“to meet the needs of whatever agenda the CCP is trying to push.”
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The author understands little about China beyond what he might have read somewhere.
The concept of infallibility is associated in the West with religion, but in China infallibility is invested in the Emperor.
Xi Jinping is the Emperor and as such his edict of zero covid tolerance cannot be wrong. He is also up for re-election by the top Party Elite; it would never do to have him lose face.
So there can be no cases in China and any cases found must be controlled - no matter the human cost. Simple as that.
Oh and its not just Shanghai, but all of China.
Well, if true, it will explain what I read in one of the 'China COVID' articles that there are 30 million truckers in China in lockdown. That's a lot of truckers...even for China.