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After Ukraine, Taiwan? Pacific spike in tensions

Surely Ukraine is not the prelude. As Emmanuel Macron was departing Guangzhou, Chinese warships were cruising towards the Taiwan strait. We ask about the three-day show of force staged as a show of displeasure with last week's visit by the Taiwanese president to California, and about the US Navy destroyer…

France 24

At elite Chinese university, Macron hails 'critical thinking'

French President Emmanuel Macron was given a rock star welcome by Chinese students at an elite university in Guangzhou where he took questions and hailed critical thinking in a country with tight media and political control.

Reuters

Macron in Guangzhou on Final Day of China Trip

French President Emmanuel Macron meets students and dines with Xi Jinping in the southern city of Guangzhou Friday, wrapping up a three-day state visit to China that has been dominated by discussions of how Beijing could mediate the Ukraine conflict. The French president, who arrived in the capital on Wednesday,…

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China’s Spring Canton Fair Resumes In-Person Expo

Tens of thousands of buyers from 203 countries sign up for resumption of Guangzhou trading event after three years of pandemic restrictions

Caixin Global

China’s huge quarantine camps standing months after ‘zero COVID’

Satellite imagery shows facilities are still intact nearly four months after end of Beijing’s draconian pandemic policy.

Al Jazeera

Guangzhou crash: 5 dead after car ploughs into crowd before driver throws money in air

The crash, which was filmed and shared widely on social media, has sparked outrage with people accusing the man of deliberately targeting people in Guangzhou, China

Daily Mirror

Crematoriums in China struggle as COVID spreads

Cities across China also scrambling to install hospital beds and build fever clinics amid a widening COVID-19 outbreak.

Al Jazeera

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Weekly Must-Read: Covid Chaos at China’s Hospitals as Stringent Control Policy Eases

Health care centers from Guangzhou to Shijiazhuang and Beijing are slammed amid surging infections and severe shortages of medical workers

Caixin Global

Guangzhou Closes Most of Its Makeshift Covid Hospitals

The remaining facilities will be upgraded and used primarily for treating Covid patients without severe symptoms, a local medical worker says

Caixin Global

Police detain 4 in Guangzhou after COVID protests

Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have detained at least four people for more than a week after they attended protests against COVID-19 restrictions in late November, according to activists, family members and friends of the detained

The Independent UK

Chinese cities ease some Covid rules following anti-lockdown protests

Local authorities in Guangzhou announced that lockdowns would be lifted in seven districts of the southern city after demonstrations earlier this week

Evening Standard

Guangzhou Pushes Life Toward Normalcy After Easing Covid Curbs

Southern China metropolis reopens shops and restaurants, resumes public transit and dismantles barriers around communities

Caixin Global

China signals easing of COVID-zero approach as cities relax lockdown measures

Cities like Guangzhou, Chongqing and Beijing announced they would relax some COVID measures amid public frustration with lockdowns, isolation and mass testing.

Fortune

China Signals Zero-Covid Relaxation after Nationwide Protests

China's top Covid official has softened his tone on the severity of the coronavirus and signaled a possible relaxing of the country's strict zero-tolerance approach to the virus, after nationwide protests calling for an end to lockdowns and greater political freedom. Anger over China's zero-Covid policy -- which involves mass…

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China's biggest cities ease some COVID-19 pandemic restrictions amid anti-lockdown protests

Shanghai, Guangzhou, Zhengzhou and Chongqing have eased some pandemic restrictions following outrage at China's zero-COVID policies, as health authorities urge over 60s to get vaccinated.

Al Jazeera

China softens COVID stance after protests, clashes with police

Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who oversees COVID response, says the virus’s ability to cause disease has weakened.

The Guardian - UK

Covid restrictions lifted in Guangzhou and Chongqing after China protests

Announcements ordered the removal of ‘control orders’ and to designate areas as low risk

Evening Standard

Crowds in Chinese city of Guangzhou clash with white hazmat-suited riot police

Videos appear to show objects being thrown at the officers, and crowds running to escape tear gas

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Caixin Global

Guangzhou to Conditionally Allow Home Quarantine for Covid Close Contacts

The southern Chinese metropolis is aiming to ‘optimize’ pandemic prevention measures as it battles one of the worst outbreaks in the country

Reuters

China's Guangzhou city relaxes COVID rules in several districts

The Chinese city of Guangzhou relaxed COVID prevention rules in several districts on Wednesday in an effort to implement rules authorities announced this month aimed at easing the burden of the strict zero-COVID policy.

Asharq Al-Awsat

China Vows Crackdown on ‘Hostile Forces’ as Public Tests Xi

China’s ruling Communist Party has vowed to "resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by hostile forces," following the largest street demonstrations in decades staged by citizens fed up with strict anti-virus restrictions. The statement from the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission released late Tuesday comes amid a…

Al Jazeera

Hazmat suit-clad riot police confront China COVID-19 protesters

Clashes reported in locked-down southern city of Guangzhou amid the biggest wave of civil unrest since 1989.

Reuters

Two Chinese cities ease COVID curbs after protests spread

The giant Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Chongqing announced an easing of COVID curbs on Wednesday, a day after demonstrators in southern Guangzhou clashed with police amid a string of protests against the world's toughest coronavirus restrictions.

Caixin Global

Guangzhou Spares Home-Bound From Mass Covid Testing

The new rule applies to the elderly, students taking classes online, and people working remotely

Al Jazeera

China’s Guangzhou locks down, Beijing shuts schools over COVID

China is battling COVID flare-ups from Zhengzhou in central Henan province to Chongqing in the southwest.

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