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Editor’s Note for Monday, April 25, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
April 25, 2022 Source: The China Project
Cooked in Shanghai — Editor’s Note for Friday, April 22, 2022
A note for The China Project newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
April 22, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘The mandate of heaven, ain’t falling yet, but there’s a lot of shit on people’s shoes’ — Q&A with Howard Snyder
Howard Snyder has decades of experience in risk and crisis management in Asia for companies like Coca Cola at events like the Shanghai Expo and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. We talked to him about Shanghai under lockdown and what it means for China’s future.
April 22, 2022 Source: The China Project
Shanghai keeps COVID restrictions
Today in pandemic news from China: Shanghai will keep restrictions in place, moldy food, and more.
April 21, 2022 Source: The China Project
Lockdown eases in Shanghai
Today in pandemic news from China: Despite an ease in quarantine rules, troublesome accounts of official incompetence and of residents being treated badly are still popping up in Shanghai.
April 20, 2022 Source: The China Project
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.
April 19, 2022 Source: The China Project
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.
April 18, 2022 Source: The China Project
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.
April 15, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘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.
April 14, 2022 Source: The China Project
Audio from Shanghai lockdown: An elderly man’s heartbreaking plea
“I can’t believe our country is like this.”
April 14, 2022 Source: The China Project
Editor’s Note for Wednesday, April 13, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
April 13, 2022 Source: The China Project
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.
April 13, 2022 Source: The China Project
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?”
April 13, 2022 Source: The China Project
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.
April 12, 2022 Source: The China Project
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.
April 12, 2022 Source: The China Project
COVID lockdowns in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and around country
What is really going on in China with COVID?
April 11, 2022 Source: The China Project
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.
April 8, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘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.
April 8, 2022 Source: The China Project
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.
April 6, 2022 Source: The China Project
A factory keeps running in locked-down Shanghai, as economy enters uncharted territory
China’s worst-ever outbreak of COVID threatens Beijing’s goal of economic stability.
April 5, 2022 Source: The China Project