India has stepped up surveillance of Covid cases after a spike in cases in neighbouring China.
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Traffic in China’s biggest cities has dropped to the lowest since the Lunar New Year break in the early part of the year as the country’s abrupt end to Covid Zero sparks outbreaks nationwide.
China’s Abrupt Covid Shift Hits Supply Chains From Solar to Coal
China’s reopening is disrupting energy markets as the abrupt shift from Covid Zero shutters industry and upends the usual flow of commodities.
China ‘behind the curve’ in reporting Covid surge, WHO says
Officially there are relatively low numbers of intensive care cases but ‘anecdotally ICUs are filling up’ …
China State Council, PBOC Vow to Boost Growth, Property in 2023
Chinese authorities ramped up their calls to prioritize growth next year and help the property sector recover from its worst slump on record, in further signs the economy will be top of mind in 2023.
Biden Must Go All In Against China’s Tech Industry
This week, the Biden administration launched its newest offensive against China’s semiconductor market by blacklisting at least 30 Chinese companies, including top memory-chip manufacturer Yangtze …
Tech, business partnerships boost China-Europe cooperation
From Yiwu City in east China’s Zhejiang Province, a freight train loaded with 100 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of auto parts departed on Dec. 15 for the Belarusian capital Minsk. By Tuesday, …
COVID-19 BF.7 update: How China defines coronavirus ‘deaths’ in official count | DETAILS
On Wednesday, China reported no new COVID-19 deaths and subtracted one death from its overall toll, lowering it to 5,241, according to a daily tally issued by the National Health Commission, which did …
China’s economy looks different than it was going into the pandemic
China’s economy is seeing divergences that weren’t apparent three years ago, presenting a new mix of growth drivers and drags.
China limits how it defines COVID deaths in its official count
China only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a Chinese health official said, a narrow definition that limits the number of deaths being reported …
China tells factories to prioritise government Covid orders
Local governments across China have begun requisitioning rapid testing kits, face masks and cold and fever medicine produced in factories in their regions, in a battle for supplies to cope with a deluge of coronavirus…
Fleeing China’s Covid lockdowns for the US – through a Central American jungle
The other two children lived with their grandparents bout 400 miles away in Jiangxi, a landlocked province in China’s east, as it was hard to enrol in school outside their hometown. But as the Chinese…
US-bound exports from China’s Xinjiang drop 64 per cent, monthly trade data shows
November shipments of smartphones, among the most valuable of China’s export products to the US, fell to their lowest level of the year to US$2.31 billion – half the level rec …