At 2:00 p.m. Beijing time on October 19, 2026, X user @jielijian posted news that a rally would be held in front of the Chinese Consulate-General in Los Angeles from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. that day to voice support for Peng Lifa, the "Sitong Bridge warrior." The event aims to defend human rights and call on anti-CCP participants to join; the on-site contact person is Liao Wenhao.
Los Angeles held an anti-CCP, anti-Xi event in front of the local Chinese consulate (address: 443 Shatto Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90020) from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on October 18, 2026. The event theme was to voice support for Sitong Bridge hero Peng Lifa, and put forward the demand "No leaders, we want votes; not slaves, but citizens."
On October 12, 2026, Beijing time, the Chinese Democracy Party International Alliance held a protest rally in front of the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles, accusing the Chinese government of transnational repression and of persecuting more than 20 of its party members and their family members in China. At the scene, the alliance submitted a protest letter to Consul General Guo Shaochun, solemnly condemning the Chinese Communist Party's human rights crimes against dissidents, demanding an end to threats and violent attacks, and stating that it would lobby the U.S. Congress to hold those responsible to account.
At around 7 p.m. local time, a fire broke out along North Broadway in Los Angeles' Chinatown, engulfing a brick-and-wood building housing commercial warehouses and several offices; firefighters subsequently brought the blaze under control.
A detention hearing was held at the federal court in Los Angeles. The defense proposed a bail package involving property and electronic monitoring, while prosecutors alleged that her asset disclosures were false and that she posed a flight risk. In the end, the judge ruled that she will remain in custody.
On October 7, according to CBS, Zhang Wanying, suspected of surveilling Lai Ching-te's son, offered three properties worth more than $1.2 million as collateral and agreed to electronic monitoring, but a judge at the federal court in Los Angeles ruled that she posed a flight risk, citing her possession of a Chinese passport she had not surrendered, her family's financial ties in China, and inconsistent statements about her assets, and ordered that she remain in custody. Prosecutors also disclosed that another person in the same case had already traveled to China on a one-way ticket.
On October 6, prosecutors in Los Angeles County, the United States, charged Xuan Guojun and his wife Zhang Siwei with conspiring to abuse 15 children, 14 of whom were born through surrogacy. Prosecutors said Xuan Guojun told the nannies to "hit harder" and personally beat the children; the couple had discussed inflicting corporal punishment without leaving marks and taught the children to deny being beaten. Both have pleaded not guilty, and bail was set at $20 million each.
The FBI arrested Zhang Wanying at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday as she was planning to travel to China; the U.S. Attorney's Office charged her with acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
Zhang Wanying appeared in a Los Angeles federal court in handcuffs and shackles for her first hearing, represented by a court-appointed public defender, and the judge urged her to hire a private attorney as soon as possible.
On October 5 local time in the United States, 34-year-old California real estate agent Zhang Wanying, suspected of spying on Taiwan President Lai Ching-te's son and family members on behalf of the Chinese government, made her first appearance in a Los Angeles federal court. The judge ordered her to remain in custody, with a detention hearing set for October 7. The indictment alleges that she received her surveillance assignment in the United States in Changsha in June 2025.
The US FBI arrested Zhang Wanying, a Chinese-American woman living in California, at Los Angeles International Airport, accusing her of being instructed by Chinese government officials to travel to Seattle to surveil Taiwan President Lai Ching-te's son, Lai Ting-yu.
Zhang Wanying was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport as she was preparing to board a flight to Shanghai. US federal prosecutors accused her of acting as an agent of the Chinese government without registering.
Chinese spy Zhang Wanying, suspected of surveilling Lai Ching-te's son in the United States, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport while preparing to board a flight to Shanghai.
On October 4, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested California real estate agent Zhang Wanying at Los Angeles International Airport, accusing her of failing to register as an agent of the Chinese government. The indictment says she received an assignment in Changsha in June 2025 from officials linked to the Ministry of State Security, and in September of the same year traveled with an accomplice to Seattle to photograph and surveil the residence of Lai Ting-yu, the son of Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, passing the video and license plate information to the Chinese side.
Zhang Wanying was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on October 4 while preparing to board a flight to China, charged with acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government, suspected of surveilling the residence and family members of Taiwan President Lai Ching-te's son. Prosecutors confirmed that she has become a naturalized U.S. citizen; she has not yet been convicted.