Day: January 11, 2022

Have you heard people say China has lifted millions of people out of poverty? How about that China is a “developing” country? Or that the CCP has never invaded another country? In this episode of China Uncensored, we debunk some of the most common lies that China has told the world.

Distress with properties is mounting when it comes to China’s offshore debt market. Credit stress climbed to its highest level in December, according to Bloomberg’s Credit Tracker. Bloomberg’s Rebecca Choong Wilkins reports on “Bloomberg Markets: China Open.”

China’s human rights record has come under increased scrutiny ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, but critics of the regime in Canada and elsewhere are accusing China of harassment and intimidation. #China #Beijing #BeijingOlympics

Chinese authorities locked down after discovering two cases of omicron in Anyang, a city of 5.5 million people about 300 miles outside Beijing. It’s the third Chinese city now in lockdown and comes less than a month before the Beijing Olympics. These lockdowns are tests of China’s zero-COVID policy, which authorities have called a success. But critics ask: at what cost? Nick Schifrin reports.

China has been telling the world that its brutal lockdowns in service of reaching zero covid cases have largely been effective. But China is also changing the definition of the “zero” in zero covid to better align with the uncomfortable reality that covid-19 cannot be arrested or suppressed into extinction. In this Just Us episode, we also discuss Elon Musk’s relationship with China, a new Xinhua propaganda spoof making fun of the US and UK, Wall Street waking up to China investment risks, Chinese backing o

The U.S. says it won’t be deterred by China’s latest sanctions. Beijing recently penalized four American officials serving on a religious freedom commission. The move came after the U.S. levied its own sanctions. China plans to keep a steep tariff in place for at least another year. The tax impacts a certain U.S. product–and dates back to the Trump era. Stay away from Chinese meats. That’s the suggestion Germany’s Anti-Doping Agency made to athletes, as they venture to Beijing for the Winter Olympics. T

Xi’an is a city of 13 million people located in the west of China. Since December 22, the city has been locked down because of a new round of covid outbreak. The Chinese authority claimed victory this week in its fight to contain the community spread. They used a new method called societal zero out that means the government moves all close contacts to the infected people to quarantine centers outside the city, thus those left in the city will be safe and a zero-covid status can be reached. In this episode,