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China: Lockdown Victims Running Out of Food While Regime Worries About Computer Chips

Chinese Communist Party authorities have seemingly prioritized microchips over hungry citizens this week, according to two reports published by the state-run Global Times on Tuesday, which reveal the Party ensured semiconductor production continued unabated in Shanghai during its latest lockdown to contain the Chinese coronavirus while simultaneously failing to provide sufficient food to residents of northeastern China’s Changchun city during its own lockdown.

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China: Shanghai Is Too Wealthy to Suffer Wuhan-Style Lockdown

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday stated explicitly what outside observers assume about the Shanghai lockdown: the city is undergoing a special two-phase scaled-back version of China’s “dynamic zero-Covid” lockdown policy because Shanghai is simply too large, rich, and important to shutter completely.

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China: Embrace Lockdowns ‘Even More Firmly’ in Latest Coronavirus Outbreak

The Chinese government’s established “Zero-COVID” strategy to combat transmission of the Chinese coronavirus — which centers largely upon state-imposed lockdowns — must be adhered to “even more firmly” now that China is facing its worst outbreak of the disease in two years, China’s state-run Global Times argued in an op-ed published Wednesday.

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Foxconn Keeps Chinese Factories Running Under Coronavirus Lockdown

Taiwan-based Apple supplier Foxconn said on Wednesday that two of its facilities in China have resumed limited operations under a “closed-loop” management system, which essentially means the employees are quarantined on the premises while the surrounding Chinese city of Shenzhen is subjected to a coronavirus lockdown.

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Lockdown in Shenzhen as China Reports Record Coronavirus Cases

China’s southern economic hub of Shenzhen was placed into coronavirus lockdown on Monday, jeopardizing major foreign business operations and trapping some 24 million residents inside the surrounding province. The industrial hub city of Changchun was locked down on Friday, trapping 9 million citizens inside their homes and halting most corporate activity.

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