Yeah, speaking as an outsider my impression is that the CPC in Shanghai is full of folks who’re liberals but pragmatically letting them into the CPC and being nerd failures is better than letting them turncoat for some liberal or western group.
When Zero Covid was still a thing, the Shanghai leadership wanted to emulate Western “targeted lockdown” instead of going full lockdown like everywhere else in the country, which ultimately brought Covid into China and the start of the failure to contain its spread.
Shenzhen and Shanghai both recorded the same number of cases in early 2022, but Shenzhen went full lockdown and very quickly curbed the spread. It was such a failure in Shanghai that they ultimately had to let Covid run loose in the entire country.
Yeah, speaking as an outsider my impression is that the CPC in Shanghai is full of folks who’re liberals but pragmatically letting them into the CPC and being nerd failures is better than letting them turncoat for some liberal or western group.
I really hate the Shanghai libs!
When Zero Covid was still a thing, the Shanghai leadership wanted to emulate Western “targeted lockdown” instead of going full lockdown like everywhere else in the country, which ultimately brought Covid into China and the start of the failure to contain its spread.
Shenzhen and Shanghai both recorded the same number of cases in early 2022, but Shenzhen went full lockdown and very quickly curbed the spread. It was such a failure in Shanghai that they ultimately had to let Covid run loose in the entire country.