Covid

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China’s Struggle With Covid Is Just Beginning

China’s leaders are in a dangerous dilemma. Their obsession with eliminating the coronavirus has spared the country the pandemic death…

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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…

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.

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…

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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.

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…

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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…

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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,…

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…

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…

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