MSOpinion After doom and gloom, China’s propaganda shifts gears on COVID “The Chinese Communist Party ‘recognizes that the zero-COVID policy has put on the line a fundamental pillar of its legitimacy…’” READ:
“The Chinese Communist Party ‘recognizes that the zero-COVID policy has put on the line a fundamental pillar of its legitimacy…’”Once dominated by doom and gloom coverage of the dangers of the virus and scenes of pandemic chaos abroad, China’s tightly controlled media has dramatically shifted tone as the country tentatively moves away from zero-COVID.
The prevalent Omicron strain is “not at all like last year’s Delta variant”, Guangzhou-based medicine professor Chong Yutian said in an article published by the Communist Party-run China Youth Daily.“After infection with the Omicron variant, the vast majority will have no or light symptoms, and very few will go on to have severe symptoms, this is already widely known,” he assured readers.
“This is a kind of official propaganda preparing the people for more relaxation and giving the government some possibility to step down ,” Hong Kong-based Chinese politics expert Willy Lam told AFP.Experts say Beijing is laying the groundwork for a loosening of COVID rules —as well as putting in place convenient scapegoats to blame for the restrictions going too far.
“Nucleic acid companies will be the first to be sacrificed by the government,” Chinese political blogger Jing Zhao wrote on Twitter, under his pen name Michael Anti. Xinhua news agency described the changes as proof “the government responds to what the people call for.”
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