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On October 25, 2026, Taiwan Affairs Office head Song Tao said in Fuzhou that Beijing firmly supports pro-unification forces in Taiwan, marking 81 years since Japanese rule ended.

A C4ADS report published on October 22, 2026 traced more than $80 million in submarine technology and documents from Russia's Rubin design bureau to China from 2015 to 2023.

DeepSeek is wrapping up a raise of about 100 billion yuan ($15 billion), with CATL and Tencent among top investors, Reuters reported on October 22, 2026.

The US State Department's China travel advisory, dated October 19, 2026, keeps Level 2 but adds a wrongful-detention warning and flags exit bans.

Chinese cobot maker FAIRINO closed a Meituan-led Series D, taking its last two rounds to nearly RMB 1 billion, reports said on October 19, 2026.

India's MEA said on 13 October 2026 that Ladakh is an integral and inalienable part of India after China called the naming of 28 places there illegal.

Shenzhen robot maker Astribot raised about 1 billion yuan on Oct 13, 2026, at a 15 billion yuan (about $2.2 billion) valuation, led by a Shenzhen state investor.

China's National Day holiday film season ended on 8 October 2026 with 1.165 billion yuan ($173 million), below last year, as crime drama Traces of Justice led.

Zheng Qinwen beat Mirra Andreeva 7-5, 6-4 on 11 Oct 2026 to become the first Chinese China Open champion, then quit Wuhan a day later with a shoulder injury.