A 91-year-old Shanghai resident found no one came to her aid amid a prolonged citywide COVID lockdown—a sharp contrast to last year when four police guarded her home during the country’s biggest annual political meetings. Nonagenarian Liu Shuzhen, who lives alone, has received “not a cent of food” while stuck at home during the city’s biggest…
91-Year-Old Shanghai Dissident Receives Not ‘A Cent’ of Food Amid Lockdown
April 8, 2022
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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…
Lockdown of Shanghai and Shenzhen Exacerbates Supply Chain Crisis and Inflationary Pressure
April 7, 2022
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As Shenzhen and Shanghai, two of China’s largest cities and major ports, impose lockdown measures to curb recent COVID spikes, financial experts express concern that it will aggravate global supply chains and inflationary pressures. Shenzhen’s 17.5 million residents were placed under a citywide lockdown from March 14 to 20. One week after Shenzhen emerged from…
China Lockdowns Exacerbate Supply Chain Crisis, Inflationary Pressures: Experts
April 7, 2022
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As Shenzhen and Shanghai, two of China’s largest cities and major ports, impose lockdown measures to curb recent COVID spikes, financial experts express concern that it will aggravate global supply chains and inflationary pressures. Shenzhen’s 17.5 million residents were placed under a citywide lockdown from March 14 to 20. One week after Shenzhen emerged from…
Shanghai Wrestles With Food Shortages Under COVID-19 Shutdown
BEIJING—Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice, and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people in their homes, fueling frustration as the authorities try to contain a spreading outbreak. Zhang Yu, 33, said her household of eight eats three meals a day but has cut back…
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…
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…
Shanghai Residents Assaulted by Pandemic Control Officers Amid Stringent Enforcement of COVID-19 Curbs
April 6, 2022
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Footage circulating on the Chinese internet show law enforcers assaulting residents in locked-down Shanghai over apparently breaching the city’s stringent COVID-19 restrictions. In one video, at least eight people wearing white protective gear, six of whom are labeled as police officers, repeatedly punch and kick a young Shanghai resident on the street outside the Lianyang…
Shanghai Orders Another Round of Citywide COVID-19 Tests as Public Criticism Mounts
April 6, 2022
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Shanghai authorities chose to continue their draconian “zero-COVID” strategy on April 6 after ordering another round of citywide tests to control an outbreak that a local official described as “extremely grim.” Gu Honghui, Shanghai’s deputy secretary-general, made the grim assessment during a briefing on Wednesday. He said the new COVID tests would target mainly locals…
Unrecorded Deaths Plague Aged-Care Facilities in Locked-Down Shanghai
April 5, 2022
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In 20 days, she would turn 100. The family had been counting the days to bring the Shanghai woman in front of 100 small cakes, surrounded by sparkling candles and grandchildren who grew into adults under her loving care. Little did they know that day would never come. The woman tested positive for COVID-19 on…
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