Morning Jolt: Is Xi Jinping Dumb?

On the menu today: China's cities are filling up with large, loud, and surprisingly defiant public protests against the country's draconian "zero Covid" policies. It raises the question of whether Xi Jinping and the yes-men around him are so stubborn and so obsessed with never admitting error that they're almost self-destructive, and whether the U.S. and the world are dealing with a rising autocracy that is powerful but dumb.

Can We Have That Global Reckoning over China's Covid Policies Now?

"Foreign country rocked by widespread protests" isn't always consequential news, but it is when the foreign country in question is China, and the issue driving the protests are the seemingly never-ending lockdowns and restrictions pushed by the government's obsessive "zero Covid" policy:

Demonstrations occurred throughout the weekend in both Beijing and Shanghai. According to eyewitness accounts, there were also protests in the eastern city of Nanjing and in Wuhan, the original ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY November 28 2022 WITH JIM GERAGHTY November 28 2022 Is Xi Jinping Dumb? On the menu today: China's cities are filling up with large, loud, and surprisingly defiant public protests against the country's draconian "zero Covid" policies. It raises the question of whether Xi Jinping and the yes-men around him are so stubborn and so obsessed with never admitting error that they're almost self-destructive, and whether the U.S. and the world are dealing with a rising autocracy that is powerful but dumb. Can We Have That Global Reckoning over China's Covid Policies Now? "Foreign country rocked by widespread protests" isn't always consequential news, but it is when the foreign country in question is China, and the issue driving the protests are the seemingly never-ending lockdowns and restrictions pushed by the government's obsessive "zero Covid" policy: Demonstrations occurred throughout the weekend in both Beijing and Shanghai. According to eyewitness accounts, there were also protests in the eastern city of Nanjing and in Wuhan, the original ...   READ MORE

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