As Europe struggles through record heat, Chinese social media is turning the story into something much bigger than the weather. Plus: the graduation speech everyone is talking about & more. Here’s ...

How Adidas won and Nike lost, Japan's lost decades as a mirror for China, and why a possum is the new workplace spirit animal. A special deep dive into the 2026 Xi-Trump summit through Chinese social ...

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Some voices say that regardless of a Taiwan visit by Pelosi, US-China relations have already reached one of the lowest points in decades. Chinese tourists who were planning a solo trip to Taiwan are ...

While the public initially supported 'Grandma Xu' and criticized the Benz driver from Baoding, the narrative took an unexpected turn.

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Chinese filmgoers won't be seeing Christopher Robin - What's on Weibo talking to BBC World Update. Since Apple handed over their iCould operations in China to the Chinese Guizhou-Cloud Big Data ...

In a booming online gaming market, these are some of the apps most appreciated by Chinese online gamers today. China has the largest mobile gaming market... With apps and QR code scanning taking over ...

While the huge Xiantiandi fire captured the attention on Chinese social media, another Tianjin fire also broke out at the same time. Bus and subway operators in Beijing will no longer refuse entry to ...