In January 2025, John Rogers, a former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve, was arrested. A U.S. Department of Justice announcement dated January 31, 2025, stated that Rogers worked as a part-time professor at a Chinese university in 2023 and received approximately $450,000 in compensation, and prosecutors accused him of providing Federal Reserve internal materials to Chinese personnel.
Chen Xi, Wang Xiaohong, Cai Qi and others are suspected of setting an ambush at the Central Party School, taking coercive action against Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli.
DeepSeek suddenly became popular in 2025, and the program claimed it was used to prove that China's artificial intelligence industry had achieved success during Li Qiang's tenure.
In early 2025, after Chinese AI DeepSeek became popular overseas, tests by multiple research institutions found that it systematically filters sensitive topics such as Tiananmen and Xinjiang Uyghur human rights, and that strict ideological alignment remains even when running offline.