China is rocked by the news that an accident involving a bus ferrying people from Guiyang to quarantine has killed 27 & injured 20. This hashtag had 420 million views & 86,000 posts. Many are aggrieved & linking this to the Covid Zero policy

The 2022 Nucleic Acid Medicine Industry Congress, to be held in Hangzhou, is allegedly cancelled amidst public outcry over the use of 'Heyday for Nucleic Acid' in its ads.

Ur never gonna believe this

Stop and watch this video.

Whatever you thought about the governors' stunt... it turns out it was worse.

Shanghai Built Its Own Silicon Valley, and Very Few Came—great piece on how you can’t just plan an innovation centre. I’ve been to ones that are functioning brilliantly, and to many duds. Lingang seems like a big flop bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

When is someone gonna turn this into a reality TV show?

Wife bought a $9K return ticket from China (yes, $9,000). This is standard these days. United Airlines airlines has just sent an email saying the return trip is now “unconfirmed”, could be cancelled. She’s asked for a refund and has been offered $43 (yes, forty-three dollars)

PCAOB inspectors are expected to depart Friday for #HongKong and start work next week. The process would take 8-10 weeks.

“So we’ll probably know somewhere around Thanksgiving or early December,” Gary Gensler said.

wsj.com/articles/u-s-a… via Paul Kiernan

Seeing way too much excitement about Putin saying China has questions, concerns about Ukraine. China’s self-interest is to see US blamed for the war, Western unity crumble and sanctions fail to hurt Putin. That won’t change fast economist.com/china/2022/09/… economist.com/china/2022/09/…

Now Putin is made to wait even by the president of Kyrgyzstan (h/t Mariusz Marszałkowski)

No. 12 Typhoon “Muifa” in Shanghai, lost-count no. of COVID tests for residents.

Yes, people worldwide are willing to pay $10K for a scarce flight into China, do quarantine in a govt designated hotel and put up with endless covid lockdowns, not to mention risk being hauled off to a fever camp, just for one bite of China’s delicious soup buns

This is incredible: please make it more difficult for our citizens to visit your country. China, are u taking notes?

I wrote to the Chief Constable of Police Scotland yesterday, expressing my concern that an anti-monarchy protester has been charged by police. Since I wrote to him, a second protester has been charged. 1/2

A Chinese company in Xiamen installed surveillance cameras inside toilet cubicles to monitor its staff. A viral image on Weibo showed photos it took as evidence and staff caught smoking were fired as punishment.

Good 🧵 on average life in Shanghai these days. Most people have no idea what it’s like to live in a place where u can suddenly be locked into ur place of work for days. Where do u sleep? Who will take care of ur children/pets? Imagine how this would change ur outlook on life