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China’s after-school crackdown wipes out many jobs overnight
For hundreds of thousands of Chinese people, Beijing’s crackdown on after-school tutoring this summer means their well-paying jobs are disappearing quickly.
China will ‘hold accountable’ unvaccinated for COVID-19 outbreaks
Chinese authorities have warned that they will hold accountable people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 if they spread the virus.
Coronavirus: scientists on WHO mission to China say time is running out to trace virus origins
Some studies will be ‘biologically impossible’ once the window of opportunity for crucial inquiry closes, 11 scientists write in Nature journal.
The Times view on Beijing’s lack of transparency: Coronavirus Cover-Up
Anthony Kwan/Getty ImagesProtective masks are de rigueur for stallholders and shoppers in a Hong Kong food market last JanuaryMore than five billion doses of va …
Rejecting coronavirus inquiry, China peddles conspiracy theories blaming the U.S.
When a conspiracy theory started circulating in China suggesting that the coronavirus escaped from a U.S. military lab, it had largely stayed on the fringe.
Beijing’s teacher rotation policy aims to improve equity
Primary and middle school teachers in Beijing’s public school system will be required to take part in rotation programs to further improve education equity and quality in the city. Teachers and …
Ray Dalio is wrong about China’s tech crackdown, economist says
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says investors are misconstruing China’s tech crakcdown as “anti-capitalist.” Economist George Magnus thinks that’s “wrong.” …
China denounces U.S. ‘politicization’ of COVID-19 origin tracing efforts
China on Wednesday criticized the U.S. “politicization” of efforts to trace the origin of the coronavirus, demanding without any evidence that American labs be investigated, ahead of the release of a …
How China’s Ultra-Loyal Web Army Can Silence Beijing’s Critics
Chinese virologist Zhang Wenhong, is among a slew of recent high-profile targets in a campaign by nationalist web users to harass anyone they deem critical of China’s government and pressure officials …
On icy luge tracks, Chinese and US Olympians navigate distractions, disruptions while training for Beijing
As President Xi Jinping prioritises winter sports to help achieve the ‘Chinese dream’, Beijing hopes to mint medallists in previously untried events such as luge.
WH doesn’t have ‘anything to preview’ on getting COVID answers from China
Jen Psaki says the Biden administration doesn’t have “anything to preview” on steps to pressure China into being transparent on COVID-19 origins.
‘Poking the bear!’ Japan and Taiwan risk China fury as landmark talks planned
JAPAN and Taiwan are set to hold security talks with an associate professor at King’s College London referring to the move as “poking the bear”.
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