The Chinese government ordered officials to cut back on mass testing and hair-trigger regional lockdowns, in a pivot from stringent…
Covid
Beijing’s costly policy of lockdowns has pummeled the world’s second-largest economy and set off mass public protests that were a…
The city’s Pandemic Response Lab, which provided mass testing, is shutting down due in part to the prevalence of at-home…
China’s leaders are in a dangerous dilemma. Their obsession with eliminating the coronavirus has spared the country the pandemic death…
It is too early to tell whether the remarkable protests across China against the government’s strict “dynamic zero Covid” policy…
Huge swaths of the nation’s elderly remain vulnerable, scientists say, and a surge in deaths and hospitalizations may be inevitable.
More than one in six people on the planet live in China. That’s 1.4 billion people who have spent the…
Several cities announced the easing of lockdown regulations and testing requirements after the country’s biggest demonstrations in decades.
The protests in China against the government’s draconian Covid controls have been compared to those in 1989, when students demonstrated…
There’s a Soviet joke that has long circulated in China, about a man who is arrested for protesting in Moscow’s…