Event records
Events
Timelines separate documented action, official response, external findings, and unresolved questions.
Event records
40- Ant Group's Suspended Listing and Financial-Business RectificationA chronology from regulatory interviews and listing suspension to business rectification and administrative penalties.
- Bo Xilai CaseFrom political fall and discipline investigation to public trial.
- Cao Shunli's Deteriorating Health and Death in CustodyCao Shunli's health deteriorated in custody and she died in 2014; UN experts continue to seek an independent investigation into delayed care and responsibility.
- Chang Weiping RSDL CaseUN experts cited Chang Weiping's case as emblematic of the crackdown on lawyers and RSDL risks.
- Publication of the China Offshore Leaks InvestigationInstitutional background, responsibility chain, and evidence limits for Publication of the China Offshore Leaks Investigation.
- The 709 Crackdown on LawyersFrom July 2015, lawyers and defenders across China were summoned, detained, placed in RSDL, or disappeared.
- Credit Suisse Hong Kong Hiring ResolutionInstitutional background, responsibility chain, and evidence limits for Credit Suisse Hong Kong Hiring Resolution.
- The Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976From central mobilization, Red Guards, and factional conflict to military restoration, purges, rehabilitation, and memory management.
- Early Rain Covenant Church Crackdown and Wang Yi CaseFrom 2018 the church and members faced enforcement; Wang Yi was later convicted of inciting subversion and illegal business activity.
- The 1999 Nationwide Ban on Falun Gong and Long CampaignAfter 1999, Party-state legal and propaganda bodies conducted a national ban, detention, and transformation campaign, with grave-abuse allegations receiving international attention.
- Local Coercive Enforcement during the One-Child EraLocal targets, fees, and contraception tasks produced allegations of forced abortion, sterilization, and property sanctions in some areas before policy shifted toward encouraging births.
- The 2022 Zhengzhou Foxconn Worker ProtestClosed-loop pandemic management, recruitment-bonus disputes, labor conflict, and police intervention converged at Foxconn's Zhengzhou campus.
- The Great Leap Forward and Great Famine, 1958–1962From communes, output inflation, and grain procurement to regional famine, policy retreat, and disputed mortality estimates.
- Henan Village-Bank Depositor Red-Code IncidentPublic-health data infrastructure was used to restrict bank depositors seeking redress.
- Hong Kong's National-Security Transformation: The NSL, Electoral Changes, and Article 23Key stages in the transformation of Hong Kong's institutional boundaries from the 2020 NSL to the 2024 Article 23 ordinance.
- JPMorgan Sons and Daughters ResolutionInstitutional background, responsibility chain, and evidence limits for JPMorgan Sons and Daughters Resolution.
- Lai Xiaomin CaseA major bribery case involving the head of a state-owned financial institution.
- Lai Xiaomin Judgment and Corruption in a Financial SOEInstitutional background, responsibility chain, and evidence limits for Lai Xiaomin Judgment and Corruption in a Financial SOE.
- Document 43 and the Reset of Local-Debt BoundariesInstitutional background, responsibility chain, and evidence limits for Document 43 and the Reset of Local-Debt Boundaries.
- Black Jails and Forced Return of PetitionersInvestigations document local actors or agents holding petitioners in temporary sites and returning them home.
- PetroChina Explains Party Governance to the SECInstitutional background, responsibility chain, and evidence limits for PetroChina Explains Party Governance to the SEC.
- Concentrated Regulation of Platforms and Private CapitalInstitutional background, responsibility chain, and evidence limits for Concentrated Regulation of Platforms and Private Capital.
- Property Deleveraging and Local Fiscal StressInstitutional background, responsibility chain, and evidence limits for Property Deleveraging and Local Fiscal Stress.
- Rocket Force and Equipment-System Purge: From Procurement Review to Senior DisciplineA public-record chronology of the 2023–2024 Rocket Force, procurement, and senior-military disciplinary actions.
- The 2022 Beijing Sitong Bridge ProtestA public chronology from the bridge banners and detention to keyword censorship and the disappearance of the location from search.
- Sun Zhengcai CaseThe sudden removal, investigation, and conviction of a Politburo member.
- The 2022 Joint Military Actions Around TaiwanA chronology from the August 2 announcement through the August 10 shift to regular readiness patrols.
- The 1989 Democracy Movement and Military CrackdownFrom mourning after Hu Yaobang's death and student-citizen mobilization to martial law, lethal force on June 3–4, and the subsequent crackdown.
- Tibetan Residential Schools and Assimilation DisputeUN experts and China present opposing accounts of scale, voluntary choice, language, and cultural effect.
- Urban Grid and Digital Access Control During the PandemicDense governance through health codes, venue codes, community lists, and grassroots dispatch.
- Uyghur Child Separation and Boarding PlacementUN experts recorded concerns about children entering boarding or welfare institutions after parental detention or exile; China emphasizes education and child protection.
- Research on Monitoring of International WeChat ContentCitizen Lab's technical findings on international-user files and images entering monitoring processes.
- Information Control During the White Paper ProtestsHow platform deletion, device checks, and offline tracing connected around the protests.
- The 2021 Whitsun Reef Vessel Buildup and Maritime-Militia DisputeA chronology from Philippine detection and protest to China's denial and open-source vessel identification.
- Xinjiang IJOP and Mass Risk ScreeningThe data-driven policing chain documented by technical research and the OHCHR assessment.
- Xinjiang Labor Transfers and Supply-Chain DisputesGovernment employment programs and external forced-labor allegations remain disputed around voluntariness, refusal, and factory management.
- The Period of Large-Scale Xinjiang VETC OperationAfter 2017 VETCs operated at scale; China described vocational deradicalization while OHCHR documented serious arbitrary-detention concerns.
- Closed Trials and Heavy Sentences of Xu Zhiyong and Ding JiaxiThe two were arrested after a private gathering and convicted of subversion; UN mechanisms raised fair-trial and torture concerns.
- The Policy Cycle from Dynamic Zero-COVID to Class B ManagementThe key stages from normalized controls and political reinforcement to the rapid exit from zero-COVID in late 2022.
- Zhou Yongkang CaseInvestigation, Party expulsion, and life sentence of a former top security official.