In rushing the protests, Xi is also in danger of crushing the country's economy
In rushing the protests, Xi is also in danger of crushing the country’s economy
The danger now for the Chinese leader Xi Jinping is that this graphic demonstration of the cruelty and counter-productiveness of his zero-Covid strategy has resonated with the entire population.Rural workers, white collar staff in big cities and university students have experienced the drudgery or even horror of months-long lockdowns, with too little to eat and the prospect of losing their jobs or futures.
, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management who leads its China Lab. “This is a gamechanger,” he told theOnly 30,000 people of China’s 1.4 billion population have died from Covid; a death rate hundreds of times lower that of many Western countries. Omicron strains of Covid that predominate in late 2022 are so contagious that even the most draconian lockdowns appear not to be working.have now risen to their highest ever levels of around 30,000 a day.
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