# China
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A Bite of Home on the Golden Triangle’s Edge: One Border Policeman’s Sacrifice and China’s Anti‑drug Frontline
A Yunnan border policeman’s emotional reunion with his family after a surprise visit highlights the human cost of long‑term deployments on China’s drug interdiction front line. Yang Rui’s decade‑long service on the China–Myanmar border, punctuated by multiple drug seizures and official commendations, illustrates both operational successes and the strains placed on personnel and families.
Street Rescue: Ex‑Soldier Uses Military First‑Aid to Calm a Panicked Girl
A retired serviceman used an improvised rebreathing technique with a plastic bag to calm a hyperventilating young woman on a late‑night street. The intervention relieved her symptoms within minutes, underscoring both the value of basic first‑aid training and the need for public guidance on safe emergency practices.
China’s Foreign Ministry Pushes Festive Diplomacy, Courting Overseas Chinese Ahead of Lunar New Year
At the Foreign Ministry’s last press briefing before the Lunar New Year, spokesman Lin Jian extended festive wishes and highlighted a four-year consular campaign to support and engage overseas Chinese. The initiative combines welfare visits and cultural events run by embassies and consulates to foster people-to-people ties and bolster China’s soft power abroad.
Pinduoduo Tightens Food-Safety Rules and Live-Stream Oversight to Keep Lunar New Year Supplies Flowing
Pinduoduo has launched a holiday‑period campaign combining subsidies for essential foods with stricter food‑safety and live‑stream governance. The platform has tightened seller licence checks, expanded AI‑enabled monitoring of advertising and images, mandated detailed permits for specific categories, and stepped up lab sampling and IP protections to reassure consumers during the Lunar New Year.
Veteran Volunteers Keep Troops Fed on the Move — A Local Fix for China’s Logistics Crunch
A volunteer "small cart" team of retired servicemen in Bengbu now prepares and delivers hot meals to passing military units, addressing manpower shortfalls in China’s shifting logistics needs. The project is a small-scale example of municipal-level civil–military cooperation that boosts surge capacity while raising questions about standardization and long-term governance.
Beijing Freezes Growth of Vape Manufacturing, Tightens Rules for Capacity, Outsourcing and Exports
China's tobacco regulator has prohibited new e‑cigarette plant investments and largely barred capacity expansion through relocations or technical upgrades, while imposing strict compliance, environmental and export rules. The policy aims to rein in unlicensed production, enforce product and environmental standards, and constrain overall industry output without halting technological upgrades that meet regulatory conditions.
Beijing Issues Antitrust Playbook for Platforms — ‘Choose‑One’ Exclusivity and Algorithmic Coordination Flagged as Key Risks
China’s market regulator has released a comprehensive antitrust compliance guide for internet platforms, targeting exclusivity (‘choose‑one’) practices, algorithmic coordination and other forms of dominance abuse. The non‑binding but detailed document presses platforms to institute robust risk assessment, algorithm audits and governance measures, signalling steadier and more technical antitrust enforcement ahead.
Close Calls Over the Strait: How PLA J-16 Tactics Signal a Shift from Deterrence to Control
A leaked Taiwanese note, published in the Financial Times, describes three close encounters in which PLA J-16s used flares, tailing maneuvers and radar masking to intimidate and control F-16s during last year’s drills. Analysts say these incidents reflect a tactical shift by Beijing from symbolic demonstrations to coercive control that raises the risk of miscalculation and complicates deterrence for Taiwan and its partners.
A Bite of Home: How One Chinese Border Policeman’s Tears Reveal the Human Cost of Securing the Golden Triangle
A border policeman in Yunnan, Yang Rui, was moved to tears when his family surprised him with homemade food during a New Year duty shift after years of absence. His story — marked by multiple drug busts and official commendations — highlights both the operational challenges of policing the Golden Triangle and the personal sacrifices of China’s frontier security forces.
Veteran Volunteer 'Little Cart' Team Keeps Troops Supplied as PLA Logistics Shift to Round‑the‑Clock Mobility
A volunteer "little cart" team of retired soldiers in Bengbu has been mobilized to provide hot‑meal logistics for passing PLA units, addressing manpower shortfalls created by the shift to continuous, mobile support operations. The initiative formalizes veterans' involvement through training, uniforms and appointment letters and serves both operational and social aims while highlighting questions about scalability and integration.
Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek Trials 1‑Million‑Token Context Window in App — API Still Capped at 128K
DeepSeek is testing a new long‑context model in its web and app interfaces that supports roughly one million tokens, while its public API remains limited to 128K token context on version 3.2. The trial highlights the commercial and technical trade‑offs involved in bringing ultra‑long context windows to production and signals intensifying competition in China’s AI landscape.
Facing Down ALS: The Last Campaign of China’s Patient-Driven Researcher Cai Lei
Cai Lei, an ALS patient and research organiser in China, remains a central figure in nationwide efforts to push amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research forward despite being in the terminal stage of his illness. Through patient registries, international collaborations, and a high‑profile push for post‑mortem tissue donation, he is building infrastructure that could materially accelerate domestic ALS science even if he does not live to see a cure.