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China’s Covid Moment

Nobody is saying China’s Covid lockdowns mark a “Chernobyl moment” but the need for unfinished reforms is clear.

Two years ago in April, Europe and America were grinding to a halt economically, socially, and politically because Covid was spreading like wildfire. Production and services virtually stopped while politics were in total disarray.

In February 2020, Western countries claimed that Covid would be Beijing’s Chernobyl moment, reference to the 1986 nuclear power plant meltdown that signaled the USSR’s systemic failure.

Read more at “Soul-searching and torment amid China’s Covid moment”

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