{"id":1408575,"date":"2022-03-29T20:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408575"},"modified":"2022-03-29T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T00:45:13","slug":"china-shanghai-is-too-wealthy-to-suffer-wuhan-style-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-shanghai-is-too-wealthy-to-suffer-wuhan-style-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Shanghai Is Too Wealthy to Suffer Wuhan-Style Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-shanghai-is-too-wealthy-to-suffer-wuhan-style-lockdown%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=1408575&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--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1257021.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>on Monday stated explicitly what outside observers assume about the Shanghai lockdown: the city is undergoing a special two-phase scaled-back version of China\u2019s \u201cdynamic zero-Covid\u201d lockdown policy because Shanghai is simply too large, rich, and important to shutter completely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>presented Shanghai as the next logical evolution of \u201cdynamic zero-Covid,\u201d a catchphrase popular with the Chinese government that has always boiled down to \u201cas much lockdown as we think we can get away with.\u201d\u00a0<\/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>This approach is supposedly superior to the rest of the world\u2019s decision to live with Chinese coronavirus and handle it like most other infectious diseases, especially now that the virulent but apparently less dangerous omicron variant is prevalent and vaccines have greatly reduced the risk of hospitalization and death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>extolled Shanghai\u2019s flexible \u201cclosed-off management\u201d and testing approach, which leaves much of the city\u2019s infrastructure running and imposes only a \u201cbrief hiatus\u201d upon manufacturers, as a \u201cvery different\u201d approach from the lockdowns imposed on cities like Shenzhen. The article carefully avoided mentioning the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/03\/chinese-media-predict-coronavirus-outbreak-will-worsen-in-locked-down-xian\/\"><span>utterly nightmarish quarantine<\/span><\/a><span> imposed on Xi\u2019an in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShanghai is not just the largest city in China, but also the world\u2019s leading economic, financial, shipping and trade center\u2026 It is not exaggeration to say that if Shanghai were put under citywide, strict closed-off management, the results will cascade into a significant negative impact on the whole Chinese economy as well as certain aspects of the global economy,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>wrote \u2013 an argument that might not rest easily in the ears of those who lived through the Xi\u2019an horror show.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The article concluded by presenting Shanghai as a laboratory for perfecting \u201cdynamic zero-Covid\u201d snap lockdowns:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>To a great extent, Shanghai\u2019s pursuit of a more cost-efficient approach is in sync with the practical needs of the Chinese economy. For China, what is most important now is how to prevent the epidemic from excessively affecting the economy, while striving to achieve the greatest prevention and control effect. In this regard, Shanghai\u2019s performance will be of great significance for the entire Chinese economy and the country\u2019s anti-epidemic efforts this year in terms of minimizing disruptions to normal social and economic activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/29\/world\/asia\/china-shanghai-covid-lockdown.html\"><i><span>New York Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>(NYT) on Tuesday, the lab rats of Shanghai are considerably less pleased with their situation than the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>made them out to be:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Residents raced to hoard groceries in case they were ordered to stay home. Some protested at the gates of housing complexes that were locked with little notice. Others, sent to government isolation facilities, were forced to sleep on the floor because of a shortage of beds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For still others, the city\u2019s Covid-19 restrictions have had life-threatening implications. Some residents have been confined at home, unable to get kidney dialysis or other urgent treatment. A nurse who suffered an asthma attack died after she was denied care by a hospital that cited Covid prevention protocols.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The two-phase split-city approach lauded by the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>as a reasonable approach to Shanghai\u2019s unique challenges was confusing and frightening for residents in the <\/span><i><span>NYT\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span>telling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One resident allegedly emerged from a five-day neighborhood lockdown to behold what she described as an \u201capocalyptic scene\u201d as the two-stage citywide shutdown began. A viral video captured people locked involuntarily inside their apartment building by the authorities for three days, pleading for their freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhile the authorities have been quick to enforce isolation and home quarantine on residents, they have lagged in ensuring that all those in confinement can get help for serious medical conditions. Many residents have resorted to going online to beg for access to treatment such as dialysis,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>NYT <\/span><\/i><span>grimly observed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A growing number of Chinese are reportedly saying the central government should abandon its lockdown strategy in the face of the highly contagious omicron variant. Some saw the Shanghai quarantine touted by the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>as shameful and poorly planned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run Global Times on Monday stated explicitly what outside observers assume about the Shanghai lockdown: the city is undergoing a special two-phase scaled-back version of China\u2019s \u201cdynamic zero-Covid\u201d lockdown<\/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-1408575","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\/1408575","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=1408575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408575\/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=1408575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}