Shanghai, China’s largest and most thriving city, has been locked down for weeks, with food shortages, anxious citizens, and draconian measures putting a bruise on its economy. Drones and robodogs patrol streets enforcing lockdown measures, but the citizens seem to be waking up to the reality of the Chinese Communist Party’s political game. Follow us…
Shanghai as a Front Line in China’s New Civil War
Commentary China’s “new civil war”—with Xi Jinping’s ultra-Maoists pitted against the “moderates” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the free-wheeling private sector—accelerated with Xi’s lockdown of Shanghai beginning in March. The lockdown of Shanghai (population of 25 million) was supposedly carried out to suppress a COVID-19 outbreak. In reality, it was nothing of the…
COVID Testing Rules and Makeshift Hospitals Rile Shanghai Residents
Shanghai residents who have said they have recovered from COVID are being sent to makeshift hospitals—called ‘fangcangs’—against their will. The city of some 26 million people has been in various stages of strict lockdown under the Chinese regime’s “Zero-COVID” policy for the past several weeks. During this time officials have been mechanically following orders resulting…
Taiwanese Assembler Is Prioritizing Apple Over Tesla Amid COVID-19 Lockdown in Shanghai, Says Analyst
The COVID-19 situation in China and its implications for production in some of the hardest-hit regions of the country is front and center of all discussions. Most tech giants depend on companies operating factories in the country—either for the supply of components or for assembling of products. What Happened Taiwan-based Quanta Computer, which assembles MacBooks for…
Will China Ever Reach ‘Zero COVID’?; Why Omicron Is the Hill to Die on for the Communist Party
April 20, 2022
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We explore why China will continue lockdowns even as they prove ineffective against Omicron. At the same time, we take a look at how Shanghai’s COVID-19 response has become a political blockade against Chinese leader Xi Jinping on his quest to get a third term in power. As the humanitarian crisis in Shanghai and other…
Shanghai Quarantine: 24-hour Lights, No Hot Showers
BEIJING—Beibei sleeps beside thousands of strangers in rows of cots in a high-ceilinged exhibition center. The lights stay on all night, and the 30-year-old real estate saleswoman has yet to find a hot shower. Beibei and her husband were ordered into the massive National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai last Tuesday after spending 10…
Retired Professor Dies After Not Receiving Care in Locked-Down Shanghai
A retired Shanghai professor died after hours of desperately seeking care without success, in what’s being seen as another non-COVID death attributed to the city’s strict lockdown, according to a former colleague. Prof. Yu Huizhong at Shanghai-based Fudan University died, aged 79, on April 15, after experiencing a 4-hour wait for medical care, according to an online…
Has China’s Panda Diplomacy Lost Its Sparkle?
For half a century, giant pandas have served as China’s most cuddly ambassadors. Yet those days may be numbered. A top U.S. intelligence official reiterates America’s stance, saying China is America’s greatest challenge. Protests erupt in Shanghai. Authorities are pushing an unprecedented approach to quell virus spread in the city, but it has many residents…
Shanghai Backlogs May Hit Supply Chains; Norquist: Economy Needs Pro-Growth Policies | NTD Business
China reports its new G-D-P number today, what is it and how is the severe lockdown there impacting its economy and Americans? we ask an expert. It’s tax day, we talk to Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, long time advocate of tax reduction, about how to tackle inflation, and rein in government spending. Power companies…
Shanghai Registers 1st Fatalities From Current COVID-19 Outbreak After Mounting Reports of Unrecorded Deaths
Authorities in Shanghai, which is grappling its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the start of the pandemic, reported its first deaths on April 18. The three deaths were all elderly, suffered from multiple severe diseases, including acute coronary syndrome, diabetes, high blood pressure, and sequelae of cerebral infarction, and hadn’t been vaccinated, said Wu Qianyu, the…
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