The Trial of Guo Wengui Commences
The trial of Guo Wengui began in Courtroom 15D of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan and lasted for seven weeks.
The trial of Guo Wengui began in Courtroom 15D of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan and lasted for seven weeks.
China introduced a policy to lower the mortgage down payment ratio to 15% in order to boost the property market.
On April 30, 2024, a federal judge in Seattle, United States, sentenced Changpeng Zhao to four months in prison, after he had already pleaded guilty and stepped down as CEO of Binance.
Dong Changqing, former member of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Public Security Department, is suspected of serious disciplinary violations and is under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
On April 24, 2024, Wu Xiaolei, a Chinese student formerly at Berklee College of Music in Boston, was sentenced to nine months in prison by a US federal court for transnationally threatening and harassing classmates who had posted pro-democracy posters.
Fan Bingbing was invited by the Tourism Authority of Thailand as a special guest, wearing traditional Thai attire to attend the opening parade of the Songkran Festival in Bangkok.
After not being arrested due to insufficient evidence and being transferred to designated residence for residential surveillance, Xing Yanjun died in the relevant surveillance room.
An earthquake struck Hualien on April 3, 2024, initially measured at magnitude 7.2 (later revised to 7.1), killing 18 people; Taiwan's Executive Yuan activated the Central Emergency Operation Center.
An Aito M9 caught fire after a collision in Yuncheng, killing three people. The vehicle involved was not recalled, and related reports were taken down.
CITIC Real Estate has listed its 40% stake in Shenzhen Spark Xingteng Real Estate Co., Ltd. for transfer at a reserve price of one cent.
The Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service assesses that as long as the war in Ukraine continues, the possibility of Russia launching a conventional war against NATO can be almost entirely ruled out.
The EU Defense Commissioner released data estimating that Russia can manufacture approximately 1,100 cruise missiles and 900 ballistic missiles per year.
Under Zhang Youxia's strong reaction, Zhong Shaojun was transferred out of the General Office of the Central Military Commission and appointed political commissar of the National Defense University.
Regulators ordered major banks to stop manually topping up interest on corporate deposits, causing demand deposits at the four major state banks to plunge within a short period, while corporate structured deposits surged, bill rates fell to zero, and the interest margin was pushed back up.
In June 2026 it was exposed online that officers from a police station in Taizhou, Zhejiang, led by two deputy directors, collectively solicited opposite-sex hostesses at a KTV and were caught on the spot by the discipline inspection commission; for two years after the incident the authorities made no public announcement, imposing only minor internal punishments of removal from office while all of them retained their public-sector posts.
In April 2024, Apple said that China's Cyberspace Administration requested, on the grounds of "national security," that it remove Threads from the Chinese App Store. The platform where Fan Yun's team published the relevant video was Threads.
There are reports claiming that Zhong Shaojun was expelled from the Central Military Commission (CMC) General Office after being sent by Xi Jinping to persuade Zhang Youxia to retire, only to be rejected. Wikipedia only records that Zhong Shaojun stepped down as Director of the CMC General Office no later than March 2024.
Dissatisfied with Peng Liyuan's interference in military evaluations, Zhang Youxia drove Zhong Shaojun, the eunuch overseer planted by the Big Boss, out of the Central Military Commission.
After Hong Kong's Article 23 legislation, contacts between groups and overseas entities may be accused of colluding with foreign forces, freedoms of speech, publication, assembly, association, demonstration and marching are further lost, and Hong Kong is trending from an open world city toward closure.
Russia has released surveillance footage of the March 2024 terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow for the first time. The attack occurred in March 2024 and caused a large number of casualties.
On March 1, 2024, near Anjuyuan Community in Decheng District, Dezhou City, Shandong Province, a man deliberately drove a car into primary school students and pedestrians on their way home from school, killing 2 and seriously injuring 6.
In March 2024, Kylian Mbappe's lawyer sent a letter to French influencer Mohamed Henni for naming a kebab dish after him. Henni publicly responded, claiming Mbappe had turned his own name into a 'dictatorship.' Both Know Your Meme and Yahoo Sports identified this incident as the starting point for the 'Dictator Mbappe' meme.
According to data from the China Childbearing Cost Report, excluding extra expenses such as school district housing, the cost of raising a child in China to age 18 or university graduation is extremely high, leading to a precipitous drop in China's birth rate.
Prince Andrew has been officially arrested by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
On February 17, 2024, netizens reported that the house number plate at Li Keqiang's former residence at 80 Hongxing Road in Hengzei had been covered up.
From the New Year's Eve of February 9, 2024 to the first day of the Lunar New Year, reports circulated online that a major armed mass killing occurred in Zhaike Village, Luohe Town, Juxian County, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, leaving more than ten people dead or injured; authorities strictly censored the online information.
On February 7, 2024, the CCP Central Committee and the State Council removed Yi Huiman from his posts as Party Committee Secretary and Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), with Wu Qing succeeding him; outsiders believe this is related to the continuous decline of A-shares at the time.
Prince Andrew has officially moved out of the royal residence where he lived for twenty years and has been assigned to a smaller house.
On February 2, 2024, People's Daily published an interview with Koppe, a Communist Party official from Germany, and ran it as a headline, sparking large-scale irony and an opinion storm among Chinese netizens against the backdrop of a stock market crash and economic downturn.
Former Party Committee Secretary and President of China Merchants Bank, Tian Huiyu, sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
On January 29, 2024, Hong Kong High Court Judge Chen Jingfen issued a liquidation order against China Evergrande, which is indebted by more than 2.4 trillion yuan, stating that it failed to present a viable restructuring plan.
The China Film Association held its 11th National Congress in Beijing and elected a new leadership team, with Andy Lau elected as one of the twelve vice chairmen.
The US has placed Baghdad Airways on its sanctions list, alleging that the airline provided assistance to the IRGC Quds Force and its proxy organizations in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.
On January 9, the Central Leading Group for Thematic Education on Studying and Implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era issued an internal instruction to party and government committees and governments across the country, demanding that party and government organs at all levels and party cadres profoundly comprehend the spirit of Xi's instruction and make living a frugal life a normalized habit.
On January 13, 2024, during the curtain call for the stage play Sunrise in Taiyuan, Jin Xing took a rainbow flag handed to her from the audience, displayed it to the crowd, and then threw it aside.
Zheng Shuai, boss of Shanghai Maisi Technology, was taken away by officers from the Shaoyang County Public Security Bureau of Hunan at Hongqiao Airport. The investigators stated plainly that County Head Yin had set a target of 100 million yuan, demanding a transfer to offset local government finances.
Prosecutors submitted an update to the original indictment, adding Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) charges and framing Guo Wengui's four alleged distinct fraud schemes as the manifestation of a criminal enterprise.
Data shows that in 2024, the annual number of criminal cases filed by Chinese police (Public Security) exceeded 10 million, a sharp increase compared to 2000, with the majority of short-sentence cases involving various "pocket crimes."
In 2024, China's net direct investment was negative 0.8% of gross domestic product.
The Qinglang Campaign proposes ten task objectives, requiring platforms such as Douyin and Bilibili to adjust their algorithms and recommendation mechanisms to ensure content distribution aligns with so-called mainstream values.
The newly renovated Novi Sad railway station in Serbia, which involved Chinese-funded enterprises in its construction, collapsed, killing over a dozen people. The government subsequently chose to cover up the incident, with no one held accountable.
China has introduced the new "Nine Guidelines" and the "1+N" policy system to further advance tighter supervision and reform of the capital market.
In 2024, Zhumadian City's confiscated fine revenue reached 45.22 billion yuan, a historic high.
The Chinese Communist Party has released the Ethnic Unity Promotion Law, expanding enforcement to the global level with the intention of policing all speech involving Chinese issues.
Hokkaido University professor Yuan Keqin was sentenced to six years in prison for violating the anti-espionage law.
Yuen Long District Councilor Huang Weixian testified in court, stating that during his tenure he had always been aware that some village affairs or village heads had triad backgrounds, and that after 1997 there were still triad leaders serving concurrently.
Bo Xilai's son Bo Guagua married the daughter of a hospital family from Yilan, Taiwan in 2024 and publicly pleaded for his parents.
In the 2024 presidential election, Lai Ching-te was the only candidate to win more than 50% of the vote in Tainan City, out of the 23 counties and cities.
Seres announced it will spend 11.5 billion yuan in cash to acquire a 10% stake in Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., obtaining only a minority of board seats.
The interest rate on three-year bank fixed-term deposits fell to 1.25% in 2024, a decline of more than 60% compared with 2024.