{"id":1422291,"date":"2022-04-06T16:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422291"},"modified":"2022-04-06T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:15:00","slug":"xi-jinpings-top-henchwoman-scolds-shanghai-to-adopt-a-stricter-attitude-on-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/xi-jinpings-top-henchwoman-scolds-shanghai-to-adopt-a-stricter-attitude-on-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping&#039;s Top Henchwoman Scolds Shanghai to \u2018Adopt a Stricter Attitude\u2019 on Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fxi-jinpings-top-henchwoman-scolds-shanghai-to-adopt-a-stricter-attitude-on-coronavirus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan was dispatched to Shanghai on Saturday to make it clear that dictator Xi Jinping expects harsh lockdowns and strict adherence to China\u2019s \u201cdynamic zero-Covid\u201d strategy, no matter how much damage is inflicted on the vital industrial and financial hub city, or its citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>on Wednesday portrayed Sun as a no-nonsense disciplinarian whipping careless and indulgent Shanghai officials into shape:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, after visiting quarantine centers, makeshift hospitals, nucleic acid tests centers and communities, urged the city to adopt stricter attitude, more thorough measures, and swifter actions, to ratchet up building of makeshift hospitals, expand isolation venues, and strictly follow guidelines in order to defeat COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sun said Shanghai is at a crucial point in its fight against the virus, but with the help from other provinces and regions, the city will succeed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Vice Premier also asked Shanghai to plug loopholes, guarantee people\u2019s life necessities and medical needs, and ensure smooth operation of ports and the supply chain industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Naturally, the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>reported Shanghai officials snapping to attention and regaling Sun with statistics about how many treatment beds, improvised hospitals, and medical teams the city has fielded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The report described a sea change in the treatment of children who test positive, whom officials will now allegedly allow to stay with their parents instead of being ripped from their arms and tossed into understaffed treatment wards, without acknowledging the local, national, and global <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/04\/china-sends-military-shanghai-separates-children-parents-coronavirus\/\"><span>outcry<\/span><\/a><span> against China\u2019s cruel policies that prompted the change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sun\u2019s arrival in Shanghai presaged a major Chinese Communist Party narrative shift on the outbreak. City officials previously stressed the importance of keeping the city running, quarantining blocks in stages, and completing a few rounds of mass testing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20499527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/wi\/afp\/02\/streets-of-shanghai-quiet-sunday-citywide-lockdown-dragged-china-reporting-13-000-covid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The streets of Shanghai were quiet Sunday as a citywide lockdown dragged on. (AFP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>When case numbers kept climbing, Xi demanded strict lockdowns without any of the promised allowances for vital industries or special considerations for Shanghai citizens. The city was plunged into chaos as harsh lockdowns were imposed without much warning, leaving residents <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/05\/reports-shanghai-residents-trapped-at-gunpoint-in-coronavirus-quarantines\/\"><span>trapped<\/span><\/a><span> in their apartments while an army of armed enforcers patrolled the streets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The new political narrative of the Shanghai outbreak blames local officials for not taking the problem seriously enough and deviating from China\u2019s supposedly tried-and-true maximum lockdown strategy, as Sun rather explicitly stated on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhile some Western media is focusing on the \u2018huge cost\u2019 of the Shanghai\u2019s fight against Omicron, hyping on its \u201cfailure of tactics\u201d of controlling the epidemic resurgence, Chinese experts said like Hong Kong, Shanghai will also offer the valuable data sample for China in terms of the efficiency of vaccines, and how they prevent severe cases,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>sneered, implying Shanghai officials were unduly influenced by criticism from soft-on-coronavirus foreign powers with financial interests in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>offered no hint of the anger and despair Shanghai residents have expressed to foreign media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/shanghai-long-fruitless-wait-help-amid-covid-lockdown-2022-04-06\/\"><span>Reuters<\/span><\/a><span> on Wednesday described frantic residents pleading with government officials for medicine to treat ailing elderly people and sometimes receiving only packets of Chinese \u201cherbal remedies\u201d for their trouble. Social media is brimming with complaints about poorly-implemented quarantine policies, constantly-changing protocols, and \u201ccrowded and unsanitary\u201d conditions at hastily-constructed quarantine centers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/shanghai-lockdown-surreal-photos-ghost-town-amid-covid-lockdown-2022-4#shanghai-has-come-to-a-standstill-with-all-of-the-citys-26-million-residents-under-lockdown-1\"><span>Insider<\/span><\/a><span> on Wednesday said Shanghai has \u201ccome to a standstill\u201d and posted \u201csurreal\u201d images of empty streets in the once-bustling metropolis \u2013 all due to a claim of just 425 symptomatic coronavirus infections. Lockdown restrictions were extended without warning for another ten days over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A few of Shanghai\u2019s big financial firms either received a warning through back channels, or correctly deduced draconian lockdowns were coming, because they made provisions for employees to live in their office cubicles until restrictions are lifted. At least 20,000 bankers and traders are reportedly living in their offices under increasingly grim conditions, making do without showers and begging the trapped workers in other office buildings to shut off their neon signs so everyone can sleep at night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A widely-shared Tuesday <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aliceysu\/status\/1511558828802068481?s=21&#038;t=rnOK_CQUMmxO-Bz5L9xN1w\"><span>post<\/span><\/a><span> on China\u2019s heavily-censored Weibo microblogging platform included a video allegedly showing imprisoned Shanghai residents gathering on their balconies to sing protest songs and complain about the lack of supplies \u2013 only for a drone to fly overhead and broadcast orders through a loudspeaker: \u201cPlease comply with Covid restrictions. Control your soul\u2019s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing.\u201d Breitbart News could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan was dispatched to Shanghai on Saturday to make it clear that dictator Xi Jinping expects harsh lockdowns and strict adherence to China\u2019s \u201cdynamic zero-Covid\u201d strategy,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}