Chinese Law Scholar Reveals Inside Information Behind the CCP’s Abrupt Easing of Zero-COVID Policy

Workers erect a barrier fence around local residences and shops in lockdown, after new local cases of COVID-19 were found, on June 23, 2022 in the Sanlitun shopping district in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

For the past three years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been implementing harsh zero-COVID measures, which have created humanitarian disasters across the country and severely damaged the national economy.

Starting in November this year, the CCP suddenly abandoned its tough stance on COVID-19, halted mandatory mass PCR testing, and allowed people with mild symptoms to quarantine at home instead of dragging them to central makeshift isolation facilities.