Miao Hua, Director of the Military's Political Department, Taken Down
Zhang Youxia launches a purge within the military, and Xi Jinping's loyalist Miao Hua is taken down.
Zhang Youxia launches a purge within the military, and Xi Jinping's loyalist Miao Hua is taken down.
At the 2024 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit held in Lima, Peru, Xi Jinping proposed four so-called red lines to US President Joe Biden, covering Taiwan, democracy and human rights, the political system, and development rights, aiming to demarcate areas where the new US government must not interfere.
On November 15, 2024, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Tang Renjian, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, had been expelled from the Party and removed from public office, and that the case of suspected bribery had been transferred to the procuratorate; the announcement said he had improperly accepted gift money and sought benefits for others.
On November 14, Wang Wenzhi and Cheng Zilong, journalists with Xinhua News Agency's Economic Information Daily, were beaten while reporting at a China Railway Seventh Group construction site on the Hefei–Xinjiang high-speed railway in Anhui, and their phones were seized. On-site video shows a person in charge admitting that the reporters' phones were confiscated, and saying the beating may have been carried out by his subordinates.
Rights campaigner Xu Zhiyong has been on a hunger strike for 40 days in protest against Lunan Prison depriving him of his right to communicate with his fiancée Li Qiaochu. Currently, Xu Zhiyong cannot meet with his lawyers, making it difficult for the outside world to know his specific physical condition.
The FBI and CISA state that hackers linked to the Chinese government have infiltrated several US telecommunications companies, stealing call records and private communications, and replicating wiretap request information.
Zhao Bing and others repeatedly beat Hui Jian on a hillside in Jiangxi, causing severe head injuries and fatal intracranial hemorrhage; the killers then covered his body with dry grass and fled.
On November 8, 2024, the Chinese Communist Party approved a quota of 6 trillion yuan for replacing hidden debt, rolling over and cutting interest rates on local government financing vehicle (LGFV) debt at a pace of 2 trillion yuan per year, effectively shifting losses onto creditors.
On November 5, 2024, US-based seismologist Chen Youlin was arrested by state security at the Beijing airport as he prepared to return to the United States after visiting family and lecturing. His wife stated that he has already faced over 100 interrogations and is facing trial on fabricated espionage charges.
The program stated that from November 2024 to the first quarter of 2026, China issued a cumulative 4.96 trillion yuan in replacement bonds; no public reports could be found for this figure.
Blogger Hui Jian (Wu Kai), who had long exposed the inside story of telecom fraud in Northern Myanmar and Cambodia on his WeChat official account, was kidnapped by fake police in Huizhou, Guangdong, in November 2024, and later murdered in Dingnan, Jiangxi. The second-instance ruling by the Guangdong High People's Court was disclosed on October 27, 2026.
Overseas leaks claim that amid a military purge led by Zhang Youxia, Peng Liyuan's military post of major general was suspended on the spot, and she and Zhong Shaojun were both expelled from the Bayi Building of the Central Military Commission.
On November 1, 2024, the canopy of the railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia, collapsed, killing 16 people. The station had previously been renovated under contract by a consortium of Chinese-funded enterprises. Students demanded accountability for the accident and an end to corruption; the protests continued for nearly two years and grew into a nationwide movement calling for early elections.