China’s government indicated on Wednesday it plans to ease Shanghai’s Chinese coronavirus lockdown one day before suggesting it might impose a lockdown on Beijing, according to Chinese state media reports.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China’s top maker of computer chips, said on Thursday its factories in Shanghai have resumed production under a “closed-loop system” that has about 60% of the staff sleeping at the factory to comply with Shanghai’s grueling coronavirus lockdown.
While the world’s attention is focused on Shanghai after four weeks of an insanely harsh coronavirus lockdown, a viral video produced this week documented some 30 million residents of smaller Chinese cities living under comparably hideous conditions.
The city of Shanghai is in danger of losing its status as a financial hub, as international bankers and traders consider fleeing the city to escape its brutal coronavirus lockdown – and the perpetual threat of further lockdowns imposed without notice under China’s “dynamic zero-Covid” policies.
Shanghai government authorities vowed on Sunday to prosecute companies and individuals accused of illegally distributing essential foodstuffs to city residents during Shanghai’s ongoing Chinese coronavirus lockdown, China’s state-run Global Times reported Monday.
A viral video allegedly showcasing real Shanghai residents complaining about the Communist Party’s brutal coronavirus lockdown of China’s largest city went viral this weekend in the country, reportedly vexing censors attempting to suppress it.
China launched a series of mass coronavirus tests in Beijing on Monday, sparking panic among residents who fear a brutal Shanghai-style lockdown could be next for the capital city.
Shanghai’s government on Thursday began installing electronic door alarms on some residences to prevent people from leaving their homes while the city’s entire populace remains under a state-mandated Chinese coronavirus lockdown, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Friday.
Police in China’s Hunan province are ordering residents to surrender their passports until “after the pandemic,” an effort to prevent them from fleeing China as the omicron variant of the Wuhan coronavirus spreads and brutal “zero-Covid” lockdowns intensify, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Wednesday.
Tesla, the electric car company owned by billionaire Elon Musk, on Monday announced its “Shanghai Gigafactory” would reopen after three weeks of Shanghai’s harsh coronavirus lockdown.
Prominent Chinese neurologist Rao Yi, president of Capital Medical University in Beijing, on Wednesday criticized the government’s decision to ship millions of doses of a traditional Chinese herbal cure to Shanghai, even as the city’s captive population struggles to find food and medicine during a grueling coronavirus lockdown.
After weeks of insisting China has no serious concerns about food security despite coronavirus lockdowns and the Russia-Ukraine war, state media on Tuesday tacitly admitted farmers will need to make extraordinary efforts to avert a crisis.
In short order we will start to see the effects of China’s COVID “static management” lockdown in global supply chains and the supply of goods in the United States.
Shanghai on Saturday issued an edict allowing local factories to resume production — which had been halted in recent days due to a city-wide Chinese coronavirus lockdown — as long as “workers live on-site,” China’s state-run Global Times reported on Sunday.
Chinese censors on Monday deleted a social media post listing over 150 people who purportedly died in Shanghai because of the coronavirus lockdown – not from the virus itself, but from other medical conditions they could not obtain treatment for, or because they committed suicide.
While many Shanghai residents are scrambling to find food and dying from lack of medical care during the third week of the city’s harsh coronavirus lockdown, others are indulging in a craze for paying shirtless African dancers to record customized cheer-up videos.
Sina Weibo, the heavily censored Chinese alternative to banned Twitter, appears to have banned a hashtag that quotes the Chinese national anthem to criticize coronavirus lockdowns. It also appears to have blocked searches for the lyrics to the anthem.
Shanghai’s Chinese coronavirus lockdown, which began in full on April 5 and applies to all of the city’s roughly 26 million residents, has caused “doubt, anxiety and fatigue” among the financial hub’s populace, China’s state-run Global Times acknowledged on Friday.
Reuters on Friday noted the ostensible support of the Chinese public for draconian “zero-Covid” policies “seems to be wearing thin” amid “food shortages, family separations, lost wages, and economic pain.” Disobedience is on the rise, and so are arrests.
Videos posted from Shanghai this week show Chinese police and health officials growing increasingly short-tempered and physical with the city’s 26 million desperate residents, now in the third week of a coronavirus lockdown that was only supposed to last a few days.
New Zealand’s Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down a landmark ruling that would allow the government to export an accused murderer to Communist China for trial.
Chinese state media on Wednesday grudgingly admitted coronavirus lockdowns are causing serious problems with domestic distribution and international shipping, as new data revealed imports unexpectedly collapsed by almost 16 percent last month.
China’s state-run Xinhua news service on Wednesday sought to deflect growing international condemnation of the brutal lockdown imposed on Shanghai with a bit of scaremongering, by claiming the only reason the Wuhan coronavirus appears to be under control in the United States is because the U.S. does not perform enough tests to catch all the asymptomatic cases.
A Chinese National Health Commission (NHC) official justified the mass internment of asymptomatic Chinese coronavirus patients in Shanghai by claiming that, if left to isolate at home, they could infect others through the sewer system, the state outlet Global Times reported on Wednesday.
The Walt Disney Co. is choosing to remain silent as thousands of its Shanghai Disney Resort workers are believed to be trapped in lockdown as part of the CCP’s draconian “zero-COVID” policy. The company’s refusal to comment stands in stark contrast to its vocal political activism in Florida, where it is seeking to repeal the state’s anti-grooming Parental Rights in Education law.
Wuhan, China – the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic – was once again placed under coronavirus restrictions on Monday, including travel restrictions and mandatory nucleic acid testing.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Monday cited anguished social media posts from Shanghai residents whose relatives died because the brutal coronavirus lockdown imposed on the city three weeks ago prevented them from receiving vital medical care.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping addressed looming fears of a food crisis on Sunday during a trip to the southern island of Hainan.
Monday, FNC host Tucker Carlson laid out the move to lock down part of China, including Shanghai, in the name of COVID-19 mitigation.
China’s state-run Global Times pushed back against a rising tide of international criticism and domestic discontent on Sunday by insisting the brutal lockdown imposed on Shanghai is appropriate and necessary for containing the Omicron coronavirus outbreak, and reports of misery from the lockdown are Western media exaggerations intended to “delude the Chinese public.”
The increasingly brutal coronavirus lockdown imposed by the Chinese Communist government on Shanghai is producing horrifying social media videos of pets killed by hazmat-suited enforcers after families are carted away to quarantine.
Videos surfacing on social media in the past week from Shanghai – and rapidly deleted on government-controlled sites like Weibo – show mounting desperation as a poorly planned coronavirus lockdown leaves the heart of China’s economy with rotting food and a lack of basic necessities.
Shanghai, one of the wealthiest cities in the world, is currently experiencing food shortages due to stringent lockdown measures designed to contain its ongoing Chinese coronavirus outbreak, the Global Times reported on Thursday.
Shi Jun, a neurosurgeon in Heilongjiang, China, who reportedly volunteered to treat patients in Wuhan at the onset of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, killed himself by stabbing his thigh with a toothbrush after being arrested and facing five-hour interrogations, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Thursday.
Shanghai’s government on Wednesday urged local authorities to use a heavier hand when enforcing the city’s anti-Chinese coronavirus measures, calling for the implementation of a “firmer attitude” and “swifter actions” to combat Shanghai’s latest epidemic of the disease, the state-run Global Times reported.
The Chinese government is using mass transportation to ship thousands of Shanghai residents who allegedly tested positive for Chinese coronavirus to isolation camps in neighboring regions of China.
Shanghai’s government announced on Wednesday limited “exceptions” to a policy separating children from their parents during Chinese coronavirus quarantines mandated by the state.
Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan was dispatched to Shanghai on Saturday to make it clear that dictator Xi Jinping expects harsh lockdowns and strict adherence to China’s “dynamic zero-Covid” strategy, no matter how much damage is inflicted on the vital industrial and financial hub city, or its citizens.
China’s ruling Communist Party deployed at least 38,000 healthcare workers to Shanghai as of Monday to help the city address its latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run Global Times reported.
Shanghai’s coronavirus lockdown widened and intensified on Monday, with no end in sight, even though citywide mass testing was supposedly completed on schedule with military assistance. Residents report armed police officers flooding the streets as the public grows more angry and desperate.
