Thousands of Weibo users protested by using hashtags like #IAmGay and #IHaveGayFriends, while many shared selfies and personal stories.
The surveillance app, the name of which literally translates to “web cleansing,” scans for photos and videos and dispatches all the information to a mysterious outside server.
The rage directed at critics of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs is a reminder of how many people don’t want to believe that an homage can also slight the culture it's putting onscreen.
"This looks like some dementor shit but wow I want one."
"As the Chinese saying goes, it is only polite to reciprocate."
China announced new tariffs on 128 products imported from the US in response to President Donald Trump's new taxes on steel and aluminum imported into the country.
In an email seen by BuzzFeed News, Airbnb told hosts it had to comply with local laws.
Pictures of a massive train accompanied by guards and a motorcade through Beijing fueled rumors that the young North Korean leader left his home country for the first time since 2011. Chinese state media confirmed the visit Wednesday.
The Trump White House is encouraging high-level visits to Taiwan, but many on the island are worried this will make them a pawn in the great power game with China.
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President Trump wants to impose an estimated $50 billion in tariffs on China. But shoppers might be hit hard as a result, a group of retailers warn.
The curbs come in response to the country's theft of US intellectual property, the administration says. The move is likely to spark retaliation from Beijing.
Iconic.
A treat for the ears, not so much for the teeth.
A television reporter asked a long-winded and fawning question of a government official, and this journalist wasn't having any of it.
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China, which has long pushed for a return to talks, appears optimistic about the process — even though it won't be part of it.
"He's now president for life," Trump said of China's Xi Jinping. "Maybe we'll give that a shot some day."
Human Rights Watch found the database has a direct link with a growing network of “political education centers,” where tens of thousands of ethnic minorities are detained in the country’s west.
The move suggests Xi Jinping is on the path to becoming the most powerful Chinese leader in more than a generation. Here's how he consolidated power.
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China's government says that the Nobel Prize winner is an agitator for an independent Tibet.
"Oh well, karma's a bitch."
Are humans next?
Look! You hot boy now.
Over the weekend, an oil tanker carrying about 1 million barrels of a light crude oil sank into the ocean. It’s unknown how much of the toxic material has escaped into a prime commercial fishing spot between China and Japan.
Pick your poison.
Oh, the lady pretty.
From ISIS's apparent defeat to nationalism's resurgence to women's voices finally being heard as they said "me too," the world seemed more turbulent than ever in 2017. BuzzFeed World was there.
A Human Rights Watch investigation found the Chinese government is gathering DNA samples, fingerprints, iris scans, and blood types of millions of people in the country's far west.
Relatable.
"Need me a hype man like her."
"No man has to prove himself this way. They can take a picture of a finished product and everyone believes them," Naomi Wu told BuzzFeed News.
The president tweeted the comments Wednesday after LaVar Ball, the father of one of the players, downplayed Trump's role in getting them released from China.
The president tweeted on Wednesday morning about his intervention in the three UCLA players' detention.
A new report by Human Rights Watch says the abusive practice is still in use despite recent progress made by LGBT activists.
“I call this trip to Asia ‘Mission Impossible,’” one foreign policy watcher told BuzzFeed News.
Good luck!
The president abandoned his usual anti-China rhetoric during a trip to Beijing, in a bid for cooperation on the North Korean nuclear issue.
From Brexit to Trumpism, here's how a Chinese Communist Party journal views the Western wish for "deglobalization" — and how China will fill the void.
Gui Minhai was one of a group of five booksellers and publishers in Hong Kong kidnapped by Chinese agents in 2015.
Same.
At a twice-a-decade party meeting in Beijing this week, it’s hard not to notice the lack of female faces.
Far from the booming metropolis of Beijing, China is building a sprawling system that combines dystopian technology and human policing. “It’s a kind of frontline laboratory for surveillance.”
It comes ahead of the Chinese party conference this week, as the BBC's editor discussed the security restrictions placed on the capital.
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The order from Chinese regulators comes as the Trump administration works to convince Beijing to pressure Pyongyang.
The fan is actually Chinese.
The group has denied that the comment was implying anything racist.
Me to my fifth grade teacher: "LIAR!"
