China trends: week of 2026-10-26

Can Tencent’s Green Bubble Really Challenge Red Fruit?

Tencent

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“Everyone Gets Old—Why Mock ‘Old Deng’?”

Background: “Old deng” is Chinese internet slang for an older man, often used in a derogatory way.

A Famous Eight-Treasure Porridge Brand Turns Out to Be a “Coal Boss”

Background: Eight-treasure porridge is a traditional Chinese sweet porridge made with grains, beans, dried fruit, and other ingredients.

If the Spring Festival Gala Performed This, I Wouldn't Be Sleepy

Background: The Spring Festival Gala is China's annual televised variety show for Lunar New Year's Eve.

Purposeful Art: Restraint and Complexity in Game Design, Using KR and BTD6 as Examples

Background: Bloons TD 6, or BTD6, is a tower-defense video game.

Three.js Hospital 3D Dashboard in Practice: Full Workflow from Modeling to Interaction with Codex, Blender MCP, and React

Background: Three.js is a JavaScript library for creating and displaying interactive 3D graphics in web browsers.

Two Statues Honoring Hubei-Born Long March Martyrs Unveiled

Background: The Long March was the Chinese Communist Red Army's 1934–1935 military retreat.

Did a Philippine warship “shadow” the Liaoning? The whole world laughed

Background: The Liaoning is a Chinese aircraft carrier.

Midday Update | Everything Takes Off! China’s A-Shares Finally Rise—Can They Hold Steady?

Background: A-shares are shares of mainland Chinese companies traded in renminbi.

The Most Gruesome Storm Mountain Villa Mystery! Tomoyuki Shirai's The Cannibal Mansion Murder Case: Seven Mountaineers Trapped in a Mansion That Eats People...

Background: The Storm Mountain Villa trope isolates characters in a remote setting during a blizzard, typically for a mystery story.

Ni Ni, 38, posts her driver's license: “I passed, I passed—congratulations to me”; she shares 94 selfies documenting her driving lessons

Background: Ni Ni is a Chinese actress.

Media: China is sending a lower-level representative to the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting-Plus; the signal is very clear

Background: The ADMM-Plus is a security forum linking ASEAN defense ministers with eight partner countries.

China's defense minister will not attend the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting-Plus; the identity of China's representative has been revealed

Background: The ADMM-Plus is a security forum linking ASEAN defense ministers with eight partner countries.

People’s Commentary: Mbappé’s “Blunder” Offers a Mirror for Public Figures

Background: People’s Daily is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.

CCTV Highlights Volunteer Teacher Zou Zhipeng: Twenty Years of Teaching Without Pay, Saying, “I Hope to Live as a Ray of Light”

Background: CCTV, or China Central Television, is China’s state broadcaster.

2026 Hurun Rich List Released: One in 10 Listed Individuals Made Their Fortune Through AI

Background: The Hurun Rich List ranks China’s wealthiest individuals and is published by the Hurun Report.

Behind the Little Genius Watch Controversy: How Can Childhoods Be Freed from Being “Boxed In”?

Background: Little Genius is a Chinese brand of smartwatches designed for children.

In Heaven and on Earth, I Alone Am Supreme

Background: A classical Buddhist phrase expressing the idea that the speaker is uniquely honored above all others.

The dance drama Mazu will soon be livestreamed worldwide

Background: Mazu is a Chinese sea goddess worshipped across coastal East and Southeast Asia.

The Jiaolong Submersible Gets an Iterative Upgrade

Background: Jiaolong is China's manned deep-sea research submersible.