China’s response to a surge in covid-19 cases is muddled
It is too early to predict how its “zero-covid” policy will evolve
At the end of the 19th century, bold officials and a young emperor tried to reform China’s last imperial dynasty. They made sweeping changes in education, the armed forces and the economy to help the creaky Qing empire catch up with Japan and Western powers. They failed. The “hundred-day reforms”, as they became known, were scrapped by the emperor’s conservative aunt, the Empress Dowager.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Covid confusion”
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