China’s newly revised National Defense Mobilization Law officially took effect on October 1, writing civil-military integration into law; experts believe it is aimed at responding to a Taiwan Strait conflict and U.S.-China great-power competition.
U.S. Secretary of War Hegseth announced the establishment of an autonomous warfare command and launched Project Meridian to study future warfare.
The Ministry of Finance, the central bank, and the National Financial Regulatory Administration jointly announced that starting October 1, eligible first-home mortgages will receive a fiscal interest subsidy of 1 percentage point per annum.
In a speech marking the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping ranked the Chinese Communist Party ahead of the country and the people, drawing outside attention to the CCP openly placing power above the state.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said on a social media platform on October 1 that, due to the U.S. military blockade and mounting economic pressure on the Iranian regime, Tehran failed to export any crude oil in September.
According to data released by the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo on October 1, the country's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, making it the fastest-spreading outbreak in history.
According to eyewitness accounts cited by the program, Taiwan's Coast Guard used a water cannon and fired warning shots at a mainland Chinese fishing vessel operating across the boundary in the waters of the Dongsha Islands; after the fishing boat lost power, it waited for rescue.
After interviewing several current and former U.S. officials as well as one person with knowledge of the matter, Reuters reported that the People's Liberation Army's preparations have been delayed, and officials believe the likelihood of a forced attack on Taiwan before 2028 has decreased.
Reuters reported that the US Department of Commerce is preparing to tighten license approvals for exporting aircraft parts and aviation hydraulic fluid to China, using them as leverage in trade negotiations.
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.
Starting from National Day on October 1, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued stricter restrictions: apart from ensuring flights to Hong Kong and Macau and some marine fuel, all exports of refined oil products such as diesel and gasoline have been halted, and all signed contracts have been cancelled.
U.S. Secretary of State Rubio, on behalf of the United States of America, issued a message of congratulations to the Chinese people on the 77th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party regime, and wished the Chinese people peace, health, and happiness in the year ahead.
Chairman Moolenaar of the U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP condemned Starbucks for opening stores in Xinjiang and called for the immediate closure of its branches there.
A Russian drone struck a school in Kyiv on the morning of October 1 and started a fire, with more than one hundred students sheltering inside the school at the time; no one was injured in the incident.
The October 1 issue of Qiushi magazine carried an article signed by Xi Jinping, mentioning strengthening inclusive livelihood development and common prosperity, which sparked outside discussion about harvesting the wealth of the middle class.
Several demonstrators staged a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom on October 1, the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, showing solidarity with Hong Kong, Uyghurs, Tibet and Taiwan, and calling attention to Beijing's human rights policies.
The four astronauts aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on October 1, with the flight taking about 8 hours.
The Philippine Coast Guard said on October 1 that it successfully drove off a Chinese research vessel operating in the waters north of the Batanes Islands by deploying ships and aircraft.
Taiwanese entertainer Wu Qilong filmed and posted a video at Tiananmen Square, holding high the five-star red flag and congratulating the Chinese Communist Party on its National Day.
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 the Chinese Communist Party's National Day, two CCP fishing vessels intruded into the restricted waters of Dongsha. The Taiwan Coast Guard Administration's Yunlin rushed to the scene and broadcast an order to leave; when the Jinsha refused to depart, water cannon was fired at it. The Jinsha then dropped anchor, called the Taiwanese coast guard for help, and requested 35 hot meals.
A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) research vessel illegally intruded into waters near the Batanes Islands of the Philippines. The Philippines dispatched coast guard ships and aircraft and successfully drove it off; the CCP coast guard vessels on the scene did not dare to intervene.
In the women's 70kg quarter-final match at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, Chinese athlete Tang Jing was disqualified and eliminated after biting the arm of Japanese athlete Rin Maeda for over 20 seconds.
Hu Xijin posted a Weibo praising the motherland on the National Day of Mourning, and netizens discovered it was AI-generated and contained telltale phrases; afterwards Hu Xijin urgently deleted the relevant comments.
Bo Guagua posted a National Day message on Twitter, saying that regardless of political stance or which side of the strait one is on, he still hopes in his heart that China will prosper.
Before the National Day flag-raising ceremony, large crowds lined up outside Tiananmen Square waiting to enter; on-site video shows some people running to grab viewing spots.
In Ruili, Yunnan, multiple monks wearing kasaya lined up to face the national flag and held a flag-raising ceremony accompanied by the national anthem.
A veteran who serves as general manager of Zhejiang Qinwang Public Welfare Apparel Co., Ltd. said in an interview that he would reprimand workers who step on the national flag; netizens subsequently asked about the factory's leave and working systems.
In an article, Ukraine's Foreign Minister said that the handover of North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea does not amount to a diplomatic incident but is merely a diplomatic misunderstanding, and expressed hope of maintaining momentum with South Korea.
On October 1, 2026, the blogger went to Wangxian Valley in Shangrao, Jiangxi, and found that the well-known influencer scenic spot had few visitors during the National Day holiday, reflecting the phenomenon that the peak tourism season is not booming.
Starting October 1, multiple videos appeared online showing netizens wearing black plastic bags and holding ID cards to accuse their bosses of not giving time off for National Day.
On October 1, 2026, the CCP's National Day of Mourning, an inverted blood-red five-star flag appeared at the entrance of Kunming Trinity International Church, and related photos subsequently spread online.
According to a Financial Times report on October 1, as of June 2026, Japanese companies operating in mainland China fell to 10118, a net decrease of 2916 companies or 22.4% compared with 2024, and a drop of nearly 30% from the 2012 peak.
On October 1, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that over recent weeks the U.S. Department of Commerce has slowed approvals of export licenses for aviation parts to China, restricting the number of parts that COMAC is allowed to import in order to prevent stockpiling, hoping to trade this for concessions on rare earths and other issues.
On October 1, the G20 trade ministers' meeting was held in Milwaukee, the United States, where they agreed to condemn the use of food trade as a tool of coercion, but failed to reach a consensus on condemning forced labor in supply chains and addressing structural industrial overcapacity. U.S. Trade Representative Greer did not name the opposing countries, while China denied overcapacity and accused the West of protectionism.
According to a Bloomberg report on October 1, Xinxin Financing Lease, led by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund and with shareholding by local state-owned assets, provided financing over the past year for Hongjing Technology to purchase more than 700 servers, totaling over 3 billion yuan, of which at least one deal involved 32 servers equipped with NVIDIA B300 Blackwell chips subject to U.S. export controls, most of them deployed at China Mobile's Ningxia Zhongwei data center. Xinxin subsequently revised its filing documents to delete server model information.
The National Defense Mobilization Law of the People's Republic of China officially took effect on October 1, stipulating that male citizens aged 18 to 60 and female citizens aged 18 to 55 shall legally undertake national defense service duties, including supporting and safeguarding military operations, preventing and relieving the disasters of war, and assisting in maintaining social order.
On October 1, 2026, as the rights-defense video of "CC Who Takes Phones" trended across the entire internet, a number of authoritative mainstream media outlets, including Sina Technology, Tencent News, My Drivers (Quick Technology), and China Youth Daily, followed up with in-depth reports and special investigations. Legal scholars and senior criminal lawyers, in interviews with the media, made clear that using generative AI technology (DeepFake) to synthesize fake, indecent photos and videos of others is by no means an ordinary civil infringement of portrait rights or reputation, but a serious illegal and criminal act that crosses the bottom line of the law: a person who uses AI to generate obscene image collections and sells them across platforms for profit is already suspected of constituting the crimes of "insult," "defamation," and "profiting from disseminating obscene materials" under criminal law; combined with malicious doxxing (human flesh search box-opening) behavior, this further raises suspicion of the crime of "infringing on citizens' personal information." The legal community is calling on judicial authorities to step up the crackdown and sever the black-and-gray industrial chain that uses open-source technology to fabricate pornographic rumors for profit.
On October 1, Hu Xijin published a National Day article praising China's achievements. Netizens found an AI prompt left at the end of the text: "Need me to read through the whole piece again and double-check for zero omissions." Hu Xijin then edited the original post and deleted comments in the comment section.
Around 2 a.m. on October 1, on the Huaihua section of the Shanghai–Kunming Expressway in Hunan, a heavy semi-trailer tractor collided in succession with three cars, triggering a fire that killed 6 people and injured 4. The 57-year-old driver, surnamed Ren, was taken into police custody on suspicion of fatigued driving. The accident investigation and follow-up handling are ongoing.
On October 1, multiple owners of the C&D Ruiyun development in Fuzhou, Fujian, gathered in front of the sales office and along the street over suspected false advertising and products not matching the description, holding banners and shouting "C&D fraud, C&D refund our homes." Relevant personnel at the scene held up umbrellas to block the view and snatched the banners.
On October 1, the U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of Greg Lui, owner of a San Gabriel Valley tech company, accusing him of illegally transshipping more than $300 million worth of export-controlled high-end GPU servers to China via Malaysia and Singapore between 2023 and 2024, and of falsifying documents. He faces three charges — violating export controls, smuggling, and conspiracy to commit money laundering — carrying a maximum sentence of 50 years.
October 1, the first day of the National Day holiday: large numbers of netizens who had not been given time off filed real-name reports against companies or bosses for not granting National Day leave — wearing black plastic bags over their heads and holding up the backs of their ID cards — hoping the relevant authorities would investigate.
On October 1, in the women's judo 70 kg quarterfinals at the Aichi Nagoya Asian Games, Chinese athlete Tang Jing bit the arm of Japanese athlete Rin Maeda during ground grappling. After the referees confirmed it on video replay, she was ruled to have lost by foul and was disqualified.
On October 1, Reuters cited four sources reporting that Chinese oil refiners have suspended refined oil exports to regions outside Hong Kong and Macau in October to prioritize domestic inventory. PetroChina has canceled some October export shipments, and Zhejiang Petrochemical has not scheduled any refined oil exports during the week of the National Day holiday, with uncertainty remaining over whether they will resume after the holiday.
EU Trade Commissioner Šefčovič warned during the G20 trade ministers' meeting that Chinese exports are threatening key European industries such as automobiles and steel, and that overcapacity combined with global market turmoil could endanger entire sectors within weeks or months.
On October 1, John Moolenaar, chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, issued a statement criticizing Starbucks' decision to open a store in Urumqi as morally bankrupt, demanding that it close the store immediately and saying that every cup of coffee sold links the brand to the CCP's persecution of the Uyghurs.
On October 1, according to a Yonhap News Agency report, the Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Court issued detention warrants for 4 Chinese nationals suspected of vandalizing a Chinese restaurant named "Xi Jinping." South Korean police may proceed with applying for an Interpol red notice and seeking criminal judicial assistance from China; if the 4 re-enter the country, they can be detained immediately.
On October 1, Reuters relayed a Financial Times report that Tencent signed a five-year lease with US cloud service provider Oracle, using approximately 100,000 advanced AI chips — which cannot be obtained domestically in China — through several of its data centers in Southeast Asia. The contract is worth about $7 billion, with an advance payment of roughly 30%, making it Tencent's largest overseas leasing agreement to date.
On October 1, while discussing his relationship with Xi Jinping at the Valdai Forum, Putin stated that although they do not share a common language, they once communicated alone without an interpreter while waiting to meet with Modi in India, and could understand each other after saying just a single word.