Days after Meng Wanzhou's arrest, Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were taken away in Beijing and Dandong, respectively, by state security (MSS) on charges of endangering national security.
The U.S. Department of Justice received the foreign agent registration documents submitted by Wu Zheng, in which Wu Zheng declared that he has served as vice chairman and secretary-general of the Charhar Institute's China-U.S. Relations Committee since November 2018.
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was criminally arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police upon arriving at Vancouver on a flight from Hong Kong for a transfer, pursuant to a provisional U.S. extradition request.
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver, Canada. On the same day, the CCP arrested two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, on charges of espionage.
On November 26, 2018, people from different parts of the country made a special trip to Futian Cemetery in Beijing to pay tribute to Beijing youth Yang Jia, who was executed ten years earlier. A Radio Free Asia report reviewed the origins of the incident: in 2007, he was stopped while riding a rented bicycle in Shanghai, subjected to six hours of interrogation and violent abuse.
According to online reports, in the interrogation record of Han Jihua, the driver in the Huludao child-crashing case, dated November 24, 2018, he stated that his child died as a result of violent law enforcement by police and that his subsequent rights defense was obstructed; the official bulletin said his motive was trivial matters of daily life, and no public report can be found for this claim.
At 12:15 on November 22, 2018, a man drove a vehicle into a crowd of passersby in front of the Second Primary School of Jianchang County, Huludao City, Liaoning, killing 6 people and injuring 20.
At a symposium on private enterprises, Xi Jinping specifically refuted circulating societal narratives such as the "theory of the exit of the private economy" and the "new joint state-private ownership theory," emphasizing that the fundamental principles and policies of the Party and the state regarding the development of the private economy remain unchanged.
A Tianjin court delivered the first-instance verdict for the nine prosecutors involved in the Yanbian case. Xu Xuezhe, the head of the special investigation team, and others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for intentional injury or extracting confessions by torture.
Xi Jinping traveled south to Guangdong for an inspection, with his motorcade entering the Gree headquarters in Zhuhai. His remarks during the visit regarding manufacturing innovation and self-reliance effectively provided a political endorsement for Gree's subsequent state-owned mixed-ownership reform and its 'chip-making' initiative.
On October 3, 2018, Xinhua News Agency reported that national tax authorities had confirmed that Fan Bingbing evaded taxes, recovering a total of 883 million yuan in taxes and fines, with criminal liability waived once the payment was made.
Uyghur retired doctor Abbas was forcibly disappeared by the Chinese government in Xinjiang and subsequently sentenced to 20 years in prison after a secret trial.
Nine Yanbian prosecutors suspected of torturing Liu Xiyong to death were put on public trial at the Tianjin No. 1 Intermediate People's Court. Liu Fangfei attended the hearing holding a portrait of her late husband.
The Justice Department of the Trump administration filed a sealed indictment against Huawei in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, charging the company with multiple offenses.
After Xi Jinping issued his sixth directive, Xu Lingyi, Deputy Secretary of the CCDI, led a team into Shaanxi to demolish 1,194 illegally built villas in the Qinling Mountains and discipline multiple provincial and ministerial-level officials.
The Shanghai P2P platform Tangxiaoseng absconded, triggering a nationwide wave of bank runs and bankruptcies among online lending platforms, causing millions of investors to lose their funds.
Caixin reported that Sun Yuchen has been on the border control list restricting exit from China since June 2018.
On May 8, 2018, Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), a move that drove up oil prices.
Cui Yongyuan publicly attacked the film 'Cell Phone' and Feng Xiaogang, prompting the State Taxation Administration to launch an investigation, causing Huayi Brothers' stock price to plummet and shelving the 'Cell Phone 2' project.
The Chinese Communist Party spent 255 million pounds to purchase the former site of the Royal Mint in central London, planning to build Europe's largest super embassy.
The first-instance trial of Sun Zhengcai's bribery case opened at the Tianjin No. 1 Intermediate People's Court on April 12, 2018; online posts claim that evidence footage played in court showed Zhang Jun as one of those who offered bribes, a claim not seen in any public reports.
On March 28, 2018, Zhang Jike posted photos of a beach stroll with Jing Tian on Weibo, and Jing Tian reposted in response; the two officially made their relationship public.
On March 22, 2018, Trump signed a memorandum accusing China of stealing intellectual property; on July 6, the U.S. imposed 25% tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, and China retaliated the same day.
After the merger of CCTV, China National Radio, and China Radio International to form the China Media Group, Shen Haixiong was appointed as its first president and Party secretary.
On March 11, 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress passed the amendment to the constitutional provisions regarding the terms of office of the President and Vice President, removing the limit that the President and Vice President 'shall not serve more than two consecutive terms.' This amendment was interpreted as potentially paving the way for the leader's long-term rule.
Li Zhanshu was elected Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress.
On February 25, 2018, Xinhua News Agency suddenly released the CCP Central Committee's constitutional amendment proposal dated January 26, in which Article 14 deleted the provision of Article 79 of the Constitution that the President and Vice President "shall not serve more than two consecutive terms." There had been no public discussion beforehand, and two weeks later, on March 11, the National People's Congress voted to pass it.
Li Shufu spent 7.3 billion euros through an overseas entity to become the largest shareholder of Daimler. The acquisition funds and the regulatory green light have sparked speculation about political-business relations.
In Hanzhong, Shaanxi, Zhang Koukou attacked the Wang family in revenge for his mother being killed 22 years earlier and the murderer receiving a light sentence, killing three members of the Wang family. After the incident he turned himself in, and was executed the following year, sparking intense public discussion about judicial fairness and private revenge.
China launched a nationwide special campaign to crack down on gangs and eliminate evil, which lasted for about 3 years and was announced to have ended in 2021.
In January 2018, Tianjin Binhai New Area switched its GDP statistical basis from registered to local, revising its 2016 GDP from 1,000.231 billion yuan to 665.4 billion yuan, a drop of about one third; the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Statistics said this had no impact on the city's overall GDP.
In January 2018, Guangzhou doctor Tan Qindong was arrested across provincial lines by police in Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia, and detained for nearly 100 days after writing a popular science article questioning the false advertising and medication risks of Hongmao Medicinal Liquor. The case was ultimately dropped due to insufficient evidence and concluded with a settlement.
In 2018, during the Trump administration, the United States began imposing high-tech sector restrictions on China; on April 16, the U.S. Department of Commerce reimposed a seven-year export ban on ZTE.
In 2018, China amended its constitution to abolish term limits for the presidency, fundamentally rewriting the power structure in Zhongnanhai with the aim of achieving long-term governance and ensuring the concentration of supreme power.
After the military reform, the People's Armed Police (PAP) were placed under the leadership of the Central Military Commission and incorporated into the military system; Wang Ning subsequently retired.
The video claims that between 2018 and 2022, about 100 million households bought homes at peak prices, accounting for more than 20% of all households nationwide; no public source can be found for this estimate.
Over three years, China has rectified approximately 40,000 weak and lax village Party organizations, dealt with over 40,000 village officials, and investigated more than 90,000 cases under the guise of cracking down on 'protective umbrellas,' resulting in the punishment of over 110,000 people.
A graduate doctor working at a hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in Guangzhou published a post pointing out that Hongmao medicinal liquor contains a variety of toxic Chinese herbs. After the article was widely shared online, Inner Mongolia police, without any coordination with local public security, secretly arrested him across provincial lines and detained him for months. When he was released from prison, he was physically and psychologically traumatized and covered with illnesses.
As disclosed by the Wall Street Journal, Huawei has long helped the Chinese Communist Party build the Skynet surveillance system, and in 2018 developed the “Uyghur Alert” feature, which automatically triggers an alarm as soon as police cameras identify a Uyghur.