"No-PCR tests, yes-freedom!" The Chinese went out onto the streets to protest against the policy of Xi Jinping

Anticarantine performances in China are already called the revolution of clean sheets - on white sheets of A4 paper, which demonstrators hold above the head

Xi Jinping at the 29th meeting of the leaders of the countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Bangkok, Thailand, November 18, 2022

Ju Peng / Xinhua / Global Look Press

If you ask the Chinese about their loved ones and unloved colors, then there will be a lot of answers to the first question, almost as much as the Chinese themselves. The answer to the second question will most likely be the same - the blue color with which the inhabitants of the PRC associate all the horrors of coronavirus elbows. In the blue fences are painted, which are fenced by the porches closed to hard quarantine, houses, courtyards, quarters and entire urban areas.

A pandemic returned to China. In truth, she did not go anywhere, but since the spring of 2022, the outbreaks follow one after another, forcing entire cities and regions to close all over and again. The epidemiological atmosphere in the PRC is monitored by the whole planet. It is not surprising: the two -month Lokdown this spring in Shanghai forced to start a business in many countries. But the main gift of the pandemic left the Chinese at the end of the year.

November was truly a black month for China: Koronavirus beat records for the number of new infections for at least 10 days, and in a row. The number of new infections reached an anti -record of 40,347 infections on November 28. Moreover, the growth was quite impressive - 65%.

Now, however, the number of new infections began to decline and on December 1 was 36,061 cases. Of course, this may mean that the peak of another flash has passed. However, it is impossible to exclude manipulations with statistics, on which Beijing has been caught by the hand more than once. The number of new authorities can underestimate the authorities in order to reassure the population and bring down a wave of anti -oral protests, which swept through several dozens of Chinese cities. In addition, even now the number of infections significantly exceeds the previous anti -record, established in the midst of Lokdown in Shanghai - 31,444 (April 13).

In November, the first deaths were also recorded after almost a half -year break. Another end of the penultimate month was marked by rare for the Middle Kingdom. Moreover, the demonstrators demanded not only the abolition of the Locksuns and zero tolerance, but also called to resign Xi Qinpin, who issued the third five -year term on all the main posts in the country on the eve of the outbreak.

Some more than a couple of months ago, everyone wondered if China will have time to leave the Locksas this year. Now it is obvious that the abolition of restrictions is transferred to at least 2023.

Of course, of course, not to get used to the hard and uncompromising struggle against coronavirus and locaurus to the Chinese, especially residents of multimillion -dollar megalopolises. On the other hand, with each new outbreak of pandemia, this struggle becomes more complicated due to the mainly psychological fatigue that has accumulated over three years.

Pandemia experiences China for strength. The most powerful outbreak of coronavirus infection came at a crucial moment in the modern history of China. Despite all the attempts of the authorities to muffle the disease, her blow coincided with the XX Congress of the CCP, which took place in Beijing from October 16 to 22.

The leadership of the Middle Kingdom on the eve of the congress, of course, tried to create a more favorable atmosphere and somewhat weakened coronavirus restrictions. On November 11, a new memo to combat coronavirus of 20 points was published. The Chinese, whose patience nearly in three years have stolen numerous restrictions on social distance and elbow, took a breath in relief. And they obviously hurried, because the pandemic all this time, as if feeling the upcoming bonds, gathered with forces and inflicted a powerful blow. In addition, the authors of the new program revealed the obvious split of the personality: the content of the program was in clear contradiction with its ultimate goal - the eradication of the coronavirus, so to speak, to the root.

Good intentions quickly became a serious contradiction with a rapidly growing number of new infections. So now for the authorities the main thing is to find a reasonable balance between stiffness with discipline and softness.

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