Pakistan's Defense Minister Asif said that Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia could trigger a Mecca common defense agreement similar to NATO's Article 5; another Pakistani source said that, at Saudi Arabia's request, Pakistan might carry out airstrikes on Houthi positions in Yemen soon, but this has not been officially confirmed.
Around September 9, Putin and Trump spoke by phone for about an hour, discussing the mid-November APEC summit in Shenzhen and the possibility of a trilateral meeting. Putin has confirmed his attendance at APEC; a Kremlin spokesperson said Putin discussed the possibility of a trilateral meeting with Trump, while the White House has not yet confirmed whether Trump will attend.
According to the material, the U.S. government has determined that the Chinese Communist Party engages in forced organ harvesting; the author claims that in the 2000s at Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai, a management official from Qingpu Prison admitted to forcibly harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners, and that a friend waited five years for an organ in Shanghai without success, while a transplant was completed within one week in Shenzhen.
Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on September 9 that his September 8 call with Putin went well, that Russia wants to reach a deal, and that if Zelensky is also willing, a trilateral meeting among the United States, Russia, and Ukraine could be arranged. He also said that about 25,000 people had died on the Russia-Ukraine battlefield over the past month.
On September 9, 2026, hit by the escalation of the US-Iran conflict, international oil prices once again surged past $100 a barrel, the average US gasoline price rose 7 cents overnight to $4.22 a gallon, European natural gas prices rose in step, and markets worried that disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz would further hit global energy supplies.
In early September 2026, the US military said it had destroyed about 10 Iranian oil tankers over the past week. On September 9, Trump said these attacks were launched by the United States and that there would be more such operations.
Raymond Greene, Director of the American Institute in Taiwan's Taipei Office, warned at the 2026 Taipei Security Dialogue Forum on September 9 that any conflict in the Taiwan Strait would likely deal a blow to the global economy exceeding that of World War II, and said the Trump administration has made maintaining peace in the Indo-Pacific its top priority, adding that the upcoming U.S.-China summit is an opportunity to advance a strategically stable relationship.
The Economist published an article analyzing the current state of speech censorship in China, pointing out that articles discussing the boundaries of expression are being deleted, society has fallen into a state of high self-censorship, and the CCP is using this to consolidate control.
President Trump spoke with Russian President Putin by phone to discuss the mediation of the Russia-Ukraine war, stating that both sides are willing to reach an agreement, and mentioning that 25,000 people died in the war last month.
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and other agencies jointly released a formal report on September 8, 2026, stating that Chinese AI companies are conducting industrial-scale distillation activities against leading U.S. AI models.
Former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa passed away in Hong Kong yesterday around 10 PM, at the age of 89. His ancestral home is Ningbo, and he moved to Hong Kong with his family after growing up in Shanghai. Tung Chee-hwa was the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong and has been long regarded as a pro-CCP political figure during and after his term.
On September 11, 2026, the Weibo and Xiaohongshu platforms carried out a concentrated cleanup of discussions related to Sun Meihua's 26-year disappearance and her suspected trafficking to Cao County, Shandong. Searching for "Sun Meihua" on Weibo now yields no relevant results; the summary page only shows unrelated old news from 2025, and all main discussion posts have been set to private. Search results on Xiaohongshu also show unrelated content.
On September 8, Huawei began its criminal trial in the Eastern District Federal Court in New York, facing multiple charges including racketeering, bank and telecommunications fraud, money laundering, and violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran. Huawei pleaded not guilty to all charges and said the case was politically motivated.
According to Hu Liren's True China program, a court in the U.S. state of Missouri has ruled that the Chinese Communist Party must pay $40 billion, and the case has entered the enforcement stage; the state is asking the federal government to intercept CCP assets in the U.S. to enforce the compensation.
Houthi forces attacked four Saudi cities, injuring at least more than 70 people and causing fires at Saudi energy facilities, which the Saudi Ministry of Energy confirmed. Saudi Arabia said it would take measures to retaliate. Previously, the US military stated that Saudi Arabia should handle the Houthi issue on its own.
On September 8, 2026, Xi Jinping held his first phone call with new British Prime Minister Bonham, who took office on July 20. The Xinhua News Agency communiqué expressed the hope that the British side would fully safeguard the lawful rights and interests of Chinese investors. Analysts believe this move reflects the Chinese Communist Party's concern that U.S. sanctions could spill over into overseas assets.
The U.S. military announced that it had crippled or destroyed five Iranian oil tankers and released strike footage.此前, Iranian opposition groups said that oil tankers near Iran's Kharg Island and the port of Jask had been hit in new strikes.
The United States added 36 entities — Iran's remaining 27 airlines besides Mahan Air, plus related entities — to the sanctions list, including intermediary companies that transferred Boeing aircraft to Mahan Air via the UAE and Turkey. The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) simultaneously issued an alert targeting Iran's civil aviation industry, aiming to cut off Iran's lifeline of funds and materials.
According to reports by the Jerusalem Post and the New York Post in September 2026, Israeli intelligence assessments say that hardliners in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps are holding secret meetings and joint drills with proxies such as Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iraqi militias, coordinating large-scale attacks on Israel from different directions while stepping up drone and missile production.
In the first half of 2026, China's domestic auto sales were only 9.92 million units, a year-on-year decline of 21.1%, a drop larger than the 16.6% recorded during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020.
In 2026, China's vehicle manufacturing profit margin fell to 1.5%. Total profits in the first half dropped to 39.4 billion yuan from 137 billion yuan in the same period of 2021, a decline of over 70%, on par with the level during the 2008 financial crisis.
In 2023, China's passenger car production capacity had already reached 55 million units, and it is now at least 60 million units, while actual automobile output is about 34.4 million units, with capacity utilization of at most 50%. The idle capacity is mainly concentrated in domestically produced electric vehicles.
According to a September 2026 video by Toronto Fang Lian, in the early stage of the Internet firewall system's construction, the only hardware contractors were Sugon under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Huawei, and Huawei has long been involved in building the CCP's internet censorship and surveillance system.
According to a September 2026 video by Toronto Fang Lian, the Wall Street Journal once revealed that Huawei has long helped the Chinese Communist Party build the Skynet surveillance system, becoming one of the main contractors of the CCP's surveillance system from hardware to software.
According to a September 2026 video by Toronto Fang Lian citing a Wall Street Journal report, as of 2019 Huawei had received a cumulative total of about 550 billion yuan ($75 billion) in state subsidies; the video's author also said Huawei's publicly disclosed subsidies currently total more than 800 billion yuan.
Two days before the U.S. military destroyed five oil tankers on September 8, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked tankers with ballistic missiles on two occasions. The U.S. military said the destruction of the tankers was a response to those failed attacks.
In September 2026, U.S. presidential envoys Witkoff and Kushner first visited Moscow, then traveled via Poland by special diplomatic train to Kyiv for the first time, holding several hours of talks with Zelensky. Zelensky said the territorial issue can only be resolved at the leadership level, and both sides gave positive assessments of their future outlook, but major differences remain over the Donbas issue.
On September 5, 2026, a serious accident occurred during the first round of the GT3 class of the China GT Championship owns Supercar Championship at the Shanghai International Circuit. Car number s91 of the FIST Auto team, caught fire after a collision, and driver Ollie Millroy was trapped in the burning cockpit. The event organizers' rescue efforts were severely delayed, and security personnel operated the fire extinguishers incorrectly. Another competing driver, Loek Hartog, seeing this, decisivelyy owns the race and rushed into the flames to rescue Millroy. Afterwards, movie star Daniel Wu owns the organizers' emergency rescue as extremely amateurish and announced his withdrawal from the race, and several other teams also announced their withdrawal in protest.
Nepalese army, armed police and rescue personnel rescued two stranded engineers inside the tunnel of the Upper Chhuksikhola 3A hydropower plant; the two were subsequently taken to a hospital in Kathmandu.
Nepal's disaster management department has released its latest statistics, showing that the floods have killed at least 1,259 people and left more than 5,000 missing.
Chinese official reports state that as of September 4, the disaster has left 31 people dead and 531 missing, with a total of 987 personal belongings recovered at the scene.
US Treasury Department official Bessent pointed out that not a single barrel of Iranian crude oil has been shipped out since August 25.
According to a Nature report on September 4, the NIH and the Department of Defense have signed an agreement to transfer NIAID biodefense and other projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the management of the Department of Defense, with completion planned by the end of September, a ten-year term, as part of the larger "Advancing the Frontier" biodefense program.
On September 3, Taiwan's Executive Yuan added NT$145.7 billion to the defense budget, planning to purchase more than 40,000 littoral attack drones, over 600 surveillance and reconnaissance drones, and more than 100 suicide unmanned boats, while also promoting non-red supply chains for drones to reduce dependence on Chinese components.
According to online reports, a boss who was preparing to pay 500 employees went to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Zhengzhou to withdraw money, but was refused by the bank on various pretexts. He then set fire to the bank, and firefighters arrived at the scene to put out the fire.
An online screenshot shows that Jiangsu Bank said the loan business it acts as an agent for in cooperation with Ctrip has been suspended, and notified customers that large withdrawals are restricted, with small withdrawals limited to no more than 500 yuan per day and no more than 4 times per month, the restrictions lasting until September 1, 2028.
On September 2, 2026, Joshua Wong, former secretary-general of Demosisto in Hong Kong, who is currently serving a sentence, pleaded guilty in the Hong Kong High Court to one count of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, and Judge Tam Yiu-ho announced that the sentencing would be adjourned.
On September 2, Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty at the Hong Kong High Court to conspiracy to collude with foreign or external forces to endanger national security. The prosecution accused him and others, including Nathan Law who is in exile in the UK, of seeking foreign sanctions, blockades, and other measures against Hong Kong and China between July and November 2020.
The influencer "Tietou" (Dong Guangming) was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Binjiang Court in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, for organizing a team to expose social darkness, including scams involving elderly health products and shortchanging at seafood markets. His team members were also sentenced. The official reason given was "extortion," but the video argues this is a fabricated charge aimed at suppressing those who reveal the truth.
The CCP Central Committee announced that Zhang Youxia has been formally expelled from military rank and explicitly stated that he will be referred to a military court for trial, with the charges adjusted from violating Xi Jinping's personal will to betraying the entire party.
The Graham Act, which imposes tariffs, freezes assets, seizes property, and pursues legal accountability against those assisting Iran and Russia, passed with a strong majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
An announcement by the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration stipulates that dividend and bonus income received by foreign individuals from foreign-invested enterprises will no longer be exempt from individual income tax and will be taxed at a rate of 20%, effective from September 1.
Xi Jinping visited the United States and held a meeting with U.S. President Trump at the White House, sparking widespread attention regarding the future direction of U.S.-China relations.
The leaders of China and the U.S. held their second meeting, visited the U.S. National Archives, conducted closed-door talks on issues including economy, trade, technology, and Taiwan, and established a head-of-state level crisis management communication mechanism.
With local finances strained and land transfer fees plunging, Chinese tax authorities have launched a large-scale tax recovery campaign targeting the wealthy and corporations, focusing on tracing trust assets in Hong Kong and overseas.
The US Treasury Department sanctioned Turkey's Golden Global Bank and its subsidiaries, accusing them of providing money laundering and correspondent banking services for oil trade between the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the Chinese Communist Party, cutting off Iran's financial lifeline in Turkey.
The video points out that Xi Jinping has not appeared in public for four consecutive days (96 hours), sparking speculation about his health and the political situation. Media reports are filled with false information such as "Xi Jinping congratulates," while the absence of his name in official media has intensified outside suspicion. Meanwhile, Cai Qi, who has close ties to Xi, has also not appeared, deepening concerns about Xi's health and suggesting that the CCP regime is like a powder keg; any issues with the top leader could trigger turmoil among various factions.
The US think tank Defense Priorities has released a report concerning Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines, suggesting that the US shift its military strategic center from the first island chain to the second island chain and withdraw approximately 90,000 troops stationed in first island chain countries to the second island chain. The report also advocates for the US to shift its stance on Taiwan from strategic ambiguity to a policy of non-intervention, meaning the US military would not intervene in the event of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait. The report argues that China is already the hegemon in the Indo-Pacific region, that the US should no longer bear security responsibilities for allies in the region, and advocates for relevant countries to accept China's regional dominance.
The CCP Politburo meeting decided, demanding strict control of thought within the party and unifying around Xi Jinping, seen as a major political signal.
Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, who were arrested, were announced to be expelled from the Party and the military, and transferred to a military court; this news was released nine months after their arrest.