China To Test 26 Million For COVID In Shanghai; The Political Side of Lockdowns in China

Beijing implements hard lockdowns on Shanghai. Inside a city of 26 million is an internal fight between factions. Power politics among communist leaders are playing with the lives of those who live there. As Omicron cases surge in the financial hub of China. We discuss the political competition between President Xi and his rivals. Shanghai’s Covid trend is fitting too well into statistical data. An internet user finds a trend in Shanghai’s daily COVID cases. This, as under-reported cases of elderly death in Shanghai amid the hard lockdown. We make sense of the data for you. Australia now has a space command. I have Dr. Malcolm Davis from the Australian Strategic Policy Insitute to explain why the country is making the move into space. And what the China threat means to Australia and the United States.