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China's COVID lockdowns made its people depressed and hurt its economy
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China's COVID lockdowns made its people depressed and hurt its economy

China’s economy keeps slowing down, and that could be a problem for the rest of the world. On GZERO World, Shaun Rein, founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group, sits down with Ian Bremmer to explain why he’s become bearish on China’s economic outlook.

Shanghai skyline at night.
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US risky business in China

Doing business in China has never been straightforward. But now it's becoming dangerous for (some) American companies.

COVID protests spread in China
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COVID protests spread in China

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: All across China, demonstrations of the sort that we have certainly not seen under Xi Jinping's rule - about COVID, about zero COVID, and the loss of liberties that Chinese citizens have faced, but also increasingly moving towards demands for free speech and open media, and even Xi Jinping's removal.

People gather for a vigil and hold white sheets of paper to protest COVID restrictions in Beijing, China.
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What We're Watching: China losing on zero-COVID, "winning" in Taiwan

Chinese people vs. zero-COVID, Taiwan’s ruling anti-China party gets clobbered

Brazil's outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro votes during the election runoff in Rio de Janeiro.
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What We’re Watching: Bolsonaro’s next move, China’s forever zero-COVID, Iran’s public trials

Bolsonaro has yet to concede in Brazil; China's COVID curbs hit Disney & iPhones; Iran to publicly try 1,000 protesters.

Biden’s pardon powers, Beijing learns from Shanghai, Japan unveils relief package, Russia’s “anti-gay” machoism
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Hard Numbers: Biden’s pardon powers, Beijing learns from Shanghai, Japan unveils relief package, Russia’s “anti-gay” machoism

Hard Numbers: Fenced-off Shanghai, Tigrayan soldiers seek asylum, Saudi royals sell assets, overtaxed Argentine farmers
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Hard Numbers: Fenced-off Shanghai, Tigrayan soldiers seek asylum, Saudi royals sell assets, overtaxed Argentine farmers

Shanghai is erecting metal barriers to keep people indoors in high-risk districts under COVID-19 lockdown.

That April night, they died in Shanghai
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That April night, they died in Shanghai

The effects of China's zero-COVID policy are on full display in Shanghai, where some 26 million residents have been locked down for weeks. Is the policy beginning to crack?

China's big problem isn’t Ukraine — it’s COVID
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China's big problem isn’t Ukraine — it’s COVID

Everyone's talking a lot about China these days, mostly related to China's problematic position on Russia's war in Ukraine. But China's big problem is at home with COVID, according to Melinda Liu, Beijing bureau chief for Newsweek.

China isn't budging on zero-COVID
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China isn't budging on zero-COVID

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: In China, the zero-COVID policy means that they've got still major lockdowns. Shanghai, the largest city in China, is now entering a second week of lockdown - record numbers of cases in Shanghai, nothing close to the numbers of cases you were seeing in the United States or in Europe. But in China, very few people have gotten COVID, so there's no natural immunity.