The U.S. State Department announced that, due to significant corruption, it has barred Fiji-based Chinese national Zhao Fugang and his immediate family members from entering the United States, accusing him of paying bribes on behalf of Chinese-related individuals to advance interests.
On October 8, 2026, the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada passed Bill C-219, which aims to strengthen sanctions against foreign nationals involved in corruption and human rights violations and to combat transnational repression. The bill has completed third reading and been passed, and will next be sent to the Senate for consideration, where it must receive Royal Assent before it becomes law.
Retired judicial system official Jiang Yuewen told The Epoch Times that retaliatory arrests within the provincial bureaucratic system have long existed and are growing more frequent, with bribes of just over 100,000 yuan often described as more than 5 million yuan, inflating the amount involved more than tenfold in order to drive political rivals out of office.
Former Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan was arrested. Hu Liren pointed out that this was not due to corruption or factional alignment, but the starting point of a large-scale arrest campaign launched by Xi Jinping to purge old retainers, falsify history, and clear obstacles to succession.
The passing of former State Council Premier Zhu Rongji has sparked heated online discussion and various evaluations from all sectors regarding his historical merits and demerits, as well as his family's corruption issues.
China's Ministry of Emergency Management, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and other departments have urgently allocated 160 million yuan in central natural disaster funds to assist affected provinces. The host argues that this amount is too low, with each province receiving an average of only 20 million yuan, which is far from sufficient to cope with the disaster, and criticizes the severe corruption among CCP officials.
On September 5, multiple media outlets confirmed that Yi Huiman, former chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), has been taken away for investigation on suspicion of corruption, marking the second probe of him this year. Sources familiar with the matter said it is related to his relatives interfering in IPOs and internal corruption at ICBC. During his tenure, he oversaw 1,838 A-share IPOs with a total value exceeding 11 trillion yuan.