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Baidu's trending board is asking how a country manages to produce seafood from places as far from the ocean as it is possible to be. The answer - desert-edge prawn ponds in Xinjiang, salmon in the Tianshan foothills, shrimp in Shaanxi salt lakes - says a lot about China's food security instincts.
Lin Shidong and Kuai Man swept the Asian Games mixed doubles final without a smile or a raised fist, and the sight of champions who look afraid to enjoy winning has reopened China's argument about table-tennis fan culture.
Joey Wong, the Hong Kong cinema icon who quit acting in the 1990s, has 'returned' through an AI avatar licensed from her own portrait rights - and trended twice at once, as fans welcomed her back and cynics accused the 90s stars of monetising nostalgia.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Wang Manyu beat Sun Yingsha 4–2 in Nagoya for her second Asian Games women's singles title, China's eighth in a row — and Sun's press-conference admission that the next Games may fall outside her career turned a routine all-Chinese final into a reflection on how little time the country's table tennis stars actually get.
The two giant pandas announced by Xi Jinping at the White House welcome ceremony reached Zoo Atlanta on Sunday morning, US time, to begin a ten-year stay — the most concrete piece of panda diplomacy in years, and the part of the summit ordinary Americans visibly cheered.
A user asked Doubao, ByteDance's assistant used by hundreds of millions, what share of people die before 70 — and its census-based answer, roughly 35% overall and 40% for men, spread across Chinese social media as an unplanned meditation on mortality.
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