Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, posted news in a WeChat group about confirmed SARS and coronavirus cases at the Huanan Seafood Market, for which he was subsequently investigated by the Public Security Bureau and issued a reprimand letter.
Rights lawyers and civic activists such as Xu Zhiyong, Ding Jiaxi, and Wu Shaoping gathered in Xiamen, Fujian to discuss current affairs and the development of civil society in China, prompting a nationwide crackdown by the Chinese authorities.
Zhuhai State-owned Assets transferred its 15% stake in Gree Electric to Hillhouse Capital for 41.66 billion yuan, and Dong Mingzhu and the management team established absolute control over the listed company through various interest arrangements.
Xi Jinping proposed "whole-process democracy" and announced that China has achieved whole-process democracy, claiming that Chinese democracy is even better than that of the United States.
Li Qianxin has been appointed as Chairman and Executive Director of CCB International; she previously joined the company in 2011.
The New York Times published a report confirming, based on internal Deutsche Bank documents, that Li Qianxin is the daughter of Li Zhanshu, and mentioned her role in pushing the bank to hire her younger sister.
A Wall Street Journal investigative report in August 2019 found that authorities in Uganda and Zambia used Huawei cameras and communications equipment to monitor the opposition and dissidents, and that Huawei technicians personally helped crack the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp and locate movements to aid arrests.
A large number of people dressed in white in Yuen Long used violent indiscriminate attacks on anti‑extradition bill protesters and citizens, and the police were accused of responding slowly and failing to intervene in time.
On the evening of July 21, 2019, large groups of men dressed in white and armed with weapons attacked protesters, journalists and residents inside and around Hong Kong's Yuen Long MTR station, and the police were accused of colluding with the triads.
Li Jiyi, head of the New Territories Work Department of the Chinese Liaison Office, spoke at the inauguration ceremony of the Shiba Xiang Township Committee, urging Yuen Long residents to maintain social stability and not allowing demonstrators to enter Yuen Long to cause trouble.
In July 2019, Caixin reported that the Office of the Leading Group for the Special Rectification of Internet Financial Risks recommended that the police open an investigation into Sun Yuchen over suspected illegal fundraising, money laundering, pornography- and gambling-related issues.
On June 20, 2019, Iran shot down a U.S. military RQ-4 drone. Trump at one point approved a retaliatory strike, but called it off that night before the operation began, saying the expected casualties would be disproportionate compared with the downed drone.
On June 9, 2019, Jing Tian posted on Weibo, "Grateful for our meeting in the past, wishing everything well from now on," announcing her breakup with Zhang Jike. The two had publicly been a couple for over a year.
Hong Kong saw a pro-democracy protest movement that profoundly impacted the fate of its people, which was subsequently brutally suppressed and thoroughly reorganized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under the cover of the pandemic.
Hong Kong triggered large-scale protests due to the fugitive offenders ordinance amendment bill, and the anti-extradition law amendment bill movement fully broke out.
After being taken over in 2019, Baoshang Bank announced bankruptcy. The top cause of death was that more than 150 billion yuan occupied by Tomorrow Group shareholders was essentially all lost; personal deposits were fully protected, large interbank claims were covered at an average of about 90 percent, and 6.5 billion yuan in Tier 2 capital bonds was written down in full.
On May 15, 2019 (US Eastern Time), the US Department of Commerce added Huawei and 70 subsidiaries to the Entity List; HiSilicon president He Tingbo subsequently sent an internal letter saying that the "backup" had "become primary."
The US Federal Communications Commission rejected China Mobile International Limited's application to operate in the United States, citing concerns that China Mobile is susceptible to exploitation, influence, and control by the CCP.
The previously sealed indictment has been officially unsealed, and the US government has publicly announced a lawsuit against Huawei.
On January 28, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice announced 23 charges against Huawei and Meng Wanzhou, including bank and wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and the theft of trade secrets; the FBI said Huawei paid bonuses to employees who stole others' trade secrets.
Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido declared himself interim president of Venezuela on January 23, and received support from the United States and more than 50 other countries.
In 2019, the Chinese Communist Party introduced new rules under which regional GDP accounting would no longer be handled by each region itself, but would instead be calculated uniformly by the central government.
Li Na officially took her place in the International Tennis Hall of Fame, becoming the first player from China and Asia to receive this honor.
During the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement, young mainland netizens, spurred by the Communist Youth League's official line and driven by platform algorithms, once again organized in groups to jump the wall and go on an expedition, continuing the model of online crusades that had prevailed since 2016.
During the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests, the CCP massed a large number of troops and military vehicles around the Lo Wu Bridge area. President Trump warned on Twitter that the CCP must be prevented from a bloody crackdown on Hong Kong and a repeat of the Tiananmen incident, and the U.S. side issued a stern warning.
When Huawei employee Li Hongyuan left the company in 2018, he negotiated a severance package of 330,000 yuan. Shortly after the money arrived, he was criminally detained by Shenzhen police, with the charges changing from embezzlement and leaking trade secrets to extortion. Because Li had kept recordings of the negotiations and public pressure mounted, he was released without charge after 251 days in detention and received state compensation of 107,522 yuan paid by the government.
Days after Meng Wanzhou's arrest, Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were taken away in Beijing and Dandong, respectively, by state security (MSS) on charges of endangering national security.
The U.S. Department of Justice received the foreign agent registration documents submitted by Wu Zheng, in which Wu Zheng declared that he has served as vice chairman and secretary-general of the Charhar Institute's China-U.S. Relations Committee since November 2018.
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was criminally arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police upon arriving at Vancouver on a flight from Hong Kong for a transfer, pursuant to a provisional U.S. extradition request.
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver, Canada. On the same day, the CCP arrested two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, on charges of espionage.
On November 26, 2018, people from different parts of the country made a special trip to Futian Cemetery in Beijing to pay tribute to Beijing youth Yang Jia, who was executed ten years earlier. A Radio Free Asia report reviewed the origins of the incident: in 2007, he was stopped while riding a rented bicycle in Shanghai, subjected to six hours of interrogation and violent abuse.
According to online reports, in the interrogation record of Han Jihua, the driver in the Huludao child-crashing case, dated November 24, 2018, he stated that his child died as a result of violent law enforcement by police and that his subsequent rights defense was obstructed; the official bulletin said his motive was trivial matters of daily life, and no public report can be found for this claim.
At 12:15 on November 22, 2018, a man drove a vehicle into a crowd of passersby in front of the Second Primary School of Jianchang County, Huludao City, Liaoning, killing 6 people and injuring 20.
At a symposium on private enterprises, Xi Jinping specifically refuted circulating societal narratives such as the "theory of the exit of the private economy" and the "new joint state-private ownership theory," emphasizing that the fundamental principles and policies of the Party and the state regarding the development of the private economy remain unchanged.
A Tianjin court delivered the first-instance verdict for the nine prosecutors involved in the Yanbian case. Xu Xuezhe, the head of the special investigation team, and others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for intentional injury or extracting confessions by torture.
Xi Jinping traveled south to Guangdong for an inspection, with his motorcade entering the Gree headquarters in Zhuhai. His remarks during the visit regarding manufacturing innovation and self-reliance effectively provided a political endorsement for Gree's subsequent state-owned mixed-ownership reform and its 'chip-making' initiative.
On October 3, 2018, Xinhua News Agency reported that national tax authorities had confirmed that Fan Bingbing evaded taxes, recovering a total of 883 million yuan in taxes and fines, with criminal liability waived once the payment was made.
Uyghur retired doctor Abbas was forcibly disappeared by the Chinese government in Xinjiang and subsequently sentenced to 20 years in prison after a secret trial.
Nine Yanbian prosecutors suspected of torturing Liu Xiyong to death were put on public trial at the Tianjin No. 1 Intermediate People's Court. Liu Fangfei attended the hearing holding a portrait of her late husband.
The Justice Department of the Trump administration filed a sealed indictment against Huawei in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, charging the company with multiple offenses.
After Xi Jinping issued his sixth directive, Xu Lingyi, Deputy Secretary of the CCDI, led a team into Shaanxi to demolish 1,194 illegally built villas in the Qinling Mountains and discipline multiple provincial and ministerial-level officials.
The Shanghai P2P platform Tangxiaoseng absconded, triggering a nationwide wave of bank runs and bankruptcies among online lending platforms, causing millions of investors to lose their funds.
Caixin reported that Sun Yuchen has been on the border control list restricting exit from China since June 2018.
On May 8, 2018, Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), a move that drove up oil prices.
Cui Yongyuan publicly attacked the film 'Cell Phone' and Feng Xiaogang, prompting the State Taxation Administration to launch an investigation, causing Huayi Brothers' stock price to plummet and shelving the 'Cell Phone 2' project.
The Chinese Communist Party spent 255 million pounds to purchase the former site of the Royal Mint in central London, planning to build Europe's largest super embassy.
The first-instance trial of Sun Zhengcai's bribery case opened at the Tianjin No. 1 Intermediate People's Court on April 12, 2018; online posts claim that evidence footage played in court showed Zhang Jun as one of those who offered bribes, a claim not seen in any public reports.
On March 28, 2018, Zhang Jike posted photos of a beach stroll with Jing Tian on Weibo, and Jing Tian reposted in response; the two officially made their relationship public.
On March 22, 2018, Trump signed a memorandum accusing China of stealing intellectual property; on July 6, the U.S. imposed 25% tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, and China retaliated the same day.
After the merger of CCTV, China National Radio, and China Radio International to form the China Media Group, Shen Haixiong was appointed as its first president and Party secretary.