Delivery Rider Injects Unknown Substance into Beverages
A delivery rider injected an unknown substance into thousands of beverages and called on others to imitate the act, sparking serious food safety concerns.
A delivery rider injected an unknown substance into thousands of beverages and called on others to imitate the act, sparking serious food safety concerns.
On the eve of Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States, Twitter saw a dense stream of narratives praising China-U.S. people-to-people friendship, chiefly the “legendary story” of an American teacher donating money to help combat desertification in Inner Mongolia. Official and related accounts promoted it in sync, and the posts were accused of showing signs of traffic manipulation.
Gongzi Shen reposted Bo Guagua's post, criticizing him as "a good son of the Party," and said that he cannot save his father, and that Canadians will not take orders from him.
Lens on World accused Bo Guagua's parents of being detained while he himself urges Canada to cooperate with China, calling him a "complete hypocrite."
EU trading restrictions on platforms including Huobi, as well as Binance's rule on halting direct fund transfers with Huobi, have officially taken effect.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te presided over the commemorative ceremony marking the 68th anniversary of the August 23 Battle of the Taiwan Strait in Kinmen, calling on people to uphold the spirit of anti-communism and defending Taiwan and to support increasing the defense budget.
Qin Weiguo, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Anhui Provincial Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, has officially taken over as secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, a post that had been vacant for more than three months.
A technical head at a Chinese company was stopped by customs officers at Shanghai Pudong Airport and barred from leaving the country because a VPN was installed on his phone.
People’s Daily continues to publish “Zhong Caiwen” articles, claiming that China’s economy has shown “strong resilience.”
The Freedom 250 Grand Prix was held near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where race car driver Kyle Kirkwood won the championship, attracting approximately 200,000 spectators.
Chinese state media published an article characterizing the 4.7% economic growth in the first half of the year as high-quality, arguing that it is in line with the current economic reality.
Zheng Liwen attended the commemorative event for the August 23 Artillery Bombardment in Kinmen and delivered a speech, advocating a return to the 1992 Consensus and exchanges with the other side to prevent war.
On August 23, 2026, Chongzuo City in Guangxi was hit by severe flooding. A large number of houses in Ningming County were submerged, and as of the afternoon of August 24, some urban road sections in Chongzuo were still seriously flooded.
In the early hours of August 23, 2026, Fengshan Town, Fengqing County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province was hit by a mudslide and landslide triggered by heavy rainfall, leaving 2 dead and 4 missing. Local authorities activated a Level III emergency response to carry out search and rescue operations.
On August 23, 2026, Chinese officials announced that the Chang'e-7 lunar probe, originally planned to launch from Wenchang, Hainan, does not meet launch conditions and cannot be launched within the year's window. Days earlier, the space agency had reported that the rocket equipment was in good condition.
On the evening of August 23, “China Action · The Road of Light Coverage” projected photos of Niu Tengyu onto the Bundestag complex and the Berlin TV Tower in Berlin, Germany, marking the seventh anniversary of his arrest, after the same projection had already appeared at the Chinese Embassy in Germany.
On August 23, 2026, a student at Huazhong Senior High School in Daye, Hubei Province, submitted a report to a rights-defense platform, stating that the school had installed barbed wire around its perimeter to prevent circumventing the Great Firewall, that taking leave was extremely difficult, and that high-pressure militarized management was being enforced.
On August 23, 2026, a netizen posted to expose Fuzhou Institute of Technology's high-pressure management, which forces morning check-ins and confiscates phones, and also instructs the student union and students to report and manipulate comments on social platforms regarding negative content about the school.
On August 23, 2026, Yinchuan No. 24 Middle School in Ningxia strictly inspected students' hairstyles at the school gate. A large number of male students were stopped and unable to enter the school because their hairstyles did not meet the standards, and they lingered outside the gate for a long time waiting.
On August 23, 2026, in response to the online exposure of the formaldehyde cabbage issue, a blogger disclosed that Kangbao County in Hebei had set up inspection checkpoints on the exit roads of the cabbage producing area, sealing and conducting sampling tests on cabbage leaving the county.
On August 23, 2026, reports circulated online that a falling incident occurred at Weigao Plaza in Weihai, Shandong, where a man fell from a high place inside the mall. After the incident, mall staff used black umbrellas to shield the scene and arranged personnel to stop customers from getting close.
On August 23, 2026, Dandong City in Liaoning Province was hit by heavy rainstorms. Short-term intense rainfall caused severe road waterlogging and urban flooding in multiple areas of the city.
On August 23, 2026, Zaimiao Town in Shangsi County, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi, was hit by severe flooding. Streets in the town area and low-lying villages were inundated, with water entering shops and residents' homes along the streets.
On August 23, 2026, Lianhe Zaobao reported that luxury brand Louis Vuitton (LV) announced its Lixing Center store in Guiyang would cease operations on August 31, meaning LV is fully withdrawing from the Guizhou market, after having already successively closed several stores in Southwest China, including in Kunming and Chengdu.
On August 23, 2026, students at No. 1 Middle School of Funing County, Yunnan, publicly posted multiple strict school rules online, including a 5-minute time limit for showers, a ban on male and female students walking shoulder to shoulder, and a requirement to jog in unison when moving around the campus, sparking heated discussion online.
On August 23, 2026, a netizen posted a video exposing the dormitory of No. 2 Middle School of Hengdong County, Hengyang, Hunan as a 14-person room, with rusted metal bunk beds, broken wooden boards, and appalling sanitary conditions. After the relevant content was reported by the media, the original video was deleted.
On August 23, 2026, Jiangsu businessman Xue Jianxing publicly called out leaders of Guizhou Province, reporting that three greening projects he undertook in Jiangkou County, Tongren City, with a total cost of approximately 200 million yuan, have been completed and inspected for eight years, yet audit settlement remains unfinished and payments have been long overdue.
On August 23, 2026, Shanghai's Huangpu police announced the investigation and handling of an online corporate rumor case. A netizen surnamed Mo was placed under administrative detention by police for fabricating and publishing a false post on an investment platform claiming that Xiaohongshu's IPO had failed.
On August 23, 2026, workers on the Xinjiang Provincial Road 345 highway project of China State Construction Road and Bridge Group, owed wages, collectively laid out bedding at the gate of the company's site office to protest and demand payment of their wages.
On August 23, 2026, several construction workers at a China Railway 10th Bureau project in Qamdo, Tibet, gathered collectively at the project site entrance to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages after the project owed them wages.
On August 23, family-search volunteer Du Xiaohua visited Sun Meihua, reported the case to police and released a video. According to his relay of the police notification, Sun Meihua was subsequently placed in a local nursing home on August 31.