The Myanmar military junta released some prisoners in an amnesty on a religious holiday, and official media broadcasted footage of Aung San Suu Kyi being transferred to house arrest, prompting the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to subsequently refer to her as an old friend.
Driven by AI demand, high-performance computing, and cloud infrastructure, Taiwan's official estimate puts first-quarter economic growth at 13.69%, the highest record since the third quarter of 1987.
Yi Huiman was expelled from the Party and public office; the communique mentioned relatives seeking personal gain through listing approvals, financing and loans.
At the Stray Kids reality pop-up store in Seongsu-dong, Seoul, South Korea, three Chinese tourists forcibly brought chairs in and ignored safety regulations, getting into an argument with security guards that left several staff members injured.
Former CSRC Chairman Yi Huiman has been removed from his post.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs and eleven other departments jointly issued opinions on promoting the development of mutual aid elderly care services, proposing to achieve a coverage rate of no less than 70% for urban and rural community elderly care service systems by 2030.
On April 29 and 30, in front of the Changsha Intermediate People's Court in Hunan Province, dozens of victim investors of Xiangtan Shengda Financial Investment Management Co., Ltd. gathered and sang "The East Is Red" to defend their rights.
Beijing Huangzhuang Vocational High School was relocated by the school authorities to a smaller campus lacking basic facilities such as a cafeteria and a sports field, sparking a collective protest in which students confronted school staff in the corridors and at the school gate.
On April 25, 2026, the blogger went to the Zhaoxin Hui office building in the core business district of Shenzhen for an on-site visit. The building has a grand exterior with 61 floors, but the blogger found that floors 21 to 60 were almost entirely vacant, and most floors were still in shell condition, with only the ground floor and the 61st floor finished. In the video, the blogger questioned why a skyscraper built with huge investment is largely idle, implying that the developer may have issues with cash flow or project progress.
On April 28, 2026, Li Yunze was announced as removed from his posts of Party Secretary and Director of the National Financial Regulatory Administration; the next day his information was deleted from the leadership section of the official website, and he was later stripped of his status as a deputy to the National People's Congress.
Well-known VPN service provider for circumventing the Great Firewall, Kuailian Let's VPN, announced it is terminating all of its business operations in mainland China, mainly due to the continuously escalating internet blockade and disruptions to upstream resources.
The UAE Minister of Energy announced a formal withdrawal from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the OPEC Plus alliance effective May 1, aiming to prioritize national interests and increase production flexibility.
China's Ministry of State Security released a virtual police video, characterizing the "lying flat" phenomenon that is trending on platforms as a group supported by overseas organizations and calling on young people to return to a spirit of striving.
Shenzhen has seen another food delivery rider collapse unconscious from overwork on his electric scooter, sparking public discussion about the living conditions of riders.
A video of a food delivery rider in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, carrying a child on his back while making deliveries has drawn online attention, with netizens leaving comments lamenting the hardships of life and expressing dissatisfaction with official "lying flat" remarks.
The All-China Federation of Trade Unions published a commentary article titled "Forging New Glory Through Struggle," stating that hard struggle is the traditional virtue of the working class, and that the rougher the winds and waves, the more deeply the color of struggle must be cultivated.
On April 28, the Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim Jong-un, in his unveiling speech for the Monument to Fallen North Korean Soldiers in Pyongyang, mentioned the “self‑detonation” soldiers twice, acknowledging that North Korean soldiers used self‑detonation on the Ukrainian battlefield to avoid capture.
China's National Development and Reform Commission's Foreign Investment Security Review Office, in accordance with regulations, banned foreign investment in AI startup Manus, requiring the relevant parties to withdraw the acquisition deal.
Extremely heavy rainstorms suddenly struck Guangzhou and Qinzhou in Guangxi, with rainfall reaching 362 millimeters in some areas. Local authorities issued red rainstorm warnings, and multiple schools suspended classes.
On April 27, according to data from Gelonghui (格隆汇), Taiwan's GDP per capita in 2025 was $39,489, South Korea's was $35,973, and Japan's was $36,107. Taiwan's GDP per capita exceeded both Japan and South Korea simultaneously for the first time.
U.S. President Trump was shot at during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The attacker was quickly subdued by Secret Service personnel, and one agent was lightly injured. Afterwards, Trump held a press conference saying the dinner would be rescheduled.
The U.S. Navy's first carrier-based drone to enter combat service, the MQ-25A Stingray, successfully completed its first flight on April 25. The aircraft is designed to perform unmanned aerial refueling for carrier-based aircraft to enhance operational range and endurance.
Justin Yifu Lin, dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, said in Hefei that China is only 135 dollars short of the high-income country threshold and could cross it by next year at the latest.
In Mingliu Village, Bobai County, Yulin, Guangxi, government personnel, police and construction workers tried to go up the mountain to forcibly install wind turbines, but local villagers collectively blocked the only road leading there and successfully stopped them.
State Grid's Yantai–Weihai UHV line project entered Jiaoxi Town, Jiaozhou City, Shandong for construction without paying any compensation, and a female villager climbed a high-voltage tower in protest.
Villagers of Houyang Village in Hui'an County, Quanzhou, Fujian formed a human wall, holding land certificates, and successfully blocked the forced land acquisition team from entering the village.
A large-scale non-violent non-cooperation movement took place across 34 counties and districts in Heilongjiang province, where merchants collectively shut down their businesses for over two months to protest unbearable exorbitant fines.
According to statistics from the civil society project "Zuotian" (Yesterday), over the 67 days from April 25 to June 30, 2026, merchants in 34 counties (cities, districts) of Heilongjiang successively closed their shops en masse, with the cumulative number of participating merchants too numerous to count, the trigger being merchants' fear of surprise inspections and hefty fines.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that 34-year-old Chinese national Xu Zewei has been extradited from Italy to the United States, where he faces nine charges including wire fraud, and is accused of carrying out cyberattacks under the direction of the Shanghai State Security Bureau.
On April 25, 2026, a 13-year-old boy in Dingbian County, Shaanxi was kicked by public officials. When he called the police, an accompanying police officer slapped him, causing mild traumatic brain injury. The two people involved were subsequently given 10 days of administrative detention and fined.
The third reading draft of the Social Assistance Law was submitted to the NPC Standing Committee for deliberation, proposing to change the term 'vagrants and beggars' to 'dispersed persons', sparking heated discussion among netizens.
After the Huiwang Group's funds collapsed, large numbers of Chinese and Cambodian depositors gathered outside the National Bank and the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia to defend their rights, demanding the return of their hard-earned money and pressing for the recovery of frozen funds.
A welder in Guangdong collapsed on the spot from overwork after working 16 consecutive hours, drawing netizens' attention to the survival pressures faced by底层 laborers.
On April 24, 2026, the Chongqing Financial Regulatory Bureau approved the dissolution of Tongnan Minsheng Village Bank, with all of its assets, liabilities, business and employees taken over by Minsheng Bank.
The U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury and multiple other agencies jointly announced a special operation codenamed targeting scam centers, indicting Chinese criminal suspects, shutting down Telegram channels and fake websites, offering rewards for their capture and sanctioning relevant implicated individuals and entities in Myanmar's Taichang and Cambodia.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memorandum harshly accusing entities primarily from China of stealing U.S. AI intellectual property through tens of thousands of proxy accounts and jailbreak technology systems.
On April 23, US President Trump posted on social media that he had ordered the US Navy to sink and destroy any ship laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, while also demanding that minesweepers continue clearing the strait at triple intensity.
On April 23, the U.S. Department of War announced that U.S. forces conducted a maritime interception and boarding of the stateless tanker Majestic X in the Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility, which was suspected of transporting Iranian oil destined for Zhoushan Port in Zhejiang, China.
On April 23 local time, former Iranian Crown Prince Pahlavi was splashed from behind at close range with a red liquid as he walked out of the building after attending a federal press conference in Berlin. Pahlavi was not injured and left by car, and the attacker was detained on the spot.
On June 15, 2026, the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab released a research report disclosing that commercial spyware vendors exploit vulnerabilities in global telecommunications network interconnections to conduct long-term targeted tracking of journalists, politicians, and dissidents.
The U.S. Senate held a hearing on "Covert Theft: China's Continued Stealing of American Innovation," in which several lawmakers warned that China's technology theft could fundamentally reshape the state of U.S.-China competition.
In the early hours of April 22, a female passenger got into an argument with others on a flight from Chongqing to Kuala Lumpur over her loud phone conversation. She then demanded that the cabin crew delete video footage and sought compensation, causing the entire flight to be delayed and leading to her being taken away by police. The incident continues to stir debate online.
In April 2026, Yu Maochun said that since the U.S. military operation in Venezuela in early January, 4 of the 6 military members of the Central Military Commission have been purged in recent months.
Yu Maochun said in April 2026 that since the U.S. military operation in Venezuela in January, Yang Wei, the lead designer of advanced fighter jets such as the J-10 and J-20, has disappeared from public view or been stripped of his status.
In April 2026, Yu Maochun said that Wu Manqing, the PLA's chief radar and anti-stealth expert, has disappeared from public view or been stripped of his status since the U.S. military's Venezuela operation in January.
Miles Yu said in April 2026 that Wei Yiyin, a senior expert in the field of air-defense missiles, has disappeared from public view or been stripped of his status since the U.S. military operation in Venezuela in January.
In April 2026, Yu Maochun said that Zhao Xianggeng, a key figure in advanced nuclear weapons design, has disappeared from public view or been stripped of his status since the U.S. military operation in Venezuela in January.
Fang Daining, 68, one of China's two most important hypersonic weapons research experts, died suddenly recently, and the lack of transparency over the cause of death has sparked outside speculation.
Yan Hong, 57, one of China's two most important hypersonic weapons research experts, recently died suddenly, and the unclear cause of death has sparked speculation outside the country.
In April 2026, Yu Maochun said that in recent U.S. military operations involving Venezuela and Iran, Chinese-supplied air defense networks, radar systems and missile platforms repeatedly performed erratically against U.S. stealth and electronic warfare capabilities.