Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with low-level Chinese Communist Party officials, students, and businessmen in Shanghai on Thursday, promoting an “expansion of exchanges” with the rogue state in several fields.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday afternoon for meetings with senior officials, receiving no significant honors upon his landing and preceded by loud warnings from the Foreign Ministry to avoid challenging the Communist Party on its belligerent policies.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who is currently in Shanghai to open the company’s eighth store in the city, has been vocal about China’s critical role in Apple’s supply chain and the company’s commitment to investing in the country. Cook’s desperate PR campaign comes as the iPhone has lost the crown as best selling smartphone in the communist country.
China’s manufacturing activity slowed again in November, casting a pall over what the state-run Global Times awkwardly dubbed “Xiconomics,” the economic agenda of dictator Xi Jinping.
Halloween in Shanghai was interesting this year, as a fair number of young people chose to wear costumes that delivered not-very-subtle insults to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, including dictator Xi Jinping.
Chinese state media on Sunday praised California Governor Gavin Newsom for a climate change agreement between his state and the city of Shanghai, signed during Newsom’s visit to China. “Chinese experts” applauded the potential for “cooperation” between the U.S. and China – on Communist China’s terms, of course – demonstrated by Newsom’s visit.
The Vatican has asserted that it gave no approval for the installation of the new bishop of Shanghai, China, and only learned of the incident “from the media.”
The Chinese Communist Party has once again violated its 2018 agreement with the Vatican, unilaterally naming a new bishop of Shanghai without the Vatican’s approval.
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.
John Lee, the Beijing-controlled chief executive of Hong Kong, announced on Tuesday that Hong Kong’s mandate to wear masks both inside and outdoors will be dropped on Wednesday, March 1. The mandate was imposed in July 2020, making it one of the world’s longest-lasting and strictest coronavirus mandates.
China’s Ministry of Transportation reported on Saturday that over 42 million people have traveled by car, train, ship, and plane during the early days of the long Lunar New Year travel season, and over two billion trips will have been taken by the time the holiday is done, even though a massive wave of coronavirus infections is raging across China.
NPR reported on Wednesday that the Chinese Communist Party is quietly, but relentlessly, rounding up and imprisoning people it sees as ringleaders in the huge nationwide protests against dictator Xi Jinping’s coronavirus lockdowns.
The Chinese Communist Party’s effort to blame its titanic coronavirus disaster on its own people, because they foolishly challenged the wisdom of dictator Xi Jinping’s endless lockdowns, apparently is not going well.
The local government of Shanghai, China’s largest and wealthiest city, forced schools to begin “online only” classes on Monday in response to an alleged surge in Chinese coronavirus cases.
Americans overwhelmingly support protests against the Chinese Communist Party’s tyrannical “zero COVID” lockdown policies, a new poll found.
Protesters thronged the streets of cities across China over the weekend — defying a brutal crackdown from the Communist regime — to demand an end to coronavirus lockdowns and the resignation of dictator Xi Jinping.
Chinese health officials insisted over the weekend that 20 new rules released by the National Health Commission (NHC) were intended to “optimize” the strict regime of coronavirus lockdowns, not “loosen” the authoritarian government’s “zero-Covid” approach.
Chinese flight cancellations, already vexing travelers in a few coronavirus hot spots like the city of Guangzhou, expanded greatly throughout the week. On Wednesday, the state-run Global Times said some airports are seeing 98 percent flight cancellation rates, while massive Guangzhou was up to 89 percent canceled.
One of the many pandemic secrets kept by the Chinese Communist government is the escalating rate of suicides under China’s severe, and seemingly endless, coronavirus lockdowns. A few high-profile tragedies have slipped past Communist censors to become topics of discussion on social media, but the government adamantly refuses to give anyone a glimpse at the big picture.
Residents of the Chinese city of Linyi, located in the northeastern Shandong province, clashed with police on Tuesday as public backlash against endless coronavirus lockdowns intensified.
Shanghai’s Disneyland Resort abruptly shut down on Monday over the Chinese coronavirus, leaving guests trapped guests inside the theme park.
Shanghai’s downtown Yangpu district, a primarily residential area that includes the campuses of Fudan and Tongji Universities, ordered mass testing for its 1.3 million residents on Friday and ordered them to remain in their homes.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday claimed the rollout of an experimental aerosolized coronavirus vaccine in Shanghai was a smashing success, because test subjects love inhaling the sweet-smelling gas.
The city of Shanghai on Tuesday began dispensing aerosolized booster shots for China’s woefully ineffective coronavirus vaccine products, a technique meant to make booster doses faster and more palatable to the population than traditional injection methods.
Videos surfaced on Sunday night of a rare protest in Shanghai, the largest city in China, orchestrated by what appeared to be only two people, marching through the streets with a banner apparently honoring an anti-communist display illicitly hung in Beijing last week.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday quoted Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla heaping praise on the Chinese Communist government, evidently hoping the commissars will respond to extravagant flattery by granting the company more access to Chinese markets.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is reportedly planning to replace up to half of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, and up to four members of the powerful seven-seat Politburo Standing Committee, as he consolidates power ahead of his unprecedented third term.
Residents of Shanghai, once among China’s wealthiest and most cosmopolitan cities, panicked and hoarded bottled water on Tuesday and Wednesday after a warning that taps would be shut off in ten residential areas, ostensibly to clean the pipes.
Coronavirus lockdowns returned to the Chinese mega-city of Xi’an on Tuesday, as classes were suspended, public venues shut down, and tourist attractions closed. Chinese citizens, both those residing in Xi’an and outside the city, flooded social media with angry and frightened posts at the latest twist in China’s seemingly endless lockdown horror show.
The Chinese Communist Party’s newspaper People’s Daily on Monday told citizens to “boost their confidence” and be “patient” with China’s brutal coronavirus lockdowns as the Communist Party Congress (CPC) begins next weekend.
The huge Chinese city of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, extended its coronavirus lockdown and mass testing program on Sunday, trapping most of its 21 million citizens in their homes.
Greenpeace East Asia published a report on Monday that found China’s most affluent cities and provinces are dramatically increasing their investments in fossil fuel projects, leaving climate activists flummoxed over China’s refusal to deliver on its “energy transition” promises.
Billionaire Xiao Jianhua, born in China but a citizen of Canada, was violently abducted by Communist Chinese agents from a Hong Kong hotel in 2017. The Chinese tyranny held him incommunicado for five years, denying him access to Canadian consular services. In July he reappeared in a Shanghai courtroom, where he was quickly declared guilty of corruption, and on Friday he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) struggled on Tuesday to explain the mass exodus of foreign investors from lockdown-ravaged Chinese cities by claiming it was all just a bit of harmless “industry chain relocation,” and insisting China remains “a top destination for foreign investors.”
An expert with China’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) speculated during a press briefing on Thursday that the Communist Party may soon limit Chinese coronavirus quarantine periods and potentially loosen other lockdown restrictions, a statement at odds with the country’s top official in charge of pandemic response.
Oil prices jumped on Monday, ending a modest price slump caused not by President Joe Biden’s unsuccessful effort to beg Saudi Arabia to increase production, but rather by China’s economy-crushing coronavirus lockdowns and fears of a recession.
Shanghai health officials claimed on Sunday to have recently discovered a new subvariant of the Chinese coronavirus called “Omicron BA.5.2.1,” China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday, noting that Shanghai’s municipal government has cited the alleged discovery as a reason for locking down parts of the city this week.
The huge city of Xi’an in northwestern China on Tuesday became the latest to impose lockdowns in China’s growing coronavirus outbreak.
Shanghai’s government announced a snap lockdown Tuesday across 9 of its 16 residential districts to allow officials to conduct mass testing for the Chinese coronavirus, Xinhua News Agency reported, adding that the movement restrictions will last through Thursday.
Copper prices recently fell to a 16-month-low indicating to some financial analysts that a recession may be on the horizon, as the metal’s use across diverse industries means its price reliably gauges world economic health.
