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EDITORIAL. Praised by communist propaganda for two years, Chinese policy to fight the pandemic is at an impasse.
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By Luc de Barochez
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Lhe Chinese number one, Xi Jinping, is racking up annoyances this spring. The failure of the zero Covid policy comes to crash into the communist narrative of an alleged superiority of the authoritarian model over capitalist democracy; China’s international prestige is tainted by its support for Russia against Ukraine; the slowing economy is reducing his chances of catching up with the United States by 2030. These three embarrassments are unfortunate for Xi, a few months from the planned renewal, in the fall, of his term as head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This meeting is supposed to mark his political triumph: it would be the first time since the founder of the People’s Republic, Mao Tse-tung, that a leader would remain at the head of the country for more than ten years.
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