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A machine-translated thread about what is worth spending on shot up Weibo this weekend, giving shape to a debate the country is already having: the money has not disappeared, it has got picky.
Paralysed by ALS and communicating only with his eyes, the former e-commerce executive still works nightly on a drug for the disease — funded by the livestream his wife quit her accounting career to run.
A 3-0 win over Thailand in Nagoya put Chinese men's football in an Asian Games semi-final for the first time since 1998 — with South Korea, and two decades of underachievement, waiting on Tuesday.
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Beyond the ceremony optics, Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington produced concrete deliverables: a trade truce extended to January 10, a pledge to bring 100,000 American students to China within five years, and pandas bound for Atlanta.
A Taiwanese man posted his grandfather's photograph and a decades-old Guangdong address on Xiaohongshu; within a night, the platform's recommendation engine had found his relatives, and this Mid-Autumn he was welcomed back to the village with drums and a 'family reunion' arch — a story Weibo is reading as an argument about the strait.
Pang Dong Lai's 6.5-billion-yuan Dream City complex is being livestreamed, barcode-tagged and paid on time — ordinary compliance with China's building code that has contractors and engineers asking why it took a grocer to deliver it.
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