{"id":44218,"date":"2022-05-06T13:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T04:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/xi-jinping-attacks-doubters-as-he-doubles-down-on-chinas-zero-covid-policy"},"modified":"2022-05-06T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T09:59:32","slug":"xi-jinping-attacks-doubters-as-he-doubles-down-on-chinas-zero-covid-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44218","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping attacks \u2018doubters\u2019 as he doubles down on China\u2019s zero-Covid policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President defends \u2018scientific and effective\u2019 mass lockdowns despite protests, shortages and damage to economic growth<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping has confirmed there is no intention to turn away from China\u2019s zero-Covid commitment, in a major speech to the country\u2019s senior officials that also warned against any criticism or doubting of the policy.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the seven-member politburo standing committee, China\u2019s highest decision-making body, specifically about the Shanghai outbreak, the president said China\u2019s response was \u201cscientific and effective\u201d. He told officials to \u201cunswervingly adhere to the general policy of dynamic zero-Covid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/xi-jinping-attacks-doubters-as-he-doubles-down-on-chinas-zero-covid-policy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President defends \u2018scientific and effective\u2019 mass lockdowns despite protests, shortages and damage to economic growthXi Jinping has confirmed there is no intention to turn away from China\u2019s zero-Covid commitment, in a major speech to the country\u2019s seni&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,1066,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44218","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44230,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44218\/revisions\/44230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}