Translation: “Can’t they do anything to save us?” An Elderly Shanghai Man’s Telephone Plea
Recently, a recording of a five-minute phone call made by an elderly Shanghai man to his neighborhood committee has been circulating on the Chinese internet and social media. During the call, the man [identified here only as...
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YouTube Accounts of Musician Namewee and Ukraine Vlogger Wang Jixian Forced Offline, Now Restored
On Monday of last week, Malaysian musician Namewee (Wee Meng Chee, 黃明志) learned that his YouTube account had been hacked and all of its content deleted. His account, created in 2006, had 3.27 million subscribers and over 1,000...
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China Supports Russia in UN Vote, Despite Evidence of Civilian Killings in Ukraine
On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council over “gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights.” The vote was precipitated by reports of mass killings...
Read MoreViral Videos on Food Shortages and Quarantine Conditions During Shanghai Lockdown
After conducting nucleic acid testing on its 26 million residents this week, Shanghai remains under lockdown. The metropolis has reported over 120,000 cases of COVID-19 thus far, most of them asymptomatic. Nationwide, an...
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Carrie Lam Exit Opens Way for Security Hardliner as Hong Kong Chief Executive
On Monday, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that she would not seek reelection, marking an end to her tumultuous tenure as the leader of Hong Kong. The election of the next Chief Executive was rescheduled from...
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Public Outcry Over Medical Treatment Delays During Shanghai Lockdown
Shanghai has extended a city-wide lockdown amid the worst COVID-19 outbreak in two years amid growing anger at quarantine rules. With 311 symptomatic and 16,766 asymptomatic cases reported on Tuesday, the megacity of 26 million...
Read MoreEU, China Hold Deadlocked Dialogue on Ukraine, Other Issues
On April 1, leaders of the EU and China met over videoconference for their first summit since 2020. Delayed last year after a fight over tit-for-tat sanctions, the meeting was hoped to calm geopolitical tensions between the two...
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Children and the Elderly Suffer Under Shanghai’s Lockdown
What Shanghai authorities once hailed as a four day “slowing of the pace” to combat an Omicron outbreak has now become a lockdown in earnest, and children and the elderly are among those suffering the most. On Thursday, The Wall...
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