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Xi Jinping Is Betting It All on Zero Covid
Title (Dublin Core)
Xi Jinping Is Betting It All on Zero Covid
Description (Dublin Core)
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.
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
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
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
Collection (Dublin Core)
Language & Communication
Healthcare
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
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”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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