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![China’s Chronic Zero COVID Trauma China’s Chronic Zero COVID Trauma](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-01-06-145223.jpg)
China’s Chronic Zero COVID Trauma
By Donald Low
More than a year after China scrapped its zero-COVID policy, it has become clear that most analysts underestimated the adverse impacts on business and consumer sentiment.
![China’s Economic Malaise Was Perfectly Predictable China’s Economic Malaise Was Perfectly Predictable](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-06-26-124411.jpg)
China’s Economic Malaise Was Perfectly Predictable
By Donald Low
The China bulls were wrong – but the China declinists may be wrong as well.
![The CCP’s Zero COVID Campaign Left a Lasting Mark on Chinese Politics The CCP’s Zero COVID Campaign Left a Lasting Mark on Chinese Politics](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-08-10-132858.jpg)
The CCP’s Zero COVID Campaign Left a Lasting Mark on Chinese Politics
By Wilson (Yuxi) Wen
Zero COVID artificially and unnecessarily created the perfect condition for a political thunderstorm that could shake the ruling legitimacy and control mechanism of the party-state.
![China’s Lackluster Vaccination Drive: A Tale of Local Cadre Incentives China’s Lackluster Vaccination Drive: A Tale of Local Cadre Incentives](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-03-29-145126.jpg)
China’s Lackluster Vaccination Drive: A Tale of Local Cadre Incentives
By Zhuoran Li
Why was China’s vaccination campaign so little, so late? The key lies in understanding cadres’ daily working routine under Xi Jinping.
![China Suddenly Abandoned Its Zero COVID Policy. How Did It Start In The First Place? China Suddenly Abandoned Its Zero COVID Policy. How Did It Start In The First Place?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-12-01-150439.jpg)
China Suddenly Abandoned Its Zero COVID Policy. How Did It Start In The First Place?
By Ceren Ergenc
We tend to think China has a strict, top-down COVID-19 policy, but local variation is what really shaped the outcome, from beginning to end.
![How Beijing Accidentally Ended the Zero COVID Policy How Beijing Accidentally Ended the Zero COVID Policy](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-01-06-145223.jpg)
How Beijing Accidentally Ended the Zero COVID Policy
By Zhuoran Li
China’s central government aimed to modify the zero COVID policy incrementally following the 20th Party Congress. What went wrong?
![Has Xi Averted a ‘Winter of Discontent’ in China? Has Xi Averted a ‘Winter of Discontent’ in China?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-crowd.jpg)
Has Xi Averted a ‘Winter of Discontent’ in China?
By Dan Macklin
Ending “zero COVID” is Beijing’s best option, but it comes at the worst possible time.
![China Begins Implementing Relaxed COVID Control Measures China Begins Implementing Relaxed COVID Control Measures](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-03-15-165237.jpg)
China Begins Implementing Relaxed COVID Control Measures
By Associated Press
The National Health Commission scrapped many of China's most stringent anti-pandemic regulations, including routine, mandatory PCR testing.
![How Zero COVID Protests Broke Through China’s Internet Censorship How Zero COVID Protests Broke Through China’s Internet Censorship](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-12-05-170120.jpg)
How Zero COVID Protests Broke Through China’s Internet Censorship
By Larry Mullin
China’s infamous Great Firewall cracked amid late November’s protests – the exact thing the censorship apparatus was designed to prevent.
![China Eases Virus Controls Amid Effort to Head off Protests China Eases Virus Controls Amid Effort to Head off Protests](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-12-01-150439.jpg)
China Eases Virus Controls Amid Effort to Head off Protests
By Joe McDonald
Guangzhou, Shijiazhuang, Chengdu, and other major cities announced they were easing testing requirements and controls on movement.
![How Nationalism and Xeno­phobia Drive China’s ‘Zero COVID’ Policy How Nationalism and Xeno­phobia Drive China’s ‘Zero COVID’ Policy](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-11-30-201619.jpg)
How Nationalism and Xenophobia Drive China’s ‘Zero COVID’ Policy
By Lai-Ha Chan and Pak K. Lee
Will a post-COVID China still be committed to a policy of opening to the world?
![The Real Importance of China’s ‘Zero COVID’ Protests The Real Importance of China’s ‘Zero COVID’ Protests](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-11-28-195304.jpg)
The Real Importance of China’s ‘Zero COVID’ Protests
By Shannon Tiezzi
“In China, everyone is one step from becoming a dissident” – and zero COVID has pushed many to make that final step.
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