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The father of one of China's biggest stars livestreamed from an Aksu orchard at the local commerce bureau's invitation, selling 7,000 orders of the region's famous sugar-heart apples in 20 minutes and taking no fee — the latest in a genre of official-adjacent celebrity livestreams that has become a fixture of rural China's e-commerce push.
China's top men's table tennis player published a rare public reflection on his slump — and the fan response turned it into a debate about whether individual players should be carrying a team-wide problem.
Chinese media has taken a close look at the anti-data-center backlash sweeping the US, from a shooting at a politician's home to a proposed law that would treat AI development like nuclear-weapons research — and the framing for Chinese readers is about who pays the power bill.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A Nanjing man gives away noodles free to anyone who queues, no questions asked. The problem is what it did to every other food business on his street.
Elon Musk posted on Friday that SoftBank is defaulting on its gas-turbine orders, with no evidence and no reply from SoftBank. Chinese finance readers are treating it as the clearest statement yet that the constraint on the AI boom is electricity.
Nvidia's board has launched an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang after reports of a past relationship with a Chinese businesswoman at the center of a US export-control probe. Chinese readers are watching the story from the other side: the anti-monopoly probe, the tax investigation, and the Embassy's 'baseless' dismissal.
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