Why no one dare tell Xi the awful truth -- China's zero-Covid isn't working | Opinion by Robert Mahoney
Robert Mahoney is executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists and coauthor with Joel Simon of"The Infodemic: How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free," which publishes Tuesday. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
China's authoritarian surveillance state crushed Covid-19 when it first appeared in Wuhan in early 2020 and trumpeted that success to the world. Now, more than two years later, the Omicron variant is running rings around Beijing's zero-Covid strategy -- and apparently nobody in power dare say so. The very rigidities of the political system built by the Chinese Communist Party are hampering the country's ability to handle the highly infectious Omicron variant with anything other than a game of lockdown Whac-A-Mole. China's mastery of censorship, propaganda and social control checked Covid-19's initial spread and allowed Beijing to tout its successful response amid international discussion on the virus' origins.
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