News Analysis While the United States and Europe seem to have put the worst of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, COVID-19 still plagues China. A major rise in cases has forced lockdowns in Shanghai, the nation’s economic and financial center. It has done the same in other regions as well. Unless the authorities can…
China Earned Gold Medal for Virus Handling: Xi Jinping
Shanghai is facing a food crisis as lockdown orders persist. Now, even billionaires are struggling to get what they need. At the same time, violence in the city breaks out. We reached out to local police for details, and got some unexpected answers. A Kansas professor was convicted over concealing ties to China while doing…
Bird Flu Sends Egg Prices Soaring; New Bills Aim to Boost Domestic Clean Energy | NTD Business
More pain at the grocery store. Egg prices soaring, as the avian flu forces farmers to kill millions of hens. Russia lowering its interest rate, by three-percent. A sign that its economic policies are having an effect. Shanghai facing a food dilemma amid the lockdown. Even Chinese billionaires are struggling. The first private astronaut mission to the International Space…
Shanghai Under COVID Lockdown—Would US Cities Go for It Again?
Commentary Looking back at the unprecedented economic lockdowns and draconian mandates during the more than two-year-long COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. citizens could hardly posit a return to a similar state of affairs. This is especially true given the flood of information now pouring out about the deleterious economic, physical, and psychological consequences that lockdowns have…
Chinese Graduate Student Expelled for Criticizing the University’s Pandemic Controls
A graduate student of Ludong University in Shandong Province, China, was recently expelled after being administratively punished by the local police for holding a sign on campus opposing the campus lockdown and frequent mandatary COVID-19 nucleic acid testing of students. He also posted his opinion on social media, A document, titled “Decision on Expulsion of…
Economists Cut Forecasts for China’s 2022 GDP Growth Amid Extended COVID Lockdowns
China’s continued insistence on a zero-COVID policy has created severe hardships for residents and the draconian measures in use could negatively impact its GDP growth. Economists worldwide recently lowered their forecasts for China’s expected GDP growth in 2022. On April 1, economists at Morgan Stanley slashed their full-year forecast of China’s 2022 economic growth to 4.6…
US, UK, Australia to Develop Hypersonic Weapons
Three world powers are arming themselves to combat a weapons system the Chinese Communist Party is developing. A $95 million arms sale was made from the United States to Taiwan to help defend the island from missiles. It’s the third purchase under the current president. Back in the spotlight is organ harvesting in China. A…
People of Shanghai Forced Into Hard Lockdown
Commentary Some 25 months after their infamous Wuhan lockdown, the Chinese government has launched an even more ambitious lockdown campaign, this time in Shanghai, the country’s biggest city. This time, the stakes are even higher. The Shanghai lockdown is much more ambitious than the Wuhan campaign, as Shanghai is both bigger in population size and…
Apple, Tesla Productions Stalled By China Lockdowns
President Joe Biden believes his son didn’t break any laws. But what is Hunter Biden accused of? Now lawmakers are demanding more records. Another city under China’s lockdown is crippling Apple and Tesla products. Near Shanghai, the major manufacturing hub is stalling production, causing a global supply crisis. China and Ukraine’s foreign ministers held peace…
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: The Catastrophic Failure of Lockdowns, the ‘Single Biggest Driver of Inequality’ in the Last Half Century
“They worked to create an illusion of consensus that didn’t exist … by working with the press and big tech to suppress the voices of scientists who disagreed with them.” In this episode, we sit down with Stanford University professor of medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. He’s a physician, epidemiologist, public health policy expert, and one…
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