‘Worse than Wuhan’: Shanghai suffers as Xi doubles down
China’s most cosmopolitan city is now an Orwellian ghost town, with many of its 25 million residents at breaking point. But the government is pushing ahead with eradicating COVID-19.
Tokyo | For weeks, China’s internet has been flooded with images the Communist government does not want its citizens to see.
White hazmat suit-clad workers fencing people into their homes, police smashing in the door of an apartment to take COVID-19 positive people away, squalid quarantine centres crammed with hundreds of cots and overflowing portable toilets, crying children separated from their parents, and altercations between fed-up residents and government workers.
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