News Analysis
Heading into 2023, Xi Jinping is grappling with one of the most pressing ruling crises from the out-of-control COVID-19 outbreak, while the recent collective deaths of officials and elites have triggered more dissatisfaction with his policies among the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) higher echelons.
In early December last year, without sufficient medical preparation and advanced warning, Xi’s regime suddenly lifted the extreme epidemic restrictions, terminating a three-year-long “Zero-COVID” policy. This severe reverse caused an explosive outbreak with a skyrocketing death toll.
Among those deaths, there are many elderly politicians, officials, as well as top scholars and scientists in various fields, who were the firm defenders of the Communist regime and its ruling base, for example, In the first month of re-opening, two of the most prestigious universities in China, Peking University and Tsinghua University, issued about 200 obituaries of their faculty members and professors….