student protests · Full chronicle and history

As votes are counted in the Serbian general election, Vucic, who has been in power for 12 years, publicly admits defeat, and the grassroots political newcomer 'Student List' wins a landslide victory.

On the evening of October 25, Serbian President Vučić acknowledged that the Progressive Party coalition he leads lost the snap parliamentary election to the "Student List" backed by the student movement, saying he accepts the results and will now become the opposition.

X user @LeiYang8964 posted video footage in which the person in the video, Wu Xiong, openly stated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest obstacle to democracy in China, and called on the public not to follow the Communist Party, saying it will not meet a good end.

China Democracy Quarterly has released Issue 4 of 2026, covering topics such as artificial intelligence and authoritarian rule, youth social movements, and historical memory. A full download is available, and readers are urged to forward and spread the word.

On October 10, the Double Tenth Day, Chinese netizens commemorated Sun Yat-sen in various ways, displaying his views such as "the world belongs to all" and "the country is not the domain of one person," expressing their respect and their longing for democracy and freedom.

On the day Xi Jinping attended the White House state dinner, members of the Chinese Democracy Party and onlookers held a protest parade on the streets of Washington with a Xi Jinping doll and beat it.

On September 13, 2026, the Chinese Democracy Progress Alliance held a rally at Sydney Town Hall in Australia. The event was organized by the organization's publicity department head Ji Yichen and organization department head Ni Yongjiu. Rally participants called for an end to the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian rule and demanded that Xi Jinping step down, while also expressing concern over the human rights situation in Xinjiang, voicing support for members of the Hong Kong Alliance and imprisoned democrats such as Joshua Wong, and reiterating their demands for freedom, democracy, and human rights.

On November 1, 2024, the canopy of the railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia, collapsed, killing 16 people. The station had previously been renovated under contract by a consortium of Chinese-funded enterprises. Students demanded accountability for the accident and an end to corruption; the protests continued for nearly two years and grew into a nationwide movement calling for early elections.

Xi Jinping proposed "whole-process democracy" and announced that China has achieved whole-process democracy, claiming that Chinese democracy is even better than that of the United States.

In 1998, Xu Wenli, Wang Youcai, and Qin Yongmin, founders of the China Democracy Party, were sentenced for their party-building activities, marking the establishment of political parties as a taboo in China.

As a power crisis loomed, Deng Xiaoping used tanks and machine guns to suppress the student movement, blocking China's path to freedom and democracy.

Over 200,000 students and 1 million citizens took to the streets, holding the famous "April 27th Grand Parade" in support of the student movement.

People’s Daily published an editorial titled “We must unequivocally oppose this unrest,” labeling the student movement as unrest.