What the great reopening means for China—and the world
This year’s biggest economic event is already under way
When its borders open on January 8th, China will have spent 1,016 days closed to the outside world. The country’s “zero-covid” policy has been a social and economic experiment without precedent: a vast public-health campaign that mostly kept the disease at bay; Xi Jinping’s pride and joy; and, by the end, a waking nightmare for many of China’s 1.4bn people.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Back with a bang”
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