Commentary
The great fear of the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that it will suffer the fate of the Soviet Union was on full display with the abrupt decision to abandon the country’s COVID-zero policy.
The unrelenting policy, which had been strictly applied month after month for almost three years, was the personal decision of Chinese leader Xi Jinping who described it in ideological terms.
Writing in the Study Times last year, Ma Xiaowei, head of the National Health Commission, stated, “We must take a clear stand against the current wrong ideas such as the so-called ‘coexistence with the virus’ and maintain the zero-COVID strategy.”…