Xi Defends China’s COVID Zero Policy Amid Lockdown Chaos

A worker walks next to barriers that separate the street from buildings in a neighborhood in lockdown in Jing'an district, in Shanghai on March 30, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping defended China’s strict COVID zero policy at a Beijing Winter Olympics Commendation Ceremony recently.

The experience of the Winter Olympics shows that China’s pandemic control policy has once again stood the test and deserved a gold medal, Xi said at the ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 8.