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The repeated lesson from other countries is that the loss of immunity and the appearance of new variants make herd immunity a futile goal when it comes to COVID.
After nearly three years of keeping COVID under control, China is experiencing a massive new wave of COVID infections. The official (...)
Video footage from late December shows elderly patients infected with COVID-19 on stretchers receiving oxygen stored in large blue bottles. They are being treated on the road outside the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital, one of the largest in Shanghai.
Behind the emergency room (...)
Despite different approaches toward the pandemic, the US and China share a commitment to capital accumulation
Days after a significant mass uprising in multiple major cities in China in December, the government completely reversed its zero-COVID policies, which had been in place for the (...)
Having forced draconian lockdowns on his people, China’s supreme leader is now expecting them to believe that the virus is no worse than a cold.
In the chaos of China’s Covid exit wave, China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, has been curiously absent. His last public pronouncement on China’s (...)
A video footage shows a crowd of students at Tsinghua University in Beijing holding up blank pieces of paper and chanting, “Democracy, rule of law, freedom of expression!” Through a loudspeaker, a young woman can be heard in the background shouting: “If because we are afraid of being arrested, we (...)
The Chinese population has low immunity against COVID, making it vulnerable to high levels of transmission.
China is the only major country which, until now, has continued to enforce a zero-COVID strategy. Other countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, also sought to (...)
A surge in both COVID-19 cases and protests inside China presents a dilemma for the ruling Communist Party.
The regime has long adopted a successful strategy of eliminating the virus. Unlike in the United States, where a “profits before people” political framework often dominated, resulting in (...)
Loosening controls further could spark a devastating outbreak, but tightening the rules again could trigger unrest
At the end of October, Xi Jinping had secured his position as China’s most powerful leader in decades, his grip on the country cemented by a norm-breaking third term in office.
At (...)
“The internalisation of a false binary in Western narratives risks resulting in misreading the Chinese protests by interpreting the protesters’ rejection of the authoritarian biopolitics of zero covid as a tacit demand for the necropolitics of the United States. At the same time, this type of (...)
After a weekend of widespread protests across China, rs21 member Charlie Hore explains the movement’s significance and looks at what might come next.
Protesters on Urumqi Road, Shanghai – picture by unknown Chinese photographer via Ming Pao Weekly, Hong Kong.
Protest returned to the streets of (...)
• Protests broke out around the country last weekend in the latest sign of growing discontent over the country’s strict controls
• The restrictions – which range from the highly inconvenient to the potentially dangerous – are taking a growing toll on the public
China’s stringent Covid controls (...)
Unprecedented protests have erupted in multiple Chinese cities over President Xi Jinping’s strict zero-COVID policies, which have resulted in extended strict lockdowns across the country. The protests were triggered by a deadly fire Thursday at an apartment building in Urumqi, the capital of (...)
The zero-Covid policy is damaging the economy, but to reverse it risks loss of life, economic damage and the emergence of new variants
Protesters across China have made one thing very clear: after three years of harsh restrictions, many people are tired of their government’s pursuit of an (...)
Beijing students shout ‘freedom will prevail’, as Urumqi fire prompts levels of disobedience unprecedented in Xi era
Police officers detain people during a protest against Covid curbs in Shanghai. 02:07 ’Xi Jinping, step down!’: anti-lockdown protests spread across China – video
Protests against (...)
Crowds of residents in southern China’s industrial metropolis Guangzhou have escaped a compulsory lockdown and clashed with police, as anger at strict coronavirus curbs boiled over.
Dramatic footage shows some overturning a police vehicle and tearing down Covid control barriers. Riot teams (...)
In late October, dramatic images and videos of Chinese workers jumping over factory walls and fences and walking home on foot grabbed global headlines. Why is this happening, and why does the story resonate with so many people?
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In late October, information and rumors circulating (...)
Images show banners emblazoned with protest messages hanging from overpass on major road in Beijing
A rare protest against the Communist party in Beijing and fears over renewed Covid restrictions across Shanghai are stoking political tensions just days before President Xi Jinping is expected (...)
• Health QR codes are one of the most powerful tools in China’s antivirus arsenal, but a recent scandal in Henan province shows how open they are to misuse
• Authorities should waste no time putting more safeguards in place – and offer their unequivocal assurances that the system will not become a (...)
Jia Kang reports on the restriction of personal freedoms as the Chinese authorities attempt to manage an outbreak of the Covid omicron variant by locking down a large part of Shanghai.
In China, the repression of freedom of speech has become increasingly fierce, and now it has evolved into (...)
Au Loong-yu writes on the ongoing lockdown in Shanghai and the consequences of a zero Covid policy under despotic rule.
Or, to be precise, is the “Cultural Revolution” making a comeback to 22 cities or regions in China because of the lockdown to get rid of Covid? Shanghai is singled out only (...)
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