Category: lockdown

Shanghai Residents Trade Food to Survive Lockdown; Can Japan Join AUKUS to Deter China?

Shanghai’s residents in lockdown have resorted to bartering for food—exchanging Diet Cokes for garlic, a bottle of soy sauce for eggs. We explore how the city’s lockdown has impacted the livelihood of the people. Australia is getting more help with AUKUS. The security pact between the United States, the UK, and Australia will help to…


Beijing’s Hardline COVID-19 Response Pushes Shanghai to the Brink

Food donations have been left rotting on sidewalks and in trash piles even as elites in China’s wealthiest city lay struggle to ensure their next meal. Starving locals have taken to banging pots and pans from their balconies while screaming out demands for food. From the quarantine centers, videos have emerged of people being locked…


Accounts of Suffering Escape From Locked-Down Shanghai

Food donations have been left rotting on sidewalks and in trash piles even as elites in China’s wealthiest city lay struggle to ensure their next meal. Starving locals have taken to banging pots and pans from their balconies while screaming out demands for food. From the quarantine centers, videos have emerged of people being locked…


Accounts of Suffering, Starvation Mount in Locked-Down Shanghai

After four days of trying to order food online to no avail, a man of around 30 from Shanghai’s Yangpu district called the police. The sealed-in resident wanted to know if he would get fed if he charged out of his residential compound and got arrested for breaking quarantine rules. His food purchase placed through…


UK’s Johnson Apologises for ‘Partygate’ Scandal but Refuses to Resign

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologised for breaking COVID-19 lockdown rules but has refused to resign. Johnson, his wife Carrie, and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were all fined by the Metropolitan Police for attending a birthday gathering for the prime minister in Number 10 Downing Street in June 2020. The prime minister said on April…


Johnson Apologises Over Lockdown Fine, but Will Not Resign

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a full apology but refused to resign after being fined for attending a June 19 party at Downing Street party during the height of the pandemic. Johnson denied any wrongdoing and claimed that at the time he was not aware that he broke his government’s rules. The event was…


The China Model Unravels in Shanghai

Commentary At the end of the Cold War, the end-of-history theory was that every country in the world that desired prosperity and progress would necessarily have to embrace both economic liberty and political democracy. You cannot have one without the other, the theory went. It was inevitable. The world waited for China to go the…


UK’s Johnson to Be Fined for Lockdown-Breaching Downing Street Parties

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak have been told they will be fined over parties held at Downing Street during the COVID-19 pandemic in violation of lockdown rules. A spokeswoman for Number 10 Downing Street said on Tuesday, “The prime minister and chancellor of the Exchequer have today received notification that the…


The Shanghai Catastrophe: Lockdown Ideology at Its Most Extreme

Commentary Highlight the hundreds of millions of victims of communism, and its advocates are known to try to rebut the evidence by claiming that real communism has never been tried. As an extension of this debate, the global Public Health cartel, whose advocates relentlessly pursue totalitarian solutions to attempt to stop a virus from spreading, are known…


Bosch Halts Production at Two China Plants Due to COVID Curbs

SHANGHAI—German auto parts supplier Bosch on Tuesday said it has suspended production at two sites in the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Changchun as it follows government policies to contain a surge of COVID-19 cases. Bosch said it had paused production at a Thermotechnology factory in Shanghai and an automotive components site in Changchun in…