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Just look at the atmosphere around the Chinas's Jiangsu Football City League🇨🇳⚽🔥 In 2025, this provincial league alone ran for 176 days and 85 matches: • 2.2 billion livestream views • social media traffic exceeding roughly $14 billion USD in exposure value • generating billions of RMB in local revenue — worth several billion USD Then came 2026 Opening Ceremony: 🤖 290 robots and robot dogs dancing in formation 🏎️ 40 electric kart racers circling the stadium 🚁 2,026 drones lighting up the night sky 📱 Nearly 91.2 million total media impressions And this is only one province. China has many leagues and local sports ecosystems like this. So the question becomes practical, not emotional: why spend $250–300 million USD on FIFA broadcasting rights, when around 70% of matches air between 2am and 9am Beijing time, and the Chinese men’s team isn’t even in the tournament? What exactly can FIFA still offer Chinese audiences that local sports culture increasingly cannot?🤔 @FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup @JiangsuNow @ModernJiangsu

NATURAL JUSTICE: Who needs a court house? In rural China, judges travel to remote villages and set up “chambers” anywhere to resolve disputes. This meadow by a lake appears to be in Yunnan province. The banner officially declares that the circle of attendees constitute the county's “circuit judges court”. In the west, the idea of having “circuit” (from “circling around”) judges was popularized from the UK from about the 1400s onwards. Ordinary people had no freedom to leave their “demesne” (domain). To seek justice, they would have to wait until a circuit judge visited the area. Today, in big cities, Chinese court systems have set up officially recognised internet access so that people living far away don’t need to physically attend court hearings.

As the Yellow River cuts through the gorge, its force is held back by the dam — until the floodgates open and torrents burst out in a thunderous roar. A small gate tames mighty waves, protects both banks, and reveals the breathtaking romance of China’s rivers and mountains.