A Chinese think tank has warned that the country’s ‘zero-Covid’ policy must change to avoid an “economic stall,” an Associated Press report published in The Guardian said, in a rare moment of public criticism of the ruling Communist party.
Anbound Research Centre said epidemic prevention and control policies were putting the economy at risk and that China should follow the likes of Europe, the US and Japan, who have put economic recovery before Covid restrictions, the report said, adding that even “mild public disagreement with official policy is almost unknown in a politically sensitive year when Xi, China’s most powerful leader since at least the 1980s, is expected to try to extend his time as president”.
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