After Iran attacked three merchant ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz the previous day, the U.S. announced new strikes against Iran, stating the operation aims to ensure freedom of navigation.
Trump announced the wholesale revocation of sanctions waivers for Iranian crude oil, after which more than 80 targets along Iranian routes were bombed.
The dam collapse of the Liulan Reservoir in Guangxi flooded downstream villages, leaving a large number of disaster victims trapped for days facing material shortages and secondary disasters. Official staging of propaganda afterwards sparked public doubt and criticism.
A China economic briefing released by the World Bank on July 8 pointed out that China's domestic demand will continue to shrink and housing prices will fall, with the root cause being that the government of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses 43% of its budget for investment while underfunding people's livelihood.
A severe landslide occurred in Dangchang County, Gansu Province, completely burying a village and resulting in 21 deaths. The anchor expressed deep sorrow over the incident and criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government for its negligence in disaster response and public welfare.
On the final day of the summit in Ankara, Turkey, NATO leaders issued a six-point statement reaffirming Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, the transatlantic bond, and commitments to increase defense spending, while expressing support for Ukraine.
At a press conference following the Ankara summit, Trump praised NATO's unity and stated that progress has been made toward the alliance members' shared goal of increasing annual defense spending to 5% of GDP.
During the NATO summit, Trump met with Zelensky and stated that the U.S. would allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot missiles and provide the relevant manufacturing methods.
During the NATO summit, Trump met with Syrian President Ahmed Shara, stating that the U.S. might remove Syria from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
In a Round of 16 match at the World Cup, Argentina, after trailing by two goals, scored three times in the final eleven minutes to defeat Egypt 3-2 and narrowly advance to the quarterfinals.
China test-fired an intercontinental-range ballistic missile without a warhead. The US State Department criticized Beijing's rapid and opaque nuclear weapons expansion and urged China to engage in arms control discussions.
His defense lawyer Lan He said that Ai Luming was criminally detained by Wuhan police on July 8, 2026 on suspicion of illegally taking deposits from the public, and is being held at the Wuhan No. 2 Detention Center.
The U.S. Congress officially passed Resolution No. 444, introduced by Republican Senator Scott, yesterday, condemning Xi Jinping's tyranny, characterizing Xi Jinping as a brutal dictator, and accusing him of committing crimes against humanity and genocide.
Ai Luming was reportedly arrested on July 8, 2026, and no related news has been publicly released for a month since then.
Gangbei No. 8 High School in Guigang is surrounded by floods, suffering from power outages and severe waterlogging. More than 2,000 teachers and students are stranded, and parents have to row boats themselves to pick them up.
Multiple earthquakes have occurred successively in Yibin City, Sichuan Province. Among them, Gaoxian experienced multiple tremors in a single day, with the highest reaching magnitude 5.0. Informed whistleblowers claim that the earthquakes are related to high-pressure fluid injection for local shale gas development.
Severe convective weather struck Changzhi, Shanxi, uprooting multiple roadside trees, damaging several cars, and causing severe flooding on some roads.
Xi Jinping delivered a speech, Li Qiang presided over the meeting, and all members of the Politburo Standing Committee attended. Outside observers analyzed its political implications through uniform appearances.
On July 8, a man was administratively punished by Qinzhou police for spreading disaster information about the "Liulan Reservoir collapse." The reason was that he misreported the reservoir's location as Qinzhou instead of Hengzhou.
The US men's national soccer team was eliminated from the World Cup in the Round of 16 after a 1-4 loss to Belgium, ending their journey in this tournament.
Iran seized a Qatari liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, causing international oil prices to rise.
The U.S. Treasury Department has revoked a temporary license previously issued to Iran that authorized it to produce, transport, and sell oil.
Taiwan's Ocean Affairs Council Minister Kuan Bi-ling said at the "Taiwan Ocean International Forum" in Taipei that the greatest danger of the Chinese Communist Party's continued use of gray-zone intrusions and coercion is that it causes a change in the status quo.
John Moolenaar, chairman of the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, wrote to the CEO of MSE, requesting an explanation of the company's partnership with Alibaba and urging that the cooperation be terminated.
Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee Secretary Xin Changxing went to Taizhou for research on July 8, and the trip was interpreted as sending a political signal to the ancestral hometown of Hu Jintao’s family.
On July 8, Bank of America cut its full-year average price to $4,360 and predicted that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates three consecutive times in the second half of the year.
On July 8, 2026, the public interest organization Asia Lawyers Network released a report disclosing that the crackdown on lawyers in China has extended to the civil and commercial sectors, with lawyers frequently facing criminal prosecution by authorities using criminal charges to replace civil litigation when handling civil and commercial disputes.
On July 8, 2026, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced new rules that comprehensively prohibit research projects it funds from cooperating with Chinese military-related and human-rights-related institutions placed on U.S. sanctions and restriction lists, as well as their employees.
On July 8, 2026, an institution under China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a security alert claiming that the AI tool Claude Code poses hidden dangers such as sending information back; Anthropic responded that the mechanism is an anti-abuse feature and that its service has not been made available in mainland China.
On July 8, 2026, Li Jing, a victim of the case in which Chinese student Zhou Tong drugged and raped women while secretly filming them in Germany, spoke out publicly in an exclusive interview with BBC Chinese, recounting the ordeal and her psychological trauma, and calling for an end to the expectation that victims remain silent.
On July 8, 2026, it was reported online that multiple performance venues in Shanghai received notices from the Changning District culture and tourism authorities requiring them to adjust their set lists and prohibiting the playing of Japanese-language songs, sparking discussion among performing arts professionals.
On July 8, 2026, police in Qinzhou, Guangxi reported that a man was found by public security authorities to have fabricated rumors after posting disaster-related claims online, including the collapse of the Liulan Reservoir and the canal flooding the urban area, and was given an administrative penalty.