With inflation hovering at 40-year highs in Britain, the owners of Chinese restaurants and supermarkets are sharing in the pain felt by the broader commercial sector.
respond to those incidents. all to keep the virus from potentially spreading. it also helps keep visiting journalists from leaving the capital city to other regions like tibet to explore controversial topics. it allows china to showcase its superiority in maintaining the virus especially in countries like u.s. but the will may also be a tale of two cities. one curated for olympic prearrivals and group of spectators and another that is the real beijing. though some local beijing residents are now in a bubble of their own, communities locked down after recent cases surfaced in the city outside the olympic boundaries. a mounting challenge for a country that s trying to keep covid out and yet still stage a global sporting spectacle to wow the world. david culver, cnn, beijing. thanks, david. we should note later this morning, we re going to have an
and the buses given marked lanes. officials have told residents that if they see one of the vehicles that s part of the olympic convoy get into a crash, to stay away. they have got a specialized unit of medics to respond to those incidents. it s all to keep the virus from potentially spreading. it also helping keep visiting journalists from leaving the capitol city to other regions like tibet, to explore controversial topics. with the world s attention, the olympics allows china to showcase its perceived superiority in containing the virus. but this will in many ways be a tale of two cities. one cure rated for the olympic arrivals and preselected group of spectators. another that is the real beijing. though some local beijing residents are now in a bubble of their own. communities locked down after recent cases surfaced in the city outside the olympic boundaries. a mounting challenge for a
olympics allows china to show case its perceived superiority in containing the virus especially when compared with countries like the u.s., but this will in many ways also be a tale of two cities. one curated for the olympic arrivals and preselected groups of spectators, another that is the real beijing. though some local beijing residents are now in a bubble of their own. communities locked down after recent cases surfaced in the city outside the olympic boundaries. a mounting challenge for a country that s trying to keep covid out and yet still stage a global sporting spectacle to wow the world. that really is the biggest challenge, jake. this is hard to portray an open, welcoming host city but the object of barriers throughout the city say otherwise. locals can tell you they are happy to keep their distances specially with officials claiming recent cases here are imported. it adds to the fear that anyone coming in from outside china