The CCP Central Committee will convene the Fifth Plenary Session in Beijing to deliberate on topics including full and rigorous Party self-governance and responding to the economic and external situations.
U.S. Secretary of State Rubio delivered a speech in Athens, Greece, reviewing the foundational role of ancient Greek civilization in the Western world, criticizing the West's guilt over its own achievements, and calling on U.S. and European allies to strengthen defense cooperation and rebuild supply chains to meet global challenges.
Scientists Henry Kagan and Xiahe Xiansan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on understanding mirror molecules, with a prize of 1.2 million dollars.
A detention hearing was held at the federal court in Los Angeles. The defense proposed a bail package involving property and electronic monitoring, while prosecutors alleged that her asset disclosures were false and that she posed a flight risk. In the end, the judge ruled that she will remain in custody.
Trade representatives from fifteen economies, including the United States, the European Union, Japan, and South Korea, have jointly signed an agreement promoted by the U.S. that calls for the elimination of structural overcapacity and non-market policies that lead to overproduction.
U.S. President Trump announced on October 7 that the Treasury Department has automatically established tax-free investment and savings Trump Accounts for approximately 70 million eligible American children.
The World Health Organization says it has been in touch with Russian authorities and is tracking developments following the death of a female staff member at a plague research center in the Irkutsk region of Siberia.
Memorial events were held locally in Israel, remembering those who died in the massacre and those who were injured by means of human figures and fountains dyed red.
A Financial Times report discloses that Beijing is conducting a large-scale investigation into the offshore investments, trusts, and undeclared income of wealthy Chinese, while financial institutions are re-examining the overseas investments of high-net-worth clients.
Russian officials said that 5000 tests had been carried out on the relevant laboratory and no dangerous pathogens were found, while the World Health Organization continues to press Russia for information.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially announced that Russian veteran security bureaucrat Patrushev will visit China from the 8th to the 13th, holding talks with Wang Yi and others, with topics including China-Russia relations and maritime cooperation.
A graduate student who earned a degree in software from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2012 and once wrote code at a big tech firm now makes a living selling balloons on the streets of Changsha, where he was reunited with a former big-tech colleague now working as a grilled squid vendor, reflecting the widespread unemployment predicament of highly educated talent in China today.
On October 7, a parent in Shandong posted a video claiming that when their two young children heard the national anthem being played at Tiananmen Square on TV, they immediately stood up, threw down their chopsticks and saluted the television.
On October 7, the Taipei District Prosecutors Office indicted four Taiwanese private investigators under the Personal Data Protection Act, alleging that they were commissioned by Hong Kong individuals Ku Kak-yin and Lam Hing, received about NT$360,000, and conducted 24-hour surveillance of Democratic Progressive Party legislator Shen Po-yang between September and November 2024, filming him and his wife and daughter with hidden cameras and sending the footage to the commissioning parties via Telegram; prosecutors sought a sentence of 1 year and 6 months for the principal suspect and issued arrest warrants for the two Hong Kong commissioning parties, stating that the case involved cooperating with foreign hostile forces to infringe upon the rights of Taiwanese citizens.
On October 7, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office announced that a soldier surnamed Zhou of the Army's Dongyin Area Command, starting in November 2024, photographed national security secrets from an official computer and handed them to a man surnamed Chen dispatched by the security office of a public security bureau in a certain province of China, receiving cash, gold, remittances and virtual currencies totaling more than NT$790,000, and used his mother's and his Vietnamese fiancée's accounts to transfer funds layer by layer to conceal the source of the money. Zhou has been detained and held incommunicado; prosecutors have indicted him on charges of accepting bribes, leaking state secrets and money laundering, with a citizen judge participating in the trial.
On October 7, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on relations with China by 454 votes in favor, 86 against and 110 abstentions, calling for reciprocity in trade and investment, supporting proportionate EU measures if China does not open its domestic market, while also demanding continued human rights pressure on Beijing, the unconditional release of political prisoners, and expressing concern that the Law on Promoting National Unity and Progress could further institutionalize assimilation policies.
On October 7, Taiwan's New Taipei District Prosecutors Office indicted 10 business operators, alleging that since 2017 they had used the names of the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology and others to purchase high-speed military-grade chips from Texas Instruments and Analog Devices, altered the outer packaging to launder the origin before illegally selling them to China and Hong Kong, and profited more than NT$300 million; prosecutors are seeking a maximum sentence of 10 years for the principal suspect.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has filed denaturalization lawsuits in multiple district courts against 40 individuals accused of serious crimes, including two Chinese-Americans from China.
According to Maoyan Professional Edition data, the box office for the 2026 National Day holiday (October 1 to 7) was about 1.1 billion yuan, lower than the 1.118 billion yuan in the same period of 2014, setting the lowest record since 2014 and only a quarter of the 4.466 billion yuan in 2019.
On October 7, according to CBS, Zhang Wanying, suspected of surveilling Lai Ching-te's son, offered three properties worth more than $1.2 million as collateral and agreed to electronic monitoring, but a judge at the federal court in Los Angeles ruled that she posed a flight risk, citing her possession of a Chinese passport she had not surrendered, her family's financial ties in China, and inconsistent statements about her assets, and ordered that she remain in custody. Prosecutors also disclosed that another person in the same case had already traveled to China on a one-way ticket.
On October 7, Rao Yi discussed Japanese scientists winning Nobel Prizes on the WeChat public account "Rao Yi on Science," criticizing academic misconduct in China, saying that many institutions engage in cover-ups and use public power to defend fraudsters, wasting state funds and betraying their responsibility to the people.
At 20:25 on October 7, the topic "Numerous Taiwan artists clearly state the one-China position" ranked 11th on Weibo's overall chart. State media outlet Southern Daily posted a compilation video, using Wu Qilong's "even if it doesn't make money, this is still my position" as a hook, and listed records of artists such as Angela Zhang and Ouyang Nana reposting CCTV's "Taiwan will surely return" poster; the Wenling City Media Convergence Center said that identifying with one China "is not a multiple-choice question, but a compulsory one."
At a New York trial on October 7, a former HSBC compliance executive testified that after HSBC decided in 2017 to end its cooperation with Huawei, Huawei attempted to modify the draft termination letter, trying to portray its unilateral withdrawal as a bilateral consensus, but HSBC refused. The HSBC witness also said that in 2016 the bank discovered that Huawei was paying US dollars to sanctioned regions such as Iran through intermediary agencies.
On October 7, Jilin Provincial Party Secretary Huang Qiang chaired a symposium for internet celebrities at the Songyuan Café in Changchun, calling on influencers to study Xi Jinping's thought on building a cyber powerhouse, remain firm in the "four confidences," and promote the main theme, and asking publicity and cyberspace affairs departments to offer support, presenting attendees with books on the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army.
On October 7, the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service jointly issued a cybersecurity advisory, warning that attacks by Chinese hackers on edge devices such as firewalls and VPN gateways will increase sharply, saying that they use AI to discover vulnerabilities faster, and that Dutch agencies have also been breached multiple times.
On October 7, cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike released an investigation report stating that from late September to early October, multiple financial institutions in South Korea suffered cyberattacks and data breaches. The attackers used the ARTEX tool developed in China in combination with AI models such as DeepSeek and Zhipu GLM, and are suspected to be students at South China University of Technology, after personal information was leaked through exposed Claude session records on a server.
On October 7, on Wutun Road, Mudan District, Heze City, Shandong Province, an Audi car rammed into pedestrians on the road, causing multiple injuries before the vehicle overturned.
The topic “The whole nation enters an era of purely getting by” trended on hot search in August, with netizens discussing reduced desire to consume, cutting back on social spending and spending driven by keeping up with others; during the National Day holiday, netizens observed that people generally only browsed without buying.
A survey by Nikkei and Nikkei Quick of 22 economists showed that China's economy is expected to grow 4.4% year-on-year and 1.1% quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter of 2026, falling below the government's full-year target range of 4.5% to 5% for the second consecutive quarter; respondents expect full-year growth of 4.6%.
Recently, domestic brand Wolda's smart power strip for aquariums is suspected of becoming unusable due to a power outage after its backend was hacked. Multiple fish-keeping enthusiasts posted complaints; one user said all their ornamental fish died, customer service said it needs to be mailed back for repair, while another user restored power after pressing the controller button.
Luo Yonghao has come under attack from some Chinese netizens for failing to remove an interview with Kevin Tsai that went live on April 29 of this year, and for not responding publicly. Some have questioned his stance on Taiwan, saying the two are "on the same side." The program has still not been taken down.
On October 7, netizens found that the episode of Who's the Murderer featuring Kevin Tsai — Season 1, Case 07, "Please Answer 1998" — is no longer among Mango TV's full-episode selections; the old direct link redirects back to the homepage, while the official YouTube channel still keeps that episode. Mango TV has issued no public explanation.
On October 7, a legal blogger posted a video on Douyin claiming that inmates enjoy fully state-funded medical care, consultations with specialists, and nutritious meals, while grassroots prison officers are overworked and can hardly get time off — it feels more like they are serving the criminals. The video was taken down about an hour after it was posted.
On October 7, Matilda Tao recently commented on a program that Kevin Tsai thinks things through carefully before acting, which Chinese netizens interpreted as speaking up for Kevin Tsai and supporting Taiwan independence, sparking heated discussion on Weibo and drawing criticism and boycotts.
On October 7, the National Day holiday ended and the new term began. A boarding middle school in Lincang, Yunnan arranged for teachers to go through students' belongings one by one at the school gate as they returned. Students could only carry transparent schoolbags, and items such as snacks were banned. One teacher on duty said she could not bear to search the bags and felt pained inside.
On October 7, Xinhua News Agency released a flash report on the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, stating only that "2 scientists won the prize," without mentioning their names, nationalities, or the reasons for the award, drawing questions from netizens in the comments; Xinhua Online's subsequent report that day added the winners' identities and the reasons for the award.
On October 7, CBS reported that Zhang Wanying had participated in an event welcoming Xi Jinping together with overseas Chinese leader Cai Chenghua in 2023; Cai Chenghua's ties to China's overseas Chinese affairs and united front systems are a matter of public record — a 2017 report by Nanjing University listed him as an overseas committee member of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and vice chairman of its Youth Committee.
On October 7, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Thailand confirmed to Xinhua News Agency that the Shanghai music teacher who had gone missing in Bangkok has safely returned to Shanghai, but did not disclose the date of return, the cause of the disappearance, or the details of what happened.
After Kevin Tsai appeared at the launch event of Puma Shen's campaign headquarters, Chinese brands moved to cut ties with and boycott him.
On October 7, Chapman To recalled on Facebook his experience of being blacklisted in 2014 for supporting the Sunflower Movement, saying that over the past 12 years he has never gone without a meal — now he wears a Patek Philippe, drives a Porsche 911 to buy groceries, and calls out “Long live freedom.”
On October 7, a Douyin user uploaded a video in which a Winnie the Pooh doll is repeatedly slapped; all five visible comments in the comment section were clapping, thumbs-up, or "666", and a search suggestion appeared asking "what does a Winnie the Pooh plush toy symbolize".
After the controversy over Kevin Tsai's attendance at Shen Boyang's campaign event escalated, Leapmotor, which had just signed a contract in September, issued a statement within hours affirming its adherence to the one-China principle, and took down the promotional content created in collaboration with Kevin Tsai.
On October 7, Elite Middle School in Shijiazhuang, Hebei was reported for setting up a security screening machine at the school gate when students returned after the holiday, requiring students to pass their suitcases and bags through the machine, drawing sarcasm from netizens.
On October 7, a video creator posted a video satirizing the fact that openly going to work during the National Day holiday in violation of the labor law goes unchallenged, while riding an electric bike without a helmet normally gets one stopped by traffic police.
On October 7, a netizen in Hebei posted a video of a "Socialist Core Values" propaganda sign in a park, captioning it with a question asking "which line is true." The comment section filled with sarcastic remarks such as "the punctuation marks are true" and "rotten through and through."
On October 7, a parent in Shandong posted a video saying that two children, while eating breakfast, heard the national anthem playing on the TV and immediately put down their bowls and chopsticks, saluted the TV and sang along. The caption read, “The whole family was stunned — this is the future of the motherland,” sparking heated discussion in the comments section.
On October 7, Chapman To posted on Facebook to reflect on his experience of being targeted for supporting the Sunflower Movement. He stated that for the past 12 years, he has 'never gone a meal without being full,' and now wears luxury watches and drives a Porsche to buy groceries, while shouting 'Long live freedom.'