As Covid Border Curbs end, Chinese rush to renew their passports
People started to form lengthy lines outside of immigration offices in Beijing on Monday, prepared to renew their passports, after China lifted COVID border restrictions that had practically prevented its 1.4 billion residents from travelling for three years. One of the last phases in China's "zero-COVID" regime's dissolution, which started last month following historic protests against restrictions that prevented the virus but stoked massive resentment among its populace, is Sunday's reopening. A 67-year-old retiree named Yang Jianguo told Reuters he was planning to meet his daughter in the US for the first time in three years while waiting in line with more than 100 other people to renew his passport in the Chinese capital. "Her wedding had to be postponed last year since we couldn't make it over. We are so relieved that we can depart," Standing close to his wife, Yang spoke. On Monday, investors bet that the reopening would boost a $17 trillion...