A woman carrying shopping bags walks past a store at a shopping district in Beijing on August 31, 2026. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP via Getty Images)

People visit a store at a shopping district in Beijing on August 31, 2026. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP via Getty Images)

A woman walks past an Apple store in Beijing on August 31, 2026. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP via Getty Images)

A woman covers her face with her phone to shelter from the sun as she walks past an Apple store in Beijing on August 31, 2026. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP via Getty Images)

People visit a shopping district in Beijing on August 31, 2026. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP via Getty Images)

Chinese-made MG ZS vehicles, produced by SAIC Motor, are parked at a vehicle storage yard awaiting shipment for export in Yantai, in eastern China's Shandong province, on August 31, 2026. (Photo by CN-STR / AFP via Getty Images) / China OUT

Chinese-made MG ZS vehicles, produced by SAIC Motor, are parked at a vehicle storage yard awaiting shipment for export in Yantai, in eastern China's Shandong province, on August 31, 2026. (Photo by CN-STR / AFP via Getty Images) / China OUT

A vendor weaves a shawl at her tourist gift shop along a street in Thimphu, Bhutan on August 30, 2026. (Photo by Niharika KULKARNI / AFP via Getty Images)