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Niall Ferguson: China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Has Become Xi’s Nemesis


Beijing oversold its surveillance-based system of disease control and underestimated the shape-shifting virus. The result is an economic mess — though probably not a political crisis. W. Somerset Maugham’s 1925 novel “The Painted Veil” features a harrowing description of a cholera outbreak in a provincial Chinese city. “The great city lay

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Posted: April 17, 2022 Sunday 02:00 AM