As of June 25, 2022.
Posted on 06/29/2022 5:32:38 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Cai Qi, the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Beijing, told state media Monday that the city would adhere to its “zero-Covid” policy of lockdowns and quarantines for the next five years.
State media rapidly deleted his comment — and Chinese censors relentlessly scrubbed it from websites — after a burst of shock and outrage on social media.
The original quote from Cai, as published by the state-run Beijing Daily, read as follows: “In the next five years, Beijing will unremittingly grasp the normalization of epidemic prevention and control.”
The rest of the article made it clear that Cai was talking about the harsh lockdowns of residential compounds, districts, and entire cities that have plagued China this year, most notoriously in Shanghai.
The capital city of Beijing underwent smaller, shorter lockdowns and heavy restrictions during the spring but avoided the inhumane months-long citywide prison-camp treatment Shanghai experienced.
Cai might have thought he was just dumping a little pandemic boilerplate language into a chat with a Communist Party media organ, but Chinese social media went wild after his comments were published. In a matter of hours, the interview had been shared far and wide, and a hashtag for the “five years” comment racked up a million hits on Weibo, China’s version of banned Twitter…
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Insane. This is clearly not about Covid.
It’s very telling when these Rats extol the “virtues “ of the Chicoms.
5 years to totally break the will of the already oppressed people.
Why do I know that, in 5 years, they will announce that they need another 5 years?
I would like to see how Covid really affected China (probably a much higher death toll than reported). The country and it’s economy is probably more bankrupt than reported because the NBA, Disney, and other divisions of Big Brother corporate America have investments there.
The Communist Party must smell Revolution ,LOL
Ah Communist nostalgia. The return of the 5 year plan.
This is the GREAT LEAP FORWARD version 2 without the little red book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
Bank runs everywhere. They have an app that flashes infected whenever someone goes near the bank to withdraw funds. So they can’t get money.
Thank God China is commiting suicide at the same time as the US. Xi is a retard. Just not demented yet.
China is a huge multi billion person slave labor gulag. The entire country (except the elites of course). Democrats in total admiration of their system.
As of June 25, 2022.
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