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Philippine President Marcos summoned Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian to lodge a solemn protest regarding remarks in China Daily that implied the Philippines is a monkey controlled by the U.S. and Japan. Huang responded by stating that media actions are unrelated to the government.

Villagers in Baoshang Village, Anping Town, Langfang, Hebei, discovered that the authorities replaced the original temporary isolation panels with permanent isolation walls topped with razor wire, equipped with surveillance cameras and concrete barriers, intending to permanently cut off the daily passage between the village and neighboring Beijing. Villagers gathered to protest, stating that entering Beijing is now harder than going abroad.

A blogger spent 200 yuan at a supermarket and discovered through a tax invoice that approximately 10% in hidden VAT had been quietly deducted. Netizens pointed out that Chinese supermarkets generally levy a tax of about 10% on daily food items, whereas in the United States, taxes are transparent and basic food items are tax-exempt.

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security launched the 'National Public Employment Service Map' to provide employment services for graduates. However, just one day after its launch, netizens using software like Amap found that they could not open it, encountering errors such as 'QR code expired' or 'no permission to operate'.

At a flight attendant interview site for a Guanghui Jintong promotional event in Langfang, Hebei, tens of thousands of job seekers in formal attire gathered densely outside the office building, with the crowd remaining packed even at three or four in the morning.

Chuanghui Electronics Factory in Ganzhou, Jiangxi is accused of bullying and exploiting summer student workers, ultimately settling wages at only "one yuan per hour." Reports state that under the pressure of economic downturn, capital's exploitation of low-level laborers has intensified.

On the evening of July 22, Baoji, Shaanxi experienced heavy rainfall, leading to severe flooding on many urban roads. On the same day, many parts of Shijiazhuang, Hebei were also hit by rainstorms, causing severe flooding on roads. Netizens commented that these seemingly glamorous cities prioritize political achievements over people's livelihoods.

On July 23, a netizen in Zhenlong Township, Hengzhou, Guangxi posted a video claiming that the area continues to suffer from heavy rainfall, and the newly opened road has been washed away again.

On July 22, disaster victims in Hengzhou, Guangxi, began speaking out, claiming that temporary shelters had suddenly issued an emergency notice requiring them to move out by a deadline and prohibiting them from returning to the shelters.

On July 16, the Qilinguan Tunnel on the Hubei section of China's G59 Expressway collapsed, with the cause suspected to be the absence of steel reinforcement. Netizens mocked the incident, saying, "The world-renowned 'infrastructure maniac' doesn't need steel to build tunnels."

A netizen shared a video of two elderly people fighting over cardboard boxes, sparking sighs in the comments section about social involution. Some netizens pointed out that given the involution and food safety issues in China, many people might not even live long enough to reach the age of fighting over cardboard boxes.

The White House has announced detailed arrangements for Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the US, including President Trump personally going to Andrews Joint Base to greet him, holding a welcoming ceremony and state dinner at the White House, and the leaders of the two countries and their spouses will visit the US National Archives together.

On September 21, official announcements stated that Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli were expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and the military due to serious violations of discipline and law.

It was officially announced that Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25, with an itinerary including a tour of the National Archives and attendance at a state dinner.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Xi Jinping was absent from the BRICS summit banquet due to illness, and Wang Yi attended on his behalf.

The US Department of State has approved a foreign military sale of air defense systems to Ukraine, including S-300 clone missiles, with a total estimated value of up to $2.68 billion.

Following Wang Zhongwei's protest in Washington, D.C. against Xi Jinping's visit to the US, his family in China was harassed by the police under the guise of persuasion.

On September 20, a parent posted a video complaining about their child's weekly resistance to going to school, sparking widespread discussions among netizens regarding the child's mental health issues. Multiple netizens pointed out that the child may have developed psychosomatic symptoms and questioned the necessity of forced schooling.

On the final day of the Russian parliamentary elections, the skies over Moscow were hit by a large-scale drone attack. An oil refinery in the Moscow Oblast caught fire, billowing black smoke, and the area near the Kremlin was also affected.

On September 9, AI designer Mihrolla released a surrealist video, using metaphor to showcase the academic burden and ideological constraints in Chinese education.

According to a post by X account Luo Xiang, the contributor who reported on the Three Gorges Dam collapse has gone missing. The whistleblower's final submission included an 'internal use' employee information registration form, which detailed personal political affiliation, family background, overseas connections, contact methods, internet usage habits, assets, and requirements for fingerprint and voiceprint collection.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has warned that Moonshot AI's project, Kimi K3, may be stealing U.S. AI models through "distillation" techniques and could potentially use overseas nodes to hijack access to NVIDIA servers. The U.S. government has added Kimi K3 to the Entity List for sanctions.

X account Luo Xiang posted a video submitted by a netizen showing that some disaster victims in the Hengzhou area of Guangxi staged a protest due to dissatisfaction with post-disaster resettlement. The video footage shows smoke filling the air in the night.

At the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Philadelphia, mathematicians Wang Hong and Deng Yu, both born in Guangdong and Guangxi, China, were awarded the Fields Medal, known as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics." Both studied at Peking University before pursuing further studies and teaching abroad.

A joint assessment by the UK AI Safety Institute and the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) indicates that the performance of China's AI model Kimi K3, particularly in stability and success rates, is significantly lower than leading frontier AI models in the US, and it also performs poorly in developing exploit code.

The Hunan Library issued an announcement on its official WeChat account stating that due to recent incidents where readers used public Wi-Fi to circumvent the Great Firewall and access prohibited overseas websites, posing serious cybersecurity risks, it has temporarily shut down its wireless network for rectification and exposed the mobile phone numbers of some readers.

On the eve of the World Cup final, giant screens in New York's Times Square scrolled images of 'Wangwang,' a mother dog who was a victim of a dog abuse case in China, along with her puppies, aiming to draw international attention to animal abuse in China.

The Wall Street Journal reported that last summer, Ding Xuexiang received a closed-door briefing from Huawei on AI, in which Huawei claimed it could achieve Chinese autonomy in key AI fields within three years. Ding was leading the effort to consolidate resources in the chip industry at the time and warned that those who refused to use domestic chips were traitors.

CCTV reported on a live-streaming scam conducted under the guise of rescuing stray cats and dogs. The criminal gang defrauded over 1,500 kind-hearted individuals of more than 2.5 million yuan through false information and intentional animal abuse. The mastermind, surnamed Li, was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison for fraud and fined 200,000 yuan.

US CIA Director Ratcliffe publicly stated that China develops technology through theft, replication, and state subsidies, which is its "success" model. He believes the US is more competitive in the AI field due to its systemic advantages, as individual creativity is restricted by the party-state under the CCP system.

Peking University mathematics graduates Wang Hong and Deng Yu have won the 2026 Fields Medal, becoming the first two mathematicians to receive the award as Chinese nationals. After graduation, Wang Hong pursued advanced studies in France and the United States, and currently teaches in the U.S. The medals have sparked celebrations in China, France, and the U.S.; Chinese media emphasized their identity as Chinese mathematicians, while French President Macron called to congratulate Wang Hong.

A netizen has compiled a list of 'unfinished' (烂尾) policies since Xi Jinping took office, including the Belt and Road Initiative, Xiong'an New Area, the Beijing Stock Exchange, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Thousand Talents Program, chip engineering, real estate, poverty alleviation, energy conservation and carbon reduction, the Toilet Revolution, Hong Kong's status, the Taiwan issue, international relations, military generals, dynamic zero-COVID, common prosperity, the 'double reduction' policy, population and fertility, Made in China 2025, the crackdown on the platform economy, the PCR testing economy and anti-epidemic industry, economic data, and local government debt.