The Chinese Communist Party is now COVID-19

Conservative News DailyDecember 31, 2022

China’s Xi Jinping Capitulates on COVID-19: Henry Gao, Singapore Management University argues Xi Jinping, a Chinese ruler, abruptly reversed his fortunes “dynamic zero-Covid policy,” perhaps the world’s most draconian set of disease-control measures, because he believed his own propaganda He underestimated the capabilities of his government to deal with the aftermath.

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The consequences will be terrible. Scientists predict This winter, 800 million Chinese will contract the disease. It is estimated that 1.1 billion people will become infected. According to Charles Burton, a Macdonald-Laurier Institute representative in Ottawa, who told 1945 that 1.1 billion people were at risk, “there is a massive wave of disease and miserable death spreading all over China.”

Gao says that Xi Jinping may have made a policy mistake.

More likely, Xi did not “decide” anything. He may have simply succumbed to the disease.

How can this be?

As an initial matter, Xi’s policy had failed to contain the disease. The World Health Organization believes the current “explosion” of cases in China is not the result of the abandonment of zero-Covid, and leaked Chinese case figures tend to support the international body’s assertion.

The Communist Party and the Chinese central government could no longer administer their disease-control program. First, the Chinese people, through extraordinary protests beginning at the end of October, made it clear that after three years, they would no longer accept Xi’s harsh measures.

Second, it was the municipalities that incurred most of these zero-Covid lockdowns costs. could no longer afford them. Even Beijing, the capital, was running out cash for this purpose.

Third, Xi’s policy was fast driving the Chinese economy deep—or deeper—into contraction. Zero-Covid, often implemented by extreme tactics, was also driving factories out of China because it had disrupted—in some cases, severely—both production and transportation.

Although it had been clear for a long time that Xi’s approach was disastrous, China’s willful leader stuck to it. He doubled down on the policy in his Work Report, a nearly two-hour speech that opened the Communist Party’s 20th National Congress on October 16.

The following surrender to the disease has been eroded Xi’s support In senior Party circles. “His opponents have inflicted humiliation upon him,” Roger Garside, ex-diplomat and author from the United Kingdom. China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom,” told 19FortyFive.

Other signs suggest that Xi might not be as powerful now as he was a few short weeks ago. This month’s Central Economic Work Conference apparently junked His signature “Common Prosperity” program.

While Xi is losing his control over the Communist Party’s leaders, the Communist Party has been losing their grip on its own. Case in point: On the 23rd of this month, American and British media outlets reported in detail on secret deliberations of China’s National Health Commission.

These shocking revelations came from the minutes of the commission show Nearly 37 million people got the disease on December 20, 2001. About 248 million people contracted Covid within the first 20-days of December. Bloomberg News reported the outbreak. “by far the world’s largest.” The documents were published online after they were leaked. These shocking revelations indicate that officials were so upset by their party state they decided to destroy it.

The Communist Party appears to be in panic mode. The relentless propaganda is trying to accomplish the impossible: portraying the abandonment of the policy, as well the zero-Covid policies, as wise. “For three years, China has waged a savage propaganda campaign to convince the world that its draconian ‘zero-Covid’ was the most effective way to combat the virus,” Kerry Gershaneck, the author of the new Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to ‘Win Without Fighting,’ told 1945. “The narrative on zero-Covid has now shifted.”

How does the Party avoid being affected by what other people can see?

The regime’s strategy, Gershaneck points out, is to blame others for the disaster: “lower-level officials, vaccine makers, and ‘foreign forces.’ ” In December, he observed, “China’s Foreign Ministry went into Wolf Warrior mode once again to attack ‘Western’ news media for ‘hype and distortion’ regarding the Party’s chaotic handling of the end of its zero-Covid policy.”

The Party believes it is the representative of historical events and cannot be blamed. It informs the Chinese people it is infallible and has always been. “great, glorious, and correct.” This viewpoint has lead to absurd and obviously false propaganda narratives. “extreme dissembling” Burton makes these points. “The propaganda machinery is working overtime,” He said it to me.

“In any political system, whether democratic or autocratic, when a signature policy of the top leader is abandoned, it is crucial that the leader strive to maintain his or her authority by presenting the change as having been decided by him or her,” Garside observes. “Xi Jinping has failed to do this.”

So Xi made no mistakes. He simply failed. It is now apparent that there is intense infighting at headquarters of the Communist Party.

China’s situation is therefore unstable.

Gordon G. Chang, a 19FortyFive Contributing editor, is the author of The Coming Collapse of China. Follow him on twitter @GordonGChang.