THE WEEK

Chinamaxxing: the American trend co-opting and romanticizing Chinese culture

Even though relations between China and America remain tense, many young Americans’ perspectives seem to be shifting as they adopt Chinese cultural habits. The online trend, dubbed Chinamaxxing, has ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Iran War Hobbles Myanmar Economy as Gasoline Supplies Disappear

In Myanmar’s military-controlled capital, Naypyidaw—an isolated city of more than 800,000 where oversize government compounds are separated by almost-empty highways—drivers stand in line for hours ...
NBC New York

Is TikTok down? Outages reported in major U.S. cities Tuesday

TikTok users in several major U.S. cities reported what appeared to be an outage starting Tuesday afternoon. According to DownDetector, reports of outages started climbing just before 1 p.m. The ...
Forbes

How TikTok Shop Is Amazon’s Most Powerful Commerce Demand Engine

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. TikTok Shop’s biggest impact doesn’t stay on TikTok. Success on TikTok Shop lifts ...
The Diplomat

China’s Intervention and the Limits of Fatalism in Myanmar

Troops with the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) raise their flag after the capture of Lashio in July 2024. A year later, China pressured the MNDAA to withdraw and cede control of ...
Reuters

Iran’s shadow fleet is fueling the Myanmar junta’s air war

On September 15, 2025, the location transmitter of an Iranian oil tanker called Reef pinged near Iraq’s offshore Basrah Oil Terminal. Reef was actually several hundred kilometers away at the Iranian ...
Variety

FIFA Sets TikTok as ‘Preferred Platform’ Content Partner for 2026 World Cup

TikTok has been set as FIFA’s first-ever “preferred platform” partner in a deal ahead of the 2026 World Cup that aims to make the social media app the “go-to place for fans and creators throughout the ...
Engadget

TikTok announces shared feed and collections features

TikTok just announced a couple of updates that that should make the app a bit more social. There's something called Shared Feed, which is exactly what it sounds like. It's a feed that friends and ...
Rolling Stone

Kesha Has Learned to Love ‘Tik Tok’: ‘That Was Just Me!’

Fifteen years after Animal and Cannibal, Kesha is finally feeling glittery again. Now that her long legal battle with producer Dr. Luke is over, she’s ready to reembrace her career breakthrough, which ...
Business Insider

There's a ton of investing advice on TikTok. Most of it is bad, a new study says.

TikTok is awash in investing advice. Investors should be wary, though. A study shows that much of the advice on the platform is misleading. That poses a danger, especially to younger investors who are ...
Reuters

Oracle, Silver Lake part of group of investors who will own about 50% of TikTok US, source says

Sept 25 (Reuters) - A group of three investors, including Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab and private-equity firm Silver Lake, will take a roughly 50% stake in TikTok U.S., a source familiar with the ...