“With Covid-19 running rampant after President Xi Jinping’s government swiftly abandoned its zero-tolerance policy, the Communist Party is still insisting its strategy will ‘stand the test of history,'” Bloomberg reports.
“In a front-page commentary on Thursday totaling over 11,000 Chinese characters, the People’s Daily newspaper — the party’s main mouthpiece — called on citizens to ‘unswervingly’ trust the nation’s leaders. It added that Xi’s Covid Zero policy ‘won precious time’ in controlling the outbreak, saying that China is now ‘not afraid of the continuous mutation of the virus.'”
Meanwhile, another Bloomberg piece notes Xi hasn’t commented on Covid since major changes.
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