Barely a month after granting himself a third five-year term as China's leader, Xi Jinping is facing a wave of public anger over his “zero COVID' policy
as China's potential leader for life, Xi Jinping is facing a wave of public anger of the kind not seen for decades, sparked by his"zero COVID" strategy that will soon enter its fourth year.
Most protesters focused their anger on restrictions that can confine families to their homes for months and have been criticized as neither scientific nor effective. Some complained the system is failing to respond to their needs. China's stringent measures were originally accepted for minimizing deaths while other countries suffered devastating waves of infections, but that consensus has begun to fray in recent weeks.
Now, it appears that old arrangement has ended as the party enforces control at the expense of the economy, said Hung Ho-fung of Johns Hopkins University. “Without the clear signal of party leader divisions ... I would expect this kind of protest might not last very long,” Hung said.
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