{"id":50837,"date":"2022-12-03T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/03\/zero-covid-policy-is-costing-china-its-role-as-the-worlds-workshop"},"modified":"2022-12-03T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T08:00:40","slug":"zero-covid-policy-is-costing-china-its-role-as-the-worlds-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50837","title":{"rendered":"Zero-Covid policy is costing China its role as the world\u2019s workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s endless lockdowns are causing shortages for western firms such as Apple, and it may not be long before they move their supply chains elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>The anti-lockdown unrest gripping China has forced the authorities in Beijing to respond by easing some restrictions in big manufacturing centres, as they map out a \u201cnew stage and mission\u201d in the country\u2019s deeply unpopular zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p>There are concerns that more freedom of movement could allow the virus to rip through a population where immunity is lower than in the west. Those health risks mean the \u201cworld\u2019s workshop\u201d is heading for a difficult winter, casting a shadow over the prospects for international trade.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/03\/zero-covid-policy-is-costing-china-its-role-as-the-worlds-workshop\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s endless lockdowns are causing shortages for western firms such as Apple, and it may not be long before they move their supply chains elsewhereThe anti-lockdown unrest gripping China has forced the authorities in Beijing to respond by easing s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"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":[690,41,6,50,1066,557,1175,2363,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-international-trade","category-manufacturing-sector","category-supply-chain-crisis","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\/50837","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\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50838,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50837\/revisions\/50838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}