Despite weeks of lockdown, Shanghai authorities have enhanced anti-COVID measures in a bid to achieve zero cases in all 16 districts, with some residential compounds being fenced off and daily mass testing for thousands of residents. On May 1, Gu Honghui, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai municipal government and director of the city’s anti-pandemic office, said…
COVID Testing and Isolation: No Let up for Residents Caught up in Shanghai Lockdown
Tension Grows Between the CCP and the Chinese People
Commentary During the era of China’s economic reform and opening up to the world under Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese people accepted the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule. The principal reason was that the Chinese leadership secured its legitimacy through economic growth. People’s living standards improved substantially, and they expected further improvements ahead. Hence they did not…
How China Is Using Metal Barriers to Fight COVID-19
TAIPEI, Taiwan—Several districts in Shanghai put up metal barriers recently as part of the city’s battle against a COVID-19 outbreak, in a move that drew protests and anger from some residents. Workers in white head-to-toe protective gear erected mesh wire fences and metal sheets to block off roads, residential communities and even the entrances of…
Living Shanghai Senior Nearly Sent to Funeral Home
More news emerges from under Shanghai’s lockdown. Workers there were busy loading a filled body bag into a vehicle destined for a funeral home—when they discovered it was still moving. A wave of tragic suicides hits Shanghai. Driven by starvation and the absence of medical care, more residents have been found dead after struggling under…
Jeffrey Tucker: US May Not Know Alternatives to Lockdown, China’s Zero-COVID Strategy
May 2, 2022
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What has the lockdown situation in Shanghai taught the rest of the world? Is the method and invention by a totalitarian regime, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), proving to be correct? Has public health gone too far going into politics? We discuss these questions with Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, as…
Setback for Shanghai’s COVID-19 Battle; Beijing Focus on Mass Testing
SHANGHAI/BEIJING—China’s commercial capital of Shanghai was dealt a blow on Monday as authorities reported new COVID-19 cases outside quarantine areas while Beijing pressed on with testing millions of its people. Tough coronavirus measures in Shanghai have stirred rare public anger, with millions of the city’s 25 million people confined indoors for more than a month,…
Factories in Shanghai Struggling to Resume Production Under Lockdown
May 1, 2022
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Shanghai has now been locked down for a month under the Chinese communist regime’s “zero-COVID” policy. Daily life, manufacturing production, and supply chains have been severely disrupted. Recently, Shanghai authorities have been pushing for the resumption of production in manufacturing, but the progress has been slow, and some enterprises are having difficulty resuming work under…
Locked-Down Residents Complain About Spoiled Food Distributed By Authorities in Shanghai
April 28, 2022
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Shanghai, the megacity of 26 million people, has been under lockdown for more than a month. Recently, many Shanghai residents have complained online that some of the food distributed by the local authorities has deteriorated and is not edible at all, and have questioned the legitimacy of the authorities’ food supply process. On Chinese social…
Chinese Cities Tighten up Anti-Virus Curbs Amid Outbreak
Omicron cases have been breaking out in cities across China, including the capital Beijing, leading to residents fearing they will have to undergo a draconian zero-COVID lockdown as seen in Shanghai. Local authorities have tightened anti-COVID restrictions over Beijing, the capital cities of Zhejiang Province and Shandong Province, and Yiwu city, a critical commodities hub. As…
Fed Up With COVID-19 Lockdown, Bankers, Fund Managers Looking to Leave Shanghai
HONG KONG—Finance sector professionals in Shanghai are preparing to move back to Hong Kong and other offshore centers after spending only a few years in the Chinese city as a harsh COVID-19 lockdown has hurt their business prospects and upended daily lives. Thousands of bankers, traders, and investors in the financial hub of the world’s…
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