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By Daniel E. Slotnik
Testing each and every citizen for the coronavirus several times a week has become a central element of China’s “zero-Covid” strategy earlier this year, when a damn strain of coronavirus spread across the country.
But that technique has failed to curb some of China’s largest outbreaks, and the program appears to be falling aside as the country prepares for a Communist Party political convention.
Nearly two hundred million more people are locked up in China, and the penalty for failing to comply with mandatory testing requirements has become more severe. Police detained others for more than a week for skipping mandatory tests.
The testing program has also created a great deal of financial pressure. The Bank of China Research Institute has estimated that normal mass testing would cost about $100 billion a year if 900 million more people were tested every three days. And the government, whose maximum testing budget, has shown signs that it is struggling to pay for them.
Background: China’s ability to locate and isolate cases is the pride of its pandemic strategy. While countries around the world have noted that hospitals are successful in their capacity, China’s covid-19 numbers have remained low and the economy continues to rise. Now the economy is slowing and frustration is mounting.
Dealing with China and Russia while restoring a broken democracy at home will be a terrible experience for America for years to come, President Biden wrote in his 48-page national security strategy.
“Russia poses an immediate risk to the flexible and open foreign system,” Biden wrote, while China “is the country that intends to reshape the foreign order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological strength to advance this goal. “. “
What skips the pages is a relentless concentration on China. Much of the military’s strategy defined in the document is aimed at countering Beijing in space, cyberspace and at sea. It also includes an express warning against “Russia, or any power” or threat to use a nuclear weapon.
And then: Biden’s strategy calls for a modernization of the military and outlines an upcoming struggle between autocracies and democracies.
War news: Ukraine said Germany had delivered the first of 4 air defense systems, and dozens of army officers gathered in Brussels to discuss aid to Ukraine. Brittney Griner, the American basketball star facing nine years in a Russian prison, is increasingly worried. about her chances of being released, her lawyer said.
Myanmar has one of the most damaging places in the world for journalists.
Just two weeks after the military seized the country in a coup last year, the junta created a new provision in its penal code that criminalizes posting comments that “arouse fear” or spreading “fake news. “
Some of the country’s best-known researchers have had their licenses revoked and many bloodhounds have fled. Those who fail to do so threaten to arrest, imprison and even kill them.
One of the last vestiges of the loose press is the literary magazine Oway, whose 22-year-old editor uses the pseudonym Aung Sett. Almost all authors of the publication are between 20 and 30 years old. To report, I think I can be arrested,” said a 15-year-old journalist who dropped out of school after the coup.
“It’s simple to fight a gun with a pen, but I have to keep doing it,” said Aung Sett, who has been in hiding since the army issued an arrest warrant for him.
Figures: More than 140 bloodhounds have been arrested since the coup. Three were killed by soldiers; One tortured to death. Myanmar is also on track to overtake China as the most sensible jailer of news hounds this year. Fifty-seven are lately in crime in Myanmar, according to an advocacy organization. At least 51 are imprisoned in China, according to rights groups
The Japan area firm said a rocket failed after liftoff and had to self-destruct, the country’s first failed rocket launch in 20 years, the Associated Press reports.
Some 477 pilot whales have died after appearing on two remote New Zealand beaches in days, according to the Associated Press.
Protests calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran have entered their fourth week, with staff in the country’s major oil sector on strike despite a fatal crackdown.
Tension is developing within Biden’s administration to reshape relations with oil-rich Venezuela in an effort to advance the proxy war with Russia and involve migration at the U. S. southern border. U. S.
Confusion over when the Bank of England would end a debt-buying program has rattled British markets.
A Connecticut jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay about a billion dollars in damages to an F. B. I. agent. agent. agent and circle of family members of 8 young people killed in the shooting at the Sandy Hook school.
The killing of a migrant on the Texas-Mexico border by two men who paint the formula for unscrupulous justice has a high point in the national immigration debate.
Misinformation about the 2022 midterm elections in many languages is flooding social media and appears to be aimed at immigrants in the United States.
After running long hours, Elon Musk, the richest boy in the world, comes out with a frantic explosion, almost as if playing the role of billionaire playboy. It turns out that he is reliving his adolescence, without escaping his own innate insecurity.
In years, South Korea has embarked on gastrodiplomacy, or state-sponsored attempts to make Korean cuisine one of the world’s favorite cuisines.
The number of Korean restaurants has grown exponentially, from 9,253 in 2009 to 33,499 in 2017. All this in the service of selling a “national brand”, a concept codified in the annual Anholt-Ipsos National Brand Index that measures how the world perceives the price of each country’s heritage and culture. In 2021, South Korea ranked 23rd out of 60 domestic brands.
The South Korean government has sought out what it calls its vital intangible cultural assets: those products can have direct economic consequences (just as Greece has the exclusive right to use the word “feta” for its salted cottage cheese).
However, this would possibly matter more at home, for those whose loyalty becomes stronger the more established the logo is in the world. One academic argued that gastronationalism is a reaction to globalization and the elimination of differences, flavors being more basic than borders. on a map to the meaning of another people of who they are.
But the origins of other dishes are mythical and obscure, writes Ligaya Mishan in T Magazine. Culinary traditions have crossed borders and replaced hands, have been adapted and renewed. Codifying a country’s cuisine is an inexact science that can limit the depiction of a palace of culture.
This pumpkin crumb cake topped with spicy and crispy streusel and optional icing is best for an afternoon snack.
Angela Lansbury, who died Tuesday at age 96, shone in films such as “The Manchurian Candidate. “Here you can see her in some of her papers.
In “Nerd: Adventures in Fandom From This Universe to the Multiverse,” my colleague Maya Phillips writes about her favorite media nerds and the classes she’s been taught.
Play mini crossword puzzles and here’s a hint: Japanese comedian ebook taste (five letters).
Here’s Wordle and the Spelling Bee.
You can locate all our puzzles here, and here is the list of board games through Wirecutter, if you need to see something new.
That’s it this morning. See you. —Dan
PS: The word “bungeoppang,” for a Korean fish-shaped candy cake, first made the impression in The Times yesterday.
The episode of “The Daily” is about the bombing of a key bridge into the Crimean peninsula.
You can succeed in Dan and the team in briefing@nytimes. com.
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