Beijing Haidian police announced that three individuals who fabricated and spread false information involving Tong Liya have been placed under administrative detention.
Hong Kong's Ming Pao, citing Beijing sources, claimed that Shen Haixiong remarried Tong Liya; Tong Liya denied the rumors and reported the matter to the police.
Alvin Chau (also known as "Sikit Wah"), founder of Macau gaming junket giant Suncity Group, was arrested in Macau and later sentenced to 18 years in prison.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate has decided to arrest Sun Lijun on suspicion of accepting bribes in accordance with the law.
On October 10, 2021, Ou Jinzhong, a villager of Shanglin Village in Putian, clashed with his neighbors over a years-long housing dispute, leaving two dead and three injured, and fled into the mountains; on October 18, police said he died by suicide when he was cornered, and the cause of his death drew skepticism.
Meng Wanzhou landed at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport on a Chinese government chartered flight; on the same day, two Canadian citizens, Michael, who had been detained by China, were released and boarded a flight back to Toronto.
Meng Wanzhou returned to China on a government chartered flight, with CCTV broadcasting the event live. At the airport, she stated that the motherland is the strongest backing.
Meng Wanzhou signed a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and signed a four-page statement of facts, admitting to making false statements to HSBC in Hong Kong in 2013.
On September 2, 2021, the National Radio and Television Administration issued a notice requiring television and online audiovisual platforms to take political literacy as a criterion for personnel selection, specifying that "personnel with incorrect political stances who are alienated from the Party and the country must be resolutely rejected."
On September 10, 2021, Blackstone terminated its acquisition of SOHO China; on December 17, Jianhua Land, a SOHO subsidiary, was ordered by Beijing tax authorities to pay back taxes and a fine for underpaid taxes, totaling 709 million yuan.
In September 2021, Meng Wanzhou flew from Vancouver back to China; on the same day, two Canadians detained by China were also released and left, with both sides seen as a prisoner swap.
On August 30, 2021, the Chinese Academy of History published a lengthy article publicly naming Gao Xiaosom, systematically cataloging his remarks on Chiang Kai-shek, the Xi'an Incident, the Yasukuni Shrine, and other topics, and classifying them as "historical nihilism"; around the same time, programs such as Xiaosom's Talk could not be searched normally on some platforms.
On August 26, 2021, Zhao Wei's works were suddenly taken down by major video platforms in mainland China, her Weibo super topic was banned, her name was removed from cast lists, and related entries on Baidu Baike were deleted or altered.
China introduced a policy prohibiting public schools from cooperating with private schools in running schools, and as a result Hengshui No. 2 High School's cooperation with the relevant private schools has come to an end.
On July 24, 2021, the General Office of the CCP Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Double Reduction" guidelines, prohibiting academic after-school tutoring institutions from listing for financing and making profits. This led to the bankruptcy of a large number of companies in the tutoring industry and mass unemployment for workers.
The General Office of the CCP Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Further Easing the Burden of Homework and Off-Campus Tutoring on Students in Compulsory Education, delivering a devastating blow to the tutoring industry.
From July 17 to 23, 2021, Henan was hit by exceptionally severe rainstorms, with Zhengzhou suffering the worst devastation on July 20. A State Council investigation report put the death and missing toll at 398 across the province, including 380 in Zhengzhou.
After its management was arrested and its assets frozen, Apple Daily was forced to cease publication, with its final issue printing 1 million copies.
On June 9, 2021, Biden signed an executive order revoking Trump’s bans on WeChat and TikTok, instead directing the Commerce Department to conduct security reviews of related Chinese apps.
In 2021, during the nationwide education and rectification campaign for the political and legal affairs workforce, cases of sentence reduction, parole, and temporary service of sentences outside prison dating back to 1990 were reviewed retrospectively; on June 10, it was announced that 10279 cases of violations had been corrected.
On April 9, 2021, the Reporting Center of the Cyberspace Administration of China launched a special reporting zone for harmful information related to historical nihilism, accepting reports of distortions of the history of the Party and the history of New China, attacks on the Party's leadership, and so on.
The CCP has completed its control over large companies such as ByteDance and Weibo through 'golden shares,' which hold a very low percentage of equity but possess veto power.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced that the previously launched special campaign to crack down on organized crime and root out local mafia has come to a successful conclusion.
Procuratorates in Dongguan, Guangdong issued a Red Notice for Huang Youlong through Interpol. Huang Youlong was arrested immediately upon landing in Bordeaux, France, after arriving on a private jet from Iceland.
The National Conference on Summarizing Poverty Alleviation declared a comprehensive victory, announcing that all 98.99 million rural poor people under the current standard have been lifted out of poverty.
From February 3 to 5, 2021, on the eve of the Spring Festival, Xi Jinping paid an inspection visit to Bijie, Guiyang and other places in Guizhou, entering villages, visiting supermarkets and calling on Miao households, accompanied by provincial Party Secretary Chen Yiqin and Governor Li Bingjun.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Ant Group's equity structure includes capital linked to political families, including Boyu Capital, which was co-founded by Alvin Jiang.
Han Jihua, the driver in the Jianchang County, Huludao case of ramming children, was sentenced to death in first instance in 2019; online reports claim he was executed on January 29, 2021, but no official or media reports of the execution could be found.
On January 27, the number of independent accounts participating in GameStop trading approached 900,000, whereas at the beginning of the month it was less than 10,000.
In 2020, China was designated as a foreign adversary by the U.S. Department of Commerce under an executive order, subjecting transactions involving information and communication technology and services to special scrutiny.
GameStop stock price rose from its intraday low on January 8 to its intraday high on January 28, an increase of approximately 2700%, far exceeding the explanatory scope of conventional valuation models.
The value of China's residential housing peaked in 2021, economists say, at roughly six times GDP; estimates cited in the video put it at about 400 trillion to 470 trillion yuan.
The SEC report disclosed that the short interest ratio of GameStop's circulating shares once reached 122% in January, caused by the same batch of shares being repeatedly transferred back and forth.
An article in Foreign Affairs estimates that China's share of global GDP has fallen from a peak of 18.5% in 2021 to 16.7% by official estimates, with actual estimates being around 15%.
Meta's fundamentals remained strong in 2021, and it conducted $44.8 billion in stock buybacks; the video states that buybacks provide buyer depth but do not guarantee that prices will not be repriced.
Between January 13 and 29, GameStop averaged approximately 100 million shares traded per day, which is over 1400% higher than the daily average trading volume in 2020.
In 2021, Microsoft Exchange was attacked by the Chinese government, and tens of thousands of institutions in government, academia, defense and industry were affected.