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Pandas, Students, and a Trade Truce: What Xi's Washington Visit Actually Delivered

Beyond the ceremony optics, Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington produced concrete deliverables: a trade truce extended to January 10, a pledge to bring 100,000 American students to China within five years, and pandas bound for Atlanta.

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Xiaohongshu Found a Taiwanese Man's Long-Lost Family in One Night

A Taiwanese man posted his grandfather's photograph and a decades-old Guangdong address on Xiaohongshu; within a night, the platform's recommendation engine had found his relatives, and this Mid-Autumn he was welcomed back to the village with drums and a 'family reunion' arch — a story Weibo is reading as an argument about the strait.

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Why a Supermarket Chain's Building Site Is Moving China's Civil Engineers

Pang Dong Lai's 6.5-billion-yuan Dream City complex is being livestreamed, barcode-tagged and paid on time — ordinary compliance with China's building code that has contractors and engineers asking why it took a grocer to deliver it.