BEIJING, CHINA -NOVEMBER 28: Protesters shout slogans during a protest against Chinas strict zero … [+] COVID measures on November 28, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images...
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New Questions Arise For U.S. Businesses In China After “Jarring” End To Zero-Covid Policy
A woman pushes luggage near a check-in counter at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, … [+] China, on Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. China could see as many as 25,000 deaths a day from Cov...
China Proves You Can’t Hide Forever From Covid
Empty shelves are seen at a pharmacy in Shanghai on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Look for China to start … [+] hoarding medicine and PPE once destined for export. (AP Photo/Andrew Braun) Copyright 202...
China Will End Quarantine For International Arrivals Starting Jan. 8
Mandatory Covid tests and quarantine have been a fixture for international arrivals in China during … [+] the pandemic. (Photo by Yin Liqin/China News Service via Getty Images) China News Servic...
China Scales Back Reporting Of Daily Covid Numbers As Infections Rise In Major Cities
Topline China’s health officials on Wednesday announced that going forward the country’s daily Covid-19 case numbers will leave out people with asymptomatic infections—a group that made up a large maj...
China Appears To Ditch Zero-Covid In Overhaul To Pandemic Rules
Topline China on Wednesday announced it would ease some pandemic restrictions across the country, including harsh quarantine measures and lifting some barriers to travel between regions, signaling a s...
What Is It, Why Did People Protest And What Comes Next?
Topline China announced broad changes to its zero-Covid policy on Wednesday, a major policy shift and a significant step towards reopening as pressure on officials to reassess the increasingly unsusta...
Chinese Stocks Rally As Beijing Signals Reopening—But Economists Divided Over Covid Rebound
Topline Chinese and Hong Kong stocks rallied on Monday and the renminbi jumped against the dollar, a positive sign of returning investor confidence amid rising public discontent and ongoing economic t...
China Signals Shift Away From Zero-Covid As It Claims Virus Is Weakening
Topline Chinese authorities acknowledged the country was facing a new phase of the pandemic that will require it to tweak its approach, a signal that its government may finally be moving away from its...
Protests Breakout In Shanghai, Beijing And Other Cities Over China’s Rigid Zero Covid Policy
Topline Thousands of people took to the streets in parts of Shanghai, Beijing and other cities in China on Sunday to protest the country’s harsh zero-Covid policy—which includes stringent lockdowns an...
It Was All A Mistake, iPhone Supplier Says After Violent Worker Protests In China
Hon Hai Precision Industry’s headquarters in New Taipei City. Photographer Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Hon Hai Precision Industry apologized on Thursday for a “techni...
Will Gloom About China Prevail After Biden-Xi Talk On Monday?
Xi in Biden in 2013. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) Getty Images President Joe Biden will talk with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday in Bali, Indonesia, and the question for markets ...
Guests Trapped In Disney On Halloween As China Locks Down Theme Park Over Covid Scare
Topline Shanghai’s Disney Resort unexpectedly closed its doors on Monday after officials tightened Covid restrictions, trapping guests inside as cases across China climb and patience over Beijing̵...
Hong Kong Ditches Strict Covid Quarantine For Travelers After More Than Two Years
Topline Hong Kong will ditch its strict hotel quarantine policy for international travelers, the government announced on Friday, marking the end of one of the world’s toughest pandemic containment reg...
New China Lockdown Hits 21 Million People In Chengdu Amid ‘Zero Covid’ Push
Topline Chinese officials will lock down the city of Chengdu on Thursday in an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19, confining millions to their homes and closing business in one of China’s largest a...
Covid Has Reached Every Corner Of The World—But These Three Places Claim To Be Virus-Free
Topline The highly transmissible omicron variant has whittled down the list of countries that have managed to escape the Covid-19 pandemic so far, breaking through the longstanding defenses of numerou...
Here’s What Another China Lockdown Could Mean For The U.S. Economy
More Covid lockdowns in China would be “another headache” for the Federal Reserve in its battle against inflation, experts say, though global supply-chain bottlenecks are easing. If there’s any indica...
Business Appeal Suffers Amid Diminishing Freedoms
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Hong Kong had “risen from the ashes” after several severe challenges, as he arrived in the city on Thursday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handove...
China Deletes Reference To Five Years Of “Zero-Covid” Policies In Beijing — CNN
Residents queue at a Covid-19 testing facility in Beijing on June 19, 2022. Source: Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Chinese censors deleted what appears to be a misleading quote by a senior Comm...
China’s Reopening is No Blossoming of Energy Markets
A transit officer, wearing a protective gear, controls access to a tunnel in the direction of Pudong … [+] district in lockdown as a measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Shanghai on Marc...
China’s Covid Policy Is Costing It Foreign Investors’ Confidence
American companies such as Tesla have had their China operations disrupted by Covid lockdowns in … [+] Shanghai in the past several weeks. (Photo by Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images) Getty Images Shangha...
China Faces Omicron ‘Tsunami’ If It Abandons Controversial Zero-Covid Policy, Researchers Warn
Topline China faces an omicron “tsunami” that could overwhelm hospitals and kill more than 1 million people if it abandons its “zero-Covid” strategy, according to a new study published in Nature Medic...
Dr. Fauci Diagnoses China’s Bad Economic Habits
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on July 20, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/Getty Images Dr. Anthony Fa...
China’s Tech Leaders Warn Of Widespread Production Halt If Shanghai Lockdown Continues
Richard Yu, chief executive officer of the consumer business at Huawei Technologies, talks about the Huawei Mate 30 smartphone in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 19, 2019. Michaela Handrek-Rehle/Bloomberg T...
China Blows $46 Billion A Month With ‘Zero-Covid’ Fiasco
Workers wearing protective gear deliver vegetables to residents of a neighborhood in lockdown in … [+] Jing’an district, Shanghai on March 29, 2022. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images Eco...
China’s Censors Target WHO Chief After Comments Criticizing Flagship Zero-Covid Policy
Topline China’s internet censors have targeted the head of the World Health Organization after he questioned the viability of the country’s zero-Covid policy on Tuesday, removing social media posts re...