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Xi Jinping Is Betting It All on Zero Covid

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Xi Jinping Is Betting It All on Zero Covid

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This is a news story from The Wall Street Journal by Eyck Freymann. This article is about President Xi Jinping's zero COVID goal. The author argues that this is a risky move for President Xi, as enforcing a zero COVID policy could have many economic ramifications. As of Monday, 45 cities with 373 million people, representing 40% of China’s gross domestic product, were under partial or full lockdown, according to Nomura estimates. More cities and counties are under “static management,” a euphemism for quasi-lockdown.

President Xi's COVID policy gets compared to Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, where it can start with a noble intention, but turn deadly for the population. Just like Mao faced great food shortages after the Great Leap Forward, locking down centers that produce a lot of the country's GDP is a risk too.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 28, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Eyck Freymann

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text story

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Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Government Federal
English Economy
English Social Issues
English Politics
English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Omicron variant
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Zero-COVID policy

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

economy
Chinese Communist Party
President Xi Jinping
Chairman Mao Zedong
lockdown
policy
federal government

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Language & Communication
Healthcare

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Date Modified (Dublin Core)

05/09/2022
08/02/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

04/28/2022

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This item was submitted on April 28, 2022 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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