On July 28 and 29, Banyuantan, a magazine supervised by the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee, published two videos on Douyin criticizing public opinion handling tactics such as "blocking and deleting posts" and "confusing the public." After the videos were released, the comment section was heavily scrubbed, leaving only a few comments.
Chinese scholars Wang Hong and Deng Yu won the Fields Medal. When Peking University reposted the relevant report, it quietly deleted Deng Yu's answer regarding his overseas experience, sparking attention from netizens.
President Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House to discuss the future direction of U.S.-Iran military operations and issues such as Iran's nuclear facilities.
President Trump met with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House, focusing on missile defense capabilities, military aid to Ukraine, and strategic cooperation.
US and Saudi Arabian forces launched airstrikes on Iran-backed militias in eastern Iraq on July 29, Jordan intercepted Iranian drones, and Iran fired on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Ukrainian forces launched long-range strikes against Russia, hitting two large refineries in Perm and Ryazan as well as multiple military logistics facilities.
The U.S. Senate passed a procedural vote on the Lindsey Graham Russia sanctions bill with 86 votes in favor and 12 against.
The U.S. Department of War awarded Lockheed Martin a multi-year modified contract worth a total of $58.62 billion for the production of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor missiles.
Reuters reported that some young Chinese workers, facing job insecurity, stagnant wages and the pressure of living costs, are sharing a bedroom with strangers and even sleeping in the same bed.
Multiple netizens reported that a large number of videos related to Zhuzhiliao on Douyin have been subject to abnormal handling, with some works throttled or unable to be displayed, and the avatars of some Zhuzhiliao accounts turned gray.
A 36-year-old man in Zhengzhou toughed out a cold and fever for 8 days, then suffered cardiac arrest at the dinner table. After 20 days of emergency treatment in hospital he barely pulled through and was diagnosed with fulminant myocarditis.
People's Daily published guidance opinions, releasing a strong signal of investigating the Ctrip monopoly case and cracking down on antitrust involution, drawing outside attention to the authorities' further rectification of foreign and private enterprises.
U.S. political leaders and leaders from many countries gathered in Washington, attending memorial services for the late Senator Lindsey Graham at the U.S. Capitol and at the Washington National Cathedral.
Two U.S. federal senators jointly introduced a bipartisan proposal on July 29 to monitor and curb China's gray-zone infringement activities around Taiwan and in the Indo-Pacific region.
The US Federal Communications Commission announced on July 29 an update to its list of regulated equipment, bringing foreign-produced advanced robotic equipment and power inverters under its control.
U.S. company Shield AI and Taiwan's AEHC Technology demonstrated unmanned vessels equipped with AI autonomous software carrying out coordinated formation operations at Dapeng Bay in Pingtung, Taiwan, on July 29.
The U.S. Treasury announced new sanctions targeting 10 entities, 8 oil tankers, and related insurance institutions involved in oil transportation through the Strait of Hormuz.
As of the first half of 2026, 140 rural small and medium-sized banks in China have been dissolved; previously, 83 and 226 banks were dissolved in 2024 and 2025 respectively.
Reuters reported that China and Iran signed a contract for three to four hundred sets of portable air defense missiles; the Chinese side responded that the U.S. accusations are groundless.
On July 29, 2026, 28 depositors of Henan village banks went to the Zhejiang Provincial Letters and Calls Bureau to collectively defend their rights, asking Zhejiang officials to help coordinate with Henan departments to resolve the issue of deposits being frozen for five years, and requesting the provincial-level written certification documents needed for petitioning in Beijing.
In late July 2026, grassroots contract workers in some townships of Kunming, Yunnian posted appeals on social media, reporting that tight public finances had left their salaries unpaid for several consecutive months, while similar cases of wage arrears also emerged in grassroots public institutions in many other places.
In late July 2026, residents in many parts of Beijing reported receiving notices from their local police stations requiring them to remove drones that had not been registered under real names from Beijing's administrative area before August 1; those who failed to do so by the deadline would have their drones collected and destroyed by the police in an organized operation.
In late July 2026, a Douyin video jokingly calling a child's handmade toy the best toy under 10 million was taken down after Huawei filed a complaint claiming that the metaphorical mockery infringed the company's right to reputation, sparking criticism of opinion bullying by giant enterprises.
On July 29, 2026, the historical nonfiction work Eight Thousand Hunan Women Go to the Tianshan Mountains, which records the history of supporting the frontier, was subjected to content control on reading platforms such as Douban and WeChat Reading. All of its readers' reviews were wiped out, and the rating and tagging functions were shut down and disabled.
On July 29, 2026, the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission issued an announcement stating that a hearing on optimizing the metro fare mechanism would be held on September 7, sparking strong public concern and backlash over potential metro fare increases against the backdrop of current economic pressure and tightened security checks.
On July 29, a Shanghai resident returned home after a 28-day business trip and received a call from the neighborhood committee for verification, being told that big data had detected they had been away from Shanghai for a long time, prompting questions about grassroots digital surveillance of the population.