{"id":1790262,"date":"2022-12-30T07:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790262"},"modified":"2022-12-30T07:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:33:48","slug":"chinas-dictatorial-political-system-is-the-root-cause-of-its-disastrous-covid-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-dictatorial-political-system-is-the-root-cause-of-its-disastrous-covid-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Dictatorial Political System Is The Root Cause Of Its Disastrous Covid Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fchinas-dictatorial-political-system-is-the-root-cause-of-its-disastrous-covid-policies%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=1790262&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-->\n<p>Beijing abandoned brutal and unpopular policies abruptly \u201czero Covid\u201d After it had been terminated, policy was reinstated in December.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/01\/chinas-paper-revolution-could-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-xi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrecked China\u2019s economy and caused the Chinese people countless miseries<\/a>\u00a0This eventually led to massive protests. China\u2019s reopening has been a disaster. It does not validate the government\u2019s prior \u201czero Covid\u201d policy but illustrates everything wrong with the nation\u2019s dictatorial political system.<\/p>\n<p>On March 19, 2022, while Covid-19 spread worldwide like wildfire, China\u2019s dictator Xi Jinping <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/03\/23\/why-on-earth-should-anyone-believe-communist-chinas-coronavirus-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a>\u00a0He was the winner of the \u201cpeople\u2019s war\u201d The pandemic was defeated. Such a victory was meant to serve as indisputable evidence that China\u2019s one-party political system is superior to the democracies of the West. <\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s declaration of victory was premature. After three years of torture for the Chinese people with mass testing and invasive contact trace, extended lockdowns, economic hardship, and prolonged lockdowns, China was the last major country to reopen. \u201czero covid\u201d The policy was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/22\/china\/china-covid-deaths-crematorium-intl-hnk-mic\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chaotic and scary<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals are equipped with the following:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11561611\/Chinas-Covid-capitulation-draconian-hermit-strategy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a>\u00a0Overflowing patients meant that the mortuaries across the country were at capacity. As bodies pile up, they had to work overtime. As they have run out of stock, pharmacies are emptying shelves. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinese-pharmacies-struggle-to-stock-medication-as-covid-spreads-11671802376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">run out of<\/a> Ibuprofen is a basic cold and fever medicine. Many people call in sick to factories, which causes a shortage of workers at factories.<\/p>\n<p>American companies in China are also affected. Tesla, for example, was among those affected.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/24\/tesla-shuts-down-shanghai-plant-as-covid-cases-in-china-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shut down<\/a>\u00a0Between Dec. 25th and Jan. 1, it closed its Shanghai factory due to increasing Covid infections in its employees. Zhejiang province is a hub for manufacturing where many Apple suppliers are based. It reported that it had difficulty keeping its factories open.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Spotlight\/Coronavirus\/In-China-s-Zhejiang-1m-daily-COVID-cases-raise-supply-chain-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one million<\/a>\u00a0New Covid cases available on Christmas Day\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A leaked document from an internal meeting of China\u2019s National Health Commission showed officials estimated that about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/23\/china\/china-covid-infections-250-million-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">250 million<\/a>\u00a0Chinese, which is 18 percent of China&#8217;s population, could have been infected in the first twenty days of December with Covid. Yet the Chinese government\u2019s official report insisted that Covid cases fell\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11569835\/China-Covid-chaos-250MILLION-people-infected-20-days-officials-estimate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">47 percent<\/a>\u00a0to 4,666 in December, and the last seven days\u2019 daily new death toll was either zero or a single digit.<\/p>\n<p>Because Beijing\u2019s official Covid data has been widely ridiculed as untrustworthy, Chinese health officials finally\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/22\/china\/china-covid-deaths-crematorium-intl-hnk-mic\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a>\u00a0They had also changed the way they count deaths from Covid-19 infections. Since then, the Chinese authorities\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/22\/china\/china-covid-deaths-crematorium-intl-hnk-mic\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">undercounted<\/a>\u00a0Covid death tolls throughout the pandemic, the latest methodology change renders China\u2019s official Covid data meaningless. China has stopped publishing daily Covid information since Christmas, possibly because it knows no one trusts them.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s disastrous reopening is not a validation of Beijing\u2019s \u201czero Covid\u201d policy but a refutation of it and an indictment of China\u2019s political system. The nation is ruled over by one party, Xi, who was officially declared a dictator for the rest of his life at the 20th Party Congress. By declaring a premature victory in early 2020 and tying the elimination of Covid-19 to his legacy and the supposed superiority of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s governance, Xi left no room for policy debates. His will became policies regardless of how ridiculous they might seem.<\/p>\n<p>Xi decided to close China\u2019s borders and impose prolonged lockdowns, despite evidence from other countries showing such approaches are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/3-studies-that-show-lockdowns-are-ineffective-at-slowing-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ineffective<\/a>\u00a0In containing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government\u2019s mishandling of Covid and its chaotic reopening have exposed its assertion of political superiority as a lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":1790265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5909,4127,12490,8051,6919,4600,3753,12491],"class_list":["post-1790262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-chinas","tag-covid","tag-dictatorial","tag-disastrous","tag-federalist","tag-policies","tag-political","tag-root"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790262","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\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}