China trends: week of 2026-10-19

Why Is Slytherin So Popular Now?

Background: Slytherin is one of the four houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series.

In Matchweek 7 of the 2627 Premier League season, Nottingham Forest lost 0–1 to Arsenal. How should the match be assessed?

Background: The Premier League is England's top men's professional football league.

How should the incident involving a Chinese student from Nanjing at a history class at Moscow State University be assessed? The student wore the Rising Sun flag, with a Japanese military cap on the desk

Background: The Rising Sun flag is a Japanese flag design associated with Japan's military and imperial past.

Google is sending TPU AI chips into space; each run performs calculations for about 15 minutes, then must pause for cooling. What is the outlook for space computing centers?

Background: A Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, is Google's specialized chip designed to accelerate machine-learning computations.

How should DeepSeek's launch of its self-developed Search API be assessed? It costs 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests

Background: DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company known for large language models. Model announcements and community claims require separate verification.

DeepSeek

A Chinese AI company that develops large language models and offers a chat service and developer API. Reference ↗

Jun Zhengping speaks out about a Chinese student wearing the Rising Sun flag

Background: The Rising Sun Flag is a Japanese flag design associated with Japan’s imperial military history.

Huiyuan Group: We Will No Longer Produce Huiyuan Juice

Background: Huiyuan is a Chinese fruit juice brand.

Details Emerge About an International Student Wearing the Rising Sun Flag

Background: The Rising Sun flag is a wartime Japanese symbol that remains politically sensitive in East Asia.

Liu Tao Appears at the Sea Worship Ceremony Marking Mazu’s Ascension Anniversary

Background: Mazu is a revered Chinese sea goddess associated with maritime protection.

Golden Rooster Awards Nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress Announced

Background: The Golden Rooster Awards are major Chinese film awards.

Xue Zhiqian Appears at His Concert Wearing Miao Silver Jewelry

Background: The Miao are an ethnic group in China and Southeast Asia, known in part for elaborate silver adornments.

Practical Fall and Winter Layering Outfit Tutorial for JKs

Background: JK commonly refers to Japanese high-school-girl style, especially school-uniform-inspired fashion.

Champion Again After Seven Days? Xiao Hai Successfully Gets Revenge on GO1!! [Fatal Fury]

Background: The King of Fighters is a fighting game series by SNK.

Huawei Router X2 Pro Officially Announced Support for the Smart Life App; Launch Date Yet to Be Determined

Background: Huawei is a Chinese technology company.

Huawei

A Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications equipment, devices and computing products. Reference ↗

Wang Teng Shares His Thoughts One Year After Leaving Xiaomi: “Still Very Grateful to Xiaomi and Lei Jun”

Xiaomi

A Chinese company whose products include smartphones, connected home devices and electric vehicles. Reference ↗

Xiaomi SU9 LUX Trademark Enters Preliminary Approval Announcement Stage; New Car May Target the Executive Luxury Flagship Market

Xiaomi

A Chinese company whose products include smartphones, connected home devices and electric vehicles. Reference ↗

More Details Emerge on the HarmonyOS Zhixing Shangjie Z9: Reportedly a 2027 Model Launching in April or May Next Year

HarmonyOS

Huawei's operating-system family for connected devices. Features and app support vary by version and device. Reference ↗

DeepSeek API Now Supports Web Search and Scraping at 5 Yuan per 1,000 Successful Requests

Background: DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company and model developer.

DeepSeek

A Chinese AI company that develops large language models and offers a chat service and developer API. Reference ↗

Can a Short-Link Service Really Reach 100,000 QPS in One Weekend by Just Adding Redis?

Bug Jun's October 16 Juejin article presents 100,000 QPS as a target, not a measured achievement. The author says k6 was unavailable in the validation environment. Its lab starts with one Go process, in-memory mappings and a local append log; PostgreSQL and Redis are a proposed later evolution. A correct redirect requires 302 and the matching Location header. Disable automatic redirect following for endpoint-only tests, and separate planned arrivals, requests sent and correct responses. Grafana's constant-arrival-rate executor starts iterations independently of response time while virtual users are available; its configured rate alone is not achieved correct-response throughput. We read both sources; we did not execute the code, reproduce throughput or audit the implementation.

How Significant Is DeepSeek’s Impact on Baidu Search?

Background: DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company known for large language models. Model announcements and community claims require separate verification.

DeepSeek

A Chinese AI company that develops large language models and offers a chat service and developer API. Reference ↗

Baidu

A Chinese technology company known for internet search, AI and autonomous-driving technology. Reference ↗