GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

The Problem With China’s Zero COVID Strategy

Jan 15, 2022

21:53

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What Will Happen in China in the Coming Months?

02:39

What Is the Difference Between the Short and Long Term Pain?

02:35

Do You Think That the Numbers of Cases and Deaths in China Are Accurate?

02:05

Introduction

2min

What Is the China's Zero Covid Policy?

3min

Do You Think That the Numbers of Cases and Deaths in China Are Accurate?

2min

The Importance of Vaccines in China

3min

What Will Happen in China in the Coming Months?

3min

What Is the Difference Between the Short and Long Term Pain?

3min

Is the Chinese Government Out of Control?

3min

Is the Pandemic in China Going to End? - Anga Wong

3min

Xi Jinping's zero-COVID approach faces its toughest test to date with omicron. Why? Because China lacks mRNA jabs, and so few Chinese people have gotten COVID that overall protection is very low. A wave of lockdowns could disrupt the world's second-largest economy — just a month out from the Beijing Winter Olympics.

That could spell disaster for Beijing, Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, tells Ian Bremmer on the GZERO World podcast. If things get really bad, though, Huang believes China will pivot to living with the virus, especially as the cost of keeping zero COVID in the age of omicron becomes too high.

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