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Liu Yandong, a Politburo member across two administrations and Vice Premier from 2013 to 2018, died in Beijing on Tuesday at 81. Her obituary trended at No. 2 on Baidu even as her Weibo topic page held nothing but official announcements.
A woman bitten by a tick during a trip to the forests of Yichun spent 28 days in intensive care and is now paralyzed in all four limbs, her husband says. Chinese doctors are using the case to correct dangerous myths about tick removal.
Xia Xia, the 23-year-old blogger who documented five years of cancer treatment after her parents cut contact, died in Shanghai on Monday. Her farewell video, recorded in advance, closed with thanks to the strangers who followed her hospital diaries.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Two days after Kylian Mbappé apologized for remarks that enraged Chinese fans, Beijing gave its first official response — a measured 'we value the apology' — while French newspapers turned on his entourage and his remaining Chinese sponsors kept their distance.
DeepSeek's newest model has become the most-used AI model on OpenRouter, the platform developers use to route requests among competing models, with weekly call volumes up 801% in a single week — and Chinese models now fill the entire global top five.
A widow's post about finding her late partner's ring in a coat pocket half a year after his death drew thousands of condolence replies — and an argument about the keepsake-or-second-bereavement question it forced.
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