Dear Reader, This week, the Chinese internet exploded over a pair of earrings worn by a child actress. In recent years, China ...

Trending in China This is a brief update from our curated roundup of what’s trending in China this week. A version of this ...

What’s in your water? Would a water by any other name taste as good? That’s the main gist of the topic that’s been trending ...

The Chinese historical drama A Love Never Lost (人生若如初见) has been getting a lot of attention on Chinese social media since it ...

H ow did the death of a young stray cat lead to a online wave of grief and outrage over the past few days? It started with ...

🔥 A version of this story also appeared in the Weibo Watch newsletter. Subscribe to stay in the loop. The China tour of American Youtube star IShowSpeed (Darren Watkins Jr.) is still echoing on ...

In April 2025, China’s food delivery sector witnessed a somewhat dramatic development, which attracted major attention online, when Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com publicly challenged food delivery ...

This is a brief update from our curated roundup of what’s trending in China this week. A version of this story also appears in the Weibo Watch newsletter. Subscribe to stay in the loop. An enormous ...

Russian recruitment ads, China’s censorship, and how Western media sometimes guess Beijing’s stance by reading between the wrong lines. Recently, news broke that two Chinese nationals were captured by ...