Chronicle TIMELINE
A chronological, causal record of the resistance, major political crises, and contemporary truth.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Hexian
Yin Jiangen, a self-media person from Zhuzhou, was arrested across provinces in August 2025 for posting criticisms of officials, including Liu Ying, the Party Secretary of Liyang Town, Hexian County, Anhui Province. On August 6, 2026, the Hexian Court sentenced him to two years and three months in prison in the first instance for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. Yin Jiangen disagreed and filed an appeal.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·India
Xi Jinping suddenly felt unwell while attending the BRICS summit in India, prompting Indian Prime Minister Modi to pause his speech and inquire about his condition twice. Subsequently, Xi Jinping missed the dinner hosted by Modi for leaders of various countries, and his health has drawn intense attention and speculation from the outside world.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·India
The Wall Street Journal reported that during the BRICS summit in India, Xi Jinping temporarily canceled a dinner due to sudden indisposition, with Wang Yi attending on his behalf, sparking external speculation about his health.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Shijiazhuang
A 15-year-old female student at Luancheng Middle School in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, who scored 736, was repeatedly forced by the school to cut and straighten her naturally curly hair, and was harassed and denied entry. Just 7 days after enrolling, she suffered a mental breakdown and jumped to her death. Her family later protested at the school gate with a petition, and special police were stationed at the scene. After the incident was exposed, graduates and netizens revealed that the school has long had extreme regulations, such as not providing seats in the cafeteria, forcing students to eat standing up, and implementing militarized management.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance V
·Sources 3
·India
The video claims that Xi Jinping walked slowly during his visit to India, that Modi asked about his condition twice, that he did not attend the banquet and returned to Beijing early, and that upon his return there was no welcome ceremony or press release, sparking outside speculation about his health.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
Affected by the decline in the birth population and the concentration of population in urban areas, the number of primary schools in China has rapidly decreased. Data from the Ministry of Education shows that the number of regular primary schools nationwide has decreased by about 29,700 in five years. Many places have begun to revitalize and utilize idle rural primary and secondary school buildings, converting them into facilities such as elderly care service centers, highlighting the background of accelerating low birth rates and aging population.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·United States
On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posted on social media, calling for a slowdown in frontier AI development, stronger international cooperation, and the introduction of third‑party assessment bodies to track safety practices. Subsequently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed agreement with the call and revealed that the originally planned listing has been postponed to 2027 due to safety concerns. The statements from the two CEOs stem from former Anthropic and OpenAI employee Jacob Coxon warning on X and in an NPR interview that the two companies are "gambling with our lives" and expressing worry that rapid AI progress could pose a lethal threat to humanity within a decade. Amodei emphasized that AI remains beneficial to humanity, but must be built in the right way.
09.12
·Hearsay
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Beijing
The video claims that news came out of Beijing that Xi Jinping was carried off the plane on a stretcher after returning to Beijing from India and could no longer walk normally; this claim has not been officially confirmed.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·New Delhi, India
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi in September 2026, the concept of a unified BRICS currency pushed by China was not included in the New Delhi Declaration; the declaration only mentioned expanding the use of local currencies for settlement and interconnecting payment systems. India stated clearly that there is currently no proposal to establish a unified BRICS currency.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·New Delhi, India
According to Bloomberg, at the BRICS summit in New Delhi, Xi Jinping proposed establishing a BRICS open-source AI community to promote large language model development, application cooperation, and talent training, and suggested setting up a BRICS open-source AI zone, but the proposal was not fully accepted.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Junlian County, Sichuan
On the morning of September 12, Lin received a 'Notice of Case Filing' issued by the Junlian County Public Security Bureau, and the case was officially filed.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·United States
On September 12, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he agreed with Anthropic's call to slow down frontier AI research and development and would follow up with similar measures, while telling Fortune that the original listing plan has been postponed to 2027 due to safety concerns.
09.12
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
Chinese authorities blocked Meta's acquisition of AI company Manus for about $2 billion and imposed exit bans on two of Manus's founders, seen as a case of China's extraterritorial regulations being enforced in practice.
09.11
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Taoyuan
Taiwan's Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office reported on September 9th that they had dismantled an organ trafficking ring composed of seven adult defendants. The group recruited victims online, planning to control them and smuggle them to mainland China for organ harvesting. Those involved have been investigated and dealt with according to law.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·United States
On September 9, the criminal lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Huawei and its subsidiaries officially opened in federal court. The presiding judge is Ann Donnelly, and the trial is expected to last several months. Prosecutors accuse Huawei of operating a criminal enterprise for over 20 years through theft, lies, and cover-ups, facing approximately 12 charges including racketeering, conspiracy to steal trade secrets, bank fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
09.11
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·New York
At the 25th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the 9/11 attacks held in New York, victims' families took turns reading the names of nearly 3,000 victims and observed moments of silence at key times. This year's ceremony marked the first time a seventh moment of silence was added to commemorate those who have died from 9/11-related illnesses over the years. Many American political leaders and people from all walks of life attended the memorial event.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Zhengzhou
In September 2026, multiple high schools in Zhengzhou were exposed for implementing Saturday single day off for make-up classes and mandatory boarding since the start of the semester, with schedules from 6 AM to 11:30 PM. Unable to accept the excessively long schedule and the change from two days off to a single day off, students chose to commit suicide after only 10 days of school.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
The Financial Times reported on September 11 that China is accelerating the use of foreign-related legal tools to counter US and EU sanctions, intensively introducing multiple regulations with extraterritorial effect. This forces multinational corporations into a dilemma of violating laws on both sides in terms of compliance.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
On September 11, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission together with the Ministry of Finance jointly reported six cases of local government hidden debt, naming Anhui’s Jieshou, Jiangxi’s Jiujiang and Ningxia’s Yinchuan for falsifying, misappropriating or using new loans to repay old ones, with “debt‑conversion fraud” amounts totaling 2.94 billion yuan, and also mentioned the issue that during Wu Shenghua’s tenure as former party secretary of Bijie, Guizhou, debt increased rather than decreased.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Lanzhou
On September 11, the Chengguan District Court in Lanzhou delivered its first-instance verdict: migrant worker Jing Shuren was found guilty of nine counts of picking quarrels and provoking trouble for reposting posts demanding unpaid wages and debt collection, and was sentenced to 4 years; Zhou Lubao, a co-defendant, received 14 years for picking quarrels and provoking trouble and extortion. Jing Shuren was the only one of the seven defendants who had not taken a single cent. Prosecutors had recommended a sentence of 7 years and 6 months; after the charge of leading an evil force was dropped and he was reclassified as an accomplice, he was still sentenced to 4 years. All seven stated in court that they would appeal.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 4
·New Taipei
Directed by a mainland figure identified as "K", the suspects tailed crosstalk performer Huang Yihao, and on September 11 near his residence in New Taipei they divided up duties — keeping lookout, ramming a vehicle and filming. Huang suffered a contusion to his right pelvis; afterwards the other party obtained a medical certificate through a traffic insurance claim and sent it back to K.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Wuzhishan City
Affected by the combined impact of the residual vortex of a South China Sea tropical depression and cold air, Hainan has experienced persistent extreme heavy rainfall since September 11, 2026. Rainstorm warnings have been upgraded in many areas, with severe waterlogging and rising river levels. External traffic arteries in Wuzhishan City have been completely cut off, with only emergency rescue vehicles allowed to pass, and floods have caused heavy losses to local farmers.
09.11
·Official claim
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Hong Kong
On September 11, the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts in Hong Kong delivered its verdict in the case of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the Alliance) inciting subversion of state power: former vice-chair Chow Hang-tung was sentenced to 7 years and 3 months in prison, former chair Lee Cheuk-yan was sentenced to 7 years, and former vice-chair Albert Ho was sentenced to 5 years and 2 months. The disbanded Alliance was fined 1.5 million HKD (approximately 190,000 USD).
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Zhengzhou
After the start of the school year in September 2026, many high schools in Zhengzhou were exposed for forcing all students to board. The daily schedule lasts from 6:00 AM to 11:30 PM. In addition to regular classes, morning reading and evening self-study sessions are arranged. Some schools have compressed meal times and require students to enter the classroom early for study.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Zhengzhou
Just 10 days after the start of the fall semester in September 2026, a high school student in Zhengzhou committed suicide, unable to cope with the heavy psychological burden caused by the school's decision to replace the two-day weekend with a one-day weekend for remedial classes.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Zhengzhou
In September 2026, students at several high schools in Zhengzhou collectively exposed on social media their schools’ forced extra classes and excessively long schedules, and filed online joint petitions to the Henan Provincial Department of Education and the mayor’s hotline, protesting the schools’ illegal deprivation of their statutory right to rest.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·China
On September 11, the Weibo and Xiaohongshu platforms carried out large-scale post deletions and search blocking of discussions related to Sun Meihua, who has been missing for 26 years while searching for her family and is suspected of having been abducted and sold to Cao County, Shandong. The relevant original posts were set to private, and related messages can no longer be found in search results.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Lanzhou
On September 11, the Chengguan District Court of Lanzhou City sentenced Zhou Lubao to 14 years in prison for picking quarrels and provoking trouble and extortion. All 7 defendants in the case have appealed.
09.10
·Reported
·Importance V
·Sources 1
·Qingdao, Shandong
A dry bulk carrier named Ocean Melody at Qingdao Beihai Shipyard caught fire during repairs. The blaze was extinguished after about three hours. There were 42 people on board; 12 were safely evacuated, officials said 25 missing persons showed no signs of life, and 5 were injured and taken to hospital. The vessel, built in 2006, is 190 m long with a deadweight of about 55,000 tonnes. At the time of the incident it was registered under Liberia, but the owner is Hui Li Shipping Co., Ltd., and the ship management company is Shanghai Yuyang Kunpeng Ship Management Co., Ltd. The ship arrived at Beihai Shipyard for repairs on August 31; it had previously been detained in Australia for fire safety defects such as emergency fire pumps, CO₂ system remote valves, and engine room fire dampers, and the issues were rectified.
09.10
·Disputed
·Importance IV
·Sources 6
·Cambodia
The Thai military entered a scam park in Poipet, Cambodia, on the Cambodia-Thailand border, discovering a fake police station and an operating room suspected of being used for organ harvesting; currently, there is no public evidence to confirm the related allegations.
09.10
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·Huai'an
On September 11, 2026, the US AI giant Anthropic released a long-form investigative report detailing how Chinese AI companies such as Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, while distilling own models from US models like Claude, allegedly sent real internal prompts and sensitive data of users from the People's Liberation Army, police, and state-owned enterprises to US AI platforms, sparking strong concern over model distillation security and data leakage.
09.10
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·China
The CCP's National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation issued NDRC Price [2026] No. 1303, the "Notice on Matters Concerning Cost Accounting for Low-Price Disorderly Competition in Important Industrial Products," stipulating that important industrial products must not engage in low-price disorderly competition, and determining a cost floor price for enterprises through administrative means.
09.10
·Official claim
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
According to official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reports, 43 deaths have been confirmed in the mudslide disaster at Gyirong Port, while 519 people remain missing; on the day the disaster occurred, there were only two survivors, both local villagers who escaped on their own, and the number of survivors has not increased many days after rescue operations began.
09.10
·Official claim
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·China
On September 10, the Chinese Communist Party's Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Security, and National Immigration Administration issued a joint response, saying that the claims circulating online that "exit will be comprehensively tightened" and "it will become harder for ordinary people to leave the country" are a misreading, and that the new rules only target online fraud, high-risk destinations, and travelers with abnormal travel patterns, with normal exit unaffected.
09.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·United States
On September 10, Anthropic released a threat intelligence report stating that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek and Moonshot, used third-party API proxy services to bypass regional restrictions and call Claude. The report also noted that these relay services may obtain model access through methods such as fake accounts and stolen API keys.
09.10
·Official claim
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Beijing
On September 10, the State Council called on central state-owned enterprises to take the lead in making timely payments, with a focus on large companies that have sizable accounts payable and ample cash assets.
09.10
·Official claim
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·United States
The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against the Singapore-based Xinbi Guarantee platform, saying it has processed approximately $24 billion in assets since 2022 and provided money laundering, victim data and other services to telecom fraud gangs in Southeast Asia and Madagascar; the sanctions order named the Prince Group and the Huione Group; the Justice Department had previously announced the freezing of $52 million in related cryptocurrency.
09.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
Xinhua News Agency grandly announced that President Xi Jinping will visit BRICS countries and travel to New Delhi, saying that a delegation of about 400 people is reportedly ready, and this will be Xi Jinping's first visit to India since 2019.
09.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·United States
According to courtroom records cited by the Luther Society program, the Huawei RICO case trial entered its second day. Huawei's lawyers made excuses from multiple angles, and the judge interrupted them several times, demanding that they stick to the point.
09.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
According to the Qiqi Baba video, the new National Defense Mobilization Law will officially take effect on October 1, stipulating that men aged 18 to 60 and women aged 18 to 55 all have national defense service obligations.
09.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a trilateral meeting of the leaders of the US, Russia and Ukraine could be considered as early as late September, adding that such a meeting would help advance a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
09.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
Documents obtained by Politico show that a Chinese state-owned enterprise kept supplying materials to a subsidiary of Russia's Rosatom, including 46 tonnes of disguised carbon fiber chemicals used to develop core components of suicide drones, continuing until earlier this year. The documents were shared by the Ukraine Security and Cooperation Center with the US and British governments.
09.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·China
On September 10, 2026, Anthropic released a report stating that operators linked to Chinese local police and state security systems used Claude to carry out "stability maintenance" surveillance, with "Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher" explicitly listed as a monitoring target; Anthropic said it had banned the related accounts.
09.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·China
Anthropic's report disclosed that a Chinese local state security agency turned its workflow into an internal AI usage manual and required collecting intelligence on overseas activities such as the assembly points, routes, and endpoints of democratic marches in Vancouver.
09.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 4
·Cambodia
On September 10, a Phoenix TV reporter once again visited the Osmā telecom fraud park, exposing its torture rooms for the first time. Baton-like detention tools were scattered at the scene, and multiple eyewitnesses and people who had successfully escaped confirmed that these rooms were indeed torture rooms.
09.09
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 4
·波斯灣
The US military stated that 10 Iranian oil tankers have been destroyed since September 1, five of which were sunk on Tuesday in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and two others were destroyed on September 1. The US side claimed that these vessels belong to a shadow network providing funds for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran.
09.09
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·United Kingdom
On September 9, after airstrikes broke out in the Middle East, Brent crude oil futures surpassed $100 per barrel; previously, the international benchmark oil price had reached $100 in July and fallen below $80 in early August.
09.09
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·United States
According to foreign media reports, around September 9, during Huawei's criminal trial in the United States, federal prosecutors played a 54-second surveillance video for the jury, claiming that the footage shows Huawei employees taking parts from T-Mobile's locked robotics laboratory and packing them into a bag, and alleging that Huawei had been continuously stealing US trade secrets for 20 years. Huawei's lawyers denied the charges, saying the government is blaming the entire company for the actions of individual employees.
09.09
·Official claim
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·Beijing
On September 9, 2026, the CCP Central Committee made the decision to expel Sun Shaochang, former Party Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, from the Party; the next day, the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee publicly expressed firm support.
09.09
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·New York, United States
From September 9 to 10, former Iranian telecommunications industry employee Parham Beheshti testified that Huawei has completed one data center in Iran and another is under construction. About 90% of the technical staff are from China, and the system is capable of simultaneously monitoring 1% of users without detection. Huawei's lawyers cross-examined him regarding his history of cooperating with the U.S. government and signing security review forms containing false information.