Michelle Obama tries to assimilate into checks out the Terracotta Warriors with her daughters and her mother in Xi'an, China, on Monday. Image via Alexander F. Yuan/AP.

A pool report from the U.S. press team covering Michelle Obama's tour of China notes that authorities ordered local merchants to hide their stock of "Obama-Mao" T-shirts from a section of the Great Wall where the First Lady and her daughters visited earlier today.

A Chinese businessman bought a Tibetan Mastiff puppy for $2 million this weekend, the most money anyone has ever spent on a dog.

At the Kunming train station in China's Yunnan province, 27 people have been killed and 109 are injured after a group of men wielding knives went on a rampage this evening.

At the end of this month, four major baby trafficking rings were busted by authorities in Beijing and Jiangsu, rescuing 382 babies and arresting 1,094 people involved.

A study by the Chinese army shows its troops are significantly fatter and taller than they were 20 years ago, meaning the average soldier won't be able to fit into the communists' tanks or behind their rifle butts soon. They should make awesome capitalist CEOs one day, though.

A Chinese man narrowly escaped a bloody death over the weekend after he leaped into a zoo's white tiger enclosure and attempted to get himself eaten. He was apprehended by zookeepers and escaped with only minor injuries.

Here's something you should never watch if you're afraid of heights: A group of Russian daredevils filmed themselves climbing (and hanging from) the world's second highest building, the still under-construction Shanghai Tower. It's absolutely terrifying.

Journalists in China are having a hard time staying there — writers for the New York Times and Bloomberg have faced multiple visa problems after publishing critical stories. Another Times reporter was forced out today, prompting an article documenting recent "signs of official displeasure with the newspaper."

America sent its manufacturing to China, but the pollution is "coming back to haunt us," according to a new study. The jobs and economic growth remain on the other side of the Pacific. This seems like a pretty bad deal, overall.

A doctor convicted of selling at least seven newborns to human traffickers was sentenced to death on Tuesday.

KFC is the biggest US fast food chain in China. In the past year, however, sales have fallen sharply. Why oh why have the Chinese forsaken our delicious poisonous fried chicken?

The White House originally instituted a policy that it would respond to every petition that garnered more than 25,000 signatures. After responding to cute requests for Death Stars and the deportation of Piers Morgan, they raised the threshold to 100,000. But today they had to comment on Kimmel.

On Monday, the United States transferred the three remaining Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay to Slovakia. The transfer comes five years after a judge ordered that the three men be released and 10 years after the military determined the Uighurs were "not affiliated with Al Qaeda or a Taliban leader."

Devastatingly sweet pictures of a dog faithfully protecting his canine friend's body are being circulated online. If you don't want to cry today, you might want to avoid watching the video.

A spacecraft launched by China has landed on the moon, the first "soft landing" a man-made object has made on the moon since 1976.

A man who was fed up with his girlfriend's incessant Christmas shopping responded to her request for one more look around a mall shoe store by leaping seven floors to his death.

Public relations rule No. 1: Turn that extreme negative into a mild positive. Rule No. 2: Quickly delete the story that Rule No. 1 produced.

In the past few months, the New York Times has run a series of stories revealing the business practices of JP Morgan in China, where the bank hired the children of the country's elite to get business from the Chinese Government. How far did JP Morgan go in pursuing these deals? Federal authorities have obtained documents that show the bank tracking the hirings to potential business deals.