Beijing’s costly policy of lockdowns has pummeled the world’s second-largest economy and set off mass public protests that were a rare challenge to China’s leader, Xi Jinping.
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China Stems Wave of Protest, but Ripples of Resistance Remain
Students, residents, lawyers and workers are still challenging the country’s Covid-19 restrictions, even though the intensity of the political chants has been dialed back.
China’s Covid Restrictions Collide With Beijing’s Social Contract
The world’s harshest Covid restrictions exemplify how Xi Jinping’s authoritarian excesses have rewritten Beijing’s longstanding social contract with its people.
After Fanning Covid Fears, China Must Now Try to Allay Them
Beijing had long warned that the only effective response was testing, quarantine and lockdowns. As it shifts policy, it must change how it portrays the risks.
After Xi’s Coronation, a Roar of Discontent Against His Hard-Line Politics
Protests in China have roused a tradition of dissent that had seemed spent after 10 years under Xi Jinping. The effects may far outlast the street clashes.
iPhone Factory Protest Challenges China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Rules
Protests are rising as China enacts more lockdowns and quarantines, with no end in sight. The defiance is a test of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership.
China Eases Some Pandemic Policies, While Sticking to ‘Zero Covid’
Investors cheered the changes, although officials emphasized that measures “must not be relaxed.”
In Bid to Show It Is Open, Hong Kong Bends Covid Rules … for Some
Three splashy events this week were meant to prove that the former British colony was still “Asia’s World City.” But Covid exemptions were provided for visitors from overseas, especially the wealthy ones.
Foxconn’s Big iPhone Plant Hit by China’s Latest Covid Lockdown
An outbreak in Zhengzhou has sent an unknown number of workers at the city’s Foxconn plant into quarantine. It’s a bad time of year for output of iPhones to slow down.
China’s Covid-Testing Strategy Comes Under Strain
Bills are piling up and infections are spreading, yet there are no signs that Beijing plans to rethink a cornerstone of its pandemic policy.