Xi Jinping's triumphalism gave way to a deafening silence.
For the Red Emperor, there was no doubt: the “success” of China’s “zero Covid” strategy in the fight against the pandemic was proof that its communist system far outclassed the model of Western democracies, at the end of their tether. breath.
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The Omicron variant pushed the Chinese number one to the end of its demented logic of all-containment.
Plunged into a Kafkaesque hell for five weeks, the 26 million inhabitants of Shanghai are tormented by hunger and pushed to the brink of madness by a forced confinement which is reminiscent of the iron discipline of Laogaï, the Chinese Gulag .
The West - which has bet on a vaccine strategy - has meanwhile rediscovered the joys of the free world: family reunions or between friends, café terraces, shows, functional economies...
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