{"id":43572,"date":"2022-04-15T22:37:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T13:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/15\/china-zero-covid-policy-global-supply-chain-huawei-executive"},"modified":"2022-04-15T22:37:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T13:37:28","slug":"will-chinas-zero-covid-policy-bring-the-worlds-factory-grinding-to-a-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43572","title":{"rendered":"Will China\u2019s zero-Covid policy bring the world\u2019s factory grinding to a halt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei executive warns of \u2018massive losses\u2019 in tech sector as tensions rise over strict lockdowns<\/p>\n<p>A top Huawei executive has broken ranks to warn that China\u2019s stringent zero-Covid policy may trigger \u201cmassive losses\u201d for the tech industry, putting the country\u2019s economy as well as the global supply chain at greater risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Shanghai cannot resume production by May, all of the tech and industrial players who have supply chains in the area will come to a complete halt, especially the automotive industry,\u201d Richard Yu Chengdong, head of Huawei\u2019s consumer and auto division said in a WeChat post. \u201cThat will pose severe consequences and massive losses for the whole industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/15\/china-zero-covid-policy-global-supply-chain-huawei-executive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei executive warns of \u2018massive losses\u2019 in tech sector as tensions rise over strict lockdownsA top Huawei executive has broken ranks to warn that China\u2019s stringent zero-Covid policy may trigger \u201cmassive losses\u201d for the tech industry, putting the cou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,1066,2363,560,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-supply-chain-crisis","category-technology-sector","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43573,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572\/revisions\/43573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}