Tag: Hong Kong

One of Hong Kong’s last remaining pro-democracy parties said Wednesday that PayPal had terminated its account, citing unspecified “excessive risks”.

The protests against China's ruthless Zero Covid policy continue to grow as President Xi Jinping shows no sign of changing tack despite even Hong Kong easing towards a more liberal approach.

A team of Chinese and US researchers has predicted over 1.5 million deaths in China from Omicron should the country cease to impose its brutal controls. But that is less than half the UK Covid death rate.

Hong Kong has sent traditional Chinese medicine to three million residents telling them it works against COVID-19. But the few Chinese studies claiming efficacy are of very poor standard.

Hong Kong has been suffering a brain drain after years of enduring first anti-democracy crackdown and more recently Zero Covid lunacy.

Covid alarmists are reporting on the situation in Hong Kong, saying it proves them right in the measures they have backed over the past two years. But deaths remain well below UK levels, and infections are dropping fast.

South East Asian countries are experiencing their deadliest Covid waves to date despite the milder Omicron variant being dominant and high vaccination rates. This was not part of anyone's plan.

We're publishing another dispatch from our anonymous Hong Kong correspondent on the Daily Sceptic about the catastrophic consequences of the Chinese Communist Party's Zero Covid policy.

Two days ago on the Daily Sceptic, we asked why Hong Kong's hospitals are under so much pressure, given low infection rates? A reader and Hong Kong resident has provided the answer – the city's 'Dynamic Covid Policy'.

It's being reported that Hong Kong's hospitals are at capacity and overflowing with patients during the current Omicron wave. But why, when reported cases and deaths are so low?