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Americans Are Revolting Against Data Centers, and Chinese Media Is Watching the Backlash

Americans Are Revolting Against Data Centers, and Chinese Media Is Watching the Backlash

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Chinese media has taken a close look at the anti-data-center backlash sweeping the US, from a shooting at a politician's home to a proposed law that would treat AI development like nuclear-weapons research — and the framing for Chinese readers is about who pays the power bill.

Nvidia's Board Investigates Its CEO: The House Briefing, Beijing's Response, and the Man Who Could Be Forced Out

Nvidia's Board Investigates Its CEO: The House Briefing, Beijing's Response, and the Man Who Could Be Forced Out

Jensen Huang's affair admission has now pulled in a US House committee, a Beijing press briefing, and the White House. Nvidia's board has opened an independent investigation into whether the affair involved Chinese intelligence — while Huang stays on as CEO.

Fu Peng's Claim: All AI Comic-Drama Creators Are Losing Money, and the Platform Takes the Cut

Fu Peng's Claim: All AI Comic-Drama Creators Are Losing Money, and the Platform Takes the Cut

A finance commentator says every AI comic-drama maker in China is losing money, and the platform takes the profit. A 12-billion-view hit shows the audience is real -- the question is who gets paid.

Musk Claims SoftBank Is Defaulting on Gas-Turbine Orders — Without Evidence

Musk Claims SoftBank Is Defaulting on Gas-Turbine Orders — Without Evidence

Elon Musk posted on Friday that SoftBank is defaulting on its gas-turbine orders, with no evidence and no reply from SoftBank. Chinese finance readers are treating it as the clearest statement yet that the constraint on the AI boom is electricity.

Nvidia's Board Investigates Its CEO: The Jensen Huang Affair, the Spy Allegation, and China's Read

Nvidia's Board Investigates Its CEO: The Jensen Huang Affair, the Spy Allegation, and China's Read

Nvidia's board has launched an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang after reports of a past relationship with a Chinese businesswoman at the center of a US export-control probe. Chinese readers are watching the story from the other side: the anti-monopoly probe, the tax investigation, and the Embassy's 'baseless' dismissal.

The AI Drama Boom's Two Faces: A Student's 3 Million Yuan and an Actress's Lemon Tea Stand

A mechanical-engineering junior in a Suzhou dorm says his AI-made comic dramas have earned over 3 million yuan, while in Hengdian, a short-drama actress who once worked ten thousand-yuan months now sells hand-shaken lemon tea to pay rent because the filming days have dried up. The same boom is producing both.

A 20-Million-Follower Blogger Says She Sells 30,000 Yuan a Livestream Without Paid Traffic. The Argument Is About Who Owns the Fans.

7 Nov 2026

A Chinese 'smart ring' sold for 2,699 yuan and marketed as a 'wearable anti-fall device' has been pulled from e-commerce platforms after a viral video of its balancing demonstration was debunked as a physics trick. The story is a case study in how China's online health market preys on the elderly.

A 2,699-Yuan 'Smart Ring' That Promised to Keep the Elderly Steady Is Pulled From Platforms After a Billionaire's Video Debunked It

7 Nov 2026

An Australian Startup Sent 350,000 AI 'Victims' Into Scam Compounds' Phone Banks. Chinese Readers Made It a Hero.

6 Nov 2026

At 503.17 km/h, a Chinese Electric Hypercar Sets the World Speed Record on a Closed Road in Abu Dhabi

6 Nov 2026

Tencent's new Shenzhen Bay headquarters — a reclaimed-island campus built for tens of thousands of employees — is having its public unveiling, and the state-endorsed hashtag riding it is a window into how Chinese tech wants to be seen: as AI infrastructure, not apps.

Tencent Opens Penguin Island: A Campus for 80,000 on Landfill in Shenzhen Bay

6 Nov 2026

Unofficial Korean-dubbed versions of China's AI-generated short dramas are spreading on TikTok and YouTube, winning Korean audiences who sometimes mistake them for local productions — and posing a copyright problem their makers can't easily fight.

Chinese AI Dramas Are Being Pirated to Korea With Korean Voiceovers, and Viewers Can't Always Tell

6 Nov 2026

Meituan, Ele.me and JD's delivery arms spent roughly 100 billion yuan on subsidies this year. The coupons are winding down — and the fight is shifting to premium services.

China's Delivery Platforms Burned 100 Billion Yuan in a Coupon War That Is Now Ending

6 Nov 2026

Scalpers Are Eating Six-Figure Losses on Apple's First Foldable in China

5 Nov 2026

Lijian-2, the modular rocket built by CAS Space, completed its second flight on November 3 by deploying 18 satellites for China's Qianfan broadband constellation — the first constellation-scale launch for a rocket designed to be assembled like building blocks, with its makers citing costs benchmarked against SpaceX.

China's Modular 'Constellation' Rocket Puts 18 Satellites in Orbit on Its Second Flight

4 Nov 2026

The first mass-market wave of Chinese EVs is crossing the eight-year battery warranty line, and replacement packs that cost more than the cars are worth are forcing owners — and now regulators — to confront what an aging electric fleet is actually worth.

2.6 Million Chinese Electric Cars Are About to Lose Their Battery Warranty

4 Nov 2026

When iPhone Weather began showing lows of -32°C for Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou on the same November day, China's forecasters had to publicly reassure the country — and one city weather account's plea for users to check its own app instead became the story's funniest footnote.

Apple's Weather App Told Half of China It Would Hit Minus 32. The Meteorologists Pushed Back.

4 Nov 2026

Unitree's star competitor overheated mid-race at the first robot Mount Tai climbing contest, and the viral image of workers stretcher-carrying it downhill has become China's most candid snapshot yet of the gap between humanoid hype and reality.

China's Most Famous Robot Was Carried Down Mount Tai on a Stretcher

4 Nov 2026