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New Zealand’s government data agency revealed the economy slipped into recession in the first quarter of 2023.

Japan is struggling with an exceptionally bad outbreak of seasonal influenza among school children, prompting a number of schools across the country to suspend classes.

Chinese exports to the United States fell by 12.2 percent in May, a much larger drop than expected and the first net reduction since February.

Lockdowns were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions” that had a “negligible” impact on loss of life, a study has found.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who has endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in his 2024 presidential bid, argued that DeSantis will be able to tout his record on the economy

American eighth graders’ test scores in history and civics have hit lows not seen in nearly two decades, according to the first Nation’s Report Card released after the coronavirus pandemic.

The Department of State’s Monica Medina says that during coronavirus lockdowns, “we saw pollution levels go down.”

Speaking at the annual China Development Forum in Beijing on Monday, Premier Li Qiang promised a gathering of international businessmen that China will not employ its economy-killing “zero COVID” lockdown strategy again.

Australia’s ABC News on Wednesday published a disturbing report that found “online sexual abuse and exploitation of children in the Philippines” more than doubled during the coronavirus lockdowns — and “many of the predators are Australians.”

The draft budget produced by this year’s session of China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), includes $24.6 billion for “coronavirus control” — a rather extravagant sum given that Beijing suddenly dropped all of its “zero Covid” lockdown policies in December.

A plurality of the British public believe the government was “not strict enough” in its lockdown agenda during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

The Chinese government’s annual “two sessions” – simultaneous meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) – are scheduled to begin on Saturday, March 4.

Rebel News’s Ezra Levant told host Joel Pollak on Breitbart News Sunday that Canada’s ongoing erosion of freedom and constitutional rights is a warning to Americans, saying “It can happen to you.”

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Oxford on Saturday against the globliast-supported idea of so-called 15-minute cities.

The human rights organization Freedom House documented over 1,000 acts of protest in China between June and December 2022, attracting at least 23,000 participants nationwide, in a report released Tuesday – listing coronavirus lockdowns, the central Chinese real estate crisis, and general opposition to communist repression as fueling causes.

The top Chinese health official in charge of population monitoring on Friday called for “bold” action to reverse China’s population decline, specifically including programs to reduce the cost of childbirth so Chinese families will begin having more babies.

The mainstream news media failed to do it during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, so it fell on actor-comedian Rob Schneider of all people to hold President Joe Biden accountable for his comments about COVID lockdowns.

The National Police Agency (NPA) of Japan published statistics on Thursday showing that the country experienced an increase in criminal activity in 2022 for the first time in 20 years.

Chinese state media on Monday sought to pass off the huge wave of coronavirus illness and death that swept across the country over the past month as a “smooth transition” to a new era of looser restrictions and renewed economic activity.

Chinese officials claimed on Thursday that coronavirus fatalities have dropped by almost 80 percent since the beginning of January, indicating the vast wave of infections sweeping the country is quickly coming to an end.

Chinese state television aired a Spring Festival holiday gala on Saturday night that included a skit mocking lazy and incompetent low-level bureaucrats.

Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand’s next prime minister after he was the only candidate to enter the contest to replace Jacinda Ardern.

Chinese Communist Party officials, including dictator Xi Jinping, spent much of the week downplaying the intensity of the ongoing outbreak of Chinese coronavirus in the country, claiming on Thursday that case rates were “relatively low” and millions traveling for the Lunar New Year should not cause a meaningful surge.

Authoritarian socialist Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday she would step down from the prime ministership of New Zealand next month — a position she acquired in a controversial election and used to make the country crueler, less safe, and less free.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who became infamous for her lockdown policies, said that she will resign on February 7th.

The Chinese Communist Party is disappearing people who participated in protests and vigils in November for the victims of Beijing’s deadly coronavirus lockdown policy, a woman multiple outlets have identified as Chinese publishing editor Cao Zhixin denounced in a video surfacing on Monday.

NPR reported on Wednesday that the Chinese Communist Party is quietly, but relentlessly, rounding up and imprisoning people it sees as ringleaders in the huge nationwide protests against dictator Xi Jinping’s coronavirus lockdowns.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) again criticized the government of China on Wednesday for “underreporting” coronavirus cases and deaths, making it difficult for the U.N. agency to assess the severity of the situation in the country and offer advice.

The Chinese Communist Party’s effort to blame its titanic coronavirus disaster on its own people, because they foolishly challenged the wisdom of dictator Xi Jinping’s endless lockdowns, apparently is not going well.

Chinese state media over the weekend highlighted huge New Year’s Eve celebrations across the country, with one of the biggest at Shougang Park in the capital of Beijing – even though China claims to be experiencing a ravaging national outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday reported quarantine camps have been built near large cities like Hangzhou to deal with the immense surge of coronavirus infections.

The British analytics company Airfinity published a report this week estimating that about 5,000 people were dying in China a day as a result of Chinese coronavirus infections – a significantly higher number than the seven Chinese government officials admitted to all week.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared on Wednesday that he is “very concerned” about the coronavirus situation in China, where the Communist Party lifted some of its draconian lockdown measures with seemingly minimal preparation, resulting in large numbers of infections and potential deaths.

China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times assured readers on Wednesday that nearly three years of the Communist Party’s “zero-Covid” policy – which consisted of welding people shut in their homes and hauling thousands into quarantine camps – was “worthwhile,” as Beijing faces global alarm in the face of an apparent coronavirus case surge.

Nikkei Asia on Tuesday reported that Apple will begin producing its MacBook line of laptop computers in Vietnam by mid-2023, a major step toward diversifying the company’s supply chain away from China. 

Actor Tim Robbins has blasted his fellow leftists for demonizing COVID vaccine and lockdown skeptics, saying he was wrong to have “bought into” the establishment narrative surrounding masking and other measures.