Public trust in China's ruling party has likely declined, with unpredictable consequences for the future of domestic governance.
"Policy-wise, Beijing is struggling to present a coherent narrative at this point, about why China persisted with zero COVID for so long, and why it is suddenly ending it," said Wen-ti Sung, a political scientist at the Australian National University in Canberra.
To some, Xi's mistake wasn't implementing zero COVID itself, or ending it when it could no longer contain the virus, but rather his failure to properly exit the policy that had afforded the country with some semblance of normality. However, Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute in London, argues they are"two sides of the same coin."
soft limits on travel from China. Requiring negative PCR tests from passengers is"disproportionate and simply unacceptable," she said, before threatening"corresponding measures."'s COVID burden. Beijing has insisted on homemade vaccines based on inactivated virus technology, which are effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalization, but only at higher doses, according to recent studies.
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