A new, strange phenomenon called the “plastic eating” trend for weight loss is gaining momentum in China on TikTok. According to clips doing the rounds on the internet, people, especially youngsters, ...

In June 2025, while U.S. and Philippine forces conducted joint military drills in the Sulu Sea and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed America’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific at Singapore’s ...

On Chinese social media, eating disorders are reframed as discipline and beauty, sustained by coded language, visual culture, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A video of a female subway passenger eating a banana while wrapped in a large plastic bag has gone viral on Chinese social media.

China's economy is stumbling and is likely headed for a lost decade similar to Japan's. That's according to former IMF official Desmond Lachman, who said China may no longer be the world's growth ...

In the new Sino-Russian defense relationship, China does what it wants, and there isn’t a whole lot Russia can do about it. Xi Jingping’s recent visit to Moscow—his first since Vladimir Putin invaded ...

As recently as a generation ago, the U.S. foreign policy establishment seemed to take seriously Halford Mackinder’s theory of the Heartland, which posits that control of the Eurasian “World-Island” ...