This week, Beijing declared “five more years” of zero-COVID. To everyone’s surprise, they backtracked and claimed it was an “error” and a “mistake” on the part of the reporter. So do we expect China to go with hard lockdowns and mass testing for the next five years? Or is this all just political? And what…

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) state-run media ran editorials one after another to advocate “struggle,” shortly after Chinese leader Xi Jinping required communist cadres to “stick to principles and dare to struggle.” In addition, the recent media reports on actions taken to control floods—considered as political achievements in China—completely ignored former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin…