, Columnist
The Very, Very Long Way Home for Chinese New Year
Beijing’s continuing attempts to rein in the pandemic will keep people from returning home for the holiday and may result in a huge jump in first quarter GDP.
A working holiday
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This will be the second year in a row that I won’t make it home for Chinese New Year.
Last year, China surprised us with a Wuhan lockdown two days before the Lunar New Year. I’d seen my family in Shanghai during a work trip a week before. So I canceled my flight and worked on my columns about the crisis.