On October 25, a rally and march in support of Wangwang, a stray dog from Jieyang, Guangdong, was held in the Zhongshan shopping district in Taipei. Participants marched along the streets holding photos of Wangwang and signs reading "Stop Animal Abuse" and "Justice for Wangwang," and some brought their pets along.
On October 25, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security announced the progress of the investigation into a telecom fraud case at a hotel in Thanh Hoa Province, stating that 89 people had been criminally charged and detained, including 88 foreign nationals and 1 Vietnamese citizen.
On October 25, a netizen posted a video saying they went to an aid station in Kunming, Yunnan to seek help. After showing their ID card, they were questioned by staff about their intentions. Their request for winter clothes and food was refused with "There's no food, and we don't have clothes yet," and they received no supplies at all.
On October 25, a lawyer interning at a law firm in a new first-tier city posted that her original monthly salary was 3,000 yuan, but after paying social insurance she received only 1,000 yuan; she has to buy business suits out of her own pocket, still wears summer clothes in 10℃ weather, and has to pay 1,000 yuan herself for pre-job training.
On October 25, a netizen showed a hidden app on their mother's retired phone; when attempting to force-uninstall it, the phone played the uninstall animation but then popped up a large number of ads targeting the elderly and kept redirecting — a single mis-tap would automatically download junk apps that run in the background.
On October 25, a man wearing a T-shirt printed with cat and dog patterns took part in the Tianjin Marathon, holding both hands up in a gesture resembling a "W" to voice support for "Wangwang", the stray dog abused and killed in Jieyang, Guangdong, and after the race he posted photos of his participation.
On October 25, police determined that Ma, the village party secretary of Luoyi Village, Luliang County, had threatened the personal safety of others and fined him 600 yuan. However, the penalty notice listed his workplace as "none"; the town government confirmed that he concurrently serves as the village secretary and village director.
Recently, a netizen posted a video angrily denouncing the price hike of liquefied petroleum gas, saying that gas costing 20 to 30 yuan was being sold for 145 yuan, cursing the merchants as bandits and robbers, which resonated with netizens in the bullet comments.
On October 25, a Douyin blogger posted a video of a group of elderly people singing in a park, captioned "Listen! The pension insurance I paid is singing." In the comments section, netizens complained about pension benefits versus the burden of contributions.
On October 25, a netizen shared their experience taking a ride-hailing car in Guangdong: because of a GPS positioning error that wasted the driver’s time, they were berated. The netizen casually said “It’s all America’s fault,” and the driver immediately turned to seriously criticizing America, and the tension subsided.
At the end of August 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress made a decision to dismiss Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli from their posts.
The provinces of Hunan and Yunnan each held provincial leading cadres meetings, announcing that Wang Zhijun will serve as secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Mo Gaoyi as secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, while also adjusting the personnel for governors and deputy party secretaries of several provinces.
The eighth round of inspections by the 20th CCP Central Committee has officially begun, with teams stationed at the Ministry of Education and 31 centrally administered universities including Peking University and Tsinghua University.
Russia and Ukraine carried out the latest round of prisoner exchanges on Friday, with 270 people from each side released and returned home.
During the Shanghai GEEKCON contest, DJI reported the event to police on the grounds of illegal hacking instruction, resulting in participants and judges being taken away, and the event was suspended for a time.
On October 24, netizens reported that sending words containing specific Chinese characters, such as 'xuexi niux', in Douyin comment sections was intercepted by the system with a violation warning.
Online reports claim that after an only child in Shanghai inherited 200 million yuan from her parents, her husband of only one year filed for divorce citing incompatibility and walked away with tens of millions in assets, sparking heated public debate over inheritance provisions in the Civil Code.
Fan Jie, President of Huawei's Pharmaceutical Team, confirmed at the Pharmaceutical Innovation and Investment Conference that Huawei has entered the pharmaceutical industry, stating that it will use AI and computing power to empower pharmaceutical companies and research institutions.
The 2026 U.S. midterm elections will be held on November 3, with all 35 Senate seats and all 435 House seats up for election, determining control of both chambers of Congress.
The White House announced that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a partial ceasefire in Oleshky, which is under Russian control, to deliver humanitarian aid to the area and allow residents to evacuate.
The White House announced that, facilitated by First Lady Melania Trump, Russia and Ukraine reached a partial ceasefire agreement on Russian-controlled Oleshky, effective October 29, to deliver humanitarian supplies and allow residents to evacuate.
The U.S. Department of Commerce's 50% affiliate rule targeting China is scheduled to automatically resume around November 10, overlapping with the timeline of the Huawei case proceedings.
The 2026 U.S. midterm elections were held on November 3, electing 35 Senate seats, all 435 House seats, and governors and state legislatures in 36 states.
According to Yonhap News Agency and Reuters, on October 24 Kim Jong-un arrived in Dandong, Liaoning, via the new Yalu River Bridge, visiting China again after more than a year, and State Council Premier Li Qiang met with him in Dandong.
On October 24, Kim Jong Un traveled by special train across the New Yalu River Bridge to visit Dandong, China, marking a significant development in high-level exchanges between the two countries since the bridge opened.
Video footage circulating on October 24 showed the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Indian army in a standoff at the border. According to Indian media reports, the standoff has continued since late July.
On October 24, U.S. Secretary of War Hegseth released a video stating that he had eliminated DEI programs within the Department of War during his tenure. He also pointed out that the Confucius Institutes, funded by the Chinese government, are government propaganda projects that attempt to steal intellectual property and infiltrate the minds of American students; they have been classified as a national security threat and systematically dismantled.
It is circulating online that the National University of Defense Technology is carrying out an "information cleanup," strictly investigating the use of circumventing the Great Firewall and foreign tools, requiring computers and cabinets to be checked person by person and room by room, emphasizing that "there must be no doors that cannot be opened," and that any discovered problem will result in a one-vote veto.
On October 24, netizens captured footage of parents at Shandong Experimental Middle School delivering food to students inside the school through an iron fence. Students ate inside the fence while parents kept them company outside it, and what appeared to be electric fence equipment was installed above the fence. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
On October 24, at Mynttorget square in Stockholm's Old Town, Sweden, people held a rally for the stray mother dog "Wangwang" and her puppies, who were brutally killed in Jieyang, Guangdong. They laid flowers and candles and held banners urging China to immediately pass anti-animal-abuse laws. "Boycott China" signs appeared at the scene, and participants pointed out that the abusers remain at large while animal rights advocates have been silenced.
Recently, a parent picking potatoes in Inner Mongolia posted a video showing their child sound asleep inside a plastic bucket in the potato field, drawing sarcastic comments from netizens in the bullet screen.
In early October, some Brazilian netizens expressed their admiration for China on X and called on China to help with a Brazilian revolution. The discussion then turned to issues such as the war on drugs and LGBT rights. Chinese and Brazilian netizens questioned each other over who the real leftists were, and one Brazilian netizen who described himself as right-wing lamented that Chinese communists are 500% more far-right than he is.
Multiple workers said they are owed money by the Digital Art Industry-Education Base of Henan Vocational Academy of Art. Although they had won their lawsuits, they had not received the owed payments for a year, so they laid red banners reading "Return the Hard-Earned Blood Money of Migrant Workers" at the school gate to defend their rights.
On October 24, economist Ren Zeping's WeChat public account "Zeping Macro" was banned from being followed for violations. The day before, the account had just pushed the article "The Market Has Bottomed Out, a Rebound Rally Unfolds"; the shop's customer service said the account was abnormal and that they were unclear about the specific violation.
The poster said that Zhang Zhengyi's open letter accusing Chongqing No. 8 Middle School of violating enrollment rules and the principal of using police to retaliate against whistleblowers has been deleted on the domestic internet.
The "2026 Shandong Province Public Security Organ Civil Service Examination Recruitment Brochure (People's Police)" stipulates that those who have studied, worked, or lived abroad (outside the country/region) for six consecutive months or more, and whose relevant experience and political performance are difficult to examine, may not apply for people's police positions in public security organs. Netizens say that having an entry-exit record of Taiwan basically means saying goodbye to 90% of civil service jobs.
Around October 24, netizens posted multiple sets of comparison images, claiming that the doll character "Lime," created by Chinese illustrator Slimes in 2019, plagiarized the early design of Wirt, the protagonist of the American animated series Over the Garden Wall. Slimes responded that it was fan art drawn while at work.
Recently, netizens filmed a group of retired seniors on a trip singing 'Bless the Motherland'. In the comments section, netizens flooded the screen saying that they pay social security to support retired seniors, while their own parents farmed and paid agricultural taxes to support them.
On October 24, netizens reported that while comments like 'awesome' or 'math is awesome' can be posted on Douyin, 'Xi is awesome' or 'learning is awesome' fail to post due to content violations. It is suspected that the consecutive characters 'Xi is awesome' trigger the sensitive word filter related to Xi Jinping. Netizens are mocking this by splitting the characters or using phrases like 'Shaoyu is awesome' instead.
On October 24, a netizen from Jiangsu posted to expose that when promoting flu vaccination locally, assessment targets were issued to grassroots villages, requiring each village to mobilize at least 30 people for vaccination. Those mobilizing fewer than 8 people with a vaccination rate below the average would be fined 800 yuan, and fewer than 15 people would result in a 500 yuan fine; the top three would receive cash rewards. Grassroots workers said they were disheartened.
On October 24, a parent posted a video claiming that a disabled child weighing 22 jin was still required to buy a ticket to ride a train, that they were denied free subway rides in Shanghai and Beijing because they were told "your eyes aren't blind," and that they were also suppressed by police officers during their travels.
On October 24, a blogger posted a video claiming that some staff at the Canton Fair exhibition halls give Chinese visitors a cold shoulder while bowing and scraping to foreigners, and give people attitude if they don't speak English, suggesting that visitors should speak English rather than Chinese if they can.
Kyodo News reported, citing diplomatic sources, that strict traffic controls were imposed around the Dandong Yalu River Bridge and museums related to the Korean War during Kim Jong-un's visit on October 24, and hotel bookings were restricted.
On October 24, a Wenjie M7 caught fire on Shiyan Avenue in Hubei. Netizens commented that Wenjie vehicles have been catching fire frequently recently, with three burning in just one week.
On October 24, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a group of Xinjiang students gathered in front of the camera. One female student cried while delivering a patriotic speech, and the video was met with ridicule from netizens after it circulated.
According to a Nikkei Asia report on October 24, against the backdrop of intensifying competition among Chinese automakers and Europe's expanding armaments, Volkswagen's 125-year-old plant in Osnabrück, Germany, plans to halt car production in the summer of 2027 and shift to producing air-defense equipment and parts. In cooperation with Rafael, it aims to retain about 1,200 of its 1,800 jobs. Stickers opposing the conversion to military production have appeared near the plant.
A user on X revealed that after refusing to cooperate and criticizing a certain creator for spreading propaganda content, Kimi AI again sent a private message asking them to delete their comment; the user refused and expressed anger.
On October 24, X blogger Elshayib posted what he said were promotional documents from Kimi (Moonshot AI), requiring bloggers promoting K3.1 Pro to submit drafts for review first, not to label paid partnerships, and providing talking points such as the AI gap between China and the US having narrowed to one month. He refused to participate and struck back by posting screenshots of private messages.
On October 24, a Hunan netizen captured grassroots officials and volunteers wearing red vests and using shovels to fill potholes on a village road with asphalt. Red flags and personnel taking photos and recording video were present at the scene, with a caption thanking the Communist Party, sparking mockery among netizens.
On October 24, a netizen posted a video of a visit to Majuqiao in Beijing. A young man who had once received training in software development said he successively lost two jobs, worked in food delivery, security screening and as a guard, and after exhausting his savings slept on the street, subsisting on noodles at 6 yuan a bowl and scavenged food; his application for a security guard certificate was rejected at the review stage.