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Travel Frog: China Journey, the localized edition of the Japanese game that captivated Chinese players in 2018 with a frog that travels alone, will stop operating on December 8 after its IP licensing deal expired. Weibo is mourning — and admitting it stopped playing years ago.
A humanoid robot in camouflage saluted President Lula at Brazil's Independence Day parade, presented as the army engineering institute's EOD research platform. Chinese social media quickly flagged the detail underneath: the hardware is a G1 from Hangzhou's Unitree Robotics.
A Xiaohongshu influencer posted a photoshopped receipt showing a 1 million-yuan donation to the Guangxi Red Cross during July's typhoon flooding. The Red Cross found no such gift — only a one-yuan donation under her name — and lawyers say she could be made to actually pay the million.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Huawei's Mate XT 2 launched in Guangzhou with the Kirin 9050 Pro, the first new flagship Kirin chip announced at a Huawei launch event since 2020 — and a teardown livestream that drew 100,000 viewers to inspect the silicon. Executive director Richard Yu also had a message for Apple users: buy a Huawei as your backup phone.
Two days after saving a match point against Madison Keys, Zheng Qinwen lost five straight games to open her fourth-round match against Iga Swiatek — then won seven in a row to take the set, and the match with it. The 2-0 win puts the Olympic champion into the US Open quarterfinals against Elena Rybakina and has Chinese social media debating whether she is the most clutch player in tennis.
Regulators in Wuhan have fined the organizer of one of Guo Degang's stage shows more than 600,000 yuan in combined penalties for distorting a beloved wartime song, turning a comic riff on a red classic into a nationally followed test of where China's performance boundaries lie.
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