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☆ How a Fire in Remote China Triggered Nationwide Covid Protests
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Austin Ramzy | Wenxin Fan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
As smoke crept through the 21-story apartment building in far western China, panicked messages filled the residents’ chat group. “On the 16th floor, we don’t have enough oxygen,” a woman gasped in an audio message. “Soon our children won’t be OK.”Another resident added a plea about the people in apartment 1901: “They wouldn’t be able to open the door. Can you break into it and take a look? There are many children inside.”
☆ China Eases Zero-Covid Rules as Economic Toll and Frustrations Mount
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Austin Ramzy | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
HONG KONG—China eased pandemic controls on Friday, as the country’s leaders seek to lessen the pain of a stringent zero-Covid policy that has exacted a heavy economic toll and stoked rising public resentment. The newly appointed Politburo Standing Committee of the nation’s top leaders, in one of its first major decisions, set out new rules to “optimize and adjust” the policy to minimize its impact on economic growth and people’s lives, as well as further open the country’s borders to foreign visitors, according to a release Friday by the National Health Commission.
☆ China Eases Some Covid-19 Rules Even as Cases Pass 10,000
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Austin Ramzy | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
HONG KONG—China eased pandemic controls on Friday, as the country’s leaders seek to lessen the pain of a stringent zero-Covid policy that has exacted a heavy economic toll and stoked rising public resentment. In its first meeting since being appointed last month, the ruling Politburo Standing Committee set out a raft of new rules to “optimize and adjust” the policy, according to a release Friday by the National Health Commission. The measures seek to minimize the impact on economic growth and people’s lives, as well as further open the country’s borders for foreign visitors, the release said.
☆ With Power Secure at Home, China’s Xi Jinping Looks to Project Strength Abroad
  + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Austin Ramzy | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
HONG KONG— Xi Jinping emerged from a Communist Party congress with more power than any Chinese leader in a generation. Now, he’s turning his focus to shoring up foreign ties as he steels the country for heightened competition with the U.S. Leaders from Vietnam, Pakistan, Tanzania and Germany all traveled to Beijing last week to see Mr. Xi—resulting in more face-to-face meetings with foreign dignitaries than the Chinese leader has had in the nearly two years between the early days of the pandemic and the Beijing Winter Olympics in February.
☆ Hong Kong Police Seize Statue Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre
  + stars: | 2021-06-04 | by ( Austin Ramzy | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Students observed a minute of silence in front of the ‘Pillar of Shame’ statue at the University of Hong Kong on June 4, 2021. Photo: LAM YIK/REUTERSHONG KONG—A statue in Hong Kong commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, one of the more potent symbols of the city’s pro-democracy movement, was seized by police on Friday, the sculptor said. The statue, “Pillar of Shame,” is a 26-foot-tall depiction of piled bodies signifying those killed during the Tiananmen crackdown. It had been on display at the University of Hong Kong since the late 1990s before it was removed in 2021.
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