Empty streets, deserted shopping centers, and residents staying away from one another are the new normal in Beijing – but not because the city, like many Chinese ones before it, is under a ...

Shops, restaurants and the used-to-be bustling streets of China’s capital, Beijing, are empty this mid-December — but it is not because of forced COVID-19 lockdowns; it’s the opposite.

Her gaze is steady and her voice barely quivers in the video as she remembers what brought her out onto the Beijing streets in late November, and the consequences she knew she likely faced for her ...

It's Beijing, but not as you know it. With empty streets, spacious subway trains and not a traffic jam in sight, the city today was a very different place to usual - and even the skies were blue.

However, there was little sign of that optimism on the chilly streets of Beijing on Friday morning. “The economy has clearly gone downhill,” Yang Aihua, a 35-year-old tea vendor from central ...