The PLA Daily prominently featured photos of live-fire shooting training by a brigade of the 77th Group Army—a unit affiliated with Zhang Youxia's faction—on its front page, sending a strong signal regarding the political winds of military power.
The Taierzhuang Music Festival in Zaozhuang, Shandong withheld and delayed the part-time wages of college students, leading a large number of students to gather for rights defense. Videos of the rights defense were removed across the entire internet.
The Washington Post published a report stating that while the Chinese men's national football team missed the World Cup, Chinese fans enthusiastically embraced Chinese referee Ma Ning, who officiated at the tournament.
Following the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhu Changjie, the long-retired former head of the Xinjiang Public Security Department and vice president of the China Police Association, was taken away for investigation by the CCDI on suspicion of assisting Wang Xia洪 in building a power-money alliance and underground money laundering network.
In a report, the PLA Daily named the so-called "competition specialist" brigade from the 72nd Group Army—where He Weidong made his career—as having disappeared, and published a commentary severely criticizing deviations in political achievements and the bubble of new-quality combat capabilities.
More than a dozen provinces, regions, and municipalities in China have been struck by major natural disasters such as torrential rains, floods, and mudslides. At the same time, multiple man-made disasters have erupted concurrently, including a sudden major fire at the Zhengzhou Automotive Business Plaza in Henan, four fatalities from a construction slip in Wuzhai County, Shanxi, and a residential building fire in Luxi County, Hunan.
On June 20, 2026, the first F-16V Block 70 two-seat fighter produced for Taiwan completed its test flight in Texas. The aircraft is the first of the 66 new fighters ordered by Taiwan and is expected to be delivered and deployed at Taitung air base in the third quarter to replace aging aircraft.
On June 20, 2026, Taiwanese media reported that cybersecurity experts, after tracing the matter, discovered that the "Borderless" content farm group in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, operating under the Chinese Communist Party's People's Liberation Army cognitive warfare system, was manipulating hundreds of overseas fan pages to coordinate flooding and manipulate Taiwanese public opinion.
On June 20, 2026, netizens revealed that after the open-world game Uncharted Waters: Origins launched servers in mainland China, its international server’s world chat system had set “Teacher Li” as a blocked word, filtering it with asterisks for censorship.
On June 20, 2026, a sliding accident occurred during construction by State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Company in Wuzhai County, Shanxi, and four construction workers were killed on the spot.