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Xi Jinping’s pandemic triumphalism returns to haunt him

7 mins | Nov 1, 2022
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China has become trapped in endless lockdowns. Two years since President Xi Jinping boasted of China's zero-Covid policy, Gideon Rachman explains how mounting demonstrations against the draconian lockdowns represent the most serious challenge to the president's leadership since he took power a decade ago.

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