Oliver Wiseman in his 'DC Diary' in The Spectator provides a most valuable framework for answering questions and speculations about China today: 'China erupts. What happens next?'
First wordDISCRETE and often conflicting reports have marked the media coverage during the past three days of developments in China, following the eruption of protests against the government's zero-Covid policy in Shanghai, Beijing and seven other cities.Oliver Wiseman in his 'DC Diary' in The Spectator provides a most valuable framework for answering questions and speculations about China today: 'China erupts.
'According to the sources, further relaxation is now scheduled to start in the course of January when Beijing will formally announce the end of the pandemic and classify Covid as an endemic infectious disease. That's earlier than previously planned.'Health officials and their direct superiors who have been promoting heightened control measures to prevent death of the elderly have been overruled.
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