and simply had no time to rest. Some students were still frantically finishing homework in the early hours of the morning before the holiday ended. Netizens pointed out: National Day is given to teachers to have a break, and students are responsible for finishing their homework at home. Children's Day is given to leaders to have a break, and children are responsible for performing programs for leaders to watch.

Next, we enter the foreign media looking at China segment. Chinese youth have recently begun to re-study Chairman Mao. This sounds like it should make the CCP very gratified; the problem is, the more Chinese youth study, the more they find that the ruling class exploiting the laboring class as described by Chairman Mao matches their current living state very well. The Wall Street Journal made a related report. The article says that some college-educated young people who are exhausted by work are beginning to re-read Chairman Mao's early articles on how the ruling class exploits laborers. But they are not nostalgic for the Mao era; instead, they find that those class issues described by Chairman Mao back then can actually be used to explain their lives in 2026. Over the past few decades, there has been an unwritten consensus between the CCP and ordinary people: you work hard, buy a house, strive to climb up, do not touch politics, and your life will get better and better. But now this consensus is failing. The house may not be as valuable as what your parents bought back then; the job you find after college graduation not only may not pay the rent with its salary, but you also have to face extremely long working hours. So some young people began to use Chairman Mao's theories on workers, capital, and power to re-examine today's China. This is a bit awkward. The CCP has always told young people to study Chairman Mao. Now young people are really starting to study, only to find that they are increasingly like the exploited laboring class described by Chairman Mao. As for who that class is that holds power and demands that workers continuously sacrifice? This question is probably no longer suitable for the CCP to continue studying in depth.

Below, let's look at a few absurd videos. When it comes to nationalist sentiments, nobody is more active than the Little Pink aunties. Below, this auntie dressed in all red is loudly reciting anti-Japanese propaganda on the street, saying she wants to send her son to the battlefield. Netizens said: For this kind of illness, docking one month's salary and having them go to petition once will basically cure it. It's one thing to make a scene like this domestically, but some Little Pink aunties insist on going abroad to embarrass themselves. Recently, some tour groups from China, while traveling in Europe, ignored the basic etiquette of keeping quiet in public places and collectively sang red songs loudly in public. Netizens complained: Underwear is meant to be worn inside, why do you have to put it on your head? At the end of the show, we enter the netizen interaction segment. Li Lei commented on the plague incident in Russia, saying: Russia is democratic on the surface, but in its bones it is still the Communist Party; as soon as something happens, they want to cover it up. Anonymous said: Dictatorial countries like Russia, China, and North Korea cannot achieve transparency. Another said: There is only one real virus, and that is dictatorship and autocracy. That's all for today's US Hot Search, thank you all for watching. Dear viewers,

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