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Protests bubbling in big cities, dismal economic indicators and rampant discontent online China's zero-Covid policy is morphing from a propaganda victory to a political liability for President Xi Jinping.

[FILE]Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for a ceremony at the Monument to the People’s Heroes on Tiananmen Square to mark Martyrs’ Day, in Beijing, China. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Fawning television specials and orchestrated ceremonies placed Xi in the foreground as avuncular, wise and in complete command of a Chinese success story. The leadership’s intransigence “now risks making China’s performance appear not merely stubborn, but perilously uncreative, and unwise,” Vivienne Shue, a professor of China studies at the University of Oxford, told AFP.

While the sudden unravelling of Beijing’s Covid narrative presents a challenge, experts say it is unlikely to derail his bid to rule China indefinitely. His prominence has spurred speculation of a rift or challenge to Xi’s authority from party factions unhappy at the virus-driven slump.

 

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