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Some 47 per cent reported their children’s “socio-emotional development” got worse during the pandemic, and just 16 per cent said it improved.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Tuesday reported troubling news on the state of mental health in China. Even the Communist regime’s official statistics show a quarter of the young population at risk from depression and mental illness, coupled with one of the developed world’s lowest ratios of psychiatrists to population.

A UK government adviser is confident any future pandemic lockdown and compulsory mask edicts will be met with compliance because people have learnt a new behaviour and, “in principle, you can switch it back on.”

One in seven adults faced food insecurity in the UK in the year leading up to the middle of 2022, the Trussell Trust found this week.

The massive spending sprees and money printing schemes during the lockdowns is the central cause of inflation, a top central banker admitted.

China’s desperation to keep nervous international investors from giving up on its flagging economy prompted the regime to turn to its old adversary Jack Ma on Tuesday.

UK unprepared for future disasters despite experience of Coronavirus which saw a panicking government bounced into an authoritarian lockdown.

Although Chinese Communist officials and regime media continue to insist the economy is fundamentally strong and merely experiencing a few bumps on the road to post-pandemic recovery, Beijing is reportedly “planning major steps” to revive a deeply ailing financial system, possibly including billions in fresh infrastructure spending and looser rules for property investment.

The Metropolitan Police said they are “considering” launching an investigation into a video showing Tory staff partying during a lockdown.

New Zealand’s government data agency revealed the economy slipped into recession in the first quarter of 2023.

During an interview with CBS News on Monday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said that he appreciates many of the things the Trump administration did for Georgia, but he did have his disagreements and noted Trump was “very critical of

Japan is struggling with an exceptionally bad outbreak of seasonal influenza among school children, prompting a number of schools across the country to suspend classes.

Chinese exports to the United States fell by 12.2 percent in May, a much larger drop than expected and the first net reduction since February.

Lockdowns were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions” that had a “negligible” impact on loss of life, a study has found.

Foxconn Technology Group on Monday announced a slew of new perks and bonuses for employees at its massive iPhone component factory in Zhengzhou, China.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who has endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in his 2024 presidential bid, argued that DeSantis will be able to tout his record on the economy

American eighth graders’ test scores in history and civics have hit lows not seen in nearly two decades, according to the first Nation’s Report Card released after the coronavirus pandemic.

The Department of State’s Monica Medina says that during coronavirus lockdowns, “we saw pollution levels go down.”

Schools in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong suspended classes on Thursday due to an influenza outbreak, an uncomfortable reminder of the punishing lockdowns that were used across the country during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Speaking at the annual China Development Forum in Beijing on Monday, Premier Li Qiang promised a gathering of international businessmen that China will not employ its economy-killing “zero COVID” lockdown strategy again.

Australia’s ABC News on Wednesday published a disturbing report that found “online sexual abuse and exploitation of children in the Philippines” more than doubled during the coronavirus lockdowns — and “many of the predators are Australians.”

The draft budget produced by this year’s session of China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), includes $24.6 billion for “coronavirus control” — a rather extravagant sum given that Beijing suddenly dropped all of its “zero Covid” lockdown policies in December.

A plurality of the British public believe the government was “not strict enough” in its lockdown agenda during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

The Chinese government’s annual “two sessions” – simultaneous meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) – are scheduled to begin on Saturday, March 4.

Rebel News’s Ezra Levant told host Joel Pollak on Breitbart News Sunday that Canada’s ongoing erosion of freedom and constitutional rights is a warning to Americans, saying “It can happen to you.”

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Oxford on Saturday against the globliast-supported idea of so-called 15-minute cities.

The human rights organization Freedom House documented over 1,000 acts of protest in China between June and December 2022, attracting at least 23,000 participants nationwide, in a report released Tuesday – listing coronavirus lockdowns, the central Chinese real estate crisis, and general opposition to communist repression as fueling causes.

The top Chinese health official in charge of population monitoring on Friday called for “bold” action to reverse China’s population decline, specifically including programs to reduce the cost of childbirth so Chinese families will begin having more babies.

The mainstream news media failed to do it during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, so it fell on actor-comedian Rob Schneider of all people to hold President Joe Biden accountable for his comments about COVID lockdowns.

The National Police Agency (NPA) of Japan published statistics on Thursday showing that the country experienced an increase in criminal activity in 2022 for the first time in 20 years.

Chinese state media on Monday sought to pass off the huge wave of coronavirus illness and death that swept across the country over the past month as a “smooth transition” to a new era of looser restrictions and renewed economic activity.

Chinese officials claimed on Thursday that coronavirus fatalities have dropped by almost 80 percent since the beginning of January, indicating the vast wave of infections sweeping the country is quickly coming to an end.

Chinese state television aired a Spring Festival holiday gala on Saturday night that included a skit mocking lazy and incompetent low-level bureaucrats.

Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand’s next prime minister after he was the only candidate to enter the contest to replace Jacinda Ardern.

Chinese Communist Party officials, including dictator Xi Jinping, spent much of the week downplaying the intensity of the ongoing outbreak of Chinese coronavirus in the country, claiming on Thursday that case rates were “relatively low” and millions traveling for the Lunar New Year should not cause a meaningful surge.

Authoritarian socialist Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday she would step down from the prime ministership of New Zealand next month — a position she acquired in a controversial election and used to make the country crueler, less safe, and less free.