Former U.S. President Trump made public remarks on the Iran issue, saying that Russia and China have done little or almost nothing to help Iran, and that he considers this cold attitude a very positive thing.
According to the X account @clashreport, former U.S. President Trump expressed dissatisfaction with Ukraine in recent remarks. He publicly stated that the United States has provided Ukraine with a large amount of aid, but Ukraine has not given the United States any reciprocal return in return. These remarks have drawn outside attention to his future policy stance on Ukraine and the direction of U.S.-Ukraine relations.
According to a tweet posted by @clashreport, former U.S. President Trump publicly responded to Ukrainian President Zelensky's earlier remarks criticizing him for being on the "wrong side of history," saying that Zelensky has no idea what he is talking about.
On October 20, 2026, Beijing time, the X account @clashreport posted a video clip showing that when Trump was asked "who ordered the suspension of Starlink service in Ukraine," he responded that he did not know specifically who gave the order, but said he hoped to find out the truth.
According to the X account @clashreport, former US President Trump said in a recent statement that if Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping wish to hold a trilateral meeting in China, he is willing to participate. The remarks have sparked attention and discussion abroad about the direction of Trump's foreign policy should he return to office.
According to a post by X user clashreport on October 20, 2026 Beijing time, former US President Trump publicly stated when discussing the Russia-Ukraine situation that, frankly speaking, Russia has been doing well on the Ukraine issue and has not taken much action.
According to a video posted by the X account @clashreport, former U.S. President Trump spoke about Russian President Putin in a recent statement. Trump said that Putin is currently exercising restraint on the Iran issue, which is a positive signal for him, because the United States is imposing severe sanctions on Iran. Trump claimed that no Russian intervention in Iran has been observed so far.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said publicly in an interview that Israel should not offer Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) any concessions without receiving substantial benefits from Saudi Arabia in return. He believes that Israel is already providing benefits unilaterally, called this approach a mistake, and demanded that the government reconsider its diplomatic strategy toward Saudi Arabia.
According to a report posted by the Twitter account @clashreport, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich publicly stated that he hopes Donald Trump will remain strong and win the U.S. presidential election, calling him a president who is very good for Israel, while also hoping that the Republican Party can succeed and continue to lead the United States.
On October 20, 2026, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich publicly commented on the diplomatic approach of former U.S. President Trump, calling it “quantum diplomacy.” Smotrich noted that so-called quantum diplomacy implies infinite possibilities — that a person can, on the same day, be both a friend of his and a friend of the greatest enemy who is trying to destroy him.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stressed in a recent statement that Israel cannot ignore the threats posed by neighboring countries such as Turkey. He noted that when building its military strength, Israel should not develop capabilities separately targeting Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Syria and other countries, but should instead strive to develop flexible military capabilities to cope with multiple challenges.
According to a report by clashreport, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich publicly discussed the close relationship between Turkish President Erdoğan and U.S. President-elect Trump, and said that Israel is successfully preventing unfavorable agreements and ensuring that the United States maintains its qualitative military edge over Israel.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, speaking about the situation in Lebanon, said that Israel's northern border is currently at a topographic disadvantage: the Israeli military is in the valley while Hezbollah forces hold the high ground, making the border difficult to defend. He publicly questioned why the necessity of Israel having a defensible border could not be explained to former U.S. President Trump, hinting at seeking American support to change the current border security situation.
According to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, Wang Wenling, former member of the Party leadership group and deputy chairperson of the National Council for Social Security Fund, has been expelled from the Party and removed from public office for serious violations of discipline and law. Wang Wenling is accused of losing his ideals and beliefs, abandoning his original aspiration and mission, being disloyal and dishonest to the Party, obstructing organizational reviews, as well as improperly accepting gifts and cash gifts, using his position to seek benefits for others in project contracting, job promotions and other matters, and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
Recently, the Chinese government successively closed the Lajia Town Girls' School and the Golog Daozha Welfare School (the filming location of the movie "Son of Light") in Golog Prefecture, Qinghai. The two schools retained many educational approaches for passing down Tibetan culture; primary school students were transferred to the local central primary school, and middle school students may be moved to the distant Golog Xining National Middle School and Golog Haidong Middle School, sparking Tibetan concerns about the deprivation of their right to pass on their national culture.
On October 20, at a press conference of the State Council Information Office, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said that some automakers follow the trend in launching new products and that testing and validation are insufficient, and that it will prevent unreasonable innovative designs and vehicle products that have not undergone sufficient research, development, testing and validation from entering the market.
On October 20, Taiwan's National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu said at an international seminar in Taipei that Taiwan has reduced its dependence on mainland China since 2016 and is less impacted by China's overcapacity, with economic growth expected to reach 11% or slightly higher this year; he criticized Beijing for failing to resolve weak domestic demand and instead subsidizing industries on a massive scale and exporting surplus products to the world at low prices, calling on all countries to reduce risks with concrete action.
Reuters reported on October 20 that some unemployed people in China leave home on time every day to pretend they are going to work in order to hide their job loss from their families, such as a 28-year-old laid-off internet worker in Chongqing who goes out from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. Cornell scholar Diana Fu said this behavior buffers collective discontent and helps Beijing delay the choice between automation and employment.
On October 20, dozens of workers in blue work uniforms gathered in front of the gate of Guangxi Baise Tianyang Nanhua Paper Co., Ltd., chanting slogans such as “Defend our interests, we want compensation” in unison. The poster said the company is a subsidiary of the Yangpu Nanhua Group and was transferred to a third party without informing or compensating the employees.
On October 20, Philippine Senator Hontiveros submitted a proposal calling for Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Jing Quan to be declared "persona non grata," and raising the possibility of demanding that the Chinese government recall Jing Quan.
On October 20, the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines posted on X a joint statement signed by 10 Philippine House representatives calling for action against Ambassador Jing Quan, accompanied by the caption “Noted for the record. You are now on the list.”
On October 20, outside the China Unicom office in Changsha, Hunan, multiple employees wearing red vests printed with the words “Unicom,” “Pay back the money,” and “Demand unpaid wages” gathered to defend their rights. They ate boxed meals on site and insisted on protesting, demanding that the leaders come out and resolve the issue. Commenters posted screenshots of their low pay to show support.
On October 20, the "Zhangshang University" platform under Hangzhou Xinmai Technology was accused of collecting high service fees on the promise of a "guaranteed minimum sales volume," then failing to perform, delaying refunds indefinitely, and owing wages to internal employees and campus agents. Large numbers of people gathered at the company's premises to defend their rights, and victimized merchants issued a petition urging regulators to investigate severely.
On October 20, blogger Shangguan Zhengyi posted on Weibo to expose that an operating room and an embryo transfer laboratory of an underground surrogacy agency were found in a courtyard by the Liuxi River in Renhe Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou. He reported the case to the police and brought officers to the scene, but police station personnel did not enter on the grounds that no one opened the door to lead the way, and they strictly verified his identity as a whistleblower.
After Shangguan Zhengyi publicly reported online, local Guangzhou authorities intervened and entered the compound in question, finding related medical devices and drugs; Shangguan Zhengyi called on the Guangzhou police to thoroughly investigate the illegal activities across the entire surrogacy chain.
The Wall Street Journal reported that China's flexible employment population is expected to rise to 320 million this year, accounting for more than 40% of urban employment. People from all walks of life, including headhunters and street vendors, say their incomes have fallen and they are switching to cheaper alternatives.
On October 20, Taiwan's National Security Bureau submitted a report to the Legislative Yuan, saying that the CCP sets the narrative through state media and influences the year-end nine-in-one elections through proxy accounts, troll armies, PR companies, and AI audio and video, involving issues such as energy, food safety, and national defense; from January to September this year it collected more than 2.5 million pieces of disputed information, up about 48% year-on-year.
On October 20, the Dominican Ministry of Labor released the results of inspections of 101 stores and commercial plazas operated by Chinese investors. 91 of them were found to dismiss employees before completing three months in order to evade obligations for leave and severance pay; 53 did not grant weekly rest days; 37 did not pay overtime; and 24 were ordered to close due to safety hazards.
On October 20, Argentina's Federal Police reported that a farm in Pilar, Buenos Aires Province, had lured workers from Santa Fe Province with fake job offers, confiscated their documents, and forced them to plant and harvest vegetables under threat of gunfire. Police rescued 4 workers and detained 9 suspects — 7 Chinese nationals, 1 Taiwanese, and 1 Argentine — and also arrested a Taiwanese suspect responsible for recruitment in Santa Fe Province.
According to a complaint letter from her family, a Grade 10 female student at Weifang No. 4 Middle School in Shandong was long-term ostracized and insulted by classmates, and forced to write apology letters. When she reported this to her teachers, she was accused of causing trouble. On October 18, she cried and asked for leave to transfer schools, and on October 20, she committed suicide.
On October 20, Bai Baoguo, a teacher at Yan'an University, placed his bank card by his wife's pillow while his family was napping, and took a taxi alone to Wanhua Mountain in Yan'an to commit suicide by jumping into a lake. His students stated that he had been suffering from depression for one or two years and had previously been hospitalized.
Two Xiaohongshu posts titled “A Life of Upward Sacrifice That Was Never Cherished” describe how those without power hand over resources, labor, and dignity to those in power in exchange for recognition. The author recalls offering up a sheep’s kneecap during childhood as a public contribution, only for it to be damaged and thrown away. The reshared post received 100,000 likes.
Recently, an illustrator on Xiaohongshu posted an illustration titled “Discourse Power,” depicting the communication predicament of children having their voice stripped away in a dominant family atmosphere. It received 34,000 likes. Netizens interpreted it as a metaphor for ordinary people’s public discourse power, online bans (“夹了”), and unequal power relations in the workplace and on campus.
X user Cyberxinfang posted recent footage of petitioning at the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration reception office at No. 1 Jia, Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, and tagged #CyberPetitionBureau.
A netizen submission claimed that a school class notified students to bring books to form a reading corner, but explicitly prohibited bringing books by Shen Shixi, Yang Hongying, Yang Peng, Yu Hua, Mo Yan and Wang Xiaobo, on grounds involving historical trauma, reflections on human nature, and sexual content in the plots. Notices from recent years in which schools cleared out books by Yi Zhongtian and Lung Ying-tai are also circulating online.
College students taking part in the 2027 autumn recruitment season are complaining online that competition for jobs is too intense. One graduate student with internship experience at a major tech company keeps taking assessments and written tests every day but still has no offer. Offline job fairs are packed, and HR staff lament that resumes are so outstanding they can't screen through them all.
In the early hours of October 20, while Douyu streamer "Drop Xinba" was streaming Delta Force, a teammate said "So what if you're Xi Jinping," after which the stream page showed "Suspected violation, rectification in progress."
The political party of three Philippine House representatives from Akbayan who joined the joint statement responded to threats from the Chinese embassy: "We will take pride in this. We will not be silenced by intimidation."
On October 20, at the entrance of the Wanda Plaza construction site in Zhuozhou, Baoding, Hebei, a group of workers gathered to demand unpaid wages and defend their rights, with some parking cars and trucks at the entrance to block the gate.
On October 20, a parent in Xushui District, Baoding, Hebei, posted a video accusing a teacher at Nanshaozhuang Rainbow Bridge Kindergarten of kicking down a young child during an activity.
On October 20, a netizen in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, posted an accusation that Zhejiang Hengtong Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd. unlawfully deducted wages when handling their work injury case. On October 5, they were struck on the head by an iron rod being dumped; the company determined they had operated in violation of rules and deducted 800 yuan. The employee said the iron rod was not secured and posed a hazard, and that they were transferred to another post without receiving training; they have resigned after being obstructed for insisting on filing a work injury report.
On October 20, the person involved in the "lymph meat" incident at the canteen of Guangdong Jinmai Group posted that after more than a month of rights defense, they had received the company's decision to terminate the canteen contractor's contract, expressed satisfaction with the result, and received likes and support from many netizens.
On the morning of October 20, the Penghu Coast Guard patrol team spotted a mainland fishing vessel trawling across the boundary in waters about 25 nautical miles southwest of Qimei. After a broadcast order to stop the vessel went unheeded, the team came alongside and boarded it by force, taking control of 7 crew members. They found that the crew had dumped the catch into the sea to destroy evidence; about 600 kilograms of catch remained on board. The vessel has been escorted back to Magong Port for handling in accordance with the law, marking the fourth seizure this year.
On October 20, Haixia Net, under the Fujian Daily Press Group, published a commentary signed by Wu Shenglin, using the incident in which a team of Taiwan legislator Fan Yun used CapCut to edit a video, then took it down and apologized, to criticize the Taiwan authorities for creating information barriers, saying "a ban cannot lock up people's hearts, and a tall wall cannot block curiosity."
On October 20, the topic trended on Weibo’s society chart. Netizens shared multiple screenshots of work group chats showing that employees must report when they go to the toilet, and that one person was questioned after taking a 20-minute break. In the comments, people complained that they had lost the freedom to go to the toilet at work.
On October 20, Minecraft third-party launcher PCL announced that it would no longer provide the game download function in order to comply with relevant laws and regulations. According to netizens, the adjustment came after parents reported it and the relevant authorities demanded rectification. The developer noted that it has nothing to do with NetEase and Microsoft, and said that Chinese-style parents are quite something.
On October 20, the Minecraft launchers HMCL and PCL Community Edition successively merged download restriction code targeting mainland China, with no exemptions set for adults or genuine accounts.
On the morning of October 20 in Haikou, Hainan, a reporter from “Live Broadcast Hainan” went to the Hainan Yong’an Education and Training Center to verify complaints from students who had paid fees for years without receiving their correspondence-course bachelor’s degree certificates. After showing identification, the reporter was still shoved and punched by staff of the institution, and the camera was snatched and smashed. Reporter He Jiangzhou sustained multiple lacerations on his hands, and the interview was cut short.
On October 20, Chengdu Kangte'en Technology Group Co., Ltd. issued an internal notice, citing the coordination of its Chengdu and Shenzhen office areas, proposing to adjust Chengdu employees' attendance hours to 9:00–18:15 starting November 1, extending the daily schedule by 35 minutes compared with the original arrangement. Under the notice, employees left a continuous stream of comments saying "disagree" and "firmly disagree," with one employee stating that they would attend work at the original times until an agreement is reached.
On October 20, Gelonghui released data on sex ratios by birth order for 31 provinces (municipalities) based on the 2020 China Census Yearbook: nationally, the sex ratio for first births was 113.17, for second births 106.78, and for third births it rose to 132.93, with Hubei's third-birth sex ratio reaching as high as 177.42, Anhui at 165.95, and Fujian at 164.49.