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A series of protests against COVID-19 lockdowns began in mainland China in November 2022. Colloquially referred to as the White Paper Protests (Chinese: 白纸抗议; pinyin: Bái zhǐ kàngyì) or the A4 Revolution (Chinese: 白纸革命; pinyin: Bái zhǐ gémìng), the demonstrations started in response to measures taken by the Chinese government to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the ...
Suicide of Fat Cat. On 11 April 2024, at 4:43 AM, [1] a 20-year-old Chinese male gamer known as "Fat Cat" ( simplified Chinese: 胖猫; traditional Chinese: 胖貓; pinyin: Pàngmāo) committed suicide by jumping off the Shibanpo Yangtze River Bridge after transferring RMB 66,000 (US$9,000 at the time) to his girlfriend, who wanted to break up ...
China infamously once limited couples to one child each to control population growth. That led to a shortage of young people, and in 2016 the government upped the limit to two children. In 2021 ...
People in Wuhan rush to buy vegetables. On 23 January 2020, the central government of China imposed a lockdown in Wuhan and other cities in Hubei in an effort to quarantine the center of an outbreak of COVID-19; this action was commonly referred to as the Wuhan lockdown ( Chinese: 武汉封城; pinyin: Wǔhàn fēng chéng ).
President Joe Biden’s remarks calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “dictator” and China a country with "real economic difficulties” drew fast condemnation from China on Wednesday, cracking ...
Ukraine war – latest news: China’s Xi to meet Putin in Russia next week, Kremlin confirms. Andy Gregory and Emily Atkinson. March 17, 2023 at 5:30 AM ... Live updates on alerts can be seen here:
The COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). China was where the first COVID outbreak occurred, the first where authorities imposed drastic measures in response (including lockdowns and face mask mandates ...
That is equivalent to a 3.2% annual rate, which would be among China’s weakest in decades. A survey in June found unemployment among urban workers aged 16 to 24 spiked to a record 21.3%.