On April 9, 2025 (US Eastern Time), after violent swings in the bond and stock markets, Trump announced a 90-day suspension of reciprocal tariffs (except for China), and the three major US stock indexes immediately surged.
On April 9, 2025, Hong Kong's Innovation and Technology Bureau, together with the Census and Statistics Department, incorporated product design, data services, software development, testing and certification, and professional technical services into the new category of manufacturing and emerging industries. After being incorporated into the category in 2023, the value added amounted to HK$76.8 billion, accounting for 2.6% of GDP.
China has implemented export controls on medium and heavy rare earths since April 2025.
The Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee made a rare decision to swap the ministerial positions of Li Ganjie, then head of the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, and Shi Taifeng, head of the United Front Work Department of the CCP Central Committee.
On April 2, 2025, Trump announced "Liberation Day" reciprocal tariffs, imposing a minimum 10% tariff on imports from around the world, triggering a sharp decline in global financial markets.
The Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Beijing stock exchanges jointly released new regulations on quantitative trading, drawing a line for high-frequency trading at more than 300 orders per second or more than 20,000 orders per day, and implementing differential fees.
Construction has begun on the first three controlling tunnels of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway within Kyrgyzstan, each of them over ten kilometers long.
The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, reported that Changpeng Zhao agreed to provide evidence regarding Justin Sun as part of his plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice; Zhao has denied the report.
Justin Sun publicly claimed that First Digital, the trustee of the stablecoin TUSD, was insolvent, and the related stablecoin FDUSD at one point fell to $0.87; First Digital subsequently sued Justin Sun for defamation in Hong Kong.
The Financial Times reported that Dong Jun was questioned by a special task force in late 2024 and underwent a preliminary investigation, after which he was not subject to further proceedings.
In April 2025, the Beijing International Film Festival held a master class for Jiang Wen, where he responded on-site to questions regarding movie metaphors.
Xi Jinping has proposed "concentrating efforts to overcome high-end chip challenges," demanding the construction of autonomous and controllable artificial intelligence software and hardware systems.
In April 2025, Shi Tingfu told his son during a phone call that he felt weak all over every day. His health problems were previously on record.
On March 27, a pro-natalist slogan appeared locally in Jiangsu: “Listen to the Party, have a third child, no overtime, two-day weekends, subsidies for third-child formula.”
Science magazine revealed in July 2026 that in March 2025 a 6-year-old girl received gene editing treatment at Shanghai Xinhua Hospital and died of a severe immune response 7 days after the virus was injected into her cerebrospinal fluid.
Beijing tax authorities announced the results of their handling, finding that Sima Nan underpaid taxes and fees by concealing income and other means between 2019 and 2023, with a total recovery of 9.2694 million yuan including late payment surcharges and fines.
On March 20, 2025, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence officially released an investigative report on the wealth and corrupt activities of senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, in accordance with the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023.
On Wednesday, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham led a delegation to visit Xinjiang, confirming that the repatriated Uyghurs are safe and responding to concerns from Western countries regarding the repatriation incident.
On March 19, 2025, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a wanted notice, offering a reward of up to $15 million for information on Chinese citizen Liu Baoxia and others, accusing them of allegedly smuggling sensitive electronic components to Iranian military organizations.
Germany has amended its constitution to exclude defense spending exceeding 1% of GDP from the 'debt brake' rule, paving the way for increased military expenditure.
It is reported online that the 13-year-old daughter of Baidu Vice President Xie Guangjun, a fan of South Korean star Jang Wonyoung, doxxed a pregnant netizen on Weibo following a controversy over comments about the star, and posted information showing her father's monthly salary of 220,000 yuan.
Baidu Vice President Xie Guangjun publicly apologized for his daughter doxxing a pregnant woman, stating he feels deeply guilty and offers a solemn apology.
CCTV released the “Taiwan Is Bound to Return” poster, compiling reposts by Taiwanese artists such as Patty Hou, Mark Chao and Angela Chang; netizens subsequently called out other artists by name.
On March 7, CCTV host Bai Yansong said that farmers' monthly pensions of just over 100 yuan are clearly insufficient, noting that multiple committee members and delegates are proposing to raise them by 20 yuan per year starting now, so that farmers' pensions double in ten years.
On March 4, 2025, Cheung Kong, under Li Ka-shing, announced the sale of its global port business, including ports at both ends of the Panama Canal, to a consortium led by BlackRock, and was subsequently criticized in articles by official media such as Ta Kung Pao.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report stating that Xi Jinping has amassed over one billion dollars in wealth through relatives.
The House Select Committee on the CCP has launched an investigation into the U.S. subsidiaries of China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, and will hold hearings on Chinese cyber espionage operations.
Reuters reported in March 2025 that a website linked to Chinese tech companies attempted to recruit recently laid-off US federal government employees.
In March 2025, CK Hutchison Holdings, owned by Li Ka-shing, attempted to sell assets comprising 43 ports in 23 countries worldwide, valued at a total of $22.8 billion, to the US-based BlackRock consortium.
Wang Huimin, former head of the CSRC discipline inspection team, is under investigation.
Shen Haixiong was promoted to Executive Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee after the Two Sessions in March 2025.
In March 2025, the head of the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee was swapped. The program noted that the department responsible for cadre appointments has changed its leadership.
According to the video, the commander of the Beijing Garrison Command was transferred out in March 2025, after which the post remained vacant for nearly ten months.
As of the first quarter of 2026, approximately 42 million employees nationwide had suspended their pension insurance contributions, with the suspension rate among young people aged 20 to 35 reaching 31.7% and the rate among the flexible employment group reaching 38%.
The Lanzhou procuratorate recently brought a public prosecution against Jing Shuren, accusing him of using his influence to repost Zhou Lubao's so-called false negative posts, with a sentencing recommendation of 7 years and 6 months.
In March 2025, the United States launched the first phase of upgrading the U.S. Forces Japan headquarters into a Joint Force Command, and Japan established a Joint Operations Command during the same period. The two sides said that a joint presence in the southwestern region is a priority and that the ability to access key terrain in the First Island Chain must be expanded.
Around March 1, 2025, “Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher” and its team launched the “Niuma.ICU” project, soliciting from the public lists of companies across China that impose excessive working hours and violate labor laws, in an effort to advance labor rights defense.
During the Two Sessions in March 2025, Zheng Gongcheng, a deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Chinese Social Security Association, said in an interview that whether robot employees should pay social security contributions monthly is "also being discussed now." The interview was dug up by netizens in October 2026 as the debate over social security heated up.
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has become China's richest person for the first time on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
On February 26, due to a rise in Xiaomi's stock price, Lei Jun briefly became the richest person in China, but he urgently denied the report, calling it fake news.
On February 21, 2025, bipartisan members of both houses of the U.S. Congress jointly introduced a resolution explicitly opposing the CCP's distortion of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, reaffirming that the U.S. "one China policy" is not equivalent to the CCP's "one China principle," and supporting Taiwan's international participation.
A U.S. senator disclosed in Congress that in 2025, parties involved in China's dumping of toxic waste into Zambia's main river contaminated the drinking water of millions of local people, and were accused of forcing local parties to sign confidentiality agreements to cover up the incident.
On February 18, 2025, the “Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher” team announced the interim results of “611Study,” having collected data on excessive schedules from 2,113 high schools across the country within two weeks, and pushed schools in multiple regions to restore two-day weekends and delay the start of the school term.
Xi Jinping convened another symposium on private enterprises, inviting several well-known private entrepreneurs to attend, and emphasized the consistency and unchangeability of policies regarding the private economy.
The U.S. State Department updated its description of Taiwan, adding wording that opposes changing the status quo through coercion, in addition to opposing the use of force to change the status quo across the Taiwan Strait.
Official announcement on February 13: Jiang Qiulian's fundraising donations are not suspected of fraud; no clues of tax-related issues were found, and no cashing out through POS machine proxy swiping was used; the claim that she raised another son is inconsistent with the facts. Previously, multiple accusations of donation fraud by media worker Li Ji and writer Chen Lan, among others, were all denied.
CCTV exposes rare internal details of the Rocket Force's underground nuclear Great Wall, boasting of a 5,000-kilometer super-project and intercontinental missile silos, constructing a so-called doomsday survival fortress.
On February 4, 2025, in response to Beihang University student Geng publicly blasting his Russian Academy of Engineering academician status for lacking research achievements, Ding Zhifeng brought company executives to Beihang to talk with Geng in person, triggering a confrontation and debate.
Singapore has charged three men, accusing them of deceiving Dell and Supermicro regarding the final destination of servers containing Nvidia chips.
In February 2025, the Chinese Communist Party began restricting exports of tungsten and antimony (medium and heavy rare earths).