The Chinese leadership faces a new challenge after a wave of rare anti-government protests brought about meaningful change in policy this week.
Days earlier, CCTV showed Chinese audiences images of Xi shaking hands within their first face-to-face talks as presidents. The two men were the only ones in their respective entourages without face masks.
President Xi Jinping of China, left, and his wife, Peng Liyuan, disembark from their plane at Ngurah Rai International Airport on November 14, 2022, in Denpasar on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. Their trip occurred while millions of Chinese citizens were in lockdown.for zero COVID at home was betrayed by his own example, Cunningham said. If Xi believed the dire warnings China's state media were broadcasting at home, it wasn't obvious.
Despite the Communist Party's considerable control over agenda-setting, November's anti-government protests seemed to belie the argument that the Chinese public would unquestionably toe the party line on Xi's indefinite hold on power, especially when their livelihoods were at stake."It's the pageantry of empire; the new undisputed leader. People know arrogance when they see it," Cunningham said.
After months of pointing to America's million-plus death toll as a reason not to"lie flat" and let the virus rip through society, Beijing must now explain why it's choosing to do the same amid unease about tens of millions of unvaccinated senior citizens and insufficient ICU capacity—problems that remained unaddressed as resources were poured into mass testing and building centralized quarantine facilities.
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