The 2023 WorldCon was held in China, for the first time. (It's traditionally outside North America every other year.) There were lots of Chinese-language works on the ballot, which was to be expected -- lots more Chinese-literate people attending.
The rules say that the statistics must be released within 90 days of the convention. Usually they are released the next day. This time, it went all the way to the limit, and arguably beyond.
The statistics, at a first glance, look like they have been coerced.
Several works were adjudicated to be ineligible. Some of them were plausibly inelegible, and a reason was supplied for each. (First published in a prior year, for example.) Some of them were obviously eligible, and no reason was supplied. E.g. R.F. Kuang's novel _Babel_.
The Netflix series The Sandman was ruled ineligible, both in the long form (whole series) and short form (episode 6). The rules say that the admin can choose which category to put a work in if it looks like there's a lot of support for both -- but here the admins decided to drop it from both.
Paul Weimer was dropped from the best fan writer award. No explanation.
Finally, only one member of the admin staff has answered questions at all, and he has been repeating "We acted in accordance with the constitution and the rules we had to obey" over and over again, without further explanation.
So.