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China’s local governments are struggling to pay their bills
Provincial- and city-level governments in China are straining under unsustainable debt habits decades in the making, which were exacerbated by the costs of COVID-zero. Teachers and other public service employees are paying the price.
Editor’s note for February 17, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Pensioners protest as China’s healthcare system struggles to recover from COVID spending
Crowds of elderly Chinese people took to the streets in Wuhan and Dalian to protest local healthcare reforms. While protests aren’t that rare in China, such public anger at its cash-strapped healthcare system may signal waning trust in the government.
Hong Kong sees influx of Chinese visitors as borders reopen fully
COVID curbs in China are completely over, and after three years of lockups, Chinese travelers are eager to see the world again.
‘COVID free and feeling fantastic in the Year of the Rabbit’ — Phrase of the Week
A newly coined idiomatic pun captures the mood as China enters its New Year holidays, with many people recovered from COVID feeling good about the year ahead.
China’s chaotic COVID re-opening
Deborah Seligsohn, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, talks about her time spent in Shanghai and Beijing between October 2022 to early January 2023. She shares her firsthand experience with quarantine, testing, and lockdowns — as well as witnessing the protests and China’s sudden reopening.
Xi’s great pivot and risks in the Chinese market in 2023 | Live with Lizzi Lee
Diana Choyleva, the chief economist at Enodo Economics, talks about Xi’s COVID zero U-Turn and what it might mean for China’s economic recovery in a post-pandemic world.
Editor’s note for January 5, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Xi Jinping says it’s normal for people to hold different views
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
China opens up its borders
In the latest move made by Beijing to dismantle its COVID-zero policy, inbound travelers no longer need to quarantine, while some foreign visas and domestic passport processes have been resumed. But some still fear the wave of infections sweeping over China.
‘Pandemic: Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!’ — Phrase of the Week
Pandemic fatigue is driving many Chinese social media users to pull out a popular phrase, in hopes of warding off the wave of COVID infections washing over the nation.
Editor’s note for December 19, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
China reports only two COVID deaths as infections strain healthcare system
The two deaths in Beijing are the first official fatalities China has reported since relaxing COVID zero, as a wave of cases strain its healthcare system and its economy. But no one believes that only two people have died from the virus.
Francis Fukuyama on the risky path Xi Jinping chose for China
As China navigates an uncertain post-COVID-zero future after highly unusual nationwide protests, celebrated scholar and author Francis Fukuyama spoke to Audrey Li Jiajia about what we can learn from the events of the past few weeks.
Feminists and LGBTQ activists at China’s COVID protests
A feminist and an LGBTQ activist speak out about the A4 protests inside and outside China — how they sparked divisions, misogyny, and violence, but also hope and solidarity.
Have the seeds of dissent been sown in China?
Something in China changed this year. Citizens have a new appreciation of their power even against a highly repressive party-state armed with advanced surveillance technology, argues scholar Lynette H. Ong.
The mounting risks in Beijing’s COVID-zero reversal | Live with Lizzi Lee
Jennifer Bouey, an epidemiologist and the chair of the Department of International Health at Georgetown University, discusses the incoming wave of COVID infections that could strain China’s healthcare system and endanger the elderly.
The end of China’s national COVID-tracking app
After three years of tight nationwide controls, China has abandoned COVID zero in less than a week.
China’s COVID zero pivot | Live with Lizzi Lee
James Zimmerman, a partner in the Beijing office of Perkins Coie, talks about China’s U-turn on its COVID zero policy, and what to expect next.
China’s coming COVID tsunami?
Many experts warn that China is facing the possibility of a massive number of deaths from COVID-19.
