Several Chinese immigrants who recently arrived in the United States can now describe what they witnessed last December when a severe wave of the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in China. The sudden lifting of the stringent lockdowns on Dec. 7 is believed to have prompted a nationwide infection of COVID from the end of last…
Witnesses Recount Large Surge of COVID-19 Deaths in Their Hometowns Across China Last December
China’s Reach for More Economic Stimulus Amounts to a Confession of Failure
Commentary Beijing has admitted failure, even if it refuses to use the word. This is actually the second such confession in the past six months. The first one came earlier this year when Beijing rescinded the lockdowns and quarantines that were the signal parts of its “zero-COVID” campaign. Party leadership had hoped that freeing people…
China 2022 Q4 Social Services Cremation Data Missing
China finally released its statistics on social welfare for Q4 2022. However, the belated quarterly report came with missing data on the number of cremations. Critics believe the massive death toll from last October to December embarrassed the regime. It’s lockdown and zero-COVID policies clearly failed to contain the virus, and that is the reason…
A Young Man Stands Up Against the Chinese Communist Party
Zhao Yunting, a Shanghai native, enjoys his new-found freedom in Finland, where he is not afraid to expose the Chinese regime’s atrocities. His online posts criticizing Beijing and its zero-COVID policy got him imprisoned at the age of 21. In a recent interview with the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times, Zhao talked about…
Is South Korea Asia’s Canary in the Coal Mine?
April 12, 2023
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Commentary The expression used in the title conveys a sense of foreboding and early warning of trouble. It comes from the time before electronic sensory equipment when coal miners used these fragile birds to warn them of the presence of deadly methane gas in the mine shaft. If the bird collapsed, the miners had an…
Foreign Affairs Minister Responds to Committee Report Supporting December Mass Protests Against China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she was pleased to receive a report by a House committee that voiced support for those in China who took to the streets en masse last December to protest draconian lockdowns and the suppression of human rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The report by the Canada-China special committee was…
Stifled by Politics, Beijing and Shanghai Fall in Rankings of International Financial Centers
March 31, 2023
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Shanghai and Beijing have both fallen sharply in the latest ranking of the world’s most competitive financial centers. The dynamism of China’s financial sector has waned markedly in part due to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s recent policies, and the trend is intensifying. With the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, CCP authorities implemented…
Shenzhen Becomes China’s Largest Industrial City as Shanghai Declines
For many years, China’s top three industrial cities were Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou, in that order. However, as Shanghai implemented Beijing’s draconian zero-COVID policy last year, the city’s GDP by industry fell, and Shenzhen overtook Shanghai to become the No. 1 industrial city in China. According to China’s recently released 2022 GDP ranking of the top…
Reports About Closed COVID-19 Mass Quarantine Centers Attract International Attention
March 27, 2023
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The Chinese communist regime’s draconian “zero-COVID” policy has caused a substantial secondary disaster. Since the regime suddenly lifted all the COVID control measures in December 2022, the future of the mass quarantine centers that cost tens of billions of dollars to build has attracted wide attention. Satellite images show that many centralized quarantine facilities, known…
Xi Jinping Declares Victory Over Pandemic Ahead of the Two Sessions, Secured Military Obedience First
News Analysis After China’s military authorities ordered the armed forces to follow the command of Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping in all operations, Xi declared “victory in the fight against the epidemic” at a meeting of the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee. In contrast, the last time Xi announced a victory against COVID in 2020, it…
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