What does China's future look like after three years of zero-COVID?

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China's zero-COVID policy has already caused long-term damage to the superpower's economy. Now, the mounting protests against it could create political instability, experts say.

There are signs China's government is the target of growing dissatisfaction, a China expert says.The enforced long-term lockdowns have hit China's economic prospects in various ways, experts add.

But videos have now emerged of citizens manifesting in the thousands to stand up against what they call the "big whites" — a term used for authorities dressed in white hazmat suits who enforce COVID rules. "This could result in an increase in political instability at the national level, and may result in the government either clamping down harder on protests, or being forced to make policy adjustments in the wake of them."

But protesters from the A4 Revolution are comparing the movement to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, where pro-democracy students were killed by the Chinese military.The lockdowns have hit China's long run economic prospects in three ways, says Professor James Laurenceson, director of the Australia-China Relations Institute .

"Second, with youth unemployment touching 20 per cent, there's been a fall in on-the-job training and deskilling. Studies show the longer-term unemployed don't just bounce back," Professor Laurenceson said.

 

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Western media is quick to create out global issues, but censors western authoritarian style rule, western growing Nzi ideologies, western growing poverty, western expanding military regime, western dismantling of democracy, western global terrorism...

EU investment in China increased by 123.7%; CN exports to ASEAN increased by 27.3%. The agreement signed with Middle East will inevitably stimulate the economy of eastern provinces create the economic growth. The truth is never in the media, but in the dynamics of capital.

Nice to see you decide to enable comments again. Sad you turn them off for certain articles.

The damage to their economy is likely far less than the health costs over the next 70-years if people were allowed to catch Covid.

Experts, paid puppets you mean.

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