The draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law has been opened for public comment starting from August 28, covering overseas deposit and investment reporting, anti-money laundering cooperation, cross-border corporate compliance, and state-owned enterprises' overseas projects, among other content.
U.S. President Trump honored the crew of the Artemis 2 mission at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the four astronauts, while also announcing the establishment of the United States Space Force Academy.
The War Zone reports, based on satellite imagery, that new runways, taxiways, hangars and related facilities have been added at the Malan flight test base in Xinjiang, and the expansion is still ongoing.
The U.S. Navy announced that the land-launched Harpoon coastal defense system purchased by Taiwan completed development testing off the coast of California, with the missile hitting a target ship at sea.
After netizens turned Zhang Xiaoquan nail clippers into meme images related to Justin Sun's article, Zhang Xiaoquan was listed as a "concept stock," and its A-share price rose by more than 11% at one point when the market opened on August 28.
Taiwanese people hold a march in support of arms purchases.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California sentenced Huang Wenhui to 78 months in prison and Song Yang to 57 months, and ordered both to pay restitution; prosecutors said the fraud caused Apple losses of at least $16.2 million.
The Taiwan Coast Guard Administration stated that the Chinese research vessel Xiang Yang Hong 3 was sailing in waters southwest of Kaohsiung. A Taiwanese coast guard patrol boat was dispatched to monitor the vessel and issued radio warnings for it not to enter Taiwan's waters.
People’s Daily Online published a commentary criticizing private disputes occupying the hot search lists and intimate details of personal lives being continuously exposed, and said that platforms must not fan the flames and must not put traffic above everything.
On August 28, 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress revised and promulgated the National Defense Mobilization Law, stipulating that men aged 18 to 60 and women aged 18 to 55 shall lawfully undertake national defense duties, effective October 1.
On August 28, China's NPC Standing Committee revised and passed the National Defense Mobilization Law, which will take effect on October 1. Compared with the old 2010 law, civilian resources have been expanded from "requisition" to "expropriation and requisition."
On August 28, 2026, the official "Statistical Bulletin on the Development of China's Health Undertaking in 2025" was released, showing that the national number of births in 2025 fell to 7.92 million, with a sex ratio at birth of 111.5.
On August 28, 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China issued a decision announcing the removal of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli from their relevant posts.
On August 28, 2026, China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress voted to pass the revised National Defense Mobilization Law, expanding the disposal of civilian resources from conscription to include both requisition and conscription, and for the first time specifying provisions on wartime information management and compulsory performance of contracts.
On August 28, 2026, a meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress abruptly removed Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Zhang Youxia and Chief of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission Liu Zhenli from their military posts.
On August 28, the National Development and Reform Commission raised domestic refined oil prices, with gasoline and diesel up 375 yuan and 360 yuan per ton respectively, marking the first of two rounds of oil price hikes within 14 days.
China has introduced a new real estate policy that allows 30-year mortgages to be extended to 40 years, correspondingly lowering monthly payments, and permitting a gap period of several months.
Those struggling with mortgage repayments can reportedly negotiate with banks to defer payments or set up a buffer period, but the outstanding debt still must be repaid.
On August 28, 2026, the Hong Kong Education Bureau sent a circular to all primary and secondary schools across Hong Kong, launching a student mainland exchange program for the 90th anniversary of the Long March victory, organizing students to visit Zunyi and other places to enhance their sense of identity.
On August 28, 2026, overseas civil groups projected laser slogans at landmarks in multiple countries, including the United Nations headquarters, the German Bundestag, and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, calling for an investigation into the truth of the Wangwang incident.
On September 3, 2026, the exhibition team for the Chinese Pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea announced a collective withdrawal and work stoppage after protesting the organizer's decision to restore the use of the name 'Taiwan Pavilion,' following unsuccessful negotiations with the Chinese Embassy in South Korea.
On August 28, 2026, fresh graduates whose offers were rescinded by Changzhou Xingyu Shares filed complaints over labor rights violations with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and their client, Germany's Volkswagen Group. The HKEX's Listing Division and Volkswagen's investigation office successively confirmed in writing that the complaints had been received and would be examined.
On August 28, 2026, official statistics showed that Shanghai’s total retail sales of consumer goods in July 2026 were 120.978 billion yuan, down 6.3% year-on-year, marking a fourth consecutive month of negative growth with the decline widening.
On August 28, 2026, the Nepal Tourism Board issued a search and rescue report stating that in the catastrophic flash flood disaster at the China-Nepal border, rescuers had successfully evacuated 121 foreign nationals from the Nepalese side, including 16 Chinese citizens.
On August 28, 2026, Radio Free Asia reported that the Baoxing Funeral Home in Hongkou District, Shanghai, had stopped holding Catholic and Christian funeral services and no longer allowed priests to officiate, while other funeral homes were also subjected to strict time limits.
On August 28, 2026, the People’s Bank of China and the National Financial Regulatory Administration jointly issued new real estate credit policy rules, officially extending the maximum term of personal housing loans from 30 years to 40 years, sparking widespread public debate.
On August 28, 2026, China's Ministry of Finance released a draft of the Local Surcharge Tax Law for public comment, proposing to merge the urban construction tax, the education surcharge, and the local education surcharge into a single local surcharge tax, with a unified tax rate set at 11% to 13%.
On August 27, 2026, the People's Daily, an official media outlet of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), opened an account on the overseas social platform Threads. It was immediately flooded with reports and mockery from a large number of netizens, and the People's Daily closed its comment section the following day.
On August 28, 2026, people in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and other cities across the United States held rallies simultaneously. Protesters gathered outside the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles and other locations, holding up signs urging China to enact anti-animal-abuse laws as soon as possible.
On August 28, 2026, hundreds of owners at Country Garden Phoenix City in Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou, Henan, went to the Zhongyuan District Education Bureau and the subdistrict center to protest and defend their rights, shouting demands about schooling, after the promised high-quality middle school was downgraded and replaced.
On August 28, 2026, the National Natural Science Foundation of China announced the handling of 31 cases of scientific misconduct, revoking the involved projects and recovering funds from individuals including Wang Ping of Tongji University, Chen Quan of Nankai University, Su Jiacan of Shanghai University, and Kuang Dongming of Sun Yat-sen University.
On August 27, 2026, netizens discovered on the social platform Threads that the Central Committee’s official newspaper People’s Daily had opened an official account. After the news spread, many netizens reported, blocked, and restricted the account, and flooded the short posts it published with Xi Jinping memes. The next day, on August 28, 2026, the comment section of the People’s Daily’s account on Threads was closed, preventing further public discussion.
On August 28, 2026, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi confirmed that a disabled man who had lived at a pig farm in Zhengyang County, Henan for nearly ten years successfully located relatives he had been separated from for over thirty years.
On August 28, 2026, several workers at the Phase II Yishanhu project in Jiyang District, Sanya, Hainan unfurled banners at the construction site to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages, stating that the project had owed workers' wages for as long as two years.
On August 28, 2026, family members of Chinese crew members missing after the cargo ship Ocean Winner sank in the Bay of Bengal spoke out publicly under their real names online, questioning whether the vessel was an old second-hand ship and whether it had illegally loaded iron ore without testing its moisture content after rain, and demanding an investigation into the truth.
On August 28, 2026, villagers of Maiba Village, Kangding City, Garze Prefecture, Sichuan Province reported that a newly stationed military camp, during wall construction, dug up and buried the villagers' ancestral tombs and dumped garbage, and that their representations to the relevant functional departments were met with buck-passing.
On August 28, 2026, a collective strike and rights defense action took place in front of the Hubei Xiangyang Chuneng New Energy project office built by China Railway Construction Group. Construction workers blocked the main gate to demand unpaid wages, accusing the project owner of being more than three months in arrears on wages.
On August 28, the Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office searched Xinxin Electronics, suspected of transshipping products made in mainland China to Taiwan and then labeling them "Made in Taiwan," seized related items, and questioned 100 defendants and relevant witnesses. The defendants were released on bail ranging from NT$15 million to NT$300,000.
On August 21, economist Fu Peng stated in an interview with Phoenix Finance that the R&D expenditure of humanoid robot company UBTECH in 2025 is only 145 million yuan, far lower than that of pig farming company Muyuan Foods, which is 1.648 billion yuan. This reflects that related industries are still in a very early stage.
Justin Sun published a 10,000-word article titled 'My Girlfriend Jing Tian' on his X account, detailing his relationship with Jing Tian and filing a civil lawsuit against Jing Tian and her parents to recover 30 million RMB in bride price.
Shen Dong wrote again, arguing that Bo Guagua's response exposed how the red aristocracy understands power — namely, restoring the family's position within power rather than pushing for institutional reform.
Data released by China after a press conference on the morning of August 27 showed that 3 people were killed and 558 were missing in the Tibet mudslide disaster, and the figures have not been updated since.
Jing Tian's studio issued a second statement, forcefully denying surrogacy rumors and saying it will resolve the dispute through legal proceedings.
Ye Jianchun, a member of the 20th CCP Central Committee and Party Secretary of Jiangxi Province, is reported to have been taken down; the related handling is described as removing one Central Committee vote from the commander's camp before the Fifth Plenum.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI announced on Wednesday the seizure of the domain names for two hacking platforms, Qscan and QT Router, alleging they were operated by the Chinese hacking group QTFY and served the Ministry of State Security and the military of China.
The U.S. and Taiwan signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance for a military purchase on August 27. Taiwan will purchase 1,554 Altius 700M attack drones and 478 Altius-600 ISR reconnaissance drones from the U.S. company Anduril, with a total value of NT$26.9 billion.
In a letter, Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas warned that widely used voting machines containing components made in China pose significant security risks and will require states to conduct random manual audits.
When asked at a press conference why he did not sanction Chinese banks doing business with Iran, Trump hinted that relevant sanctions are in progress and pointed out that there is also an intelligence and espionage confrontation between China and the United States.
The day after the debris flow, the Nepalese military deployed helicopters and about 2000 personnel for rescue, evacuating 449 people by helicopter that day.
About 26 hours after the disaster, two Chinese rescue helicopters arrived in the affected area; the Western Theater Command, the Tibet Military Region and the armed police dispatched a total of about 500 personnel, and drones were used to carry out disaster-relief-related work.