What forced Xi Jinping's hand on zero- covid policy
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05 Jan 2023, 09:18 PM IST
China’s containment measures had come at a high cost, cutting sharply into its exports and retail sales, draining local finances and driving parts of the population to a near-breaking point.
PremiumBEIJING : By the end of an otherwise triumphant Communist Party Congress for Xi Jinping in October, it was growing harder for China’s leader to argue that his zero-Covid policy was working.
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