Category: zero-COVID

‘Crisis of Unseen Scale,’ Experts Warn Deaths in China Easily in Millions

An expert has dubbed China’s COVID management as a “crisis of a scale unseen since Mao” in regard to its death toll. In an opinion piece published on Jan. 5, sinologist and military adviser Ben Lowsen warned that Chinese citizens potentially face the country’s largest mass-death event since the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961. Chinese…


Shanghai Hospitals Are Out of COVID Medicines

Shanghai continues to be challenged with surging COVID-19 infections. Patients are too numerous to be handled, and the infected face shortages of medicine. Many major hospitals in China have been fully occupied with severe cases, and doctors of community clinics and hospitals are overwhelmed with the number of patients. Staff at the Central Hospital of…


Former Heroine Jacinda Ardern Bites the Dust

Commentary It was only a few weeks ago on a video call with a Brownstone writer in New Zealand when I got an education about the reality on the ground. I told him that Americans had the impression that Jacinda Ardern was popular in her country, a fact which dismayed me. She, after all, became…


China’s Guangdong Spent $22 Billion on Zero-COVID in 3 Years

Three years under the Chinese Communist Party’s zero-COVID policy is a disaster to local finances. Southern China’s Guangdong Province directly spent $22 billion on the central government’s COVID containment measures, such as mass testing and forced vaccination, over the last three years. Guangdong, China’s economic powerhouse, spent a total of 146.8 billion yuan ($21.65 billion)…


China Local Government Debts Grow Faster Than GDP

The latest data from China shows considerable local government debts have grown faster than GDP. Given the opacity of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) official data, it is likely that local government debt is much worse than reported. China’s frequent COVID-19 outbreaks in 2022 have led to production stagnation and economic recession. Pillar industries such as…


China’s Mass Zero-COVID Protests Challenged CCP’s Grip of Power: Renowned Human Rights Activist

Large-scale protests that erupted in China against the regime’s zero-COVID policies, with protesters calling for freedom and an end to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), showed the determination of the Chinese people discontented with the party’s rule, according to a human rights activist. Mass protests against COVID-19 lockdowns that broke out at the end of…


China’s Mass Zero-COVID Protests Challenged CCP’s Grip of Power: Prominent Human Rights Activist

Large-scale protests that erupted in China against the regime’s zero-COVID policies, with protesters calling for freedom and an end to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), showed the determination of the Chinese people discontented with the party’s rule, according to a human rights activist. Mass protests against COVID-19 lockdowns that broke out at the end of…


China Fabricates COVID Data: Commentator

The huge number of infections and deaths from COVID-19 in China seem to differ from what the rest of the world is experiencing. However, the regime’s lack of transparency, coupled with the sudden opening of its borders, has pitted Beijing against the rest of world. Former Chinese CDC chief epidemiologist Zeng Guang said the infection…


Seoul Arrests Traveler From China Who Escaped Quarantine

Seoul police announced they captured a 41-year-old Chinese man who had tested COVID-19 positive when he arrived at Incheon Airport from China, and subsequently ran away from the quarantine hotel he was taken to. Hotel camera footage shows him running from the quarantine hotel in Yeongjong-do, Incheon, at around 10:04 p.m. on Jan. 3, shortly…


Shanghai Overwhelmed by Record-High Daily Emergency Cases and Funeral Home Overloads

Residents of Shanghai, China’s largest city of 25 million people, were caught off guard by the sudden reopening of the city after a prolonged lockdown and enforcement of zero-COVID measures. Reports indicate that the number of COVID cases in Shanghai continues to mount and is at a record high, and the crematoriums and funeral providers…