Xi Jinping meets with Sullivan at the Great Hall of the People
Xi Jinping met with visiting U.S. National Security Advisor Sullivan at the Great Hall of the People.
Xi Jinping met with visiting U.S. National Security Advisor Sullivan at the Great Hall of the People.
After public attention and police intervention in the investigation, Enxu was allowed to leave the school; 12 days later, the school was closed. The local education bureau said the reasons for its intervention included violations of business scope, overcharging training fees, and providing boarding services.
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has arrived in Beijing for two days of strategic communication with Wang Yi.
On August 21, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of former 1989 student movement participant Tang Yuanjun in New York, charging him with acting as an unregistered agent for the Chinese Ministry of State Security, spying on overseas pro-democracy activists, and making false statements.
After Lai Ching-te took office, the “Thunderbolt Operation” was launched again, claiming to have uncovered over a thousand infiltration cases, but Taiwan officials said they do not understand.
After the women's 100m sprint at the Paris Olympics, Afghan athlete Kimia Yousufi showed the camera the slogan on the back of her bib, “Education, Sports, Our Rights”, to protest the Taliban regime's deprivation of Afghan women’s right to education and participation in sports.
On August 8, 2024, lawyer Yi Shenghua released case materials, exposing how Shanxi Aorui Biomaterial Company colluded with funeral homes in Sichuan, Shandong, Guangxi and other places to illegally purchase and dismember thousands of cremated corpses for producing allogeneic bone implant materials.
On August 7, 2024, Wang Jiajia, a judge of the Yancheng District People's Court in Luohe, Henan Province, was stabbed and killed in an underground garage of a residential compound by a person surnamed Dang, a party to a road traffic accident dispute case, in revenge.
Wang Shujun, a U.S. citizen who set up the Hu Yaobang Zhao Ziyang Foundation in Flushing, was found guilty by a jury on all four counts.
The market experienced significant volatility, with the VIX fear index surging to 65 pre-market, before falling back below 20 within six trading days.
In August 2024, the Institute for Cross-Strait Urban Planning at Xiamen University published an article suggesting that Beijing should establish a Central Taiwan Work Committee as a shadow government as soon as possible to comprehensively prepare for the takeover of Taiwan. The article was subsequently deleted from the entire Chinese internet.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released a settlement order against Wu Zheng, finding that during his tenure at Edison Max he concealed related-party transactions and used a listed company's money to pay off his own debts.
During his protest outside the Chinese embassy in Washington after illegally crossing the border into the United States, former Chinese military special forces soldier Zhao Guangjun violently beat and injured Chen Shuguang, a petitioner in his 60s from Guangdong, over trivial daily life matters at a residence near Arlington National Cemetery, and attempted to attack him with a knife.
Tencent launched "Talk Show and Its Friends," while iQIYI launched "King of Comedy Stand-Up Season," marking the revival of the talk show industry after it was split in two, with the production teams and performers of the former Xiaoguo Culture entering the two programs respectively.
Hui Jian published a post on a WeChat public account, accusing Liu Ren, president of the Cambodian Anhui Chamber of Commerce, of violent loan-sharking in casinos, beating a renovation boss to death, running telecom fraud parks, and armed transnational crime.
Dong Mingzhu, dubbed the "female version of Old Xi", has been intensively relinquishing power since August 2024, stepping down from at least six positions within two years, including at Chengdu Medical Equipment and Lingbianjie Company.
In August 2024, former Guizhou Provincial Party Secretary Sun Zhigang appeared in court for trial, accused of amassing vast wealth by helping others subscribe to shares, secure construction contracts and engage in real estate development, among other means, embezzling 813 million yuan. He said in court, "I have let the Party down and betrayed my original aspirations."
Henan judge Wang Jiajia was hacked to death by an old man just 20 meters from her front door, becoming one of a series of recent violent attacks targeting officials and judicial personnel.