Beijing may have avoided many deaths from covid. Xi Jinping almost did not want to change course

The Associated Press agency, which publishes the results of its own journalistic investigation, looked behind the scenes of the authorities. Her interlocutors – Chinese experts and representatives of the sanitary authorities – emphasize that the return took place without preparation, because Xi Jinping pressed until the last moment to maintain his original policy. Hundreds of thousands of infected people paid for his stubbornness.