President Xi Jinping is redrawing the boundaries of business and society in china. China has been donating medical equipment and its own vaccines to other countries as a way to aboost relations with those countries. The country that really stepped up globally to combat the corona virus, it's able to s its zero covid policies and its domestic success story as a ways to bolster that narrative. It seems like they're not interested in helping understand how the pandemic began or at least we don't have access to more research.
China’s 1.4 billion people are averaging fewer than 100 cases of Covid-19 a day. All it takes is the willingness to shut down anything at any time.
NPR’s Emily Feng explains from Beijing.
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