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Peter Hessler penned this article after having spent 45 days in lockdown in the province of Chengdu in China in February-March 2020. It was published in the ‘New Yorker’ on March 30, 2020.
Beijing is showing the world how to strengthen food sovereignty, and simultaneously fight poverty, with a multi-pronged approach that combines state-funded agricultural cooperatives, stockpiling of nonperishable staples, a crackdown on waste, and government investment in new technologies.
China’s largest city, Shanghai, largely reopened Wednesday morning after a two-month lockdown that successfully beat back an outbreak of the virulent Omicron BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19. The event was a triumph of public health mobilization.
Financial Times, the leading international business newspaper, has in a statement denounced lockdowns and all other public health measures that impinge on the production of profits but have saved millions of lives in China.
This interview focuses on the impact of US sanctions and Russian countersanctions on the position of the dollar and US economic power.
A look at what lies behind China’s recent economic policy pronouncements – and to what extent they can be considered to be progressive.
On a day that the United States recorded 2,997 COVID-19 deaths, the New York Times published an op-ed by two former Biden administration advisers calling China’s decision to prioritize saving lives a “mistake” and extolling the benefits of “natural immunity through infection.”
China is leading an international effort to develop alliances to counter U.S. hegemony. This January 20, China’s mission to the UN launched a new, economic diplomatic alliance, called the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative.
Putin and Xi have agreed to create an “independent financial structure for trade operations that could not be influenced by other countries.” This may be announced by a joint summit before the end of 2022. This is a stunning game-changer in more ways than one.
The lockdown underway in the Chinese city of Xi’an demonstrates again that public health measures combined with vaccination can suppress COVID-19 outbreaks. It stands in stark contrast to the disastrous policies of the USA and other governments that have allowed the virus to run rampant through their populations.
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