The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) draconian zero-COVID policy is facing its biggest challenges now. In the face of rising protests, many cities have begun to relax their zero-COVID rules but at the same time are building large numbers of quarantine facilities. The CCP is facing a dilemma due to the low vaccination rate and the ineffectiveness of China’s COVID-19 vaccines, which means that relaxing the rules could lead to over a million COVID-19 deaths.
Local Governments in Debt Due to Zero-COVID
The costs of COVID nucleic acid testing every two days and enforcing mandatory quarantine policies have left local governments short of funds. Over the past three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, bills have been mounting, putting enormous financial pressure on local governments in the world’s most populous country….