Covid Situation Explained in China: In late 2020, when the Kovid epidemic was spreading severely across the world, China was the only country that appeared to be untouched by the effects of the virus. China’s zero covid policy was believed to be behind this success of China, but the covid virus that started from Wuhan in 2019 has not given up chasing China yet.
In December 2022, Kovid has created havoc in China despite all the strict restrictions of China. Although China tried a lot to hide these current conditions of Kovid, but they could not succeed, the suffering citizens there finally agitated against the government. Being forced by this movement and protest, China was forced to change its policy. He relaxed his Covid policy.
Communist Party in question
After China relaxed its Covid policy, the so-called Covid shield of Chinese citizens recovering from Covid infection was exposed, leaving millions of Chinese citizens in a very vulnerable position. At the same time, the U-turn on China’s zero covid policy put the country’s ruling Communist Party in the dock. In the midst of all this, President Xi Jinping has also come under criticism.
Jinping’s opponents and Covid victims have started raising serious questions on him. The question is being raised on all these whether the power of China is slipping from the hands of Jinping. According to the report published in the Times of India, there are many reasons behind this which shows that the path is not easy for Jinping.
Can there be a rebellion against Jinping?
According to the Times of India report, Xi Jinping is the most powerful person in the government in China. In such a situation, though it does not seem that practical to have a coup against him, but if you look at the reports of the last year, there were definitely rumors about this on the social media. But the Chinese media dismissed these reports as baseless.
Jinping has become strict about the zero covid policy?
Two media reports answer whether Chinese President Xi Jinping and his administration have become very strict regarding control over the Covid policy in the last year. According to media reports from last year, Xi’s administrative officials deployed guards every 100 feet to enforce the COVID measures.
Still he could not save Chinese citizens from Covid. During this, the most controversial incident he did was to arrest lakhs of people. There was a lot of criticism of this decision of the Chinese authorities. A Chinese government official told that from June to the end of the year, in different movements, more than 1.4 million people were arrested across the country for not following the Kovid rules.
Although China gave its official reason different from this. According to Chinese officials, they wanted to create a safe environment for the CPC. But if we read it in another way, we will find that the Chinese administration was engaged in suppressing the voice of its citizens. So that no problem of any kind arises at the time of Xi’s coronation.
Hu Jintao controversy also affected?
Xi was given an unprecedented third term by the Communist Party shortly after the coup rumors broke. During this, he appeared in the meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP 20) to be held once in five years. However, their meeting also could not end well. The pre-arranged event ended on a very uncomfortable note. In this program, former Chinese President Hu Jintao was thrown out of the Great Hall. The videos of the live telecast of this incident went viral in the global media.
In 2012, Hu Jintao handed over the power of China to Xi Jinping in a very peaceful manner. According to China’s official media reports, Jintao said that he was feeling unwell. On the other hand, if media reports are to be believed, one of the reasons was that Xi has given a political message through Jintao to his claimants emerging inside the party while not happy with Xi’s policies.
What is the Li Keqiang controversy?
Almost the same treatment happened to Li Keqiang. Li did not get a share in the 200-member Central Committee of the CCP this time. However, according to reports, Li Keqiang will remain in this committee till March next year, after which the responsibility will be given to someone else in his place. During a video press conference in June, Li urged local government officials to take action to stabilize the situation in China.
In June last year, during a video conference, Li urged local government officials to take action to stabilize the situation in China amid anger and resentment over its zero Covid policy.
‘Movement started in China’
Resentment against China’s draconian Covid restrictions had been growing since November last year. Massive protests broke out in China’s Xinjiang state against President Xi Jinping’s much-criticised ‘zero-covid’ policy.
Protests on the subject have been fueled by a blaze at an apartment building that was partially closed due to a fire that killed 10 people. After that, this protest spread like a wild fire and within a few days, like a wild fire, protests against this policy started in dozens of cities of China.
Such protests in a country like China was a big and unprecedented event in itself because this country has been known for cracking down on dissent and protests in its country. The anger generated against the current Xi Jinping government can be felt from these movements.