MAINTENANCE – Xi Jinping’s regime is a “ending regime, like the USSR in the 1980s”, analyzes the sinologist and specialist in Chinese dissidence.
LE FIGARO. – Xi Jinping claimed that China’s handling of Covid was proof of its superiority over the Western system. How threatening is the current situation for him politically?
Marie HOLZMAN. – Obviously this is not the case. He put the Chinese people through the torture of three years of quasi-imprisonment. The consequences of the lockdown have been tragic. Moreover, there was no “zero Covid”, despite the misleading name of this policy. The proof is that it came back all the time. How many deaths were there during the “zero Covid” period? We do not know, since the Chinese do not communicate the figures or give false figures. When they talk about 4000 dead, it’s totally laughable. We can clearly see that the crematoriums are overflowing, that the population is panicking. Xi Jinping surrounded himself with a clique of obligated people and dismissed all competent people. He even ended up sidelining the prime minister…
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