Covid
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World
A Powerful Display of Dissent in China
It is too early to tell whether the remarkable protests across China against the government’s strict “dynamic zero Covid” policy are a milestone in the country’s long history that will have lasting impact; they may signal growing discontent with ...
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Health
As Officials Ease Covid Restrictions, China Faces New Pandemic Risks
Huge swaths of the nation’s elderly remain vulnerable, scientists say, and a surge in deaths and hospitalizations may be inevitable.
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World
China Has an Extraordinary Covid-19 Dilemma
More than one in six people on the planet live in China. That’s 1.4 billion people who have spent the last three years in the world’s most intrusive pandemic surveillance state, designed to limit the spread of Covid-19 at almost any cost. Americans ...
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World
After Mass Protests, China Appears to Back Away From Harsh Covid Rules
Several cities announced the easing of lockdown regulations and testing requirements after the country’s biggest demonstrations in decades.
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World
Xi Broke the Social Contract That Helped China Prosper
The protests in China against the government’s draconian Covid controls have been compared to those in 1989, when students demonstrated for political reforms and democracy. The 1989 pro-democracy movement occurred in the most liberal, tolerant and ...
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World
Banana Peels for Xi Jinping
There’s a Soviet joke that has long circulated in China, about a man who is arrested for protesting in Moscow’s Red Square by holding up a blank sheet of paper. “How can you arrest me?” the man objects in one version. “I didn’t say anything ...
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World
The Communist Party Is Losing China’s People
BEIJING — The scenes in China in recent days have been electrifying. Last weekend, in several cities across the country, from cosmopolitan Shanghai to far-western Xinjiang, ordinary people took to the streets to denounce the government’s stifling ...
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World
Taking Brunt of Lockdown, Migrant Workers Fuel China’s Latest Protests
Although security forces have reasserted control in many cities, poor workers could help maintain the pushback against Beijing’s strict Covid restrictions.
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Business
China Says It Will Do More to Vaccinate Older People Against Covid
Only 40 percent of those age 80 or older have had booster shots. Officials said they will go door-to-door and bring vaccines to nursing homes to lift that number.
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World
China Protests Over ‘Zero Covid’ Follow Months of Economic Pain
President Xi Jinping’s unbending approach to the pandemic has hurt businesses and strangled growth, squeezing the world’s second-largest economy.