Min Zin, a US-Myanmar political scholar, suddenly disappeared at Kunming Changshui International Airport in Yunnan. It was later confirmed by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs that he has been criminally detained on suspicion of endangering state security.
On June 3, 2026, the case of Wang Lixia, former chairwoman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region government, on suspicion of accepting bribes, was brought to court by the procuratorate of Daqing, Heilongjiang Province.
Kim Myeong-il said that after the prosecutor's office began questioning him, he wrote a letter and announced a hunger strike lasting two days because lawyer Lee Gwi-saeng was unable to meet with him.
Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office, said she was unaware of the specific circumstances, while claiming that throwing feces and paint is an expression of public opinion, and denying transnational and cross-border repression.
Scholar Minsin went missing after arriving in China. Family members later confirmed that he was detained in China, and the U.S. Consulate issued a formal notification on June 5.
According to a Bloomberg report on June 3, the European Commission held a closed-door meeting last week to discuss how to address its imbalanced economic relations with China, publicly stating that bilateral trade and investment relations between China and the EU are unsustainable, and preparing to warn citizens and businesses of possible more intense trade frictions.
Two Chinese coast guard vessels sailed into Japan's exclusive economic zone south of Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture, and in response to radio hails from the Japan Coast Guard, they claimed they were patrolling waters under Chinese jurisdiction — the first time the Chinese coast guard has asserted jurisdiction over Japan in those waters.
According to information released by the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on October 10, 2026, CCP authorities illegally detained U.S. citizen Min Zin on June 3, 2026. During his detention, the authorities denied him access to a lawyer and cut off his direct contact with his family. The committee stated that it will remain committed to working for the release of Min Zin and other Americans held by the CCP.
On June 3, 2026, Yu Maoshun said on the Zhiding Lecture Hall program that the May 2026 Trump-Xi summit exposed a tendency in U.S. diplomacy to replace strategic judgment with fantasy, and pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party uses rhetoric such as the "Thucydides trap" to cover up its authoritarian nature.