New Analysis The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games are just one week away, yet the fast-spreading Omicron variant has hit Beijing amid emerging COVID-19 clusters across the country. The surge in cases has pressured the regime to employ the most stringent health protocols to keep the virus at bay, leading many to believe this will…
2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: A Sporting Event in Captivity
Beijing Introduces Mass Testing, More COVID-19 Measures as Olympics Loom
Beijing on Jan. 23 introduced new COVID-19 measures as it faces a “severe and complicated” battle to contain the virus less than two weeks before the opening of the Winter Olympic Games. After identifying a handful of positive cases in the district of Fengtai, officials have organized nucleic acid tests for the district’s 2 million…
The Great Social Experiment: China’s Draconian Lockdowns and the Loss of Human Agency
Commentary Do lockdowns actually work? The answer appears to be a rather resounding no. The argument in favor of lockdowns—both from a scientific and medical standpoint—carries very little weight. Not only are lockdowns ineffective, they are unnecessarily cruel. This cruelty comes in many forms: economically, psychologically, spiritually, and existentially. Human beings are social creatures. We…
China Underreporting COVID-19 Death Rate by 17,000 Percent, Economist Says
The Chinese regime has likely understated the COVID-19 death toll by as much as 17,000 percent in a systematic data suppression campaign to sustain its political image, an analysis by a U.S. economist has found. That would put the number of COVID-19 deaths in China at around 1.7 million rather than 4,636, the two-year cumulative…
Exclusive Interview: Dr. George Calhoun on China’s Mysteriously Low COVID Deaths
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is well known now for its coverups of the situation in Wuhan, during the 2020 outbreak. One of the ongoing mysteries of the day is how many people actually died in Wuhan. Today, China officially reports only 4,636 deaths. In fact, that number has remained quite similar all throughout April…
China Locks Down World’s Third-Busiest Port City, Potential Disruption to Global Supply Chain
China’s industrial city of Ningbo and home to the third-largest container port in the world, has been under lockdown due to a recent COVID-19 outbreak. Analysts suggest that the lockdown measures could cause more disruption to the global supply chain. According to Chinese state-run media Global Times, Ningbo City in Zhejiang Province is under lockdown…
China Locks Down World’s Third-Busiest Port City, Potentially Disrupting Global Supply Chain
China’s industrial city of Ningbo and home to the third-largest container port in the world has been under lockdown due to a recent COVID-19 outbreak. Analysts suggest that the lockdown measures could cause more disruption to the global supply chain. According to Chinese state-run media Global Times, Ningbo City in Zhejiang Province is under lockdown…
Omicron Wrecking China’s Economy
News Analysis Omicron is dragging down China’s economic recovery. Cases are rising and the Chinese vaccines are proving ineffective. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a “zero COVID” policy, but cases have been well above zero since the Omicron outbreak. Omicron is rising, in spite of at least 75 percent of the population being fully…
Hong Kong Bans Non-Resident Arrivals From 13 More Countries Due to Omicron
HONG KONG—Hong Kong has banned non-residents from entering the city from four African countries and plans to expand that to travelers who have been to Australia, Canada, Israel, and six European countries in the past 21 days due to fears over Omicron. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday the Omicron coronavirus variant carried…
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