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Faced with population revolt, China is changing its anti-Covid line

Correspondent in Asia

In the wake of unprecedented protests against President Xi Jinping’s “zero Covid” strategy, the regime is looking for a parade, facing a dangerous equation. How to get out of the crisis without losing face, restore calm without causing a health crisis and protect the status of the party’s general secretary at the beginning of his third term?

No official update, but many clues point to a loosening of health doctrine in place to calm popular discontent after months of repeated lockdowns weighing on the second-world economy. A weeks-long lockdown in Canton was lifted on Tuesday after clashes with residents of the southern metropolis, who have traditionally resisted the capital’s rule, in a breath of hope for a population oppressed by the restrictions. She can now go out and go to public places without showing…

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Source: Le Figaro

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