To predict how the Communist Party may navigate this perilous moment, as they abandon zero-covid without proper preparations, it is worth remembering that deaths can be recorded in different ways
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskEven in recent days, as it became clear that the party is losing its unwinnable war with covid-19, senior officials dug in more deeply. Like generals facing defeat in a bunker, they redoubled their promises of victory, declaring the saving of lives to be the ultimate test of a political system.
Ms Hua is feted by nationalists for her caustic tone with the West. But all arms of China’s propaganda machine have spent the pandemic depicting democracies as too decadent to protect a basic human right, life. On the same day as Ms Hua’s tweet, the main eveningnews programme, “Xinwen Lianbo”, broadcast images of American misery that it has shown many times before during this pandemic: ambulances arriving at hospitals and sick Americans on respirators.
To predict how the party may navigate this perilous moment, it is worth remembering that deaths can be recorded in different ways. Death can be a statistic, and also the saddest and hardest-borne of human events. Statistics hold little fear for China’s leaders. To burnish its ideological legacy, the party has erased tens of millions of dead from history.
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