Migrant workers and recent college graduates have been hit hardest by shuttered factories, closed construction sites and an anemic job market.
Tag: Shanghai (China)
Your Tuesday Briefing: Beijing’s Fight against Lockdowns
And Mariupol evacuees start to emerge.
Inside China’s Zero-Covid Fortress, Xi Admits No Doubts
As the lockdown of Shanghai and outbreaks in Beijing and elsewhere batter the economy, China’s leader keeps a distance from the politically charged issue.
Your Thursday Briefing: Russia Cuts Gas Supplies
Also, Shanghai residents express anger and Singapore executes an intellectually disabled man.
Beijing Has 138 Covid Cases. It Musters 139,000 Workers to Test Residents.
Residents of the Chinese capital face mandatory P.C.R. tests but no mass lockdown yet, while large inland cities may be closed down in response to as few as two infections.
China’s Covid Lockdown Outrage Tests Limits of Propaganda
Public anger and grief over the bungled lockdown in Shanghai is creating a credibility crisis for the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, and his zero Covid policies.
Your Wednesday Briefing: Beijing’s Mass Testing Plan
Plus more aggressive support for Ukraine and Hong Kong’s brownface controversy.
Amid Virus Chaos, Shanghai Residents Band Together
As the authorities in China’s biggest city fight to stamp out an Omicron outbreak, neighbors are turning to one another for support.
Your Tuesday Briefing: Elon Musk Buys Twitter
Plus a lockdown looms over Beijing and the U.S. flexes in Ukraine.
China’s Covid Lockdowns Stir Memories of a Planned Economy
China is meddling with free enterprise as it hadn’t in decades. The results are familiar to those old enough to remember: scarcity, and the rise of black markets.