Xi Jinping Is Betting It All on Zero Covid

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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.

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)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinping-is-betting-it-all-on-zero-covid-lockdowns-mandates-china-pandemic-omicron-great-leap-forward-11651155033

https://web.archive.org/web/20220502110557/https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinping-is-betting-it-all-on-zero-covid-lockdowns-mandates-china-pandemic-omicron-great-leap-forward-11651155033

https://web.archive.org/web/20220509234257/https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinping-is-betting-it-all-on-zero-covid-lockdowns-mandates-china-pandemic-omicron-great-leap-forward-11651155033

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)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/28/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

05/09/2022

08/02/2022

12/05/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

04/28/2022

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