CNN reported that David Culver, Correspondent in China, recently left Shanghai to share the one-way trip. He said it was a relief to get on the plane, but he felt "a bit of survivor's guilt.”

According to the pre-epidemic China Urban Household Wealth Health Report, China's household wealth has increased year by year and already ranks second in the world. However, the report finds that China's housing assets account for 77.7%, the largest component of household wealth and much higher than the 34.6% in the United States.

Confidence in Chinese stocks is weakening as the country continues its lockdown policy to fight the Covid pandemic. As a result, some capital flights occurred in the Hong Kong market this week.

A number of communities in the China capital express their dissatisfaction.

Since the Covid-19 outbreak in April, new infections per day in Beijing only stay within 40 to over 60 cases. Although the outbreak has waned slightly in recent days, harsh control measures have instead escalated. This move has triggered anger among citizens, leading to mass protests.

China's anti-epidemic personnel, known as "Dabai" or "Big Whites," for their distinctive protective clothes, were pictured breaking into residents' homes through a window.

As Sohu reported, the person had to climb upstairs with the help of the drainpipe to enter a resident's house because he had no key or no way to get in while the house owner had been taken to a quarantine site.

Recently, Shanghai residents are seeing Big Whites a lot more often, as they would enter their homes to spray disinfectant. Some were as thorough as to spray every corner of the place, including TV, furniture, or refrigerators.

According to retractionwatch.com, the New York-based Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recently retracted 323 academic papers from its database.

All were by Chinese scholars. Some were even from double-first-class universities such as the China Agricultural University and East China University of Science and Technology.

ACM said its investigation found that the documents came from a fake academic conference and were published without proper peer review.

ACM announced the papers were removed from its Digital Library and said, [quote] “None of the papers from this proceeding should be cited in the literature because of the questionable integrity of the peer review process for this Conference.”

A war game of China invading Taiwan has recently been conducted. The game involves the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), former Pentagon officials, U.S. lawmakers, and China experts.

It was set up in NBC News' Washington bureau in April.

Newtalk cited Expert Wang Hejin as saying the U.S. is applying a "dual-track" policy with the Chinese government. Wang also pointed out what the U.S. should do to promote this policy.

Chinese blacklisted video surveillance technology is being used in a top-secret laboratory in the United Kingdom.

According to Reuters, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced on May 14 that China has withdrawn from hosting the 2023 Asian Cup soccer tournament due to the Covid situation.

On May 12, a video circulated on the Internet showing that Panjiayuan, the top community in Chaoyang District, Beijing, was closed.

Just one week after summer kicked off, snow suddenly fell in many places in China.

In a May 14 press conference, the Beijing Municipal Epidemic Prevention and Control Department claimed that the China Railway 11th Bureau had poorly deployed prevention and control work, resulting in an epidemic cluster in three project departments of the Bureau's third company.

The Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers held a meeting on May 14. According to Reuters, the G7 agreed to reinforce Russia’s economic and political isolation and provide Ukraine with military and defense assistance.

A group of U.S. House of Representatives members sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging the U.S to add Taiwan to the list of countries he will visit during his upcoming Asia trip.

The group includes nine representatives: Tom Tiffany, Scott Perry, Nancy Mace, Louie Gohmert, Lisa McClain, Peter Stauber, Michelle Steel, Bob Good, and Ronny Jackson.

The longer the lockdown in Shanghai remains, the more hardships await its residents.

On May 12, the Congress's Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing on the issue of live organ harvesting by the Chinese government.

Exhausted Shanghai residents are living under constant abuses from the regime's double-down Zero-Covid. Recently, a group of Shanghai residents has tried to break away from the enforced quarantine request.