Chongta (Charging the Tower) · Full chronicle and history

Recently, a Chinese veteran has been live-streaming for a long time while holding placards on social media, with slogans demanding that society attach importance to missing persons, opposing organ trafficking, calling for a crackdown on telecom fraud, and refusing blood draws for matching.

An open tower-rushing incident occurred in Nantong, Jiangsu, prompting streamer Qiqi and public opinion to warn of safety risks inside the wall.

An elderly man in Henan posted a video online to protest gas prices being too high to afford, shouting slogans such as "Down with Japanese imperialism" and "Long live the Chinese Communist Party."

Recently, a man stood by the water's edge, first eating coptis root, then locking his own mouth, and looking into the camera performed the saying 'a mute eating coptis root — unable to voice the bitterness.' Shortly afterward, the avatar of the account he posted from was cleared.

Zhang Yi, a dissident from Wuhan, was arrested by Chinese Communist Party authorities on suspicion of "inciting secession" after showing a photo of the Dalai Lama to a Tibetan woman at Sera Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet. His family learned on October 8, 2026 that the Lhasa Public Security Bureau had transferred the case to the procuratorate for review and prosecution. Zhang Yi remains detained at the Lhasa Detention Center, and his lawyer has not yet been granted access to the case files.

A Douyin user in Rizhao, Shandong posted a video showing himself driving a tractor bearing the slogan "Wei Guang Zheng" through the streets, and said he had been suppressed in the past for rights defense.

On the Chinese Communist Party's National Day, two middle-aged Chinese women staged a nude protest at the Badaling Great Wall against Xi Jinping's dictatorial rule and the evil regime of the Chinese Communist Party.

At noon on October 1, National Day of Mourning, a male petitioner climbed onto the roof of a high-speed train at Liuzhou Station in Guangxi to protest and was struck by high-voltage electricity, his body burned black.

On September 11, a Kuaishou streamer read out a statement twice during a live broadcast, publicly criticizing the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping, and calling for an end to the one-party dictatorship through a non-violent, non-cooperative velvet revolution. About two and a half minutes later, the live stream was forcibly shut down.

Around September 12, 2026, a livestream sales influencer with a large following publicly shouted “Xi Jinping step down” during a broadcast, and spoke about nonviolent civil disobedience and the Czech revolution that overthrew the Communist Party. When sensitive words were mentioned, the comment section of the livestream was immediately closed.

A mainland Douyin user left a comment asking whether Xi Jinping was an emperor, a dictator, and a traitor to the Han people. Subsequently, that user's account as well as the blogger's account with 161,000 followers were banned by the platform.

Kuaishou user Han Yunxiao publicly expressed defiance against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Xi Jinping during a livestream. The stream was subsequently shut down, and the account was permanently banned three minutes later.

After the original video was taken down, a girl's father continued to post new videos, having the girl wear a green big-mouthed fish headgear to film, and changed the account's avatar to the Chinese flag.

At a book fair in Hangzhou, a member of the public openly said that a book of Xi Jinping's quotations was only fit for use as toilet paper, and was subsequently taken away by security guards.

On July 30, 2024, 22-year-old Fang Yirong from Loudi, Hunan, imitated the Sitong Bridge protest by hanging anti-Xi banners and playing a broadcast on a pedestrian bridge in Xinhua County. He subsequently recorded a video declaring his opposition to authoritarian rule and was arrested by the authorities shortly thereafter.

On October 30, 2023, Gu Wanming, former head of the Guangdong branch of the Xinhua News Agency, issued an open letter in his capacity as a veteran Party member, making five demands regarding the death of Li Keqiang: suspending the cremation, setting up an investigation team, holding those responsible accountable, conducting an autopsy, and holding the funeral according to protocol. He was subsequently placed under criminal detention.

Peng Zaizhou hung a banner on Beijing's Sitong Bridge to protest the lockdown, and was later arrested.

On October 24, 2020, Jack Ma criticized the “pawnshop mentality” of Chinese financial regulators and banks at the Shanghai Bund Financial Summit — the last time he appeared on China’s public stage in an offensive posture.