6/21/2023 0 Comments Caught between two worlds i.c.u.![]() ![]() “China at one point was one of the world leaders in COVID response, and now it’s the only country in the world that hasn’t gotten back to a near normal,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Washington’s Georgetown University and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. 29, 2022, that the country is following a “dynamic zero-COVID policy” A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Nov. Under President Xi Jinping, whose increasingly authoritarian rule was extended for a historic third term in October, many citizens vent on social media, trying to stay ahead of censors.įILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the G20 Leaders' Summit in Bali, Indonesia, Nov. Beijing’s policy emphasized “always putting the people and their lives above everything else,” according to a November 25 analysis in the official Xinhua news outlet.īut three years into zero-COVID, people fed up with being locked down are in the streets chanting “No PCR test, we want freedom!” “End the lockdowns!” “Step down, Communist Party!” Protests of this scale are rare because the Chinese Communist Party limits freedom of speech and association. alone has lost more than 1.08 million people. ![]() That draconian step saved thousands of lives, according to Chinese figures, and since then many Chinese have compared the 6.6 million deaths worldwide to Beijing’s official count of just 15,986 deaths. Wuhan Survivors, Caught Between Grief and Surveillance, Want Accountability ![]()
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