The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held an economic work conference in Beijing a week after its sudden abandonment of “zero-COVID” amid exponentially increasing citizen reports of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
During the meeting, Chinese leader Xi Jinping stressed the need to “vigorously boost market confidence” while expressing strong support for the country’s private sector.
Beijing announced an end to its strict “zero-COVID” policies in early December after what observers, including the World Health Organization (WHO), believe was a strategic decision by the regime in response to the failure of the policy to stop the spread of the virus.
“The explosion of cases in China had started long before any easing of the zero-COVID policy, and I think that it’s very important to recognise that,” WHO Health Emergencies head Mike Ryan said earlier this month….