Xi Jinping's China toughens up on America

Correspondent in Beijing,

Compulsory vaccination, multiple Covid tests, then two weeks of monastic quarantine in a hotel room in Beijing.

Access to the Stalinist gold of the Great Hall of the People is this year an obstacle course for the nearly 3,000

"deputies"

participating in the session of the National People's Congress, the most important annual political meeting in Communist China. .

More than ever, this high mass which opened on March 5, looks like an entrenched camp in Tiananmen Square as the second world power stages its triumph over the

"demon of the virus"

, and displays its determination to continue its nationalist renaissance, under the leadership of its authoritarian president, Xi Jinping.

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The "comrades" appointed across the country of 1.4 billion inhabitants to participate in this registration chamber of the regime, which aims to offer a democratic facade to the reign of the single party, had plenty of time to meddle with the

" thought of Xi Jinping

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