In January 2025, John Rogers, a former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve, was arrested. A U.S. Department of Justice announcement dated January 31, 2025, stated that Rogers worked as a part-time professor at a Chinese university in 2023 and received approximately $450,000 in compensation, and prosecutors accused him of providing Federal Reserve internal materials to Chinese personnel.
A 26-year-old man was intercepted and arrested by police while attempting to attack then-Cabinet nominee Bessent at the Capitol with a homemade incendiary device and a knife; he was sentenced to 73 months in prison on August 18, 2026.
ByteDance issued an internal email notice directly canceling non-productive holiday benefits such as Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival gift boxes, and even canceling the 2026 Spring Festival red envelopes as well.
OpenAI and SoftBank proposed the massive Stargate project in 2025 to build AI infrastructure.
Chen Xi, Wang Xiaohong, Cai Qi and others are suspected of setting an ambush at the Central Party School, taking coercive action against Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli.
On January 20, 2025, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek officially released the open-source inference model DeepSeek-R1, shaking the global tech community and sparking discussion of chip export controls due to its low cost and high performance.
On January 19, an elderly person with a first-degree visual disability in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, reported that since 2017, their subsidies were cancelled under the pretext of poverty alleviation. Subsequent applications for 'wufu' (five-guarantee) status yielded no benefits, and after petitioning, their disability subsidy was also cancelled, leaving them in a desperate situation.
The Qindu District Court in Xianyang City issued a first-instance verdict against ten forced-demolition personnel on the charge of intentional destruction of property, handing down suspended sentences and a two-year prison term.
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council announced the revocation of Li Dongxian's Taiwanese nationality, on the grounds that he was found to hold a Chinese identity card.
The US Embassy in China has banned family members and contractors of US government personnel in China from dating or having sexual relations with Chinese citizens to prevent intelligence infiltration.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries a lunar lander toward the Moon.
DeepSeek suddenly became popular in 2025, and the program claimed it was used to prove that China's artificial intelligence industry had achieved success during Li Qiang's tenure.
In early 2025, after Chinese AI DeepSeek became popular overseas, tests by multiple research institutions found that it systematically filters sensitive topics such as Tiananmen and Xinjiang Uyghur human rights, and that strict ideological alignment remains even when running offline.
After the 2025 Tibet Dingri earthquake, the total number of personnel from the Tibet Military Command and the Armed Police Force deployed to disaster relief exceeded 5000. On the day of the disaster, more than 1600 armed police and military entered the disaster area, along with 380 militia.
In January 2025, the BYD Dynasty and Ocean apps experienced malfunctions, leaving multiple car owners unable to remotely unlock their vehicles via their phones. BYD responded that the failure was related to its cloud services.
The Viper Shield (AN/ALQ-254(V)1) electronic warfare system conducted its first development test in January 2025. Test pilot Major Anthony Pipe said the system's digital radar warning receiver presents threats to the pilot in a more precise and ergonomically sound manner.