(note: while WSWS (trot site) uses CCP instead of CPC, they generally have good takes on China and support China against US imperialism)
(note: to clarify, this article is in support of Zero-COVID and sees the lifting of the policy as a grave mistake)
(note: i do not necessarily support all the shit wsws says i am not a fucking trot)
Yeah, people here are overreacting. Most likely they'll try to relax zero-Covid in a bunch of cities, realize it's a bad idea, and resume zero-Covid. Keep in mind that domestic frustration over zero-Covid is growing. Contrary to what some people here might think, most Chinese people aren't exactly happy living in zero-Covid. They have the patience to be inconvenienced for the sake of public health, but that patience isn't going to last forever. The relaxing of zero-Covid is as much an appeasement to the Chinese public as it is to resume economic growth at a cost of public health. I think the party's gambling on the relaxation being detrimental enough that the people will want to resume zero-Covid and the party can tell zero-Covid skeptics "well, we tried, but this sucks, so it's back to zero-Covid." I don't know if the risk is worth it or not.
Typical of Western leftists, when they see a socialist country make compromises, instead of understanding why those compromises had to exist in the first place (failure of German socialists to seize state power, failure of Western governments to properly contain Covid), they choose to exclusively blame the socialist country for not being pure enough.
It's tiring and annoying.
Westerner playing zero sum game, treating it like a sport will be their down fall. Let's them learn their lesson
Like, there are footage of Chinese people flipping over police cars and trashing Covid testing sites because they're tired of zero-Covid. Regardless of whether they are being paid off by the CIA to stir up shit or not, the patience is wearing thin. The CPC needs to compromise before the frayed patience over zero-Covid becomes another crack for the West to exploit.
The west gonna exploit either way. It's the damn if you do, damn if you don't situation. The CPC shouldn't give two shite about what western media think and serve their population. Winter is coming, and another potential covid surge is gonna happen in the west, let's them cripple whatever rest of their work force