The Economist this week
Highlights from the latest issue
• “It is often said that China’s government plans decades ahead, carefully playing the long game as democracies flip-flop and dither. But in Shanghai 25m people are in a citywide lockdown, trapped in their apartments and facing food and medical shortages that not even China’s censors can cover up. The zero-covid policy is one of a trio of problems the country faces this year, alongside the war in Ukraine and a botched attempt to recast the state as a tech incubator as the economy misfires. The response to each has a common root: swagger and hubris in public, an obsession with control in private, and dubious results. For President Xi Jinping this is the year when everything has to follow the script. In the autumn he is expected to use a five-yearly congress of the Communist Party to launch a third term as its chief, in defiance of norms that he step aside after two, opening a pathway to lifelong rule. In some ways Mr Xi has triumphed. Yet look more closely and his final year as a political mortal betrays the weaknesses of his rule as well as its strengths.”
Edited by : Zanny Minton Beddoes Editor-in-chief
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