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China sends 70,000 Communist Party workers to help Covid-19-hit city
Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan warns the situation in Yangzhou is not yet under control and calls for stricter measures.
China Mahjong Dens Were Superspreader Sites, Spurring Crackdown
A favorite pastime of elderly Asians has been implicated as a major driver of China’s current outbreak of delta virus cases, sparking the shutdown of tens of thousands of mahjong dens across the nation.
China Partly Shuts World’s Third-Busiest Port, Risking Trade
China partly shut the world’s third-busiest container port after a worker became infected with Covid, threatening more damage to already fragile supply chains and global trade as a key shopping season nears.
EXCLUSIVE IKEA's malls arm branches out into housing with new centre in China
IKEA's shopping malls business, one of the world's biggest, has kicked off the sales process for some 500 flats at its first-ever mixed-use retail and residential development, in Changsha in southern China.
Swiss ask Chinese media to pull quotes from 'fake' citizen
GENEVA (AP) — Several Chinese newspaper websites have removed comments about the coronavirus pandemic that were “wrongly presented” as coming from a Swiss biologist who does not appear to exist, Switzerland’s foreign ministry said Wednesday.
China auto sales tumble for a third straight month in July
China's vehicle sales slid in July for a third consecutive month, hit hard by flooding in some areas of the country, COVID-19 outbreaks in other areas and the global shortage of semiconductors.
China's COVID outbreak hitting services sector, travel, hospitality
China's tighter social restrictions to fight its latest COVID-19 outbreak, now in its fourth week and involving more than a dozen cities, are hitting the services sector especially travel and hospitality in the world's second-largest economy.
Covid-19 infections rise in eastern China prompts more mass testing
Yangzhou city in Jiangsu province at centre of outbreak reports 54 out of 90 new local cases as sixth round of tests begins.
Boeing 737 MAX test plane takes flight in China - Flightradar24
A Boeing Co (BA.N) 737 MAX test plane took to the skies in China on Wednesday as the U.S. manufacturer looks to end a nearly two-and-a-half-year regulatory grounding of the model in the key travel market.
China’s Strict Covid-19 Strategy Risks Slowing Economic Recovery as Delta Variant Hits
Economists are lowering full-year growth forecasts as Beijing imposes tough measures to try to curb the spread of the Delta variant.
China Rejects WHO Call for More Transparency on Origins Probe
China’s Foreign Ministry bluntly rejected the WHO’s call for China to be more cooperative with investigations into COVID-19’s origins.
Delta outbreak forces rethink of China’s 2021 GDP growth forecasts
The highly-infectious coronavirus mutation, which has led to widespread lockdowns in China, is forcing economists to re-evaluate the country’s economic growth outlook for the year.
China responds with fury to US hunt for Covid-19 lab leak evidence
Foreign ministry decries ‘obsession’ with political manipulation over virus origins and demands investigation into Fort Detrick claims.
China Aims for ‘Olympic Blue’ With Plans to Extend Steel Curbs
China’s top steel hub will join the campaign to ensure blue skies for Beijing’s Winter Olympics by capping output and ordering other measures to slash pollution.
China orders tests for millions as Covid cases hit new high
Country logs 181 new cases including 108 local symptomatic infections, the highest since the current wave began on July 20, as fears grow over the Delta variant.
China’s Biggest Oil Refiner Sinopec Seen Cutting Runs as Delta Hits
China’s biggest oil refiner is scaling back operations as Beijing’s aggressive response to the delta virus variant saps demand for road and aviation fuel, according to an analyst.
Canadian faces spy ruling in China as Huawei decision looms
BEIJING (AP) — A Canadian entrepreneur who was charged with spying after his government arrested an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei faces a possible verdict Wednesday as Beijing steps up pressure on Canada ahead of a court ruling on whether to hand over the executive to face U.S.
Chinese report says US is ‘world’s number one in pandemic failure’
Three Chinese think tanks publish paper stating the US was to blame for ‘currency abuse, pandemic turmoil … origin-tracing terrorism’.
China Air Travel Posts Biggest Drop Since Start of Pandemic
The number of seats being offered by airline carriers in China dropped the most since early in the Covid-19 pandemic, as rising cases of the delta variant spurred fresh restrictions on movement.
China’s Covid-Zero Strategy Risks Leaving It Isolated for Years
As most of the world learns to live with Covid-19, China is tethering itself to eliminating the virus over the long term -- an approach that risks leaving the world’s second-biggest economy isolated for years to come.
Beijing seems to have COVID-19 under control again
Beijing struggles to reopen, but fine-tuned quarantine systems and contact tracing allow for rapid government response.
Beijing takes extreme measures after 79 coronavirus cases are diagnosed
Children in the Chinese capital were supposed to return to school today, but after a handful of COVID-19 cases were found on June 11 and 12, those plans were canceled. The China Project reported last week on all the ways the city went back into lockdown after nearly two coronavirus-free months, as soon as just three people were diagnosed with COVID-19.
Beijing calls study of Wuhan hospital traffic ‘outrageously absurd’
A new Harvard study raises questions about the timing of the outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan. The study is still awaiting peer review, however, China’s efforts to discredit the researchers’ work show how science has become politicized amidst a global pandemic.
Beijing updates sanitized timeline of COVID-19 response
China’s State Council Information Office has released a 37,000-word white paper assessing their summary of the government’s response to Covid-19. Their conclusion? The CCP outperformed its own propaganda.
China’s mass COVID-19 testing moves from Wuhan to the northeast
According to Chinese officials, every resident of Wuhan over the age of six has now been tested for COVID-19–an extraordinary mass testing campaign that at first seemed unclear and unfeasible, but soon became a reality
COVID-19: Beijing shared ‘minimal information’ with WHO in early days
The Associated Press has published another report about the early days of China’s coronavirus response that punctures Beijing’s official, sanitized narrative of a transparent and immediate response to the crisis.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang: ‘recession will be followed by a new boom’
China is experiencing its worst economic slowdown in decades with tens of millions of people unemployed and a demand slump around the world dampening chances for a quick recovery. Premier Li Keqiang nonetheless sounded an upbeat message on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress.
Trump sends hate mail to WHO, threatens to make funding pull permanent
Late last night, Donald Trump tweeted out a four-page letter addressed to World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “It is self-explanatory!,” Trump added. Indeed, his…
China moves to crush a COVID-19 cluster in the northeast before political meetings in Beijing
Despite reporting no coronavirus deaths for over a month, Chinese authorities remain on high alert for virus infections. A cluster in northeastern China, which had mysterious…
China has reported zero COVID-19 deaths for a month
According to China’s official statistics, no one has died from COVID-19 in the country for over a month. However, persistent viral spread continues to raise…
The new normal: Widespread COVID-19 testing
“Large-scale, efficient testing has been proven to be a key to controlling the rampant spread of coronavirus in the global war against the pandemic,” reports…
‘Can lives be saved by attacking China?’ Beijing scolds Washington as Trump casts blame for ‘Plague’
U.S.-China relations continue to plunge since the Trump administration — in particular Mike Pompeo, the top diplomat at the Department of State — began claiming…
China rejects Australian beef after PM Morrison calls for independent COVID-19 investigation
The Chinese Foreign Ministry didn’t bother to deny a connection between “erroneous words and deeds” of Australia, including calls for more transparency from China on COVID-19, and export blockages.
Shanghai Disneyland reopens, but no selfies with Mickey Mouse
Shanghai Disneyland sold out of entrance tickets for its first day of reopening — today, May 11. The park was the first of Disney’s theme…
The Indianapolis-Shanghai partnership that could develop an effective COVID-19 remedy
American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co., based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is partnering with Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co. to develop a remedy for COVID-19, and…
