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After weeks of speculation that her child was born to a surrogate, the singer and influencer Xu Yiyang took to a livestream to answer her critics point by point — and left the internet arguing about what celebrity families owe the public.
Japan's new national-team list left out Mima Ito for the first time in twelve years — and the player who once pushed Chinese table tennis hardest chose to answer with a wiped Instagram account and no farewell at all.
The president's inspection tour of an Inner Mongolia prefecture put a spotlight on the coal-and-grassland region rebranding itself as China's green data-center belt, where wind power and cold air are meant to run the country's AI.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A Hangzhou store supervisor who asked for five days off to accompany her mother through cancer surgery was refused, had a spur-of-the-moment resignation 'instantly approved', and walked away this week with no negotiation and no compensation. Her account has made China's caregiving-versus-workplace squeeze the talk of the internet once again.
On Friday noon, Japan's Meteorological Agency told millions to brace for a magnitude-9.9 earthquake — stronger than any ever recorded — then withdrew the alert eight minutes later. The real quake, near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, was a 6.9. The withdrawal was the first of its kind in the history of Japan's alert system, and the spectacle became one of the day's biggest conversations on Chinese social media.
An account that transcribes conversations overheard in public published a quarrel between a mother and her fifth-grade daughter over how often to change a sanitary pad — and 16,000-odd likes later, China is arguing about frugality, period shame and who controls a household's money.
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