{"id":51295,"date":"2022-12-20T23:07:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/china-screeching-u-turn-on-covid-will-not-be-an-instant-fix"},"modified":"2022-12-20T23:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:07:40","slug":"chinas-screeching-u-turn-on-covid-will-not-be-an-instant-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51295","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s screeching U-turn on Covid will not be an instant fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Beijing is expecting an immediate boost from abandoning its tough controls it is mistaken<\/p>\n<p>From zero tolerance to \u201clet it rip\u201d. China has not just changed its mind on how to cope with Covid, it has executed the mother of all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/11\/economists-hail-end-to-zero-covid-in-china-but-huge-human-toll-is-feared\">U-turns<\/a> in response to slower growth and mounting civil unrest at the draconian lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>If Beijing is expecting an immediate economic boost from abandoning its tough controls it is mistaken. There will be a growth dividend from the policy shift but the state of the world\u2019s second biggest economy will get worse before it gets better, and it will be next spring at least before the easing of restrictions starts to pay off.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/china-screeching-u-turn-on-covid-will-not-be-an-instant-fix\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Beijing is expecting an immediate boost from abandoning its tough controls it is mistakenFrom zero tolerance to \u201clet it rip\u201d. China has not just changed its mind on how to cope with Covid, it has executed the mother of all U-turns in response to slo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-economics","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\/51295","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\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51296,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51295\/revisions\/51296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}