Wang Yi stepped down as Foreign Minister, and then-Ambassador to the U.S. Qin Gang was recalled from Washington to succeed him.
Dissatisfied with the long-term, strict dynamic zero-COVID lockdown policies, people across China launched rare nationwide protests. Demonstrators held up blank sheets of paper to symbolize censorship, eventually forcing the authorities to make a sudden and chaotic reversal of their pandemic control policies.
Chen Yixin, former director of the Policy Research Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, has succeeded Chen Wenqing as Minister of State Security.
At the closing ceremony of the 20th CCP National Congress, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue by staff, and subsequently, Hu Chunhua was not included in the new Politburo list.
At the closing ceremony of a major CCP meeting, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue by security guards in full view of the public, marking the complete bankruptcy of political norms such as inter-generational succession designation.
At the closing session of the 20th CCP Congress, political successors left by Hu Jintao—including Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, and Hu Chunhua—failed to enter the new Politburo Standing Committee, while Xi Jinping successfully secured his reappointment as General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
During Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the Eastern Theater Command launched a dozen Dongfeng missiles around Taiwan, some of which flew over Taiwan's airspace and several landed in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.
She Zhijiang, founder of the Yatai New City project in Myawaddy, was taken away by Thai police in Bangkok based on an Interpol Red Notice during a dinner gathering.
周文伟在南加州攻击Irvine台湾基督长老教会，造成一人死亡、五人受伤；Orange County检方调查后确认案件为预谋事件。
2022年3月28日，上海以黄浦江为界分区封控，随后扩大为全市封控，至6月1日才基本解封，两千多万市民长期居家，出现断粮、就医困难等大量次生灾害。
A China Eastern Airlines passenger aircraft crashed.
Wang Yi held phone calls with officials from the UK, France, and the EU, stating that NATO has expanded eastward multiple times and that Russia's security concerns should be taken seriously.
The Russian military has begun a full-scale military operation against Ukraine, and the Russia-Ukraine war has escalated comprehensively.
2022年2月4日北京冬奥会开幕当天，习近平与普京会谈后发表联合声明，称中俄友好“没有止境”、合作“没有禁区”。二十天后俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰。
Former US Army helicopter pilot Shapour Moinian was contacted by fake tech recruiters via an employment website, provided aviation information to China, and made false statements on a security clearance review, resulting in a 20-month prison sentence in 2022.
Peng Zaizhou hung a banner on Beijing's Sitong Bridge to protest the lockdown, and was later arrested.