covid-19 lockdowns. During the first weeks of the pandemic, the government of Xi Jinping corralled tens of millions of people to stop the disease spreading out of Wuhan. Almost three years later, lockdowns have become China’s undoing. A combination of protests and rising cases means that Mr Xi will have to navigate between mass lockdowns and mass infection—and possibly end up with both.
One problem is hubris. The zero-covid policy started as a stunning success, by sparing millions of Chinese lives. At first, less disease also meant less economic harm. For the past three years, most Chinese have got on with things. Month after month, state media trumpeted that this proves Mr Xi and the party are competent and humane, unlike decadent Western politicians presiding over mass death.
Unless China changes course, its resilience to covid will fade. The latest subvariants are more infectious than Omicron, which is more infectious than Delta. Protection from serious disease and death decays much faster in those who have only been vaccinated than it does in those who have been infected as well. Regardless, China has not yet staged a campaign for a fourth shot.
The implications go wider than covid. By making the zero-covid policy into a test of loyalty, Mr Xi has turned a health crisis into a political one. By imposing the daily apparatus of detection and enforcement, he has cut against the idea that his covid policy puts “people first” and instead brought an unbending authoritarian state into every home.
This, this is what the censorship folks are pushing us towards. It is all arrogance 'Look, we run this great social media tool, surely we know physics better than everybody else in the world.' In China, the arrogance of party leaders carries the world. In USA, tech industry's.
just like the war on drugs
I salute Chinese People's Zero Dictator protests.
阴间滤镜+阴间配文=政治学人与媒体霸权与洗脑民众
...depend. Will be just rocked, or rockets...
吧
Really a dilemma
It’s a political humiliation.
The people are waking up. We will no longer tolerate slavery. For a Better Day!
The control policy is not only a mistake of political policy, but the industrialization of square pods and nucleic acids is also closely related to government corruption.
This could have been the U.S. Keep that in mind when you vote for democrats.
FK Economist
China is now a dictatorship, with the new consolidation oof power, and their people need to overthrow the government.
Nope. No more dilemma. Now it’s quandary. Multi-quandary.
正确的客观的一针见血的……后面忘了
The world is now a global village and layer by layer will he peeled back and uncovered..so welcome…
Lol
Desde quando esse vírus surgiu na china. A regra de quem defeca ouro,e esparrama M.
瞎说
🤔🤣🤔🤣🤔🤣
好家伙，然而现在慢慢放开了又有人不愿意了，怕老人孩子生病，医疗资源挤兑。怎么做都有人说，只能说一句，你很难让所有人都满意。
thank you for reporting on this important topic
Xi Jinping is an example. He demonstrated the destructive power of totalitarian governments in public events. He'll never hear people's voices until things are too bad to undo.
Somehow, I don't see Xi doing whats necessary. Which is admitting it was wrong and immediately revoking the policy.
Dictators are not leaders! This mass murderer needs to be locked up for the rest of his life and the people of China need to be freed!
So I guess it was great experiment to evaluate the response to bioweapons.
It never was a health crisis
Soon the Economist will start criticizing how China lifting lockdown causes people to die. In a nutshell, whatever China does, it is wrong.
Failure of zero -covid but Pro of Concentration Camp in china 🇨🇳
I mean zero-covid policy was number 1 for west and decimated the economy and supply lines. 🥱
You were in favor of lockdowns
Zero Humanity Policy 🔒
🙄
It's a pandemic. The Economist surely knows that word choice matters, so please use the correct ones.
嗯，你说的很对，但我们国家因为新冠死的人最少…
what a fuking image and words.
pathetic is shiba
Beijing has listened before it's too late and chosen to relax the agonizing policy and Beijing probably doesn't mind being used as a red herring, with propaganda machines like the Economist diverting attention from UK government's incompetence at patching up huge holes at home.🥱
Chinese almost fought alone against the covid in the past years to protect the rest of the world and supplier train, now she is too tired, but she was accused 'stupid'. You already forgot the death in the pandemic, right? They are such a small number compared to The Economist.
Really ? Only China’s undoing? Because covid measures didn’t appear to be helping any country adopting them! Can we get an overall analysis for other countries as well? Since we are being honest and all!
China also invented Covid-19.
On the other hand, they've just about perfected AI-identification of masked individuals and, how to impose mass detention.
The entire world is in a continuing pandemic it's strange that this publication doesn't seem to realize that.
I wish the Chinese people success in overthrowing a communist dictatorship!
End game. He will end up invading Taiwan to get out of it.
It’s absolutely insane to single out the one country, which saved tens of millions of lives during the pandemic as a “failure” while give a pass to the U.S. and UK, which killed millions with their insufficient measures and lax enforcement of their fake “lockdowns.”
Raging disease? Your endless fake news and propaganda is priceless!
The United States allowed 1.2 million people to die so that the ownership class could continue to amass profit. You, , are a wretched cancer on the face of humanity. Lenin was right about you a century ago: you're a publication that speaks for British millionaires.
Zero Covid Police see ！
UncleClown3
The economist is one of the most foolish editorial mouthpiece I have ever come across and I'm being moderate. It just feels like kids writing a propaganda hit-piece.
Acting as if this health crisis was not being politicised from the start
Neither does Biden.
Hoping he doesn’t look to start an international conflict in a misguided attempt to boost domestic unity.
How many deaths from COVID did we have in the UK, remind me?
change your journal name from the economist to 'the propagandist' 😀
1,000,000+ dead
You can try to create a false narrative all you want, but the statistics don’t lie.
Did the BBC or CNN buy The Economist?🤣
Que China tenga el 0,5 % de las muertes por Covid de EEUU con una población 4 veces más grande dice mucho de la ESTUPIDEZ del
Sure, sure, whatever you say.
'China's Covid failure' + Millions of lives saved + Chinese economy performed better than the West + Most Chinese people never suffered lockdown
wow. amazing picture.
Sounds similar to the Biden administration and the democrats.
Saving lives is not a failure, the Americans lost a million people but that is somehow a success, that’s insane
Fixed it for you.
My bank account 01.12.2022. Finland government takes 40 Miljard Euros loan 2023 What happen IF intrest rate go up like 199.....
How saving lives is a failure? I really don't understand Western nowadays.
I think you’ll find he’s not bothered in the slightest. CCP business as usual. Doubling down on zero covid.
The US has turned the health crisis into a CIA psyops to create unrest in China. China has just shown that they listen to protesters more than western 'democracies'
you really had no shames.. how many people died in the West because of your living with covid policy? you and alike are so desperate to hide Western failures.
Whoa China is failing. What about the shithole countries called UK? Ranking so high where is China on th list? Well it ranked higher than 100ths
BTW , 1.1 million c0vid deaths in US with a population of just 330M in US? Who failed? China has 99% less deaths than US fm pandemic.
Economist is just US propaganda. Desperate fpr views before it goes bankrupt. This 👇👇👇 exposes the hypocrisy
Oh shut up
Yes, the West succeeded with glory. Just 3 million deaths between the US and Europe, compared to less than 6000 deaths in China.
Utter nonsense 1)The popular uprising against the Zero-Covid Policy is a ridiculously easy problem for the Leadership to resolve 2)There's zero evidence that dismay over this single ISSUE has anyone in China yearning for regime change& a Western style political framework...🤦♂️
Oh that's a good one!🤣 Accusing China of 'politicizing covid' when that's what all western 'leaders' and 'news' media have been doing since 2020.
With only 5000 dead?
疫情三年，看看中国的新冠死亡人数，看看每年的经济增长率，拿来和你们的数字做个比较。
老外弱智也太多了，这么好骗，难怪美国搞颜色革命，想弄哪里弄哪里，没有文化积淀的地方，人心都是摇摆的，自然外人吹嘘两句，就能跟着走了。同情来自中国🇨🇳❤️
你们这么大的媒体，怎么整天跟着造谣，干些下三滥的活呢，不过仔细想想也能明白，你们不过都是海盗和殖民者的后代，老祖宗传下来的本事，自己赚不到钱，就去把别人搞死，去别人家的地盘上搞钱就是了，整天吹着牛逼说什么道德高尚，就冲你们丝毫不心虚的劲儿看，确实令人倾佩得五体投地，爱来自中国🇨🇳❤️
A bit late on this topic, don't you think? Would have been a fitting title some month ago but things are already shaking up in China as this issue is being released.
The cover page is awesome, really great 😃
just call to free elections NO MORE DICTATORSHIP!
The editors of The Economist has turned a Economic Journal into a political one
Just look how they comment the same thing happened both in China and the Western world. If it is called failure, how would western governments be called? Burning shame?
This front page photo is really disgusting and disgraceful, as A Chinese I have to say this photo should be condemned
'Only 40% of the over-80s have had three covid shots' dark thought: Mass death among the elderly would assist with China's coming demographic crash
They are welding people's doors shut...
The A4Revolution starts when citizens are burned 🔥 to death because they are forbidden 🚫 to go outside even when there is a 🔥.
British is the director of the color revolution , shame on you.
Also happens in Europe, EUA, Australia, NZ and Canada, but the media call it denialism. Now they call it of “fighting for freedom”
Off with his head! says the Queen :)
Japanese cybertorturer says the girl symbolizes China and me who can't block his microwave beams. Cyber Defence and Sex Problems are connected seriously. Since Russia surrounded Mariupol, he's never stopped cyberraping me because he is irritated by SpaceX US_SpaceCom elonmusk
I knew US policy on Covid got great success。Please advise how many lives were saved？Shameless you are！
So did USA and Europa, for more please get in touch with vonderleyen
wash value
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