China's reversal of its Covid-19 restrictions in early December was meant to help places like Guangzhou. But the chaotic approach has contributed to a tsunami of infections that has swept across the nation, overwhelming hospitals and funeral parlours.
According to the author, the Communist Party realized that major economic and social distress would fracture the social contract if the country remains under the zero covid policy. And as a result, the zero COVID was jettisoned.
"A year ago, I predicted a stronger Xi Jinping and a weaker Joe Biden in my forecast for 2022. I was almost correct, but the reality turned out a little differently than I expected," the editor-in-chief said.
Amid the exponential rise in COVID-19 cases in China, the pharmaceutical industries are finding it difficult to cope with the high demand for medicines after the Xi Jinping-led government announced relaxations in its zero-Covid policy.
2022 was a momentous year for China, backstopped by an end-of-year scrabble to survive the pandemic of COVID-19 from December onwards. What the sequence of events taught the world is that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may be incredibly good at controlling its population, but it is not so
But it appears that his authoritarian rule is being questioned as the recent angry protests by the people across China over Xi's Zero-Covid policy is a crucial development.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has followed Prime Minister Modi's worldview and has stressed the importance of a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine in a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Chinese President Xi Jinping has followed Prime Minister Modi's worldview and h
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed bilateral relations and regional problems via a closed secure channel. During the call, Putin invited Xi to come to Moscow next year.
China had its most difficult year under Xi's rule as it reeled from his costly zero-Covid policy - from months of overzealous enforcement that crushed the economy and stoked historic public discontent, to a wholesale abandonment so abrupt that left a fragile health system scrambling to cope
The China-Saudi summit tells the West that the Arabs have somebody else to look up to while the Chinese expect the summit to indicate that they have finally arrived in the region.