On October 14, 2026, Miles Yu published an article in The Washington Times criticizing the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. The link to the article was shared by him himself on the X platform.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics will be awarded to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford in recognition of their contributions to the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization.
After the announcement of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, remarks Mo Yan made years ago on Kevin Tsai's show criticizing the Sino-Vietnamese War and military literature were dug up by netizens, came under concentrated condemnation online from Little Pinks, and were labeled as those of a reactionary intellectual.
South African judge Navi Pillay, 85, was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, with the Nobel Committee praising her work as a judge.
On October 10, 2026, a long statement by former US President Trump circulated on Chinese social media platforms. In the statement, Trump expressed strong dissatisfaction with the newly announced female Nobel Peace Prize laureate, claiming that he deserved the award for having ended eight wars, and criticized the laureate as someone known only for hating Israel, questioning her eligibility for the prize. The statement drew attention and was shared by some Chinese netizens.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to Navi Pillay in recognition of her efforts to promote peace and international law, provoking strong dissatisfaction from the US government.
The China Association for Science and Technology stated that the Nobel Prize deserves respect but is not an all-purpose yardstick, and cannot comprehensively measure a country's scientific and technological strength.
On October 9, the voice of the China Association for Science and Technology published a commentary stating that the Nobel Prize does not include categories such as engineering technology or applied research and development, and therefore cannot be used to fully measure a country's scientific and technological strength, sparking sarcasm from netizens.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature was announced on October 8, awarded to Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson.
Scientists Henry Kagan and Xiahe Xiansan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on understanding mirror molecules, with a prize of 1.2 million dollars.
On October 7, Xinhua News Agency released a flash report on the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, stating only that "2 scientists won the prize," without mentioning their names, nationalities, or the reasons for the award, drawing questions from netizens in the comments; Xinhua Online's subsequent report that day added the winners' identities and the reasons for the award.
Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel in recognition of their discoveries in the field of optogenetics.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics to American scientist Francis Halzen in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
On October 6, the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced, with American scholar Francis Hassen winning the prize.
American physicist Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research using Antarctic ice to detect high-energy cosmic neutrinos.