Qin Gang Succeeds as Chinese Foreign Minister
Wang Yi stepped down as Foreign Minister, and then-Ambassador to the U.S. Qin Gang was recalled from Washington to succeed him.
Wang Yi stepped down as Foreign Minister, and then-Ambassador to the U.S. Qin Gang was recalled from Washington to succeed him.
Zunyi Road and Bridge, the largest urban investment white glove under the Zunyi government, has extended its 15.6 billion bank loan for 20 years, firing the first shot for urban investment extensions nationwide.
The European organization Safeguard Defenders has released a report revealing that the Chinese Communist Party has set up 102 police stations overseas, spread across 53 countries.
Germany has signed a contract with the United States for 35 F-35 fighter jets.
During his tenure as Secretary of the CCP Zhejiang Provincial Committee, Xi Jinping went to Taizhou for research and visited the Geely factory, providing early political and credit endorsement for Geely, which was then a small private factory.
On November 30, 2022, former General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee Jiang Zemin died in Beijing at the age of 96.
“China Food News Convergence Media” posted a video on Bilibili, distorting the effects of formaldehyde-laced food into smears by foreign forces.
Dissatisfied with the long-term, strict dynamic zero-COVID lockdown policies, people across China launched rare nationwide protests. Demonstrators held up blank sheets of paper to symbolize censorship, eventually forcing the authorities to make a sudden and chaotic reversal of their pandemic control policies.
The Cyberspace Administration of China has introduced regulations for managing internet comment interactions, bringing comments, replies, messages, bullet chats, and likes under supervision, and allowing platforms to take measures such as account bans and silencing.
After FTX halted deposits and withdrawals, Justin Sun announced that platform users would be allowed to withdraw TRON-family tokens at a 1:1 ratio; the price of TRX on FTX once rose to about $2.5, a premium of about 4000% over external markets.
Former US Army helicopter pilot Shapour Moinian was contacted by fake tech recruiters via an employment website, provided aviation information to China, and made false statements on a security clearance review, resulting in a 20-month prison sentence in 2022.
An Yankui traveled to Malaysia with a passport and visa to attend a religious conference. In 2022, the Fenyang City Court sentenced him to one year in prison and a fine of 5000 yuan for the crime of "illegally crossing the national border." The court found that he had obtained a visa in the name of tourism while actually attending a religious conference, which constituted "fabricating the purpose of exit and entry."
Eileen Wang (Wang Ailing) was elected mayor of Arcadia, and became mayor through the rotation system.
From late November to early December 2022, people in many parts of China held white-paper protests during memorials for the victims of the Urumqi fire, protesting the harsh zero-COVID policy and restrictions on speech.
Chinese company Fufeng Group purchased approximately 150 hectares of farmland near Grand Forks Air Force Base and planned to invest $700 million to build a corn processing plant, but the project was blocked by the city council in 2023 due to national security concerns.
Chen Yixin, former director of the Policy Research Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, has succeeded Chen Wenqing as Minister of State Security.
At the closing ceremony of the 20th CCP National Congress, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue by staff, and subsequently, Hu Chunhua was not included in the new Politburo list.
At the closing ceremony of a major CCP meeting, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue by security guards in full view of the public, marking the complete bankruptcy of political norms such as inter-generational succession designation.
At the closing session of the 20th CCP Congress, political successors left by Hu Jintao—including Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, and Hu Chunhua—failed to enter the new Politburo Standing Committee, while Xi Jinping successfully secured his reappointment as General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Ye Jianchun was elected as a member of the 20th CCP Central Committee on the list of members of the 20th CCP Central Committee announced on October 22, 2022.
Peng Lifa hung protest banners opposing Xi Jinping and the epidemic policies at Beijing's Sitong Bridge, an event that has garnered widespread attention.
Peng Zaizhou hung a banner on Beijing's Sitong Bridge to protest the lockdown, and was later arrested.
Bai Yansong interviewed Liang Wannian on the program News 1+1, raising nine questions about the economic cost and necessity of the dynamic zero-COVID policy; the program only arranged for Liang Wannian alone to answer and reiterated the policy's rationality.
Mototaka Ikawa, former chairman of Daio Paper, revealed in an interview that Shinzo Abe personally recounted an experience of encountering a 'honey trap' arranged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in his hotel room during a 2001 visit to China.
At the closing session of the CCP's 20th National Congress in October 2022, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was unsteadily escorted out of the venue early, in full view of everyone, drawing widespread attention.
University of Chicago scholar Martinez, using satellite nighttime light data, found that annual GDP growth in authoritarian countries is overstated by an average of about 35%, and that China's figure may have been overstated by about one third over the past two decades.
Overseas leaks claim that the Politburo of the 20th Central Committee was unprecedentedly set at an even number of 24, indicating that a name was scraped off the list before the closing, reportedly Peng Liyuan, who was pushed back by the military's old marshals.
Rumor has it that during the CCP's 20th National Congress in 2022, Zhang Youxia, then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, ordered Zhou Hongxu, director of the Central Guard Bureau, to lock down the venue.
During the 2022 National Day holiday, a property management company in Sichuan scheduled security team leader surnamed Xie to work all 7 days. He was not granted leave and did not show up at any point, and was subsequently fired by the company. His labor contract stipulated 12 hours of work per day and 6 days per week.
The Bank of England is conducting targeted purchases of long-term government bonds to provide liquidity to LDI funds and buy time for deleveraging, after which bond prices subsequently converged.
The Changchun Intermediate People's Court publicly announced its first-instance verdict on Sun Lijun for accepting bribes, manipulating the securities market, and illegally possessing firearms, sentencing him to death with a two-year reprieve, followed by life imprisonment without reduction.
Rising yields led to margin calls and collateral requirements for pension funds using LDI strategies, forcing funds to sell government bonds for cash, which further pushed up yields.
A sudden change in UK fiscal policy expectations caused 30-year government bond yields to rise by 140 basis points within 4 trading days, triggering intense volatility in the bond market.
The Bank of England later estimated that during the period of government bond volatility in September 2022, the scale of margin calls related to pension fund LDI strategies exceeded 70 billion GBP.
Between September 23 and October 14, LDI funds sold £23 billion in government bonds, while pension schemes sold an additional £14 billion.
Washington Post reporter Kader reported from a field visit that a village in Henan had images of facial expressions and occlusion states collected, and the villagers were paid with a bottle of cooking oil.
Zhang Wanying sent a WeChat message to a classmate who graduated from the University of International Relations and works at the Ministry of State Security, asking which bureau in the ministry the person was in, and resumed and maintained long-term contact.
When the Putin regime carried out mobilization at the end of 2022, millions of people fled directly to countries such as Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Armenia.
During Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the Eastern Theater Command launched a dozen Dongfeng missiles around Taiwan, some of which flew over Taiwan's airspace and several landed in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.
Pelosi's plane arrived in Taipei on the evening of August 2; after she ended her visit and departed, China subsequently held large-scale military exercises.
She Zhijiang, founder of the Yatai New City project in Myawaddy, was taken away by Thai police in Bangkok based on an Interpol Red Notice during a dinner gathering.
Poland has signed a contract with Germany for 180 K2 tanks, with delivery expected to be completed by November 2025.
The tax authorities demanded that Wangjing SOHO pay approximately 1.733 billion yuan in back land appreciation tax, plus a late payment surcharge of 0.05% per day; by the end of 2025, the principal, interest and late fees had rolled up to 2.566 billion yuan.
SOHO China announced in a filing that Chief Financial Officer Ni Huiyang is under investigation for suspected insider trading in the company's shares, and assets have been forced to remain within China.
On May 15, 2022, Chou broke into a lunch gathering of the Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in Irvine, California and opened fire, killing 1 and wounding 5, before being subdued by church members; police believe the motive was related to hostility toward the Taiwanese diaspora.
Dr. Yan pointed out that between late 2021 and May 2022, the PLA conducted secret community experiments using the hemorrhagic fever virus in Xi'an, though officials publicly claimed it was dengue fever at the time.
In May 2022, Gao Xiaosong and Song Ke stepped down from Alibaba Music's shareholder ranks, and Gao Xiaosong's ties with Alibaba at the company level came to an end.
In 2022, several village and town banks in Henan collapsed. The cause was collusion between major shareholders inside and outside the banks and the fabrication of loans, making it a pure fraud case.
In April 2022, Douyin banned the account of influencer "Russian Nana" (Na Yina) on the grounds of "abusing platform props" and "impersonating a fake persona." CCTV.com previously published a commentary on this.
On March 28, 2022, Shanghai implemented a district-based lockdown divided by the Huangpu River, which was subsequently expanded to a citywide lockdown. It was not until June 1 that the lockdown was largely lifted. Over 20 million residents were confined to their homes for an extended period, leading to numerous secondary disasters such as food shortages and difficulties in accessing medical care.