
What's Trending: Can your kids survive China's XXL homework .. and Macron's aviators that moved markets
Published on 4 Feb 2026
On What’s Trending, Hongbin Jeong and Nadiah Koh look at Chinese kids tackling homework the size of billboards, literally A0 sheets that have parents and kids scrambling across the floor like urban planners. Is this a creative way to learn… or just extra pressure in disguise?
Then, we jet over to Davos, where French President Emmanuel Macron’s steel-blue aviators stole the show. Memes, copycats, and viral comparisons to Top Gun’s Maverick exploded online and even sent the stock of the sunglasses’ maker soaring. Is this the next fashion phenomenon or the weird economics of the internet at work?
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