{"id":1394888,"date":"2022-03-22T18:46:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394888"},"modified":"2022-03-22T18:46:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:46:33","slug":"china-declares-coronavirus-victory-in-shenzhen-after-forcing-workers-to-live-in-factories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-declares-coronavirus-victory-in-shenzhen-after-forcing-workers-to-live-in-factories\/","title":{"rendered":"China Declares Coronavirus Victory in Shenzhen After Forcing Workers to Live in Factories"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-declares-coronavirus-victory-in-shenzhen-after-forcing-workers-to-live-in-factories%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394888&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Chinese state media on Tuesday declared victory over the coronavirus outbreak in Shenzhen, the tech hub known as \u201cChina\u2019s Silicon Valley.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The city was subjected to severe lockdown measures over the past week, including an order that forced employees to live in their factories so the production lines could keep running.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>According to the state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1256441.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, <\/span><\/i><span>Shenzhen \u201creturned to a normal busy hi-tech hub on Monday after seven days of strict prevention and control measures that included placing all residential communities under closed management, suspending public transportation and closing stores and businesses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>hyperventilated about Shenzhen\u2019s \u201cpractice of unwaveringly sticking to the dynamic zero COVID-19 policy and striking a right balance between epidemic control and economy in the battle against Omicron\u201d supposedly filling the Chinese people with pride and confidence, while dispelling \u201cWestern media\u2019s smears and doubts of China\u2019s COVID-19 strategy which they believe was under great threat due to the fast spread of the variant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12691262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-1199271408.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A general view of Shenzhen is seen from a bus travelling on the Shenzhen Bay bridge in Hong Kong on February 8, 2020. (PHILIP FONG\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The Chinese Communist paper planted the blame for Shenzhen\u2019s Omicron outbreak squarely on Hong Kong, which has been \u201cstruggling with a fifth wave of outbreak\u201d while Shenzhen \u201ctook resolute measures to guard against the risks of imported infections and further spread, including crackdown on illegal crossing, which set an fine example for other port cities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is all somewhat amusing for those who remember the regime in Beijing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3049578\/china-hits-back-international-travel-bans-concerns-grow\"><span>working furiously<\/span><\/a><span> to undermine travel restrictions as illogical, hysterical, and a veritable crime against humanity, back when the rest of the world was trying to keep the Wuhan coronavirus from spreading out of China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Today it is accepted as a matter of Chinese government doctrine that every outbreak is greeted with a strict travel ban on the province, city, or block where it occurred, and China routinely bans foreign travelers. The World Health Organization (W.H.O.), which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/14\/world-health-organization-stopped-medical-experts-from-recommending-coronavirus-travel-bans\/\">teamed up<\/a> with China to undermine travel bans in early 2020, never seems to criticize the travel bans China imposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>on Tuesday quoted tech company managers who promised the week-long shutdown of Shenzhen would have only a \u201climited\u201d impact on production or pledged to overcome whatever impact they felt by \u201coptimizing the production process and resource investment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All of these managers pledged to subject their employees to constant nucleic acid testing and monitor them electronically for absolute compliance. All of them praised China\u2019s \u201cdynamic zero-Covid\u201d policy,\u201d a somewhat flexible term that means lockdowns a bit less severe than last year\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/30\/china-starving-out-13-million-trapped-epicenter-coronavirus-outbreak\/\"><span>horror shows<\/span><\/a><span> will be imposed until Chinese health officials decide the public has achieved \u201cherd immunity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the \u201cdynamic zero-Covid\u201d policies imposed on Shenzhen last week was \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/16\/foxconn-keeps-chinese-factories-running-under-coronavirus-lockdown\/\"><span>closed-loop management<\/span><\/a><span>,\u201d which means factories were allowed to keep running provided the employees lived on-site for the duration of the lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Chinese state paper, in turn, saluted Shenzhen\u2019s tech companies for pitching in to help during the lockdown, such as by providing drones that could deliver food to the quarantined population and \u201cspray disinfection to improve the efficiency of epidemic work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>South China Morning Post<\/span><\/i> <span>(<em>SCMP<\/em>) on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3171284\/coronavirus-shenzhen-reopens-after-lockdown-controls-stay-place\">reported<\/a> that part of Shenzhen\u2019s central business district is still shut down, as is Futian, the district closest to Hong Kong. One Futian resident reported seeing drones floating through the district and peeping through windows to monitor the quarantined population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>SCMP\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span>account of Shenzhen emerging from its omicron lockdown was far less triumphalist than the <\/span><i><span>Global Times, <\/span><\/i><span>describing a \u201cfrustrated\u201d population that finds China\u2019s infamous electronic monitoring systems onerous, and worries about lost income due to last week\u2019s business shutdowns.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state media on Tuesday declared victory over the coronavirus outbreak in Shenzhen, the tech hub known as \u201cChina\u2019s Silicon Valley.\u201d The city was subjected to severe lockdown measures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}