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No Off Switch: WeChat Users Say the App's AI Has Been Reading Their Chats

WeChat's built-in AI assistant Xiaowei appears to draw on users' chats and Moments posts, and offers no way to disable it — only a buried 'Memory and Privacy' settings page. The discovery is now trending on Weibo and Baidu.

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Family Fights Ruling That Blames a Dead Couple for Part of a Drunk Official's Crash

A drunk, speeding township employee with no headlights killed an elderly couple crossing a Shanxi highway — and the accident ruling assigned them 'secondary responsibility' for their own deaths. Their review application, now accepted by police, is the story China is arguing about.

News & Politics

Indonesia Stops the Suspect in the Raja Ampat Turtle-Killing Video at the Airport

A man identified in Chinese media as Wei Shang, a diving instructor, was intercepted at an Indonesian airport trying to leave the country as the Raja Ampat regency filed formal evidence over the filmed shooting of a critically endangered hawksbill turtle. He denies being the man in the video.

China's health commission says the population stands at 1.405 billion and births run 'around 8 million' — but the latest full-year figure was 7.92 million, and the gap between the official framing and the reality is what Chinese social media is arguing about.

News & Politics

China Pledges a Childcare Law as Births Settle Near 8 Million a Year

15 Sep 2026

A question atop Zhihu — why can China achieve 'vegetable freedom' when Europe cannot? — drew answers ranging from agronomy to national pride. The short version: Europe's climate fights its leafy greens, and China's entire food culture is built around them.

Food

Why China Has 'Vegetable Freedom' and Europe Does Not

15 Sep 2026

Three years after a one-point loss to the Philippines ended China's run at the Hangzhou Asian Games, a rebuilt Chinese men's team beat the defending champions 105-61 in Nagoya on Sunday — the group-stage statement of a tournament that now heads into the knockout rounds.

Sports

China Demolishes the Philippines by 44 Points in Asian Games Basketball Rematch

15 Sep 2026

New bank loans collapsed to 60 billion yuan in August as Chinese households kept paying down mortgages. For the first time on record, companies raised more money selling shares than banks lent in a month — the latest sign that China's savers are choosing stocks over property.

News & Politics

China's August Credit Data Was Weak Across the Board — and the Money Piled Into Stocks Instead

15 Sep 2026

Zhao had no spouse, no children, no siblings. When she died alone in Beijing, nine uncles and aunts fought over her flat. A court ruled it forfeit to the state — a preview, Chinese readers realized, of a question a childless generation will keep meeting.

Life Stories

Beijing Court Rules a Solitary Woman's ¥4 Million Flat Goes to the State, Not Her Nine Relatives

15 Sep 2026

Chinese platforms including ByteDance's Doubao have switched off the AI characters that let users chat with recreations of dead relatives, as new rules on humanlike AI take effect. For the people who used them, it meant saying goodbye to a parent or grandparent a second time.

Tech

China Switches Off the AI Agents That Brought Back the Dead

15 Sep 2026

News & Politics

Free Eggs, Fake Checkups and Private Livestreams: Inside the Scam Playbook Targeting China's Elderly

14 Sep 2026

The period drama Lan Xiang Ru Gu crossed a heat index of 29,000 within four days on Tencent Video, but China's loudest TV argument this week is not about the official leading couple. It is about three seconds of screen time between Liu Xueyi and guest star Zheng He Huizi — proof, fans say, that on-screen chemistry is metaphysics, not marketing.

Entertainment

Three Seconds of Screen Time: The Cameo Behind C-Drama's 'Chemistry Is Metaphysics' Debate

14 Sep 2026

A video of a scuba diver shooting a critically endangered hawksbill turtle with a speargun in Indonesia's Raja Ampat islands — reportedly to cook and eat it — has flooded Chinese social media, where the diver is suspected of being a Chinese diving instructor. Chinese divers are leading the condemnation of a killing that broke Indonesian law and the norms of their own sport at once.

News & Politics

Suspected Chinese Dive Instructor Filmed Shooting a Protected Turtle in Raja Ampat

14 Sep 2026

China's national cybersecurity standardization committee released the third version of its AI Security Governance Framework in as many years, at the opening of a awareness week that is trying to teach ordinary users — including a stage-play protagonist who granted an AI replica of his late wife access to his accounts, face and home — to distrust what the technology offers them.

Tech

China Rolls Out AI Security Framework 3.0 as Its Cybersecurity Campaign Targets Everyday AI Risks

14 Sep 2026

Guangzhou-based GAC will issue shares to buy assets from Changchun's FAW, and the northern giant will become its second-largest shareholder — the clearest sign yet that China's brutal auto price war is pushing the country's state-owned carmakers together. The announcement came on Monday night, after GAC's shares were suspended for up to ten trading days.

News & Politics

GAC and FAW Sign Landmark Restructuring Deal as China's State Carmakers Consolidate

14 Sep 2026

Wuzhishan, in the mountains of Hainan, logged its heaviest 24-hour rainfall in 68 years, setting off flash floods, a school-slope collapse and a tornado in Wanning as more than 42,000 people were moved to safety. With the rain now easing, the island is watching a new system offshore: Typhoon Azalea, which could reach super-typhoon strength just ahead of China's busiest holiday fortnight.

News & Politics

Hainan Reels From Its Heaviest Rain in 68 Years as Typhoon Azalea Takes Shape

14 Sep 2026

Health

A Mother Switched Her Family to Non-Iodized Salt. Her Toddler Stopped Talking.

14 Sep 2026

China's doctoral enrollment passed 200,000 students a year for the first time in 2025, and the academic job market cannot hold them. The most visible consequence: elite secondary schools in Shenzhen and other rich cities now staff their classrooms with Tsinghua, Peking University and Cambridge PhDs.

Culture

Why Tsinghua and Cambridge PhDs Are Becoming Chinese Middle-School Teachers

14 Sep 2026

China's customs agency intercepted 162 tonnes of konjac flour imported from Indonesia by spicy-snack maker Weilong after tests showed sulfur dioxide above the national limit. The company says none of it reached its wildly popular konjac strips — a reassurance the public is only partly buying.

Food

Customs Blocked 162 Tonnes of Weilong's Konjac Powder Over Sulfur Dioxide

14 Sep 2026

August's sales figures showed combustion-engine cars falling to barely half their former volume as electrified models reached a record 65% of the retail market. Then GAC, one of the biggest names still leaning on fuel cars, halted its shares pending a major announcement amid merger talk.

Tech

Fuel Cars Hit a Wall in China: Retail Down 40% as BYD Declares They Have No Future

14 Sep 2026

The Communist Party's mouthpiece has called out three fabricated viral stories by name — a fake charity gift, a made-up sponsorship dispute, a false accusation against a four-year-old — and warned that chasing traffic without a bottom line will backfire.

News & Politics

People's Daily Names Three Viral Hoaxes in a Warning on Chasing Traffic

14 Sep 2026

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No Off Switch: WeChat Users Say the App's AI Has Been Reading Their Chats

Family Fights Ruling That Blames a Dead Couple for Part of a Drunk Official's Crash

Indonesia Stops the Suspect in the Raja Ampat Turtle-Killing Video at the Airport

China Pledges a Childcare Law as Births Settle Near 8 Million a Year

Why China Has 'Vegetable Freedom' and Europe Does Not

China Demolishes the Philippines by 44 Points in Asian Games Basketball Rematch

China's August Credit Data Was Weak Across the Board — and the Money Piled Into Stocks Instead

Beijing Court Rules a Solitary Woman's ¥4 Million Flat Goes to the State, Not Her Nine Relatives

China Switches Off the AI Agents That Brought Back the Dead

Free Eggs, Fake Checkups and Private Livestreams: Inside the Scam Playbook Targeting China's Elderly

Three Seconds of Screen Time: The Cameo Behind C-Drama's 'Chemistry Is Metaphysics' Debate

Suspected Chinese Dive Instructor Filmed Shooting a Protected Turtle in Raja Ampat

China Rolls Out AI Security Framework 3.0 as Its Cybersecurity Campaign Targets Everyday AI Risks

GAC and FAW Sign Landmark Restructuring Deal as China's State Carmakers Consolidate

Hainan Reels From Its Heaviest Rain in 68 Years as Typhoon Azalea Takes Shape

A Mother Switched Her Family to Non-Iodized Salt. Her Toddler Stopped Talking.

Why Tsinghua and Cambridge PhDs Are Becoming Chinese Middle-School Teachers

Customs Blocked 162 Tonnes of Weilong's Konjac Powder Over Sulfur Dioxide

Fuel Cars Hit a Wall in China: Retail Down 40% as BYD Declares They Have No Future

People's Daily Names Three Viral Hoaxes in a Warning on Chasing Traffic