Chinese State Media Expose True Purpose of ‘Zero-COVID’: A Battle of Systems and National Power

Police and workers in protective gear next to some lockdown areas after the detection of new cases of COVID-19 in Shanghai on March 14, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

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Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) official media outlet, said in an April 13 article that the CCP demonstrated the advantages of its leadership and the socialist system in fighting the novel coronavirus and accomplished what other countries wanted to achieve but could not.