Shanghai Hongqiao International Coffee Harbor was certified on Aug 4 as a coffee trading and exhibition platform, and is expected to realize annual trading volume of 10 billion yuan ($1.47 billion) beginning in 2025, backed by a percolating Chinese coffee market whose size may exceed 1 trillion yuan by that year, industry experts said.
Pets beaten to death. Parents forced to separate from their children. Elderly folks unable to access medical care. Locked-up residents chanting “we want to eat” and “we want freedom.”
As much of the world moves on from the COVID-19 pandemic, the desperate scenes seeping out of China’s most global city have shocked even citizens who were once staunch supporters of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) zero COVID-19 strategy to eliminate the virus. The struggle to obtain daily necessities like food and medical care has triggered rare pushback from residents, with some saying the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) cure is worse than
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BEIJING (AP) — Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people in their homes,