As China looks on at a world opening up, can Xi Jinping survive zero-Covid?

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With 340m people living under lockdown or restrictions, the administration are sticking to their stance. But at what cost?

In apparent acknowledgement of the toll the pandemic was taking, last month Xi ordered officials to succeed with zero Covid but “at the least cost and [to] minimise the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development”. This month Xi called for all-out efforts to spur infrastructure spending, pushing public development in a bid to drive the economy forward.

“There is some potential that a failure of zero-Covid, now he’s taken such clear responsibility for it, is a challenge to Xi,” says Prof Mary Gallagher, a political scientist and China expert with the university of Michigan. A worker sprays disinfectant inside a gated community as Hangzhou launches a new round of citywide antigen and nucleic acid testing on 28 April 2022 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China.“We know there is debate among the elites. Unfortunately it’s hitting up against a time period for Xi Jinping which makes it very dangerous to open up.”

After five weeks, Shanghai officials announced on Friday that more than 12 million people in districts now deemed low risk were able to leave their homes, but residents say there are still issues.

 

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