Commentary Torpedoing China’s economy will cripple its military development, decreasing the threat to the United States and Taiwan. Gutting a country’s economy will hamper its ability to develop new technologies or purchase advanced weapons. This is why U.S. trade and investment restrictions on China are not just a matter of economics, but also one of…
Beijing COVID-19 Control Staff Strike Over Owed Wages
Amid the COVID protests and the chaos caused by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “zero-COVID” policy, some of the regime’s pandemic control staff in Beijing went on strike in recent days and protested in front of government office over owed wages. In a video provided by an interviewee, dozens of epidemic control staff gathered to…
Mass Defiance in China Shows Populace Fed Up With Communist Control
A blank sheet of white paper has become the latest symbol of defiance in communist China. From Beijing to Shanghai, throngs of protesters over the weekend held wordless papers high to vent their frustrations over the regime’s harsh COVID rules, while digital white rectangles inundated feeds on the country’s largest social media platform WeChat—even as…
Beijing Finally Wakes Up
Commentary After more than a year of delay, equivocation, and finger-pointing, Beijing seems to have awakened to its economy’s needs. The authorities have moved to enhance the liquidity of real estate developers. As this column has pointed out for months, this is something the authorities should have done more than a year ago when Evergrande…
Protests Erupt Across China as Authorities Expand COVID Lockdowns
Protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have broken out in major cities across China as reported infected cases surge. Despite the regime’s new epidemic prevention regulations that aimed to prevent the excessive control measures by local authorities, China is still sticking to the restrictive “zero-COVID” policies. With rapidly rising infection numbers, more cities have expanded lockdowns, causing…
Rare Mass Protests Erupt in Chinese Cities as Outrage Over Zero-COVID Restrictions Boils Over
Rare mass protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have broken out across China, including in major cities, as more cities have announced lockdowns due to a surging number of COVID-19 infections. Despite the regime releasing new epidemic prevention regulations, aimed at preventing excessive use of control measures by local authorities, the updated policies still adheres to the restrictive…
Mass Protests After Apartment Fire Deaths in Xinjiang See Authorities Lift Lockdown
Rare mass protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have broken out across China, including in major cities, following the horrific deaths of at least 10 people in Xinjiang’s capital city of Urumqi in north-western China, when first responders were unable to reach an apartment fire that was left to burn for hours due to COVID-19 blockades and locks throughout…
Mass Protests After Xinjiang Apartment Fire Deaths Sees Chinese Authorities Lift Some Lockdowns
Rare mass protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have broken out across China, including in major cities, following the horrific deaths of at least 10 people in Xinjiang’s capital city of Urumqi in north-western China, when first responders were unable to reach an apartment fire that was left to burn for hours due to COVID-19 blockades and locks throughout…
Major US Investment Services Provider Lays Off Staff in China, Shifting Operations to Other Countries
Morningstar, a leading global investment services provider, has significantly reduced its operations in China while shifting the bulk of its business activities to foreign locations. The Chicago-based firm has been in the Chinese market for nearly 20 years. The firm’s third-quarter financial report, released on Oct. 26, stated that it had “[begun] to incur costs from…
Beijing Marathon Returns but China Sticks to ‘Zero-COVID’
BEIJING—Thousands of runners took to the streets of China’s capital on Sunday for the return of the Beijing marathon after a two-year COVID-19 hiatus, even as another death blamed on China’s strict pandemic controls generated more public anger. Authorities are sticking to a “zero-COVID” strategy that locks down neighborhoods when any virus cases are found…
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