While China’s zero COVID campaign has become part of the unmentioned past for many people both inside and outside China, we shouldn’t downplay its significance. The zero COVID effort marked the first ...
In this Dec. 16, 2022, file photo, residents line up for COVID-19 tests at a booth in Shanghai, China. Hardly anyone in China wants to talk about COVID-19 or the zero-COVID policy that the authorities ...
A WeChat essay detailing the day that China’s “zero-COVID” policy ended has become a rare space for public remembrance of the 2022 White Paper Movement. Originally published as part of a 13-part ...
In the middle of a five-day public holiday last month, when millions of Chinese were vacationing across the country, Gugu was holed up at home. The 43-year-old from Nanjing sent a message to her ...
The lab-leak theory of COVID’s origin has always been a little squirrelly. If SARS-CoV-2 really did begin infecting humans in a research setting, the evidence that got left behind is mostly of the ...
SHANGHAI/BEIJING -- Protests against China's heavy COVID-19 curbs spread to more cities, including in the financial hub ...
There can be few things as symbolic of post-zero-covid China as a photo that popped up on social media in April. It showed that one of the many mobile booths used for administering covid tests in ...