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A significant business association claimed on Wednesday that China's "inflexible" and "inconsistent" zero-Covid policy is harming European companies' operations in the nation and that their presence "can no longer be taken as a given."

The report from the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is the most recent indication from the international business community that Beijing's strict anti-virus restrictions are hurting the second-largest economy in the world and areolating it on the global scene.

China is the last significant economy committed to a strategy of stopping virus outbreaks as they start, using a combination of immediate lockdowns, extensive testing, and brief quarantines.