{"id":51021,"date":"2022-12-09T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/vaccines-china-economy-growth-covid"},"modified":"2022-12-09T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:00:15","slug":"without-effective-vaccines-chinas-economy-may-not-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51021","title":{"rendered":"Without effective vaccines, China\u2019s economy may not heal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to zero-Covid policy could prove insufficient if lockdowns are expected to continue<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s nearly three-year policy of enacting strict lockdowns to contain outbreaks of Covid-19 came with a heavy price for the world\u2019s second largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>The question for its president, Xi Jinping, and his inner court of advisers is whether a sudden relaxation of lockdown rules brought in this week will both prevent a recurrence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/29\/china-targets-older-people-in-covid-19-vaccination-drive\">the shockwave of protests across the country<\/a> and turn the economy around.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/vaccines-china-economy-growth-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to zero-Covid policy could prove insufficient if lockdowns are expected to continueChina\u2019s nearly three-year policy of enacting strict lockdowns to contain outbreaks of Covid-19 came with a heavy price for the world\u2019s second largest economy.The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"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":[41,6,50,1066,437,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-economics","category-world-news","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\/51021","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\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51022,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51021\/revisions\/51022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}