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Thierry Wolton: “The real reasons for the abandonment of the “zero Covid” policy in China”

2023-01-05T18:18:14.468Z


TRIBUNE - As the Covid epidemic is picking up again in China, the historian, a specialist in communist and post-Soviet regimes, analyzes the reasons for the total lifting of health restrictions.


Thierry Wolton

published in 2008 a very alarming investigation into the master of the Kremlin, “The KGB in power.

The Putin system” (Buchet-Chastel).

He is also the author, in particular, of "A world history of communism", in three volumes, at Grasset, which caused an event: "Les Bourreaux" (2015), "Les Victimes" (2016), "Les Complices (2017), Jan-Michalski Prize for Literature 2017 and Today Prize 2018.

What is China playing?

We have the right to ask ourselves since the sudden abandonment by the communist power of its “zero Covid” policy and the risks incurred for the Chinese population as for the rest of the world.

The opening of the borders and above all the regained permission for the Chinese to go abroad, after months of confinement, are a health challenge that concerns the entire planet.

What could have motivated the power to so much haste?

The demonstrations of early December against confinement?

Probably not.

The number of protesters, the words...

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Source: lefigaro

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