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Apple Raises iPhone Prices in China, and Its Own Stores Discount Last Year's Model

Apple Raises iPhone Prices in China, and Its Own Stores Discount Last Year's Model

On the day Apple raised iPhone prices across the board in China, its authorized stores began discounting the just-delisted iPhone 17 Pro — a price inversion that has Chinese buyers asking whether flagship phones have entered a 'luxury era', with Huawei's Mate 90 waiting in the wings.

The iPhone Feature Chinese Gossip Fans Can't Wait to Use: Photos That Can't Be Dismissed as AI

The iPhone Feature Chinese Gossip Fans Can't Wait to Use: Photos That Can't Be Dismissed as AI

A meme about which 'sister-in-law' will first use the iPhone 18's new photo-provenance feature has become the week's sharpest tech joke in China: cryptographic proof that a photo is real, arriving in the exact culture where celebrity teams dismiss inconvenient photos as AI fakes.

Apple Ships Its First Foldable: the iPhone Duo, From 15,999 Yuan

Apple Ships Its First Foldable: the iPhone Duo, From 15,999 Yuan

Hours after Apple's first event under new CEO John Ternus, the verdict is in on the 15,999-yuan iPhone Duo: a polished late entry into a foldable market Huawei, Xiaomi and Samsung have owned for years — plus an overnight price rise across the iPhone line and the quiet retirement of China's 'Hermès orange'.

Douyin rushed to remove user-made custom gifts of a sexually suggestive nature after a moderation failure let them flood its livestream gift store — a glitch that exposed how the platform's gift economy really works.

Douyin Pulls User-Made 'Suggestive' Gifts After Moderation Failure Floods Its Gift Store

9 Sep 2026

Apple lifted iPhone prices in China and unveiled its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, at its fall event under new CEO John Ternus — raising the question of whether buyers will pay nearly 16,000 yuan for a first-generation device in the market Huawei and Xiaomi dominate.

Apple Raises iPhone Prices in China as Its First Foldable Finally Arrives

9 Sep 2026

A PR staffer accidentally posted an internal 'attack-defence' instruction into a rival launch's media group, exposing how a Chinese automaker tracks and counters coverage of Xiaomi's Pengcheng SUV — and costing the group its existence within minutes.

A Misfired Message Shows a Chinese Automaker's 'Attack-Defence' Playbook Against Xiaomi's New SUV

9 Sep 2026

A joint NSA-CISA-FBI report says DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot and three other Chinese AI companies extracted billions of tokens from US frontier models — while conceding no evidence that Beijing knew. Beijing calls the charge a smear as DeepSeek readies a STAR Market IPO and a new model launch.

US Security Agencies Accuse Six Chinese AI Firms of Distilling American Models

9 Sep 2026

Honor has set September 28 for the Magic9 series launch, previewing a moss-green flagship co-engineered with cinema-camera maker ARRI and an accessory telephoto system that pushes a phone's reach to 500mm. It is the clearest sign yet that China's phone wars are now fought over cameras, not chips.

Honor's Magic9 Puts a Movie Camera Logo on a Phone, and a 500mm Lens in Your Pocket

9 Sep 2026

China's annual services-trade fair opened at the renovated Shougang park in Beijing on September 9, with 1,830-plus exhibitors from 90 countries and a first-of-its-kind 'China Services' hall. The message from the capital: the next chapter of Chinese exports is AI, healthcare, finance and expertise — not just goods.

CIFTIS Opens in Beijing With Services, Not Scaffolding, as China's New Export Pitch

9 Sep 2026

A humanoid robot in camouflage saluted President Lula at Brazil's Independence Day parade, presented as the army engineering institute's EOD research platform. Chinese social media quickly flagged the detail underneath: the hardware is a G1 from Hangzhou's Unitree Robotics.

The Saluting Robot at Brazil's Parade Was Wearing a Chinese Build

8 Sep 2026

Apple is expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone on Thursday, priced above $2,000 — days after Huawei and Xiaomi launched foldables of their own, from 10,999 to 19,999 yuan. China's foldable market, the world's largest, is treating the arrival as a referendum.

Apple's $2,000-Plus Foldable iPhone Lands in a Market Huawei and Xiaomi Dominate

8 Sep 2026

Xiaomi's New SUVs Took Four Minutes to Book 10,000 Orders

8 Sep 2026

Huawei's New Tri-Fold Ships With Its First New Flagship Chip in Six Years

8 Sep 2026

Xiaomi ended its autumn launch night with a 10,999-yuan starting price for the 18 Fold, its first phone that folds twice into a three-panel screen, and a blunt explanation from founder Lei Jun for why it cannot be cheaper: memory chips have become brutally expensive. The show, hours after Huawei unveiled its own 19,999-yuan tri-fold, confirmed that China's flagship-phone race has entered a pricier era.

Xiaomi Prices Its Mid-Fold From 10,999 Yuan as Lei Jun Blames Costly Memory

7 Sep 2026

Xiaomi launches the 18 Fold, its first 'mid-fold,' expected from around 12,000 yuan, hours after Huawei's global tri-fold event — a September 'super week' in which Chinese makers are writing the foldable playbook Apple is rumoured to follow.

Xiaomi Bets on the 'Mid-Fold' as China's Foldable Super Week Begins

7 Sep 2026

China's First EV Boom Is Producing Its First Wave of Retired Batteries

5 Sep 2026

DeepSeek has ordered at least 160,000 of Huawei's next-generation Ascend 950DT chips for a new Inner Mongolia data center — one of the largest known clusters of Chinese AI silicon, worth about $2.56 billion. The lab that stunned the industry with efficient models is betting its infrastructure on domestic chips, and says it is willing to wait out Huawei's production bottleneck.

DeepSeek Orders 160,000 Huawei Chips in a $2.56 Billion Bet on Domestic AI Silicon

5 Sep 2026

A Weibo question about why clip-on earphones are suddenly everywhere drew thousands of answers this week: inflamed ear canals, 'oily ears,' and a pivot from noise-cancelling immersion to all-day situational awareness — with Shokz's new OpenDots 2 signaling the category's maturation.

Why China Has Fallen for Clip-On Earphones

5 Sep 2026