The U.S. House passed the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 216 to 212. The bill's total sets a record and provides a policy blueprint for next year's military spending.
The National Defense Authorization Act passed by the House of Representatives includes funding to help Taiwan strengthen its self-defense, and requires the Pentagon to draw up a plan to promote Taiwan's participation in the 2028 Rim of the Pacific joint military exercise.
Trump said that for every time Iran fires on a commercial ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the United States will bomb and destroy a bridge or a power plant in Iran.
U.S. Central Command stated that U.S. forces struck Tehran's military operations centers, maritime operations facilities, aircraft hangars, drone storage facilities, and military logistics infrastructure.
Rubio said that he held talks with Wang Yi, that the two sides had in-depth discussions on Xi Jinping's visit to Washington in September, and that they agreed to manage differences and avoid a loss of control of the situation.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Philippine Foreign Minister Lazaro held their first meeting in two years during the ASEAN summit, exchanging views on the conflict near Ren'ai Reef.
Wang Yi met with Rubio, and the two sides discussed core interests, the one-China principle, the consensus reached by the heads of state, and high-level exchanges in the next phase.
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee has passed the bipartisan Connected Vehicle Security Act, which would restrict connected vehicles, as well as software, hardware, and critical components, linked to China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
The United States and Saudi Arabia announced that they have reached a civilian nuclear energy cooperation agreement. Trump has approved the agreement, and it is expected that the U.S. government will submit it to Congress for review.
Greer explained the Trump administration's 2020 trade policy agenda to the Senate Finance Committee, stating that the U.S. goods trade deficit and dependence on China have both declined.
Trump attended a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for the remains of 4 US service members killed in the Iran attack, and plans to meet with their families.
On July 22, White House officials accused Chinese artificial intelligence company Moonshot AI of illegally distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop the K3 system, and of obtaining banned Nvidia chips.
Li Qiang signed the "State Council Regulations on Exit and Entry Administration" (Order No. 841) on July 22, 2026. The regulations consist of 19 articles, covering the establishment of a filing management system for exit-entry intermediary services, and stipulate that public officials and military personnel who entrust intermediaries to handle immigration must report to supervisory organs.
The Houthis claimed that since implementing a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia on July 22, they have attacked 8 Saudi vessels and conducted 29 interceptions.
Cai Shenkun revealed that Jiang Jinquan's home was raided, rather than him just being questioned.
Taiwan's Executive Yuan spokesperson Lee Hui-chih announced that during the 2026 Han Kuang Exercise, a 30-minute operational network slowdown drill will be conducted for the first time, to test response capabilities when communications are disrupted.
Yemen, designated as a terrorist organization, announced a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia said it will protect ships in accordance with international law, while the United States vowed to act to protect freedom of navigation.
Chen Xianfeng, a lieutenant general of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Navy and former political commissar of the North Sea Fleet, died of illness on July 22, 2026.
A restaurant owner in Guangxi posted on WeChat Moments that all staff in the restaurant had been infected with COVID-19, so the restaurant took a break and closed down, with the reopening time to be determined.
According to the program, a large number of Chinese tourists in Jeju, South Korea pushed past barriers and the security check queuing area, during which Korean staff were knocked over and injured, and related videos spread online.
An insider from the Three Gorges Project revealed that the death toll in the Guangxi Hengzhou flood reached over 17,000 people. The insider also disclosed that the Three Gorges Dam has multiple water seepage issues at its base, and the leadership has arranged for their families to evacuate. The whistleblower claimed that relevant departments had analysis reports on the potential collapse of the Three Gorges Dam, predicting that a dam break would affect at least 470 million people.
On July 22, 2026, Zhang Enhui, Secretary of the Changchun Municipal Party Committee, presided over an enlarged meeting of the Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee. The official communiqué stated that the city's economic development is currently facing "unprecedented difficulties and challenges."
On July 22, 2026, the Ministry of Finance announced that income from the transfer of state-owned land use rights in the first half of the year was 977.8 billion yuan, down 31.5% year-on-year, the largest decline for the same period in the first half of the year in nearly a decade.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Vice Minister Ma Chaoxu has recently been active in the United States, meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and other officials in an effort to ease China-U.S. relations.
On July 22, 2026, Bloomberg reported that the Chinese government's fiscal spending in June fell sharply by 11.9% year-on-year, while local land transfer revenue in the first half of the year plunged by more than 30%, reflecting local fiscal difficulties and the government's strict control over spending.
According to a tip-off from an insider at the Three Gorges Corporation, there are multiple seepage points at the base of the Three Gorges Dam, with some seepage flows reaching 30 cubic meters per hour, and the leadership has arranged for their families to be evacuated under the guise of studying elsewhere.
According to爆料 from insiders related to the Three Gorges, the relevant departments had long possessed a hundreds-of-pages analysis report on a Three Gorges dam breach; simulations showed the flood peak reaching Yichang in 6 hours, Wuhan in 24 hours, and the affected population reaching 132 million after a week, ultimately affecting at least 470 million people.
According to leaks from an insider at the Three Gorges project, Hengzhou first burned the huge number of victims' bodies in the open air with fuel in order to cover up the deaths and destroy the evidence, but because progress was too slow it switched to using highly concentrated acid to disfigure the remains.
In the first quarter, 28 provincial-level administrative regions in China had a general public budget self-sufficiency rate of less than 100%, meaning local budget revenue was insufficient to cover expenditures.
The video cited data showing that China's land transfer revenue in the first half of 2026 was about 970 billion yuan, down 31.5% year-on-year.
On July 22, 2026, the CCP Changchun Municipal Committee held an expanded standing committee meeting to conduct an in-depth analysis of the economic situation in the first half of the year, and the official announcement rarely admitted that the city's economic development is facing unprecedented difficulties and severe challenges.
In late July 2026, a doctoral student at a university in Chongqing publicly accused their supervisor under their real name on social platforms of long-term personal humiliation and appropriation of research achievements, revealing chat records in which the supervisor said the student was like an ant, sparking public attention to supervisor-student relationships in higher education.
An official dispatch list of donated disaster relief supplies for Hengzhou, Guangxi, circulating online shows that a village and town supply station needs 250 body bags for emergency use in a single day, and that 250 people died at one supply point, prompting netizens to question the actual death toll in Hengzhou.
The investigative report published by Southern Weekly, "Guangxi Liulan Reservoir Station Chief Talks About the 24 Hours Before the Breach," revealed that the reservoir's renovation cost billions yet was still a tofu-dreg project, the sluice gates were damaged, and of 54 staff on the payroll only 2 to 3 understood reservoirs; it was deleted across the entire internet within 24 hours of going online.
On July 22, 2026, the Kuomintang officially passed the re-election nomination procedures for six incumbent county and city mayors, including Chiang Wan-an and Chang San-cheng, in preparation for the local elections at the end of the year.
Large hailstones suddenly fell from the sky in northern Qian County, Xianyang, Shaanxi, with hailstones the size of eggs, destroying local fruit trees.