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The question is what is the problem the Chinese government wants to solve?

If they want to limit demonstrations and get even more power over the people, lockdowns and not allowing mRNA based vaccines inside the country is a great tool.

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> The question is what is the problem the Chinese government wants to solve?

They want to avoid that the Dear Leader (who went all in on a massively restrictive Covid policy and took full credit for it) loses face.

> "rides are continuing to operate for those trapped inside The Happiest Place on Earth"

Jinping isn't pulling the strings. Mouse Tse-Tung is behind this.

China had heavy lockdowns. Changing the policy could be seen as admitting they made a mistake. There's one party, but multiple factions, and some factions pushed lockdowns harder than others.

I still can't understand it. Even if China were motivated purely by not wanting to make past decisions seem wise, we've had so many reasons to change policy. Vaccines, monoclonals, paxlovid, and now updated vaccines. You may still need lockdowns to manage surges that go over your capacity to treat, but going for zero Covid?

We talk about someone with serious self-confidence and self-esteem issues, he made Winnie the Pooh illegal after all, on his way to become de-facto dictator of China. So yes, I'd say more power over the people is exactly what Chinese leadership wants. That they ruin the economy over it, well, all totalitarian regimes learned that part the hard way sooner or later.

https://www.quora.com/Is-Winnie-the-Pooh-really-banned-in-Ch...

Now find me the exact Chinese legal doc that bans Winnie the Pooh.

I love the Winnie the Pooh quip because it helps me identify those who have no business commenting about China.

Linking Winnie the Pooh to Xi Ping is not allowed, can we at least agree on that? How unacceptable from me to oversimplify things in short, obviously not researched, online forum comment.

Edit: A chinese resident confirmed that two links into the Quora page linked to above. Quora insists on Facebook or Google for me, so no linking.

Find me any Chinese legal doc that enumerates the speech that get you censored on WeChat or Weibo.

so we're supposed to argue about the existence of things without any evidence?

Not necessarily, but rather to accept things, in this case the Chinese system and how rules are defined and enforced.

Winnie the Pooh thinks he is going to die with the virus so he must ensure his survival at all costs

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