With the international community gradually relaxing COVID-19 restrictions and the Beijing Winter Olympics coming to an end, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has recently announced it may “change” its “zero-COVID” policy to align with international community. Observers say that the CCP’s “zero-COVID” policy has reached a dead end and that the party is now forced to consider ending the policy. On Feb. 15, the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at the Renmin University of China held a panel discussion on potential post epidemic actions, with the hosting institution claiming to have started developing “new ideas” for Beijing authorities. One panel member, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said that Beijing faces the choice of whether to change its “zero-COVID” policy as Europe and the United States relax their restrictions. If Beijing continues to insist on the policy, private enterprise and individual households …