China careens off the Zero-COVID highway

Bart Édes
5 min readFeb 4, 2023
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China’s about-face on how to tackle COVID has caused heads to spin at home and abroad. After nearly three years of relentless enforcement of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s signature policy of COVID eradication, the government issued new guidelines easing some of its strict zero-COVID policies in early December 2022. Official propaganda proclaiming that zero-COVID was a superior approach to foreign models, and essential…

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Bart Édes

Author of Learning from Tomorrow: Using Strategic Foresight to Prepare for the Next Big Disruption