Category: zero-COVID

The Undoing of the Unscientific Zero-COVID Policy in China

Commentary Communist China has been reeling due to the relaxation of its three-year-long zero-COVID policy, with as many as 250 million infected Chinese last month. That number includes an incredible 37 million who were infected on Dec. 20 alone. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) implemented its zero-COVID policy in an attempt to contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus…


Rest of the World Will Pay the Price for China’s Abrupt Removal of International Travel Restrictions: Author

After widespread protests against the lockdowns in November, the Chinese regime abruptly walked back its stringent Zero-COVID policy in early December. Without prior notice or the disclosure of steps for a gradual withdrawal of the policy, the change was made. Since then, COVID has ravaged China’s vast population, which was unprepared for the sudden change…


China’s COVID Outbreak Linked to Worldwide Shortage of Over-the-Counter Drugs

News Analysis Amid China’s major COVID-19 outbreak, panic buying of pain relievers and fever medicines has led to shortages in the country and abroad. Experts say the current rate of infections could breed new virus variants and threaten the international community. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) sudden move to abandon its zero-COVID policy without a plan forward…


China’s COVID Chaos a ‘Horrible Indictment’ of US Leadership for Emulating CCP Lockdowns: Former White House Adviser

If the world can learn one thing from the COVID chaos in China, it is that “locking down does not work,” said healthcare policy adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. “We don’t even know really the extent of the harms to their population that they inflicted by locking down but we know anecdotally that there were massive…


Does New COVID Surge or COVID Propaganda Pose Greater Risk?

For three years, the CCP’s pandemic propaganda shaped Western responses to COVID. Now after Beijing ends its zero-covid policies come reports of massive infections and deaths. What’s really happening inside China and will the Party’s deadly disinformation again push Western democracies into totalitarian measures? In this hard-hitting new episode of Over the Target, Brendon Fallon…


China Lacks ‘Zero-COVID’ Exit Plan, Refuses International Help Amid Huge Spike in Cases

As COVID infections sweep through China unchecked for weeks, the Chinese communist regime hasn’t had a plan to control the new wave of outbreak. Meanwhile, it has stopped counting infections nationwide or sharing data with the World Health Organization. The regime rejected the international community’s offer to help while downplaying the severity of the new…


China Lacks ‘Zero-COVID’ Exit Plan, Rejects International Help Amid Huge Spike in Cases

Reports of widespread COVID-19 outbreaks in China have quickly flooded social media and international media since the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) this month suddenly began lifting the draconian “zero-COVID” restrictions that had caused countless tragedies and tremendous suffering to the Chinese people for three years. As a new wave of COVID infections sweeps across China…


China’s Top Health Body Quiet After Leaked Data Estimates Hundreds of Millions of Cases in December

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) will no longer publish daily COVID-19 cases or death numbers after leaked data showed hundreds of millions of people nationwide were thought to have contracted the virus in December. “From today, we will no longer publish daily information on the epidemic,” the health commission said in a brief Sunday statement,…


China’s Top Health Stop Publishing Daily COVID Data After Leaked Memo Shows Hundreds of Millions of Cases

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) will no longer publish daily COVID-19 cases or death numbers after leaked data showed hundreds of millions of people nationwide were thought to have contracted the virus in December. “From today, we will no longer publish daily information on the epidemic,” the health commission said in a brief Sunday statement,…


China’s Zero-COVID Policy a Shield for Windfall Revenues for Local Governments, Gene Companies

News Analysis Two crucial pillars of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) zero-COVID policy, intensive testing and lockdowns, have formed a huge chain of interests that have depleted the state treasury and sacrificed people’s livelihoods, according to China expert Henghe. Since the beginning of December, China has lifted its zero-COVID restrictions and a new wave of the epidemic…