Beijing is likely to relax or lift its long-held “dynamic zero” coronavirus policy as China faces mounting economic pressure. On March 5, Chinese leader Xi Jinping for the first time changed his wording on the pandemic, dropping talk of a “dynamic zero” and instead urging party officials to “hold the bottom line of preventing the COVID cases from massive resurgence,” according to state media. He made this statement in a speech to delegates from the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, who attended an annual conference of China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress of China. This is the latest sign that the Chinese regime might switch to a less strict strategy than COVID zero. “‘Dynamic zero’ is our country’s response during a given period,” China CDC chief epidemiologist Zeng Guang wrote on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, on Feb. 27. “It won’t remain unchanged forever.” Although much of his post defended China’s …