Category: zero-COVID

Fearing Revenue Losses, Local Governments Mobilize Veterans to Cover Worker Shortage at Foxconn

Municipal authorities of Zhengzhou city in central China’s Henan Province, where the Taiwanese company Foxconn has its biggest factory, are mobilizing ex-soldiers to make up for the shortage of workers caused by the ongoing zero-COVID approach. Earlier this month, many civil servants in Henan Province were notified to mobilize grassroots cadres and retired soldiers to…


Contradictory COVID-19 Control Policies Cause Chaos Across China as Cases Surge

Reported cases of COVID-19 in China have hit record highs in recent days amid growing public discontent over the regime’s strict control measures. Meanwhile, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to issue contradictory messages about when to loosen the restrictions, which analysts believe has caused chaos in the control of COVID-19 in various regions….


‘Give Me an Opportunity to Live:’ Chinese Writer Pleads for Permission to Shop for Medicines and Food

China continues to implement stringent zero-COVID measures, disrupting everyday life for Chinese citizens at a time when most other countries in the world are learning to live with the virus. A 62-year-old Chinese writer and activist, who depends on medicines for kidney disease, has run out of both medicines and food. Trapped at home under…


Two Women Tied up and Publicly Humiliated for Violating COVID Rules in China’s Guangzhou

News Analysis At the beginning of 2022, a photo of a chained woman found in China’s Xuzhou city, a victim of human trafficking, went viral on social media. Recently, two women were tied up and shamed by COVID-19 policy enforcers in southern China’s Guangzhou city for violating strict pandemic rules, sparking a public outcry on…


2 Women Tied up and Publicly Humiliated for Violating COVID Rules in China’s Guangzhou

News Analysis At the beginning of 2022, a photo of a chained woman found in China’s Xuzhou city, a victim of human trafficking, went viral on social media. Recently, two women were tied up and shamed by COVID-19 policy enforcers in southern China’s Guangzhou city for violating strict pandemic rules, sparking a public outcry on…


4-Month-Old Baby Dies in Chinese City Under Draconian Zero-COVID Policies

The Chinese regime’s stringent zero-COVID policies delayed medical treatment and caused a baby’s death in central China’s Zhengzhou city, Henan Province on Nov. 15, according to the father. The death of Li Siyu, a 4-month-old baby girl in Zhengzhou, triggered public outcry in China. Her father’s post on a Chinese social media platform Baidu titled…


Despite Human Cost, China Won’t End Zero-COVID Approach: Experts

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) won’t end its zero-COVID-19 policy approach anytime soon as the legitimacy of the Party’s leader now rests on results of the health battle, though it comes at the expense of human rights. This is what experts said during a Nov. 16 hearing on the Chinese regime’s zero-COVID policy held by the…


CCP Shortens Quarantines but Continues Zero-COVID Policy

The Chinese communist regime announced on Nov. 11 that it would relax some COVID-19 restrictions, but said it won’t change its zero-COVID policy. Meanwhile, the regime has been implementing more lockdowns in its southern megacity of Guangzhou. The regime’s State Council and the National Health Commission announced 20 relaxation measures for COVID-19 epidemic control on Friday,…


Ruthless Zero-COVID Policies Allegedly Caused A Young Man’s Death in Xinjiang

A 32-year-old man died in a hospital in Xinjiang many hours after he was taken there by ambulance with severe abdominal pain. During the seven to eight hours in the hospital, he received no medical treatment despite his pleading for help and painful groaning. The doctors and nurses on duty ignored him, according to the…


34,000 Residents Moved from Southern China City to Isolation Facilities

Authorities in China’s southern city of Guangzhou announced over 2,000 new COVID-19 infections on Nov. 8. Strict COVID measures have been implemented in the city of 19 million, a major manufacturing center. As the city tries to avoid a blanket lockdown like the one in Shanghai earlier this year, over 30,000 Guangzhou residents have been…