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The scary ‘foreign forces’ behind China’s COVID lockdown protests?
Emigré Chinese writer Rong Xiaoqing went to a demonstration at the Chinese consulate in New York, and checked out the supposed ‘foreign forces’ behind the protests in China and around the world.
December 7, 2022 Source: The China Project
China unveils 10 new rules to speed up COVID-zero easing
The stunning pace at which Chinese authorities are loosening up COVID-zero restrictions has lifted economic hopes around the globe, but some are concerned about what might come next.
December 7, 2022 Source: The China Project
The protests that challenged China’s governance model | Live with Lizzi Lee
Lynette Ong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, discusses how the recent anti-COVID-zero protests shook up Beijing’s ‘weiwen’ system of maintaining stability.
December 5, 2022 Source: The China Project
China is relaxing but not ending COVID curbs
Several Chinese cities eased some COVID-zero restrictions over the weekend, adding to the list of signals that Beijing is loosening up on the strictest measures in its pandemic policy. But it’s still not clear what will happen next.
December 5, 2022 Source: The China Project
The beginning of the end to COVID zero?
A steadily worsening economy and massive popular frustration at pandemic measures seem to have convinced some officials that COVID zero has to go. But it’s not clear what that means yet.
December 1, 2022 Source: The China Project
Editor’s note for Tuesday, November 29, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
November 29, 2022 Source: The China Project
Beijing strikes a softer tone as it clamps down on COVID lockdown protests
In a press briefing today, Chinese authorities blamed frustrations at its COVID-zero policy on poor local management. Meanwhile, police are moving to identify people who attended the protests.
November 29, 2022 Source: The China Project
Photos: Chinese people organize anti-COVID-zero protests in New York
A rally of several hundred people showed up last night on the campus of Columbia University in solidarity with protesters in China against COVID-zero rules.
November 29, 2022 Source: The China Project
Shanghai protests turn political | Live with Lizzi Lee
Freelance journalist Simon Leplâtre, who is based in Shanghai, talks about the brewing frustrations that erupted into anti-COVID-zero protests this past weekend.
November 29, 2022 Source: The China Project
William Hurst on how will Beijing respond to COVID protests | Live with Lizzi Lee
Professor William Hurst of Cambridge University discusses the recent protests against COVID zero that have mushroomed up all over China, and how Xi Jinping might react.
November 29, 2022 Source: The China Project
COVID in China this week: Optimists buy shares, pessimists buy lockdown supplies
One day it’s fine and next it’s not. Will China’s COVID paranoia stay or will it go?
November 21, 2022 Source: The China Project
China relaxes health guidelines for tourism and entertainment industries, hinting at departure from zero-COVID policy
China has loosened COVID policies for entertainment venues and travel agencies, in a move that may pull the struggling live performance and tourism industries out of a deep slump.
November 18, 2022 Source: The China Project
Hohhot mother’s suicide sparks concern over the mental health cost of COVID lockdowns
In China, prolonged COVID-19 lockdowns and uncertainty about the future have made life more difficult for people struggling with anxiety and depression.
November 9, 2022 Source: The China Project
China’s COVID zero is going to look very different soon
China’s pandemic policies are going to look very different in a few months from now.
November 4, 2022 Source: The China Project
‘Voting with their feet’ — Phrase of the Week
Workers escaping zero-COVID restrictions in a Foxconn facility prove an economic theory explained in a borrowed American idiom.
November 4, 2022 Source: The China Project
Why were the bankers so bullish in Hong Kong?
The Western media is wrong, China’s economy is fine, and Hong Kong is still a great place to do business: that was the message from Chinese and international bankers who met in Hong Kong this week. Are they barking mad?
November 4, 2022 Source: The China Project
Beijing is still committed to COVID zero despite economic and human costs
China’s health chief has reiterated support for the nation’s controversial pandemic policy, while local governments and people chafe under lockdown measures.
November 3, 2022 Source: The China Project
Lanzhou promises investigation after father blames son’s death on COVID-zero policy
A father in Lanzhou claims that his three-year-old son died of carbon monoxide poisoning after a rescue operation was delayed due to tight COVID-19 controls.
November 3, 2022 Source: The China Project
I lasted three years in China without taking a COVID test
Author Alec Ash has lived in the southwestern valley of Dali since the start of COVID-19. Somehow, he’s avoided doing any COVID tests…until now.
November 2, 2022 Source: The China Project
Workers flee Apple’s biggest iPhone factory in China in fear of COVID lockdown
Photos and videos of migrant workers fleeing a Foxconn plant to avoid a COVID lockdown went viral in China.
October 31, 2022 Source: The China Project