{"id":40260,"date":"2022-01-02T02:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/01\/china-zero-covid-strategy-beijing-policy-protecting-public-health-coronavirus"},"modified":"2022-01-02T02:45:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T17:45:12","slug":"how-much-longer-can-china-keep-up-its-zero-covid-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40260","title":{"rendered":"How much longer can China keep up its zero-Covid strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Beijing pursues its solitary path, observers are asking whether the policy is about protecting public health \u2013 or social order<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Desperate residents in China\u2019s western Xi\u2019an city are running out of food after they were barred from grocery shopping in a fierce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/23\/china-locks-down-13-million-people-in-xian-after-detecting-127-covid-cases\">lockdown<\/a>. In the southern province of Guangxi, people who broke Covid laws were recently publicly shamed by being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/30\/chinese-police-parade-suspected-covid-rule-breakers-through-streets\">paraded through the streets<\/a> in Hazmat suits with placards round their necks.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the world is learning, slowly and with some difficulty, to live with Covid-19, but in China, authorities are doubling down on their \u201czero-Covid\u201d policy: trying to stamp out the disease whenever it appears, and at any cost. A single case in a border town led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/17\/global-report-chinese-border-city-enters-wartime-mode-to-tackle-covid-outbreak\">200,000 people being locked down<\/a> late last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/01\/china-zero-covid-strategy-beijing-policy-protecting-public-health-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Beijing pursues its solitary path, observers are asking whether the policy is about protecting public health \u2013 or social orderCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDesperate residents in China\u2019s western Xi\u2019an city are running o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40261,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40260\/revisions\/40261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}