Prosecutors presented internal emails, flight records, and surveillance footage, accusing Huawei employee Adam Zhong of attempting to obtain T-Mobile test robot parts and take photos.
The Hong Kong SAR government plans to submit its first five-year plan since the founding of the colony on September 16, introducing terms from the mainland's administrative system such as binding indicators and expected indicators.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points at its policy meeting, moving the federal funds rate into a range of 3.75% to 4%, while the 10-year Treasury yield touched 5.3% intraday, its highest level since 2007.
Ruoyu Duan, an Oregon resident who formerly served in the US Army, pleaded guilty on September 16 to charges of conspiracy to gather and transmit national defense information. Between 2021 and 2025, he conspired with others to collect sensitive military information related to US military combat capabilities, including weapon system information, and transferred it to individuals within China.
The Federal Reserve announced a 25 basis point rate hike on September 16, pushing the federal funds rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%, marking the first rate hike since July 2023.
Bloomberg revealed that Central Office Director Cai Qi is personally reviewing the list of accompanying business magnates, including BYD's Wang Chuanfu, and has set multiple strict screening criteria.
The survey released by the Taipei City Cross-Strait Research Association shows that support for Jiu Nan is 41.7% and support for Yang is 40.5%, a difference of 1.2 percentage points between the two; the survey interviewed 1,076 Taipei residents from September 16 to 18.
The Party Committee of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges held a meeting, openly calling for the resolute eradication of Bi Jingquan's pernicious influence.
On September 14, academic anti-fraud blogger "Geng Tongxue" published a video publicly questioning two first-authored papers by Zhang Yaohua, a researcher at Peking University Third Hospital and recipient of the Overseas Outstanding Youth grant, pointing out multiple data anomalies, fixed constant conversions, and image duplications.
On September 15, the day the new entry and exit regulations came into effect, some netizens reported that a certain unit required all its employees, both permanent and contract, to hand over their passports and Hong Kong/Macau travel permits to the HR department for registration. Netizens in the comment section reported similar confiscation of documents by units in many places, and that entry and exit records would be checked irregularly.
On September 14, a Chinese man named Wei Shang, suspected of hunting and eating a hawksbill turtle—a critically endangered nationally protected species—in the Raja Ampat marine protected area in Indonesia, was intercepted by immigration authorities in Makassar while preparing to leave the country. Previously, a local indigenous patrol team submitted a report, and widely circulated online videos showed him hunting a hawksbill turtle with a speargun and cooking and eating it.
On September 15, multiple migrant workers from Henan Xiayu Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. wore reflective vests with slogans demanding unpaid wages and collectively protested for their rights for the fifteenth consecutive day at the project department entrance.
On September 15, Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung confirmed in an exclusive interview that Taiwan is preparing to establish an additional office in Cebu, Philippines, and that the preparatory work is progressing smoothly. He stated that Taiwan and the Philippines are both located in the first island chain and are both oppressed by China; the new office will serve more people, promote a Taiwan-Philippines economic corridor, and deepen economic, trade, and personnel exchanges between the two sides.
On September 14, multiple workers from Guangdong Zhengye Construction, the general contractor for the New World Four Seasons Mountain and Water project in Guangzhou, Guangdong, sat on mats outside the construction site gate to demand unpaid wages. Several security personnel were present, on alert.
On September 15, the Qingyuan campus of Guangdong Nanhua Business and Technical College delayed wages for migrant workers, prompting many workers to go to the school gate, hold a banner protest and demand their pay.
On September 13, at a hot pot restaurant in Dingxing County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, a delivery worker brandished a cleaver and got into a fierce clash with the shop.
On September 15, a garbage site in a certain area of Shandong displayed a sign prohibiting picking up trash and imposing a fine of 500 yuan, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
September 14, Guangdong Shenzhen Jindi Center, multiple migrant workers went to the building to protest over unpaid wages. The workers said that before protesting they had completed legal procedures such as filing lawsuits and arbitration and had won, but still have not received the owed wages.
On September 14, several nurses at the Second People's Hospital of Hulan District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province reported that the hospital had been withholding wages for up to two years. After prolonged unsuccessful rights protection, the medical staff chose to publicly expose the issue online to seek a solution.
The Sun Meihua incident continues to ferment, and a netizen received a call from the police station ordering the dissolution of the relevant WeChat group to suppress discussion.
On September 14, over one hundred miners at Xinglong Coal Mine of Xihan Group in Hancheng, Shaanxi Province, whose wages had been withheld for several months, went to the government service center to demand unpaid wages and defend their rights, during which they got into a physical clash with police and security guards maintaining order on site.
September 15, Guangdong Gaozhou's Third People's Hospital mental rehabilitation campus construction site had a wage-demand incident. Several migrant workers of the project contractor China Railway Shanghai Engineering Bureau hung red cloth banners on the fence and used loudspeakers to repeatedly play audio demanding wages, with people gathering on site.
On September 14, 2026, multiple workers at the Guangdong Zhuhai Hengqin International Business Center, after more than three months of wage arrears, collectively went to the company to sit in protest and defend their rights.
On September 15, a fire broke out on the top floor of Building 3 of Qinshui Liting in Baiyun Subdistrict, Haishu District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Thick smoke and flames were seen at the scene. Rescue footage showed a woman falling from the building near the fire department's aerial ladder. The local emergency management bureau reported that the flames have been extinguished and one person was injured and taken to hospital.
On September 14, a wage arrears rights defense incident occurred at the headquarters of China Construction Fourth Bureau First Company in the CNBM Building, Guangzhou, Guangdong. Multiple migrant workers, whose wage payments were in arrears, went to the building and staged a sit-in protest in the lobby, demanding that the relevant parties resolve the wage arrears issue.
According to multiple sources, Xi Jinping concluded his trip in India and flew back to Beijing, arriving at Daxing Airport at 9 p.m. that night. Upon deplaning, he apparently suffered a sudden stroke or other serious health issue, was unable to walk normally, had to be carried off the aircraft on a stretcher, and was then taken directly to the 301 Hospital for comprehensive medical examination and treatment.
On September 16, European Commission President von der Leyen delivered the State of the Union address at the European Parliament, stating that the EU's trade deficit with China has reached a critical point. She announced that the EU will use all available tools to reshape its relationship with China and established the European Critical Raw Materials Board to reduce dependence on Chinese rare earths.
A Russian drone hit a passenger bus and a train in southern Ukraine, killing 5 people and injuring 7, with another train damaged; the Ukrainian side condemned the act as systematic killing of civilians.
On September 16, inside the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration in Xicheng District, Beijing, two petitioners committed suicide by drinking pesticide. It is reported that the reception office had refused to allow petitioners to check in starting this Monday, leaving a large number of petitioners with no way to resolve their grievances. [Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, two petitioners protested by drinking pesticide in front of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration in Beijing.
On September 16, 2026, while AI-generated fake pornographic and face-swapped image sets drew malicious crowds, some rumor-mongers and vile netizens, using excuses such as “asking for the images and resources” and “verifying the person’s real information,” carried out a malicious doxxing and “box-opening” campaign against “CC who buys phones” on an illegal overseas social-engineering database channel. The blogger’s real name, national ID number, private mobile phone number, home address, and family members’ information were maliciously published to groups and forums both inside and outside China. This was followed by a flood of anonymous insulting and abusive calls and harassing text messages containing obscene words, while comment sections and direct messages were inundated with vulgar remarks such as “asking for resources” and “box-opening victory,” leaving the blogger’s daily life and mental state in severe panic.
On September 16, Chinese Communist Party official media announced that the Pinglu Canal, connecting Hengzhou in Nanning with Beibu Gulf, has officially opened to navigation. Construction of the canal began on August 28, 2022. With a total length of 134.2 kilometers, it is a Class I inland waterway capable of accommodating 5,000-ton vessels. The total volume of earth and rock excavation reached 315 million cubic meters, and it is touted as setting four world records.
On September 16, a video played by prosecutors during Huawei's criminal trial in New York was officially released, showing Huawei employees stealing parts of T-Mobile's phone-testing robot, Tappy. Huawei denies that the company engaged in organized theft, arguing that it was the action of individual employees and that management had already dealt with it.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a comprehensive sanctions bill against Russia on September 16 by a vote of 262 to 159, restricting Russian energy revenue and imposing tariffs of up to 100% on countries that continue to purchase large amounts of Russian energy. China, as Russia's largest oil buyer, bears the brunt of the bill, which will be sent to Trump for signature.
On September 16, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a comprehensive sanctions bill, promoted by the late Senator Graham, by a vote of 262 to 159. The bill sanctions Russia's energy and defense industries as well as its shadow fleet, and authorizes Trump to impose tariffs of up to 100% on buyers of Russian oil such as China and India. The bill will be sent to Trump for signature.
Trump told reporters on September 16 that if the EU makes Canada its first associate member, he would impose very serious tariffs on Europe or halt trade, and called Canada a terrible trading partner.
The Xiangshan Forum opened on September 16, with Defense Minister Dong Jun delivering a keynote address. The official communique highlighted the new security concept, multilateralism, dialogue and consultation, and common security, no longer emphasizing military deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.
On September 16, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Zhang Shengmin officially met with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang, who was visiting China, and talked about the consensus between the top leaders of the two parties and two countries as well as the 3+3 strategic dialogue mechanism involving diplomacy, national defense and public security.
According to internal materials obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the data held by ZRON covers Russian diplomatic cables, meeting preparation documents between Philippine officials and the U.S. National Security Council, classified meeting minutes from the Pakistani Prime Minister's Office, and Vatican diplomatic communications.
According to The Wall Street Journal, ZRON built an analytics dashboard that integrates public information and private data, introducing large models such as Alibaba and DeepSeek, which can automatically generate intelligence reports and organize event timelines, improving the readability and practicality of intelligence products.
According to internal chat records obtained by The Wall Street Journal, ZRON's sales team is active in provinces across northeast, east and south China, with public security organs as its main clients; Western intelligence officials say the company belongs to an interconnected network of Chinese hackers.
On September 16, Saudi Arabia and the Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a new round of mutual airstrikes: the Houthis fired dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi Aramco facilities in Yanbu and attacked the Khamis Mushait airbase; the Saudi-backed Yemeni authorities reported airstrikes on Houthi targets in Taiz and Marib provinces. The Houthis claimed that Saudi Arabia had launched over 450 airstrikes this week and shot down an F-15, which has not been independently verified.
Macau on September 16 held the first closed-door hearing in a national security case, the prosecution of former pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San on charges of subversion of state power. London lawyer Pollack, who represents his interests overseas, said the closed-door hearing was no different from a sham trial, and has submitted materials to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
On September 16, while delivering the State of the Union address before the European Parliament, von der Leyen announced that a European Critical Raw Materials Company would be established to coordinate the procurement and stockpiling of critical minerals, in order to reduce the EU's dependence on China for rare earths and other critical minerals.
The U.S. Department of Justice issued an announcement stating that individuals within the United States who conduct activities under the instruction or control of foreign governments or entities must register as foreign agents in accordance with the law, and those who fail to do so will face civil or criminal liability.
The World Economic Forum released the 2026 Global Gender Gap Report, ranking China 96th overall, with the sex ratio at birth indicator ranking third from the bottom globally.
On September 16, the Huanneng Bajiao Power Plant in Yantai, Shandong Province started construction of the "RuiTanhao" project, with Phase I planned to build a 50 MW generator unit and a 100 MW/400 MWh molten salt energy storage system, expected to be put into operation in 2027.
Villagers of Duoren Village, Pukou Street, Shengzhou City, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, gathered to demand an explanation from the local government after failing to receive demolition compensation for many years.
On September 16, Dalian fruit grower Yu Kewei, who participated in the rights-defense campaign over the death of cherry trees, was approved for arrest on suspicion of the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble; the charges are related to his online speech. Ji Xiaowei and several other fruit growers engaged in rights defense had previously been arrested as well.
On the evening of September 16, after dining at the cafeteria, students at Zhizhi Middle School in Dongdaihe New District, Suizhong County, Huludao City, Liaoning Province, suffered collective vomiting and diarrhea. According to the receiving hospital, more than 80 students sought medical treatment. Official notices stated that the incident was acute gastroenteritis caused by improper cooking and food handling in the cafeteria. Some parents revealed that the principal said only 7 yuan of the meal fee would be refunded. Several parents went to the school to protest, but school officials did not come forward to respond.
A supporting document to Hong Kong's Policy Address calls for the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall to be listed as China's second youth patriotic education base in Hong Kong.