[Epoch Times, May 3, 2022](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Xia Song) Shanghai has been cleared for more than a month, and the people are struggling to survive. The outside world noted that Chinese leader Xi Jinping refused to talk about the closure of Shanghai. Joerg Wuttke, President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, revealed in an interview with German media recently that the CCP’s top leaders are aware of the harm of the zero-clearing policy, but it will not change before the 20th National Congress.
Woodker said that the wave of the Omicron variant virus is like a whack-a-mole in China. First, Xi’an was closed, and then Shenzhen and Shanghai. “When foreign countries have learned to live with the virus, in China, the authorities are always back to square one,” he said.
Avoid talking about the chaos in Shanghai Where has Xi Jinping gone?
Since Shanghai has been closed for more than a month, the whole of Shanghai has been thrown into chaos, secondary disasters have occurred frequently, and people have complained about starvation, regardless of the rich and the poor. However, people found that Xi Jinping, who forced Shanghai to give up precise epidemic prevention and forced dynamic reset, never mentioned the chaos in Shanghai.
A few days ago, Xi Jinping visited Renmin University of China.
The New York Times said Xi waved to the students. He also held meetings with Olympic officials, economic policy makers and European leaders, and made a trip to Hainan, a tropical island.
Throughout April, Xi Jinping did not make any public remarks on the domestic outbreak. The “dynamic clearing” that he has repeatedly requested is conveyed through subordinates or meeting minutes. On April 29, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China reiterated its insistence on dynamic clearing, which was also issued by 25 people including Xi Jinping.
The New York Times said Xi also failed to speak directly to the 25 million people in Shanghai who were ordered to stay at home for weeks, even as they complained about food shortages, overwhelmed hospitals and chaotic mass quarantine rules.
Under the Zero Policy, “These Cities Are Almost Forgotten” and “No Voice”
When the secondary disaster caused by the closure of Shanghai shocked the world, there are still many places that are not paid attention to by the outside world, which have long been or are being closed, just like Shanghai.
The New York Times previously reported that Japan’s Nomura estimated that 373 million people in 45 cities in China are currently under some form of lockdown, accounting for about one-third of the country’s population. The relevant cities contribute as much as US$7.2 trillion in GDP each year, accounting for 40.3% of China’s GDP.
From March 11th to April 28th, Changchun City, Jilin Province began the “closed management” of the whole city. On March 21, Jilin City announced the global static management, and it was not announced until April 28 that it was “gradually lifted”. Jilin Province also banned inter-province, inter-city and state movement from March 14, and it was not until April 27 that it announced that it would “open the ladder safely to the society.”
From April 19, Hebei Tangshan implemented temporary closure and control measures for the whole city. On April 25, Baotou City issued a notice saying that two confirmed cases of the new crown were confirmed, and the city entered a state of quiescence. Hangzhou, which has repeatedly imposed lockdowns on some urban areas, has imposed three-day control measures on some areas since April 23.
On April 25, the short video website “One” published an article entitled “The longest blockade is 160 days, and these cities are almost forgotten”. Through interviews with residents of the three border cities of Ruili, Dongxing, and Jiang Suifenhe, we learned that as of In late April, Ruili in Yunnan was closed off and on for 160 days; Suifenhe in Heilongjiang was closed for nearly 90 days; Dongxing in Guangxi was closed for 60 days.
The article wrote, “On March 31, the Wang Mi service area in Songyuan City, Jilin Province was closed due to the high-speed closure. A truck driver was suspected of being trapped in the car for more than 20 days without food, and finally died suddenly in the car; on April 9, the Internet It was rumored that Wang, a resident of Changchun Rongqiao No. 1, called for a ‘knocking action’ and was detained for seven days and fined 300 yuan.”
In mid-April, some netizens published an article titled “Those Can’t Make a Voice”, calling on the public to pay attention to those cities that “can’t find a hot search” online, including Jilin, Changchun, Ruili, Yunnan, etc. , but it was blocked shortly after it was published.
The zero-clearing policy is a cocoon and the CCP is exposed to the knowledge
In an exclusive interview with the Neue Zürich Zeitung (click here for the original text), President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, Woodker said, “In the past two years, the party leadership and the government have been making up a narrative that China (the CCP) has Pandemics are handled much better than the decadent Western countries.” “Now that talk is blowing up in front of them.”
Woodker also revealed part of his conversations with senior CCP officials at a closed-door meeting. He said that officials are well aware of the impact of the reset on the economy, but it is impossible to end the reset before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
“In closed-door meetings — especially in ministries dealing with the economy and business — I’ve met well-informed, open-minded politicians at the top. They know what zeroing means for the economy. They just can’t at the moment,” Woodker said. Use these to drive policy change.”
Woodke is a top European business person who now lives in Shanghai and has lived and worked in China for more than 30 years. He not only has access to high-level government officials, but also has access to first-hand information on China’s economy and society.
“They will stick to the zero policy until the party’s twentieth congress later this year,” he said.
Negatives also need to transfer experts: dynamic clearing is extreme “shock”
The CCP authorities have repeatedly claimed that the zero-clearing policy shows that the government puts the people’s health and well-being first. However, Patricia Thornton, a professor of Chinese politics and society at Oxford University, said, “For Xi, the narrative is becoming more and more difficult to convince.”
Although in the previous closure of the city, there were also people who condemned the strict zero-clearing policy, but there have been more and sharper criticisms in the closure of Shanghai, including economists and business executives. They believe that the zero-clearing policy is unsustainable in the face of new variants.
“The disease that threatens people’s lives is not just the new crown pneumonia.” On April 24, Liang Jianzhang, the co-founder of Ctrip.com, wrote in an article to the “China Enterprise News”, “Sacrificing everything to pursue extremes The ‘shock’ measure is not the overall victory we really need, not even a tragic victory.”
Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Shanghai, more than 25 million residents of the city have been placed under lockdown, and hundreds of thousands of residents who have tested positive have been sent to isolation centers. However, some Shanghai residents told AFP that despite having tested negative, they were also forced to be sent to isolation centres on the outskirts of the city, some hundreds of kilometers away from downtown Shanghai.
Lucy, who was only willing to give his English name, told AFP, “The police told us that there are many positive cases in the community. If we don’t transfer, we will also be infected.” Some Shanghai residents confirmed that some residents with negative test results were arrested. Sent to isolation centers in other provinces.
An anonymous resident said, “We all received calls from the neighborhood committee. They said that there were many positive cases in the community, so residents who tested negative were also sent to designated hotels for isolation.” But they were shocked by the humble isolation center. , and also lost trust in the Shanghai government.
Responsible editor: Sun Yun#