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Has China admitted failure for zero Covid?

11 January 2023

6:36 PM

11 January 2023

6:36 PM

Why did China end its zero Covid policy so abruptly? This question has confounded China-watchers and even the Chinese people over the last month.

For the last three years, the Chinese government dictated its people’s lives to an extent unseen since the Cultural Revolution. Zero Covid had become part of Xi Jinping’s political legacy.

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