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Seven Months After Calling Patriotism a Responsibility, Anta's Ex-CEO Moves to Los Angeles

Xu Yang, the former chief executive of sportswear giant Anta, has moved his family to Los Angeles months after telling an industry audience that patriotism "is a sentiment, and above all a responsibility." The contrast has reignited a Weibo debate about the nationalist marketing that built China's biggest sportswear brand.

Ding Ming, an 82-year-old Chinese masters athlete, won the M80 80-metre hurdles title at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, with a time of 15.99 seconds — and broke the long-standing Asian record. The medal was another chapter in a decades-late athletic career that has a Chinese audience half his age wondering how they rank against him.

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How Hong Kong Kept Its Vegetables Honest: A Viral Food-Safety Ordinance Explained

A viral Weibo post reduced Hong Kong's food-safety record to a single law: the Food Safety Ordinance, which turns violations into crimes with fines and jail time. The claim is simplified, but the legal teeth behind Hong Kong's clean produce are real—and the contrast with mainland enforcement is why mainlanders share it.