Xi Jinping’s attack dog, Yang Jiechi, says China’s economy is “stable” as lockdowns stifle growth

Senior Chinese Politburo Official Yang Jiechi, China’s uncompromising attacking dog It was published Against the confused Biden administration in March 2021 – write speaker Chinese state media on Monday claimed that the Chinese economy is doing well despite the debilitating coronavirus lockdowns imposed on Shanghai and other cities, despite ample evidence to the contrary.

Under the leadership of Xi Jinping’s Reflections on Chinese Qualified Socialism for a New Era, we have progressed in unity and stability in all areas, fully implemented the decisions and plans of the CCP Central Committee, and began work in various other areas in a deep framework. way,” Yang announced at the beginning of his boring article, which consisted of thousands of words and was divided into three parts.

His argument, reinforced by continued strongman Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party, Yang argued that the Beijing Winter Olympics were proof that China had fully recovered from the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan. He said the lockdowns imposed to control the outbreak of the current Omicron variant have caused only minor disruptions to China’s “sustainable” growth:

Since the beginning of this year, experiencing the growing complexity and uncertainty of the external environment, the CCP Central Committee has timely implemented a set of policies that promote stability and economic and social development, with strategic vision and balanced decisions. . The Chinese economy has had a solid start this year. On the supply side, production and on the demand side, the market generally remained stable. The livelihood of the people is protected by reliable and effective measures. There is new progress in achieving qualitative improvement.

“Faced with a new wave of COVID-19 cases worldwide, China is determined to prioritize people and their lives, prevent both imported cases and domestic recovery, and pursue a dynamic zero-COVID policy. Yang insisted on using the currently preferred political euphemism for obstruction.

Yang mocked Western nations for abandoning quarantines and strict restrictions to live with the contagious but less dangerous variant of omycron, a strategy that many Chinese actors have trapped in the “dynamic Covid zero” spree lockdowns. I sincerely wish Beijing will agree to:

China has taken robust, strong, successful and responsible measures in response to COVID-19 to protect people’s lives, and has made tangible and sustainable contributions to fulfill its solemn commitment to building a global health community for all. China’s approach is the exact opposite of the practice of some people in the West who don’t care about the facts and mix black and white with COVID-related issues. We are confident that we will win the hard battle against COVID-19 and contribute more to global solidarity and the fight against the pandemic.

Much of the remainder of Yang’s text focuses on ensuring that the independent world isn’t weakened by the pandemic of communist China, maintaining the same will and tools to aggressively advance its interests in Taiwan, East Turkestan, Hong Kong, and the South China Sea. . He claimed that China’s ambitions to become the leading power in the new world remained unshakable and were actually fueled by Beijing’s so-called leadership during the pandemic.

Yang promised that China’s colonial debt trap project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), would continue despite all odds. assumptions China’s economic slowdown will require a reduction in BRI spending.

In response to the new challenges facing multilateralism and global governance, Secretary-General Xi Jinping pointed out that attempts to deliberately build “small high-walled courtyards” or “parallel systems” consist of closed small circles or blocks that have polarized the world, and Yang said in the aftermath of the pandemic. In response to people around the world seeking to isolate their political and economic systems from China’s bad influence, isolation, interrupting supplies, or applying maximum pressure will severely undermine international efforts to resolve common problems. Pandemic.

Yan’s manifesto revealed, apparently created for domestic critics and foreign observers growing signs The struggle for power in the communist tyranny at the upcoming party congress.

As can be seen by reconstructing Xi’s continued praise for Yang’s article, critics of the Communist Party are increasingly frustrated by his leadership, who murmurs that Xi has squandered the economic advantages passed on to him from his better predecessors. Skeptics accuse Xi of creating an arrogant personality cult to elevate him to the level of Mao Zedong in the party’s iconography, making criticism of his policies unthinkable.

last winter brought political cleansing As Xi and his allies battle several rival factions led by disgruntled former allies. One of these groups is based in Shanghai and is perhaps more dissatisfied with the manic lockdown imposed on the city seven weeks ago.

Contrary to what Yang is proud of, the Chinese economy fell right away in April due to coronavirus lockouts, including significant drops in retail sales and factory production. Foreign analysts fear it will take longer for China to fully recover from the slowdown in Omicron’s growth than it did in the first 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

The Chinese economy is already under pressure from a broader real estate market slowdown due to a shortage of liquidity among its highly leveraged developers and a collapse in home sales. Mentioned on Monday.

“The consequences of the quarantine in Shanghai are huge. Economic and technological links with the rest of the world are under threat,” Australian bank ANZ analysts warned.