{"id":1790283,"date":"2022-12-30T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T11:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790283"},"modified":"2022-12-30T07:35:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:35:39","slug":"mark-lewis-chinas-new-covid-problem-how-will-it-affect-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-lewis-chinas-new-covid-problem-how-will-it-affect-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lewis: China\u2019s New COVID Problem\u2014How Will It Affect America?"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmark-lewis-chinas-new-covid-problem-how-will-it-affect-america%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=1790283&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 dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\">China has relaxed its zero-Covid policy, and the country is now experiencing an explosion in Wuhan virus cases. \u00a0Since the relaxation of the policy, I\u2019ve had eight of my nine online Chinese students either quarantined for fear of the virus, or come down with it themselves, thus necessitating a cancellation of class. \u00a0 The government\u2019s zero-Covid policy prevented the virus from spreading, which sounds good, except people were not able to build up natural immunity to it, as in most other countries. \u00a0China now has to deal with the same problems that every country has.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the end of October, shortly after Xi Jinping was rescinded from the zero-Covid Policy, I wrote the following article. \u00a0\u201cIt is important to realize that much of the lockdown tyranny in China this year was designed to intimidate Xi\u2019s political enemies in advance of the 20th Chinese Communist Party meeting held this month [October]. \u00a0Now that Xi has obtained the power he\u2019s craved, how long he will continue this lockdown policy depends totally on how secure he feels. \u00a0Frankly, it probably won\u2019t last much longer\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And it didn\u2019t. \u00a0I am more convinced than ever now that the lockdown policy across China was never intended for the health of the Chinese people, but was only to cower and intimidate Xi\u2019s political opposition. \u201cHere\u2019s what happens when you mess with me.\u201d \u00a0Xi got what he wanted, and now the purpose of the lockdowns has ceased. \u00a0He couldn\u2019t care less how many Chinese people die from Covid. \u00a0He does have to worry somewhat about his economy; a severe slowdown of China\u2019s economic growth could limit his military buildup. \u00a0However, the hoi polloi could still see him as a loser and still have a billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has relaxed its zero-Covid policy, and the country is now experiencing an explosion in Wuhan virus cases. \u00a0Since the relaxation of the policy, I\u2019ve had eight of my nine online Chinese students either quarantined for fear of the virus, or come down with it themselves, thus necessitating a cancellation of class. \u00a0 The government\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1790286,"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":[547],"tags":[7622,5374,5458,5909,4127,7090,5200,12495,3819],"class_list":["post-1790283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-affect","tag-america","tag-bongino","tag-chinas","tag-covid","tag-lewis","tag-mark","tag-problem-how","tag-report"],"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\/1790283","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}