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Recently, a Douyin influencer posted a video showcasing a sketch of Mao Zedong's profile, with viewers flooding the comments to praise the likeness and quality of the drawing.
A netizen posted that their roommate needed to submit political vetting materials for their parents to apply for CCP membership, with one section requiring them to fill in their parents' performance during the 'June 4th turmoil'. The roommate, not understanding what this meant, asked Doubao (a product under ByteDance) and received the reply: 'I cannot answer this question.'
The official website of Wenzhou University of Technology has made public similar correspondence materials, requiring the village committee, neighborhood committee, or sub-district office where parents reside to provide political vetting materials. The attached form lists columns for 'whether there are any issues or conclusions regarding the Cultural Revolution, the 1989 turmoil, or Falun Gong'.
On the evening of November 3, Bruno Retailleau, chairman of the French Republican Party and presidential candidate, was asked on a BFMTV program whether Mao Zedong was a dictator. He replied "of course" twice, stated that Mao caused the deaths of tens of millions, and equated communism with Nazism as two forms of totalitarianism.
On November 3, a netizen in Shaoshan, Hunan, posted a video showing a Mao Zedong statue being hoisted at the entrance of a school. Many netizens in the comments section expressed their support and hoped for this to be implemented across the country.
On October 30, the U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP released a video exposing Mao Zedong as a CCP dictator whose policies caused one of the deadliest famines in history.
On October 30, French MP and presidential candidate François Ruffin, in an interview with BFMTV/RMC, criticized the influence of Chinese capitalism and nationalism while discussing the Mbappé controversy. He explicitly stated that Mao Zedong was a dictator who established authoritarian rule, and the deaths of millions of Chinese people caused by his rule cannot be excused.
French football star Kylian Mbappé called Mao Zedong a dictator, stating that he caused tens of millions of deaths and that his regime was totalitarian in nature. French public opinion views this as a statement of fact rather than a personal opinion. [Follow-up · October 28, 2026] On the evening of October 28, Marine Tondelier, National Secretary of the French Green Party, posted on X, stating that Mbappé's characterization of Mao Zedong as a dictator is historically grounded, and criticized France's repeated submission to China's economic pressure as a sign of weakness.
On the evening of October 28, Marine Tondelier, National Secretary of the French Green Party, posted on X, stating that Mbappé's characterization of Mao Zedong as a dictator has historical basis, and criticized France's repeated submission to China's economic pressure as a sign of weakness.
According to X user @QuanLujun, near Lantouji Community, Guanyao Town, Qichun County, Huanggang City, Hubei Province, an elderly man spent about 44 years single-handedly building and furnishing a private Mao Zedong memorial hall, inside which the historical scenes of China in the former "Mao era" are highly faithfully recreated.
On October 14, 2026, Beijing time, the X account @clashreport released a secret interview recording allegedly from a survivor of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. In the recording, the interviewee describes scenes of the military firing on civilians, including the deaths of children, and states that people viewed the government as "barbaric" and "inhumane." The tweet received 16 likes and 4 retweets.
On October 10, a user posted a screen recording of the game Minecraft on Douyin, questioning why NetEase's chat system flags the number “64” as a violation when other players can send it normally.
On October 9, near Xiaobanqiao in Guandu District, Kunming, Yunnan, more than ten young people, wearing handcuffs on both hands linked one after another into a long line, were escorted by multiple law enforcement officers on foot across the street. One of them held a loudspeaker playing a propaganda warning that read, "Fighting and brawling will result in detention without exception." Netizens commented, "They've started parading people through the streets now?"
On October 9, near Xiaobanqiao in Guandu District, Kunming, Yunnan, more than a dozen youths suspected of fighting and brawling were handcuffed together in a long chain and escorted on foot across the street by multiple law enforcement officers. One of them held a loudspeaker playing a propaganda warning that read, "Fighting and brawling will be detained without exception." Netizens questioned, "Have they started parading people through the streets?"
On October 5, a TikTok blogger uploaded a number meme video; after comments that appeared to allude to 64 showed up in the comment section, it was blocked, and neither the video nor the account could be searched.