{"id":45322,"date":"2022-06-10T14:34:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T05:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/10\/xi-jinping-says-persistence-is-victory-as-covid-restrictions-return-to-shanghai-and-beijing"},"modified":"2022-06-10T14:34:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T05:34:05","slug":"xi-jinping-says-persistence-is-victory-as-covid-restrictions-return-to-shanghai-and-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45322","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping says \u2018persistence is victory\u2019 as Covid restrictions return to Shanghai and Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both cities back on high alert, with new lockdowns in Shanghai , and the shutdown of entertainment venues in Beijing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Xi Jinping has reiterated China\u2019s commitment to zero-Covid, declaring \u201cpersistence is victory\u201d, as Shanghai and Beijing were hit with new lockdowns, shutdowns, and mass testing drives just a week after the cities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/01\/shanghais-subway-and-shops-reopen-and-streets-fill-up-after-two-month-lockdown\">celebrated<\/a> the easing of restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>In response to China\u2019s worst outbreak of the pandemic, Shanghai spent months under an arduous and strict citywide lockdown, while Beijing authorities imposed localised lockdowns, venue and public transport shutdowns, and work-from-home orders. In the last week both<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/09\/shanghai-to-lock-down-27-million-a-week-after-easing-covid-restrictions\"> had begun easing restrictions<\/a>, with authorities praising the containment of the community outbreaks of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/10\/xi-jinping-says-persistence-is-victory-as-covid-restrictions-return-to-shanghai-and-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both cities back on high alert, with new lockdowns in Shanghai , and the shutdown of entertainment venues in BeijingSee all our coronavirus coverageXi Jinping has reiterated China\u2019s commitment to zero-Covid, declaring \u201cpersistence is victory\u201d, as Shang&#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":[41,50,1066,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45322","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=45322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45323,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45322\/revisions\/45323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}