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Shanghai reports a rise in COVID deaths, while people fall through the cracks
Today in pandemic news from China: Seven more deaths in Shanghai, a red health code app leaves a man homeless, and more.
Editor’s Note for Monday, April 18, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: China is sticking to COVID zero, and the growing anxiety over investing in China.
Shanghai reports first COVID-related deaths as lockdowns stretch on
Despite three COVID deaths and shocking accounts from quarantine facilities, Beijing is sticking to its pandemic playbook.
Yeah nothing much happening — Editor’s Note for Friday, April 15, 2022
A note for The China Project newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: the same level of suffering in Shanghai’s lockdown, big companies warn of the consequences of COVID curbs, and minimum wage in China.
‘It’s like another world’ — phrase of the week
Just before Shanghai went into lockdown, one U.S.-based Chinese lawyer managed to leave the city after spending a surreal three months in quarantine on a failed trip to visit family.
‘I can’t believe our country is like this,’ and other conversations from the Shanghai lockdown
Today: An elderly man’s pleas get censored, a local protest goes viral, and more.
Locked down in Shanghai
Chang Che, a freelance journalist and business editor for The China Project, shares his insight and experience under Shanghai’s chaotic lockdown.
Audio from Shanghai lockdown: An elderly man’s heartbreaking plea
“I can’t believe our country is like this.”
Editor’s Note for Wednesday, April 13, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
A roundup of updates from Shanghai under lockdown
Today: A new daily record of infections, around 6,700 patients discharged, leaking hospital roofs, and more.
The companies making billions from COVID-19
The global pandemic has been a boon to China’s COVID testing companies.
Shanghai TV station blasted for planning star-studded anti-epidemic gala
“How did they find time to put together a gala at a time like this?”
Can truck and delivery drivers feed Shanghai?
Logistics and delivery companies are on the front lines of Shanghai’s COVID crisis, and they’re struggling.
Q&A: United Family Healthcare founder Roberta Lipson on China’s COVID strategy and private hospital market
In this interview, Roberta Lipson, founder of United Family Healthcare (UFH), talks about China’s COVID strategy, new developments at UFH, and her outlook for the healthcare provider market in the country.
Taiwan moves away from COVID-zero as cases climb
While Beijing continues to impose strict lockdown measures in an attempt to maintain its COVID-zero policy, Taiwan is beginning to shift toward living with the virus.
COVID lockdowns in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and around country
What is really going on in China with COVID?
Shanghai goes hungry — Editor’s Note for Friday, April 8, 2022
A note for newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: the fallout from China’s COVID zero.
Weibo removes hashtag about food shortages in Shanghai as locked-down residents go hungry
“If we can’t solve the problem, we need to solve the person who raised the problem,” said one cynical social media user as Weibo censored a popular hashtag about the ongoing crisis of people stuck in their apartments without enough food.
‘Ugh, here we are’ — Q&A with Geremie Barmé
We talked to renowned scholar Geremie R. Barmé about Shanghai under lockdown, Xi Jinping’s “empire of tedium,” nationalist thugs, and much more.
A voice from old Shanghai under COVID lockdown
Shanghai residents are seething under strict COVID-19 lockdowns that have left many imprisoned in their apartments without food. A video of one old man’s complaints that went viral gives an idea of the depth of discontent that some Shanghainese people are feeling.
