Tom Cheshire
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Ukraine war: This is how many civilians have lost their lives over the past year
More than 13,200 people are also said to have been injured - although the UN says the actual figures are likely much higher. The steady toll grinds on and despite their resistance, Ukrainians say living with the threat of death is increasingly exhausting. → Read More
China trumpeted zero-COVID policy - the problem is its people think life overseas looks a lot better
Zero-COVID bought time for China, but the country didn't use it well. Instead of using it to vaccinate citizens and improve its medical system, it poured vast resources into testing and lockdowns to try and keep up with the spread of Omicron. → Read More
I lived through China's COVID lockdowns for the best part of three years
China calls its battle against COVID a "people's war", but the people are fed up. Sky's Tom Cheshire describes living under Beijing's lockdowns for nearly three years. → Read More
Hacker offers to sell Shanghai police database holding details on one billion Chinese residents
Chinese authorities have not publicly commented on the breach. Search terms relating to it, including "data leak", were censored on Chinese social media. → Read More
China's first COVID-19 vaccine mandate to be introduced in Beijing
About one in five over-60s in Beijing were said to still be unvaccinated in April - and there are now fears over the more transmissible BA.5 Omicron subvariant. → Read More
President Xi: No need to change the system under which Hong Kong is governed
Lord Patten, the last colonial governor of Hong Kong, accuses China of not keeping to the commitments it made ahead of handover. → Read More
'Hong Kong has been reborn from the ashes': China's Xi Jinping returns to a territory transformed
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, says "as long as we stick to the 'one country, two systems' framework, Hong Kong will certainly have a brighter future" as he arrives in the territory, despite earlier criticism that promised freedoms are being eroded. → Read More
Beijing chief says city to 'maintain zero-COVID policy for next five years'
China is the only major country committed to eradicating outbreaks of the virus. Beijing closed schools, parks, restaurants and gyms, while Shanghai has just emerged from a strict two-month lockdown. → Read More
COVID-19: Parts of Beijing placed under lockdown after spike in Omicron cases
It comes just days after the Chinese capital relaxed control measures, following a five-week lockdown. The recent cases are believed to be connected to a superspreader event. → Read More
'Questions and concerns' raised with China over treatment of Uyghur people
Human rights agencies claim around a million Uyghurs and other minorities have been detained in Xinjiang, and that they have been subject to torture and forced labour. The US government has described China's policies as genocide - a claim that China has called "the lie of the century". → Read More
Biden says the US will intervene militarily if China attacks Taiwan
The remarks seem to be a departure from the US's longstanding policy of "strategic ambiguity" in its response to a potential Chinese invasion. Washington must already provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself, according to the Taiwan Relations Act. → Read More
North Korea confirms first official COVID cases as leader Kim Jong Un orders strict lockdown
The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) says test samples from Sunday from an unspecified number of people with fevers in the capital, Pyongyang, confirmed they were infected with the Omicron variant. → Read More
COVID-19: Sleeping bags on sun loungers and no showers
While much of the world moves on from COVID, the large outbreak in Shanghai has forced city authorities to take extreme measures - but video sent to Sky News shows the living conditions in emergency centres are far from ideal. → Read More
Clean energy's dirty secret: How push for modern technology has made Chinese pond toxic
A tailings pond lies on the west of the Chinese city Baotou, one filled with a black grey sludge of toxic and radioactive material. → Read More
Shanghai: Police in hazmat suits push back COVID protesters angry at being told to give up homes
Residents in the Shanghai apartment compound were angry after being told to give up their homes to house people with COVID. → Read More
COVID-19: Shanghai's strict lockdown could have 'massive global effects' on supply chains
The city registered 27,719 more COVID cases over the last 24 hours, another new record. → Read More
COVID-19: US orders non-emergency diplomatic staff to leave Shanghai amid strict lockdown
"It is best for our employees and their families to be reduced in number and our operations to be scaled down as we deal with the changing circumstances on the ground," the US embassy says. → Read More
COVID-19: Shanghai close to 'civil unrest' as tensions build under strict lockdown regime
Tension and despair are building in the city, where people have been living under a strict lockdown regime for weeks, says Sky's Tom Cheshire. → Read More
COVID: Shanghai reports record cases amid unrest over lockdown rules
Shanghai is entering its third week in a strict lockdown as part of China's battle to contain its biggest COVID-19 outbreak since coronavirus was discovered in Wuhan in late 2019. → Read More
British judges quit Hong Kong courts due to China's crackdown on dissent
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says not withdrawing UK judges could risk legitimising oppression. → Read More