Reuters Reports on German Hospitals' Contingency Plan for 1,000 Casualties Daily
Reuters reported on the contingency plans made by German hospitals to handle 1,000 casualties per day.
Reuters reported on the contingency plans made by German hospitals to handle 1,000 casualties per day.
Lu Qiang, a travel agency owner in Los Angeles, traveled to Beijing in September 2023 to attend the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese Congress, and subsequently organized personnel to participate in welcome activities during the APEC summit in San Francisco in November.
On the afternoon of August 30, 2023, Li Keqiang, who had been retired for half a year, made a public appearance at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu. This was his first public appearance after a long period of no public activities, and also his last public footage. The highest-ranking official accompanying him was identified as the Party Secretary of the Dunhuang Academy. Citizens at the scene spontaneously gathered around and shouted "Hello, Premier" to Li Keqiang.
Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an went to Shanghai to attend the Twin City Forum, saying that the more turbulent cross-strait relations become, the more dialogue is needed; the two cities signed memoranda of cooperation on exhibitions and conventions, carbon reduction, and other areas.
On August 28, 2023, former Guizhou Provincial Party Secretary Sun Zhigang was placed under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission for suspected serious violations of discipline and law, becoming the first former provincial-level Party secretary to fall after the 20th Party Congress.
After concluding his trip to South Africa, Xi Jinping made a temporary stop in Urumqi to hear work reports from the Xinjiang Party Committee and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, with Ma Xingrui present.
On August 18, 2023, France's 20 Minutes reported on a parody video that face-swapped Mbappé with Mao Zedong and set it to the red song "The Sun in the Sky Is Red"; the meme originated as fans' satire of his outsized influence within the team.
During the floods in Zhuozhou, Xi Jinping was accused of vacationing in Beidaihe and not visiting the disaster area; on August 17 the Political Bureau Standing Committee held a meeting to study flood control, disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction, after which the central authorities arranged to issue 1 trillion yuan in treasury bonds.
On August 15, 2023, a spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics announced the suspension of the release of urban survey unemployment rates by age group. Previously, the youth unemployment rate for the 16-24 age group had reached a record high of 21.3% in June. The data resumed publication in January 2024 using a new statistical methodology.
The US Department of Justice stated that Chinese-American Wei Jingchao conspired in 2022 to sell military secrets to China, was arrested in August 2025, and was sentenced to 200 months in prison.
In the early stage of the Zhuozhou floods, several civilian rescue teams from other provinces said they were required to present a local invitation letter and complete registration before being allowed to enter; volunteers said the Zhuozhou Emergency Management Bureau had been flooded and lost power, with its official seal in another building surrounded by water, and that they were arranging for people to wade through the water to fetch it.
Duan Weihong, who had been detained by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection system for six years, successively made public appearances in Nanjing and Fujian, gaining limited freedom.
Since August 2023, China has completely banned imports of Japanese seafood due to the nuclear wastewater dispute, causing Japanese seafood exports to China to drop to zero in the following years, while most of the share was taken up by markets such as the United States, Vietnam, and Hong Kong.
In August 2023, the journal Science warned that the construction of the Pinglu Canal would occupy large areas of mangrove forests, causing irreversible major harm to the local wetland ecosystem and species breeding.
The Ministry of State Security officially launched a WeChat official account, frequently publishing counter-espionage warnings and propaganda content, and beginning to actively build a public presence.
On July 31, 2023, Xi Jinping conferred the rank of general on Rocket Force commander Wang Houbin and political commissar Xu Xisheng at the Bayi Building in Beijing, the first official public announcement of a new commander since reports that former Rocket Force commander Li Yuchao was under investigation.
The residual circulation of Typhoon Doksuri caused torrential rain in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from July 29 to August 1. Beijing experienced flooding, Hebei activated flood storage areas, and Zhuozhou was severely affected.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has removed Qin Gang from his post as Foreign Minister, and Wang Yi has been reappointed as Foreign Minister.
In 2023, Foreign Minister Qin Gang was removed from his post as foreign minister and later resigned from the 20th Central Committee.
The Cyberspace Administration of China is targeting foreign-related speech, requiring that information regarding domestic and international current affairs, public policy, and social events be labeled with its source, and linking account monetization privileges to compliance status.
Sima Nan attended an Independence Day event at the U.S. Embassy in China, where he took photos with the U.S. Ambassador and sampled food, sparking mockery from netizens who accused him of 'anti-Americanism as a job, but living in America as a life.'
Since July 2023, the Chinese Communist Party has begun systematically blocking rare earth exports, including heavy rare earths and high-purity graphite, and has gradually restricted exports of extraction, separation and smelting foundations.
When applying for a position with the Canada Border Services Agency, Zhang Biwei used two names and different email addresses to obtain two exam opportunities. The Public Service Commission of Canada determined that this constituted recruitment fraud, and a court dismissed his judicial review.
Rocket Force commander Li Yuchao was purged after a US military report exposed the Rocket Force's deployment, leading to another round of purges throughout the Rocket Force.
A jury found three Chinese Communist Party agents guilty, including former sheriff McMahon (18 months in prison), Zhu Yong (24 months in prison), and Zheng Congying (16 months in prison).
After the end of June 2023, Qin Gang suddenly stopped appearing in public, and the outside world began to pay attention to his position and political situation.
Germany has announced the deployment of an armored brigade to Lithuania, but it is not expected to reach full strength until the end of 2027.
Qiao Xinxin, the initiator of the Demolish the Wall Movement, was cross-border arrested in Laos by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police and brought back to China. He was later secretly sentenced to 5 years in prison and subjected to torture in prison.
Beijing's cultural law enforcement authorities determined that the actor House seriously insulted the people's armed forces during a performance, confiscating Xiaoguo Culture's illegal gains and imposing a total fine of more than 14.67 million yuan; Xiaoguo Culture subsequently announced an indefinite suspension of all offline performances nationwide.
Accounts controlled by Justin Sun transferred approximately $56.10 million to Binance to take part in an event aimed at regular users. After Changpeng Zhao publicly issued a warning, Justin Sun withdrew from the event and returned the rewards.
Lee Tung-hsien took part in the Asia-Pacific Masters Games held in South Korea. After winning a medal, he raised the five-star blood flag on the podium, drawing attention from Taiwanese society.
In May 2023, after the Ant Group's IPO was halted and Ma Yun had been out of the public eye for a long time, he was appointed a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo's Tokyo College, and thereafter lived in Japan for an extended period, being seen as a representative figure of the wave of Chinese entrepreneurs moving to Japan.
The revised Anti-Espionage Law was passed, significantly expanding the definition of espionage activities, adding a dedicated chapter on security prevention, and incorporating the mass line and the primary responsibility of work units into the law.
On April 17, 2023, the US Department of Justice announced the arrest of Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping, alleging the two operated a secret “overseas police station” for the Ministry of Public Security in Manhattan’s Chinatown, New York.
On April 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the cases of Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping regarding the secret police station, the Ministry of Public Security's 912 Special Working Group, and the former Zoom employee, utilizing the transnational repression framework.
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued 34 officers of the Chinese Communist Party's Ministry of Public Security, accusing them of running an operation that organized online mobs to besiege dissidents and creating a large number of fake accounts.
Chinese constitutional scholar and New Citizens' Movement founder Xu Zhiyong was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a court on charges of subversion of state power, marking his second imprisonment.
The Central Fourth Inspection Team entered the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation for an inspection.
In April 2023, during Tsai Ing-wen's visit to Southern California, Sun Yaoning reported her whereabouts in real time to officials at the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles; the U.S. Department of Justice called him a secret agent of China, and he was later sentenced to 48 months in prison.
On April 1, 2023, the home of Zhang Heng, a villager from Zicun Village in Xixian New Area, Shaanxi, was forcibly demolished by more than ten armed people; Zhang Heng and his son fought back, killing one demolition worker. The court later found that Zhang Heng had acted in legitimate self-defense and acquitted him.
On the same day, another indictment brought the number of defendants to 44, these officials are within China.
In an interview, Puma Shen revealed that the proportion of Taiwanese willing to participate in civil defense has risen from nearly zero in the early days to 18% at the time of the survey, and that the Black Bear Academy plans to launch online courses, parent-child reading materials, and large-scale drills in the future.
Bank of China used its subordinate financial institutions and employee contributions to create public-like holder structures for 11 private equity funds in order to exploit tax incentives meant for public funds.
In April 2023, reporter Li Weiao claimed that Zhang Jike had incurred massive gambling debts and handed over private images of Jing Tian to his creditors; the creditor who used the images to extort money from Jing Tian was later sentenced to 7 years for extortion.
Rumor has it that Wang Shaojun, director of the Central Guard Bureau responsible for close-protection duty for Xi Jinping, fell seriously ill in 2021 and died in April 2023. The authorities sat on the obituary for three months before releasing it, without stating the cause of death. The period coincided with the intensification of tensions between Xi Jinping and Zhang Youxia, as well as the replacement of the commander and political commissar of the Rocket Force.
The U.S. SEC has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Justin Sun, the TRON Foundation, and affiliated companies, accusing them of manipulating TRX trading volume, selling unregistered securities, and failing to disclose compensation for celebrity endorsements.
The CCP Central Committee has established the Central Social Work Department, responsible for work related to the social sector.
FBI agents arrested Guo Wengui and Wang Yanping in Manhattan, USA, and seized a large amount of cash from Wang Yanping's apartment. On the same day, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York released a twelve-count indictment against Guo Wengui.
At the same time the FBI arrested Guo Wengui, a level-two fire broke out at his residence, forcing FBI agents to evacuate. Later investigations concluded that the fire was arson.
The 2023 315 Gala exposed chaotic practices at multiple pickled vegetable companies, including Waisha Jingui Fruit and Vegetable Pickling Factory in Longhu District of Shantou, Yulei Foods, and Mutongyuan Foods, such as working barefoot, smoking, spitting, and picking dropped pickles back up to pack them into boxes.