Millions are desperate to get their hands on fever-reducing drugs and antivirals such as Pfizer’s Paxlovid as infections across China outpace supplies.
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How Will China Turn Its Economy Back On? The World Is About to Find Out.
Strict “zero Covid” curbs have been smothering growth. After easing them, Beijing faces the twin challenges of rising caseloads and wary consumers.
China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Policy, in Pictures
Public unrest erupted across the country after years of disruptive restrictions. These photographs give a glimpse of life under those measures.
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.
How China’s Police Used Phones and Faces to Track Protesters
After a weekend of protests, the authorities in China are using the country’s all-seeing surveillance apparatus to find those bold enough to defy them.
Protests Stretch China’s Censorship to Its Limits
Days later, videos of chants and confrontations are still visible on the Chinese internet. It’s a sign of how a groundswell outmatched the world’s best internet control system.
Chinese 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.
China Uses Surveillance, Intimidation to Snuff Out Covid Protests
Communist Party officials are using decades-old tactics, along with some new ones, to quash the most widespread protests in decades. But Xi Jinping is silent.
Proud, Scared and Conflicted. What the China Protesters Told Me.
In more than a dozen interviews, young people explained how the events of the past few days became what one called a “tipping point.”
The Covid Protests in China, Explained
After a weekend of confrontations between officials and demonstrators, video from two sites in Shanghai and Beijing showed a heavy security presence. Here’s the latest on the situation.