Many people believe that resistance must be loud and violent, but true resistance is often a long-term process of staying awake, breaking through information blockades, protecting oneself, and continuously influencing others.
On September 16, European Commission President von der Leyen delivered the State of the Union address at the European Parliament, stating that the EU's trade deficit with China has reached a critical point. She announced that the EU will use all available tools to reshape its relationship with China and established the European Critical Raw Materials Board to reduce dependence on Chinese rare earths.
On September 15, Xiaohongshu released the "Community Financial Ecological Charter", prohibiting malicious bearish calls, illegal stock recommendations and other behaviors. The platform disclosed that since the beginning of the year, it has dealt with over 1.01 million violating notes, 157,000 violating accounts, and more than 4.77 million violating comments, and pledged to strengthen algorithmic self-discipline to curb extreme market sentiment.
On September 15, a netizen in Nanjing transferred travel expenses, triggering an anti-fraud warning; although he proved to auxiliary police that he was not scammed, he was still required to go to the police station for a lesson. Because he refused to go, his bank card was frozen that night by the Criminal Police Brigade of the Jiangning Branch of the Nanjing Public Security Bureau.
On September 16, Xu Huping, former director of the Nanjing Museum, was sentenced to 3 years in prison and fined 200,000 yuan for accepting bribes in engineering contracts and commercial cooperation. Previously, Xu Huping had been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and stripped of his benefits. This ruling did not involve the illegal allocation of cultural relics.
On September 15, German Chancellor Merz criticized China at the Berlin Entrepreneurs' Conference, stating that through state intervention, overcapacity, and export subsidies, China has driven the EU's trade deficit with China to over 300 billion euros. EU leaders plan to discuss in October whether to deploy trade defense instruments.
On September 16, during Jilin University's 80th anniversary celebrations, first-year students were locked inside the central stadium for training, and the gates were closed prohibiting students from leaving to eat, causing them to be exposed to high temperatures, with some students feeling unwell. Students questioned that the school's action was to prevent freshmen from colliding with leaders or alumni vehicles.
On September 16, Ningde Times' stock price fell for two consecutive days, the decline widened to 5%, breaking below the 300 yuan threshold, down 35% from the May 7 peak, hitting a near‑year low, with total market value approaching 1.4 trillion yuan.
On September 5, netizens reported that nearly two months after the floods in Hengzhou, Guangxi, some elderly people receiving five guarantees and vulnerable households are still sleeping on damp floors because their beds were washed away and they received no aid. Currently, volunteers have initiated a tally and are fundraising to buy folding beds, which has triggered public doubts about disaster relief material distribution and government support capabilities.