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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.
In search for coronavirus origins, Hubei caves and wildlife farms draw new scrutiny
Did COVID come from a cave in Hubei? The Washington Post visited the bat-inhabited Enshi caves in Hubei Province, of which Wuhan is the capital, and “observed human traffic” into the caves and “defunct wildlife farms…as close as one mile from the entrances.”
Sinopharm crosses 'critical threshold' on vaccines
Chinese drugmaker Sinopharm reached an annual production capacity of 7 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses last month, as significant progress has been made in upgrading existing vaccines to tackle new variants and in developing vaccines of different technologies, the head of the company said on Sunday.
Xi warns Chinese labs handling deadly pathogens will face closer scrutiny
The Chinese president made the comments at the first-ever Politburo study session dedicated to biosecurity, which he identified as a national security issue.
China’s Manufacturing Weakens, as Power Cuts Threaten More Damage
China’s manufacturing activity contracted in September, ending an 18-month expansion that powered the country’s recovery from the pandemic, with power curbs in hubs threatening further disruption.
Access to website dedicated to Tiananmen victims appears restricted in Hong Kong
Access to an online museum dedicated to the victims of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square appeared to be restricted in Hong Kong, with the website accusing authorities of censorship.
China Plans ‘Closed-Loop’ Bubble for Winter Olympics
Athletes and visitors will face severe restrictions on their movement, Beijing 2022 organizers said, and a level of control never before seen at the Games.
Beijing Olympics to Allow Spectators But Only Those in China
China is limiting spectators for the Beijing Winter Olympics to those residing within the country, as the nation applies its zero-tolerance Covid-19 strategy to the upcoming winter games.
Pet cats killed in Chinese city after COVID infection, triggering social media anger
Three pet cats that tested positive for coronavirus were put down in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, state-backed media reported, leading to a social media backlash at what some viewed as overkill in local efforts to contain the virus.
China kills 3 housecats that tested positive for COVID-19
BEIJING (AP) — A city in northern China has killed three housecats after they tested positive for COVID-19, according to a local media report Wednesday, as the country takes increasingly strict measures to contain new outbreaks.
Japan’s New Leader Is Prisoner of Policies He Inherited on China, Central Bank
Kishida’s inbox is brimming with stimulus and a looming general election. Then, he gets to relax with China tensions and a demographic time bomb.
Pandemic pushes Chinese tech giants to roll out more courier robots
More than a thousand robots are set to join the delivery personnel ranks of Chinese behemoths Alibaba , Meituan and JD.com over the next year as the pandemic fuels demand for contactless services.
Hong Kong’s ‘Hands Are Tied’ on Covid Rules, Top Adviser Says
Hong Kong is stuck between China’s zero-tolerance approach to the coronavirus and the west’s reopening, and it has no clear idea how to satisfy Beijing’s demands so cross-border travel can resume, a top adviser to the city’s leader says.
Chinese students head back to US as entry limits ease
A tepid job market at home and the allure of an American education is prompting many in China to reboot their overseas study plans.
World Bank Lifts China View, Slashes Asia Outlook on Delta Wave
The World Bank lifted its China growth forecast, while slashing its outlook for the rest of the East Asia and Pacific region as the spreading delta variant hammers manufacturing and tourism, and low vaccination rates hamper the recovery.
National Games torch passes to Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong
Xian’s hosting of elite sporting event passes pandemic test with no coronavirus cases linked to games.
China's power cuts may foreshadow shortages of global goods
BEIJING (AP) — Global shoppers face possible shortages of smartphones and other goods ahead of Christmas after power cuts to meet official energy use targets forced Chinese factories to shut down and left some households in the dark.
China’s Gaming Body to Bar Local Games on Foreign Platforms
The agreement with over 200 domestic companies is aimed at controlling gaming addiction among young players.
How Chinese red tape stopped US scientists getting early virus access
Emails show Galveston National Laboratory scientists urged counterparts to share the virus in early 2020 to speed up vital research but hit a bureaucratic wall.
China's biggest air show to display self-sufficiency drive, military prowess
China's drive for self-sufficiency in aerospace and its growing military prowess will be on display at the country's largest air show this week, in an event set against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic and trade frictions with the West.
