Aaron, an undergraduate student at a Sydney university, wears a Winnie-the-Pooh suit as he protests China’s zero-COVID measures at a rally in Sydney on Dec. 3, 2022.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/06/australia-china-protests-ccp-xi-jinping-democracy-diaspora/

Banks cut rates on deposits, a key source of funding, to ease pressure on margins last year after successive lending rate cuts to cushion the economy from the impact of a property debt crisis and China’s strict zero-COVID policy.

Source: https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/chinese-banks-margin-pressures-to-ease-as-loan-demand-bounces-back

Beijing and Hong Kong both employed targeted lockdowns, mass testing and quarantines as part of zero-COVID policies near the start of the pandemic, before easing restrictions towards the end of last year as anti-COVID protests swept the mainland.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-lifestyle/berlinale-film-marks-chinese-star-fan-bingbings-return-cinema-3300826?cid=cna_flip_070214

China is "one big wild card on the upside that hangs over the oil market," energy expert Daniel Yergin has said, as the country lifts its strict zero-COVID restrictions after nearly three…

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/213e17ba342563e4?ref=ff

China maintained locked-downs and other restrictions much longer than most other countries, enforcing a “zero-COVID” policy until last December.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/10/06/chinas-flagging-economy-gets-a-temporary-boost-as-holiday-travel-returns-to-pre-pandemic-levels/

China's military has stepped up defence engagement in Southeast Asia this year after the lifting of zero-COVID restrictions in late 2022.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/chinese-navy-ships-visit-myanmar-amid-heightened-security-tensions/article_73adcd05-e749-53bc-bd4f-1a9f50d67587.html

China, which for most of the pandemic adopted a "zero-COVID" strategy that imposed harsh restrictions aimed at stamping out the virus, abruptly eased those measures in December.

Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/beijing-threatens-response-to-unacceptable-covid-testing-on-passengers-from-china-1.6215475

Chinese individuals have been permitted to travel to Japan since the country lifted its strict "zero-COVID" policy in January.

Source: https://japantoday.com/category/national/update1-china-resumes-japan-bound-group-tours-after-covid-hiatus

Faced with a relentless and shifting foe in the virus, China built a vast testing, surveillance, and lockdown bureaucracy to enforce its zero-COVID policy.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/08/china-covid-failure-democracy-autocracy/

Last year, production at the world's largest iPhone factory run by Apple supplier Foxconn was heavily disrupted after China's zero-COVID policies fuelled worker unrest.

Source: https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/APPLE-INC-4849/news/Apple-CEO-praises-China-s-innovation-long-history-of-cooperation-on-Beijing-visit-43334680/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20230324

Lee's announcement came as China is easing its “zero-COVID” strategy.

Source: https://rapidcityjournal.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/virus-outbreak-hong-kong/image_1d783c24-74d7-584b-a198-e5da25661638.html

Many predicted a widespread outbreak of COVID after the end of the China’s zero-COVID lockdowns.

Source: https://agmetalminer.com/2023/01/05/rare-earths-mmi-surge-in-chinese-covid-cases-impacts-prices/

Omicron variant broke out in China, and the government imposed its strictest “zero-COVID” policies thus far.

Source: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/01/cdt-editors-picks-the-best-of-2022/

Swiss luxury giant Richemont, whose brands include Cartier, reported record annual sales on Friday, with a big rebound in China after the country ended its zero-COVID measures.

Source: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/cartiermaker-richemont-posts-record-sales.1031285

The re-opening comes amid a massive wave of infections nationwide and a day after authorities said nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital, following last month’s abrupt U-turn on “zero-COVID” policy in the wake of historic protests.

Source: https://newsdiaryonline.com/china-hong-kong-resume-high-speed-rail-link-after-3-years-of-coronavirus-curbs/

“We would anticipate higher demand from China in 2023 in particular as the negative impact of strict zero-COVID policies starts to ease off,” Karen Norton of Refinitiv told the Investing News Network at the end of last year.

Source: https://investingnews.com/hudbay-and-copper-mountain-combine-to-create-a-premier-americas-focused-copper-producer/

Wu was the chief epidemiologist of China's CDC and one of the public faces of the country's zero-COVID measures that suspended international travel, imposed draconian lockdowns and prompted protests at the end of 2022.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/world/chinas-chief-epidemiologist-wu-zunyo-anti-covid-fight-dies-age-60-9002278/

Xi’s “zero-COVID” policy, where entire cities were essentially under house arrest for weeks or months and families were forcibly torn apart to prevent the spread, would never have been possible in America.

Source: https://scotscoop.com/opinion-china-is-on-a-path-to-totalitarianism/

You mentioned the kind of problems that were introduced into supply chains by the zero-COVID policy, how that played a role in producing inflation.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/20/adam-tooze-economic-rebound-china-covid/