Week 17 This is a brief update from our curated roundup of what’s trending in China this week. A version of this story also ...

D o you know who Li Gang is? On April 22, 2025, it is the name that is top trending on Chinese social media platforms Weibo, ...

From Comrade Trump to the Tariff Beauty, Trump has many nicknames on Chinese social media.

From historic speeches to trending slogans, this is China’s official media response to the US tariff escalation.

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Since 2023, the power of creative collabs has become crystal clear: younger Chinese consumers especially love it when tea or coffee chains team up with unexpected partners, like Luckin and Maotai, or ...

“China’s countermeasures are here” (#中方反制措施来了#). This hashtag, launched by Party newspaper People’s Daily, went top trending on Chinese social media on Friday, April 4, after President Trump announced ...

Angela is a Shanghai-based freelance writer focusing on a wide range of sociopolitical topics in China, including social media pop culture, and gender issues. Born and raised in Taiwan, Angela holds a ...

“This man is doing God’s work. In just six hours, he eliminated all Western media propaganda about China,” Chinese influencer Li Sanjin (李三金) said in one of his videos this week. The man he referred ...

It’s just a small product, but it sparked a big controversy this week: a fake Gucci lipstick went viral after a female netizen named Miao (苗) shared with her followers how a Gucci sales associate sold ...