Beidaihe Meeting convenes, CCP leadership enters “Beidaihe time”
The Beidaihe Meeting convened on August 3, and the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entered the Beidaihe activity period as is customary.
The Beidaihe Meeting convened on August 3, and the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entered the Beidaihe activity period as is customary.
Cai Qi visited vacationing experts in Beidaihe on behalf of Xi Jinping's commission, accompanied by Shi Taifeng and Wu Zhenglong; Chen Yiqin did not attend.
U.S. President Donald Trump accused Iran's leadership of being dishonest, saying that while it publicly denies negotiations, it is privately seeking a meeting. Trump said the United States and Iran are holding talks and reiterated that the United States will not allow Iran to possess nuclear weapons.
US President Trump confirmed at the White House that, after canceling plans for a large-scale military strike on Iran, negotiations with Iran are underway aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz and discussing Iran's nuclear capabilities, warning that this is Iran's last chance to sign an agreement.
The CCP News Network published an article titled "Mao Zedong's Meeting Struggle Tactics During the Long March." Host Hu Liren believes this move exposed fierce intra-party struggle and hinted that Xi Jinping is in a bad situation.
Xi Jinping issued fifteen tokens, intended to reaffirm his supreme leadership position and the centralized and unified leadership of the CCP Central Committee, but they were interpreted as a signal that his power was being challenged.
Chinese customs officials have been instructed to tighten entry and exit management and intercept suspicious individuals, seen as a sign of the country shutting itself off from the world.
Cai Qi visited experts on summer vacation in Beidaihe, extending greetings on behalf of the CCP Central Committee and the State Council. The official report stated he was entrusted by the General Secretary.
The South China Sea has issued a military exercise announcement, and relevant drills are proceeding as planned.
US Indo-Pacific Command chief Admiral Paparo stated at a regional security conference in Kuala Lumpur that China and other actors are using claims of false legitimacy to justify acts of intimidation and coercion.
After experiencing a market shakeout at the end of July, the U.S. stock market ushered in a second wave of surge. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 index both hit record highs from August 3rd to 4th, with the Dow standing above 54,000 points for the first time.
Victims in the dam-break disaster area in Guangxi said in interviews and videos that relief supplies were severely insufficient, that local private donations were blocked, and that videos they posted showing their monotonous three meals a day were taken down online.
One month after Lhagyal Tseten died by self-immolation, a rally was held in New York in his memory, where his family spoke publicly for the first time, condemning the Chinese Communist Party's seizure of Tibet and its denial of human rights. Tibetan students reenacted the incident through performance art, and American actor Richard Gere criticized China's ethnic unity promotion law and called on supporters to contact their members of Congress. Activists from Hong Kong, Uyghur, South Mongolia and other regions attended to show their solidarity.
Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, a rare contact amid overseas concern over her welfare.
Exiled Tibetans living in India held a protest in Mumbai against China's Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, believing the law could accelerate the forced assimilation of ethnic minorities.
U.S. Representatives Moolenaar and Garbarino sent a letter to the American food delivery platform Doradish, asking it to explain whether it integrates open-weight AI models developed in China, and the potential national security risks involved.
A spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry said that Iran has not held direct negotiations with the United States, but is working with Oman to reach an understanding on ensuring shipping safety in the Strait of Hormuz.
US Treasury Secretary Bessent confirmed that the Trump administration has taken foreign exchange market action to help stabilize the yen, and emphasized the importance of economic security and national security.
A U.S. bipartisan delegation led by Representative Young Kim has concluded its visit to South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, during which it reaffirmed U.S. support for Taiwan's self-defense and discussed regional security and supply chain issues.
Xinhua News Agency released content reiterating adherence to the Party's overall leadership and the Central Committee's centralized and unified leadership, which was interpreted as a measure taken by Xi Jinping to consolidate power.
An RFA journalist interviewed Hu Liren about the reactivation of the Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, in which Hu Liren expressed concern, viewing it as a signal of a regression to the planned economy.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations stated that a cargo ship was hit by an unidentified projectile off the coast of Oman on the evening of August 3.
The Chinese Communist Party News Network published an article reviewing intra-party struggles involving Zhang Guotao, Wang Ming, Bo Gu and others, and emphasized unity at the end.
Senior CCP officials arrived in Beidaihe around August 3 for recuperation and informal closed-door meetings to set the tone for the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee to be held in October.
The US Air Force conducted a combat readiness exercise for F-22 Raptor fighter jets at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, practicing hot-pit refueling and distributed guerrilla strike capabilities.
Sichuan dissolved 10 county-level rural commercial banks within a single day and merged the related institutions into rural commercial banks in prefecture-level cities such as Meishan and Mianyang, involving the replacement of signs at 330 outlets.
According to the program, a Chinese national recently traveled to Australia via Southeast Asia, at the suggestion of staff at the New Zealand embassy in China.
On August 3, 2026, Li Ru, a resident of Loudi, Hunan, was taken away by officers from the Lianpengshan Police Station while sightseeing in Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao. He was later handed over to stability maintenance personnel from his household registration location, and subsequently lost contact; his personal safety remains unknown.
On August 3, 2026, a netizen reported receiving a call from the police station in their household registration locality asking whether they had any history of traveling abroad and about their work situation, and being required to hold their ID card and that day's lottery ticket and take a photo in front of a government agency for verification.
On August 3, 2026, a civil society group released a documentary compiling 361 documentary clips of petitioners traveling to Beijing, recording the real living conditions of petitioners queuing outside the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration to air their grievances before and after the new petitioning regulations took effect.
On August 3, 2026, a popular-science video on a Chinese social platform explaining the U.S. presidential term system triggered widespread associations among netizens after mentioning breaking term limits and lifelong rule, flooding the screen with danmaku, which were subsequently comprehensively cleaned up by the platform.
On August 3, 2026, a factory in Yongxing Industrial Park, Fuqing 2nd Road, Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, was exposed: the boss had withheld more than six months' wages from several employees and, under the pretext of a three-day holiday, emptied the plant of equipment overnight and fled, cutting off contact.
On August 3, 2026, in the Country Garden Nandu Mansion compound in Wancheng District, Nanyang City, Henan Province, a male homeowner, over a property dispute and other issues, climbed onto the rooftop of a residential building and staged an intense rights defense protest by threatening to jump.
On August 3, 2026, several leading Chinese digital media outlets published long image articles with similar layouts, collectively attributing netizens' criticism over the takedown of a Huawei parody video to a malicious public opinion attack organized and manipulated by foreign forces and behind-the-scenes masterminds.
On August 3, 2026, multiple homeowners at the Zhengsheng Shidai Gangwan residential community in Jiangjin District, Chongqing, gathered at the underground garage passage and the main gate to defend their rights, confronting security personnel, after the property management forcibly imposed additional parking fees and blocked vehicles from entering and leaving.
On August 3, 2026, Seres Group, which works closely with Huawei, released its vehicle production and sales data for July 2026. Its vehicle sales fell sharply, with a year-on-year decline of more than 50%, drawing market attention to the new energy vehicle cooperation model.
On August 5, it was reported that cargo owners at Haikou Xiuying Port had misdeclared tens of tons of hazardous chemicals as daily necessities, and employees who reported the matter were suppressed; the Haikou municipal joint investigation team subsequently announced that it had opened a case for verification.
Corresponding author Wang Ertao acknowledged on PubPeer that the source data contained duplicate values and anomalies, and that some images were duplicated. He proactively contacted the editorial office of Nature to apply for retraction, stating that the problematic data was generated by first author Wang Gang, and that original records could not be found for some of the data. The retraction process is scheduled to be completed in August 2026.
Because overseas large models such as OpenAI and Anthropic face access, registration and payment barriers in mainland China, developers have long called models such as GPT and Claude through domestic API relay stations. Recently these relay services have been raided by the police, their operators summoned, and the services shut down one after another.
On the evening of August 3, 2026, an outdoor big screen on Granville Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, looped an anti-animal-abuse advertisement, with text displayed in both Chinese and English, in support of the dog "Wangwang," who was tortured to death in Jieyang, Guangdong.
On August 3, 2026, it was exposed online that a minor female employee was offered several thousand yuan by a restaurant owner for verbal and physical sexual harassment while working part time. The victim publicly released chat screenshots and audio recordings and plans to report the case to the police to defend her rights.
On August 3, 2026, Binhe High School in Lianshui County, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province was exposed for forcing students to return to school on August 5 to start the new term early, just two weeks after the vacation began, sparking strong protests from students and parents.