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As Beijing searches for ways to lift weak consumption, a blunt proposal keeps resurfacing: just give everyone money. This week's trending counter-question — why so many Chinese dislike universal handouts — opens a window on how people think the economy actually works.
Dashcam video from Hengyang, Hunan shows a slow e-bike rider blocking a car, the driver kicking her scooter to the ground, and a settlement of 800 yuan. The clip has become a national argument about road rage, the law — and why knocking over a pregnant woman's bike cannot be settled in cash.
China's Identity V team beat Japan in a five-game final at the Nagoya Asian Games, and 20-something pro Mu Xinyue walked off with the first esports gold ever won by a woman at the event — in what may be the tournament's last edition on the program.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
First-grade enrollment in Shandong has fallen about 50 percent from 2023, with Henan close behind — and the argument on Chinese social media is not about the numbers but about a policy of reassigning primary teachers to junior high to avoid layoffs.
Two days after a flight attendant's kneeling apology became China's most-watched video, the airline's first official statement says the passenger threatened to kick her and demanded a hospital escort — and pledges to defend front-line staff's "professional dignity."
A Hangzhou mother says the infant-care nurse she paid nearly 10,000 yuan a month mocked her body and her feeding choices until she was diagnosed with somatic pain. The case has struck a nerve over the trust Chinese families must place in a fast-growing, lightly vetted industry.
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