The Chinese success of doing the hard lockdown initially did look like a success for a while. As soon as you end one, there's going to be another virus and it pops right back up again. But if they end the lockdowns, they would admit that their lockdowns were a failure. There's some thought that they could not survive, the government could not survive confessing that big a failure.

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