(John Hayward) Cai Qi, the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Beijing, told state media Monday that the city would adhere to its “zero-Covid” policy of lockdowns and quarantines for the next five years.
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Lockdowns Expand in Greater Beijing 9 Days Before Olympics
(Gabrielle Reyes) Chinese Communist Party officials locked down much of the city of Sanhe, which borders Beijing, on Wednesday — just nine days before Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics — after detecting a new Chinese coronavirus infection in a Sanhe resident who commutes to Beijing daily, the Global Times reported.
China Warns of ‘drastic Measures’ If Taiwan Continues on Path Toward Independence
(Just the News) Beijing official said territorial dispute at Taiwan Strait will become more complex, severe
China Has Stolen Enough Data to Have Files on Every Single American, Warns Former Deputy National Security Advisor
(Arsenio Toledo) China has stolen enough data from the United States to effectively compile a “dossier” on every single adult in the United States.
Beijing Denounces Video Games As “Spiritual Opium”, Tencent Tumbles After Imposing Limits
(Tyler Durden) As CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reports, Beijing has now republished the original Economic Information Daily article with a much softer tone, including removing the phrase “spiritual opium”. Did Beijing perhaps underestimate how these new restrictions impacted the market?
Proof That Beijing Really Controls Wall Street: NYSE Ignored Trump’s Executive Order to Delist China Telecoms
(JD Heyes) When President Richard Nixon normalized relations with China — at the ultimate expense of Taiwan — in the early 1970s, over the next several decades American corporations increasingly saw the populous Asian giant as a piggy bank.