The Effect of China’s Authoritarian COVID-19 Lockdowns.
According to the The Daily Signal on May 12:
The political costs are not clear. Nothing political in China is. But China’s recent trade figures show China is already paying a real price for Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s authoritarian approach to managing the latest COVID-19 outbreak. How he deals with it going forward will have a major economic impact, not only on China, but on the world.