Former CSRC Chairman Yi Huiman removed from office
Former CSRC Chairman Yi Huiman has been removed from his post.
Former CSRC Chairman Yi Huiman has been removed from his post.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs and eleven other departments jointly issued opinions on promoting the development of mutual aid elderly care services, proposing to achieve a coverage rate of no less than 70% for urban and rural community elderly care service systems by 2030.
On April 28, 2026, Li Yunze was announced as removed from his posts of Party Secretary and Director of the National Financial Regulatory Administration; the next day his information was deleted from the leadership section of the official website, and he was later stripped of his status as a deputy to the National People's Congress.
Well-known VPN service provider for circumventing the Great Firewall, Kuailian Let's VPN, announced it is terminating all of its business operations in mainland China, mainly due to the continuously escalating internet blockade and disruptions to upstream resources.
On April 28, the Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim Jong-un, in his unveiling speech for the Monument to Fallen North Korean Soldiers in Pyongyang, mentioned the “self‑detonation” soldiers twice, acknowledging that North Korean soldiers used self‑detonation on the Ukrainian battlefield to avoid capture.
China's National Development and Reform Commission's Foreign Investment Security Review Office, in accordance with regulations, banned foreign investment in AI startup Manus, requiring the relevant parties to withdraw the acquisition deal.
U.S. President Trump was shot at during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The attacker was quickly subdued by Secret Service personnel, and one agent was lightly injured. Afterwards, Trump held a press conference saying the dinner would be rescheduled.
A large-scale non-violent non-cooperation movement took place across 34 counties and districts in Heilongjiang province, where merchants collectively shut down their businesses for over two months to protest unbearable exorbitant fines.
According to statistics from the civil society project "Zuotian" (Yesterday), over the 67 days from April 25 to June 30, 2026, merchants in 34 counties (cities, districts) of Heilongjiang successively closed their shops en masse, with the cumulative number of participating merchants too numerous to count, the trigger being merchants' fear of surprise inspections and hefty fines.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that 34-year-old Chinese national Xu Zewei has been extradited from Italy to the United States, where he faces nine charges including wire fraud, and is accused of carrying out cyberattacks under the direction of the Shanghai State Security Bureau.
The U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury and multiple other agencies jointly announced a special operation codenamed targeting scam centers, indicting Chinese criminal suspects, shutting down Telegram channels and fake websites, offering rewards for their capture and sanctioning relevant implicated individuals and entities in Myanmar's Taichang and Cambodia.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memorandum harshly accusing entities primarily from China of stealing U.S. AI intellectual property through tens of thousands of proxy accounts and jailbreak technology systems.
On April 23, US President Trump posted on social media that he had ordered the US Navy to sink and destroy any ship laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, while also demanding that minesweepers continue clearing the strait at triple intensity.
On April 23, the U.S. Department of War announced that U.S. forces conducted a maritime interception and boarding of the stateless tanker Majestic X in the Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility, which was suspected of transporting Iranian oil destined for Zhoushan Port in Zhejiang, China.
The U.S. Senate held a hearing on "Covert Theft: China's Continued Stealing of American Innovation," in which several lawmakers warned that China's technology theft could fundamentally reshape the state of U.S.-China competition.
In April 2026, Yu Maochun said that since the U.S. military operation in Venezuela in early January, 4 of the 6 military members of the Central Military Commission have been purged in recent months.
License information from the National Financial Regulatory Administration shows that as of April 20, 2026, 72 village banks had completed exit and deregistration within the year, compared with 27 in the same period last year.
The United States, together with allies including the Philippines, Canada, New Zealand and Japan, held large-scale joint military exercises involving 17,000 personnel in waters near Palawan Island, drawing strong condemnation from China.
On April 16, 2026, Pan Shiyi published a long essay titled “My Reflection,” in which he said that China’s real estate sector over the past 30 years bore the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme. The article was subsequently taken down.
In mid-April 2026, the former chairman of China's Aviation Industry Corporation was sentenced to death for corruption and malfeasance. The group is the main producer of most of China's combat aircraft.
On April 13, 2026, the National Bureau of Statistics relayed its opinions on the 2025 routine statistical supervision of Jiangxi Province, stating that data falsification among some enterprises (projects) in the cities and counties surveyed on the ground in Jiangxi remains relatively serious, and that rectification following the follow-up inspection was not solid enough.
On April 13, 2026, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Jiang Duntau had been expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office, with his suspected criminal conduct transferred to the procuratorate; the announcement said his view of political achievements was seriously skewed, that he was eager for quick success and instant benefits, and that he acted blindly and recklessly.
Jiang Duntao, former Party Secretary of Zibo City, Shandong Province—who once rose to fame due to the Zibo barbecue craze—has been accused of taking on massive debts and making blind investments, and has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and handed over to judicial authorities.
On April 11, 2026, U.S. Vice President Vance led a delegation of about 300 people (including a large number of security, guard, and protocol personnel) to Rawalpindi near Islamabad, where he held talks with a 71-person Iranian delegation.
Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the National Defense University seminar and delivered a speech. Hundreds of senior generals underwent 70 days of rectifying training and investigation at the National Defense University.
Former Xinjiang Party Secretary Ma Xingrui was officially announced to be under investigation, and authorities announced his specific charges over 3 months later.
On April 3, 2026, officials officially announced that Ma Xingrui had fallen from power.
At the end of March 2026, Ma Xingrui was described by the program as a Politburo member taken to be a sacrificial flag, used to warn other officials.
On the evening of April 3, 2026, the Xinhua News Agency announced that Ma Xingrui, a member of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee and deputy head of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the CCDI and the National Supervisory Commission.
Leaks claim that on the very day the transition deployment meeting was held, Hu Chunhua took office as the head of the group liquidating Xi's faction, marking the launch of the succession liquidation procedure.
According to sources within the Great Firewall, Hu Chunhua was appointed in early April as the head of Xi Jinping's group's provisional liquidation team, responsible for reviewing old projects and vetting cadre materials.
The video claims that a certain brokerage calculated that Heilongjiang's pension surplus can only support about 1.1 months, ranking last among all provinces, while Guangdong's can last about 53 months; no public report of this calculation can be found, with only old data from around 2015 showing Heilongjiang at about 1 month for comparison.
In April 2026, Justin Sun sued World Liberty Financial, in which the Trump family is involved, accusing it of illegally freezing the WLFI tokens he held and stripping him of his voting rights.
The seventh round of inspection tours by the 20th CCP Central Committee has carried out regular inspections of the party organizations of 36 units including the Ministry of Public Security since April 2026; no source could be found for the 12th Inspection Team and its head Shi Kehui cited in the video.
U.S. Treasury Department data shows the federal deficit for the 2025 fiscal year is close to $1.8 trillion, and by April 2026, the White House Budget Office estimated the deficit for the 2026 fiscal year at $2.06 trillion.
On April 1, 2026, Artemis II launched with 4 astronauts on board. After orbiting the Moon for about 10 days, it splashed down and returned in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego on April 10.
In April 2026, RightsCon, the global digital rights conference originally scheduled to be held in Lusaka, Zambia, was abruptly cancelled by the Zambian government. Reports say the move came after pressure from the Chinese embassy on the grounds that the event involved Taiwan-related issues.
Rumor has it that in April 2026, Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong was taken away for questioning by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, after which the Ministry of Public Security no longer followed his commands.