{"id":47970,"date":"2022-08-30T12:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T03:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/chinese-thinktank-makes-rare-public-call-for-beijing-to-ease-zero-covid-policy"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:40:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T03:40:30","slug":"chinese-thinktank-makes-rare-public-call-for-beijing-to-ease-zero-covid-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47970","title":{"rendered":"Chinese thinktank makes rare public call for Beijing to ease zero-Covid policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In report since taken off social media, Anbound Research Center said preventing \u2018economic stall\u2019 should take priority over virus elimination<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese thinktank has issued a rare public disagreement with the ruling Communist party\u2019s severe \u201czero-Covid\u201d policy, saying curbs that shut down cities and disrupt trade, travel and industry must change to prevent an \u201ceconomic stall\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Anbound Research Center gave no details of possible changes but said on Monday that Xi Jinping\u2019s government needed to focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/25\/huawei-founder-sparks-alarm-warning-painful-next-decade-ren-zhengfei-china\">shoring up sinking growth<\/a>. It noted the US, Europe and Japan were recovering economically after easing anti-disease curbs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/chinese-thinktank-makes-rare-public-call-for-beijing-to-ease-zero-covid-policy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In report since taken off social media, Anbound Research Center said preventing \u2018economic stall\u2019 should take priority over virus eliminationA Chinese thinktank has issued a rare public disagreement with the ruling Communist party\u2019s severe \u201czero-Covid\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47971,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970\/revisions\/47971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}