A change of policy would be perceived (correctly!) as a sign of weakness, which in an honor culture would lead to hari-kari.
Xi is not about to admit error much less fall on his sword.
IMF needs to *uck off.
[That’s what Xi said.]
heh
At this point, the ChiComs’ “zero covid” strategy only makes any sort of sense if they know some things about the virus that the rest of the world doesn’t know.
Does anyone else wonder if China is less concerned with internal covid spread than with employing a Round 2 attempt to shackle a world economy that is bouncing back in spite of China’s protracted 2-year Round 1 ‘shutdown’?
No, how about we help them kill it? Let’s stop commerce with China. The sooner they collapse, the sooner we can contain them. Then, let’s send all Chinese home to fix the cesspool mess.
Zero Covid is unrealistic.
We need new cell phones- Turn the machines back on!
Whatever one thinks of China it has never and will never need to go to the IMF for a bailout. Which is more than can be said of Gret Britain.
Must be nice for Xi to tell the IMF to bugger off.
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii say to China drop your zero covid policy so I can get back to cheap tickets to Thailand!!!
Why should it be desirable for China to grow faster than the 3% rate?
Shouldn’t China instead be commended for limiting its growth, thereby reducing the increase in CO2 emissions and the exploitation of raw materials producing countries?
I’m confused.
CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health anywhere on the planet.
Gifts of rental property in Macau to Western politicians is a worthless gesture, if Macau is never open. Then again, keeping Macau closed is good punishment to those Western politicians who have already received Macau rental property, and do things that pi$$off the CCP.
Any growth in the Chinese economy in excess of 0 is a hoax, bogus, falderal.
Aside from the covid problem (no vaccine and never ending new cases) China is experiencing serious economic decline.
China has no local taxes and the local governments rely on sales of land to support municipal fiscal needs. Development has completely ceased and there are no municipal property sales. There is thus no money to support the vast municipal bureaucracies. There is no solution to the problem
Municipal doom!
I suppose xi could blame his tame scientists and execute a few of them for being wrong.