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A post about breakfast stalls where the loudest customer gets served first became one of Weibo's most-liked rants of the week, and the argument underneath it — about disorder, civility and who has to perform aggression to get their due — is a very Chinese one.
The Freelander, the Land Rover that once defined the family SUV, is back after a decade — built by Chery's joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover, launched first in Beijing, and running Huawei driver-assistance software as standard. It is the clearest picture yet of how far Chinese tech has penetrated the foreign brands.
A post asking why one person should have to hold a job and keep a home became one of Weibo's most-argued-over questions this week. The answer, for many Chinese women, is obvious — and so is the pushback.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A 59-year-old New Zealander has become the first foreign patient to travel to China for solid-tumor CAR-T cell therapy, paying 990,000 yuan for a course of treatment unavailable anywhere else. His case points to a quiet reversal: foreigners now come to China not for cheap care, but for care they cannot get at home.
China's women's basketball team will chase the FIBA World Cup, which opens September 4, without Li Yueru — its most influential player — after her passport was lost while being mailed to her in the United States and could not be found before the registration deadline. The explanation left fans incredulous and shot up Baidu's trending board.
A driver on one of China's most popular self-driving routes hit a flock of sheep, paid 84,800 yuan in compensation — and was told the dead animals were not his. The reason is a corner of tort law that city drivers keep rediscovering.
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