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TopicZero covid

Topic: zero covid

How China’s No 2 on the CCP’s Politburo Standing Committee brought the end of zero-Covid policy

Experts say Li Qiang abruptly drove a decision to activate the reopening plans sooner than intended to contain the economic toll of the zero-COVID campaign.

Vacations within China over Lunar New Year break surge after lifting of Covid-19 curbs

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of people making trips inside China over the week-long Lunar New Year holiday surged 74% from last year after authorities scrapped COVID-19 curbs that

China ends ‘zero-Covid’ policy, reports no deaths, but viral images, videos tell another tale

Experts accuse the country of under-reporting cases as Twitter sees satellite images and videos from China of crowded crematoriums and bodies being burnt on the streets.

‘India need not panic, it is immunised,’ says NTAGI chairman amid China’s Covid deaths

China’s abrupt exit from its strict ‘zero-Covid’ policy could result in at least 1 million deaths, a report has said.

China’s early decline is wishful thinking. Western think tanks keep getting it wrong

The road ahead may not be smooth for China but to argue that it peaking or on the way to decline is just outlandish. India would do well to not get excited.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.