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)

This picture taken from Azabudai Hills on August 28, 2026 shows the Tokyo Tower and the city skyline in Tokyo. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP via Getty Images)

A woman inspects machinery at a business affected by power outages that local residents attribute to the nearby Ascenty and Microsoft data centers in the town of Colon, Queretaro state, Mexico, on July 29, 2026. Data centers are growing rapidly in Mexico, but the next stepgenerating or storing artificial intelligenceruns up against an electrical grid that is already operating at its limit. (Photo by Cesar Gomez / AFP via Getty Images)