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Covid in China: “There is a very strong contrast between the severity of the disease and the seriousness of the confinement”

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Temporary hospital at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), in Shanghai, east China.

AP - Jin Liwang

By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow

1 min

We see it through the videos that have multiplied in recent weeks on the internet: the management of the covid pandemic in China is the subject of growing protest, particularly in Shanghai, the economic capital of the country subjected to drastic confinement since the Beginning of the month.

However, faced with the worst wave of contamination it has faced since the start of the health crisis, the Chinese power does not budge: it clings to its zero Covid policy.

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Interview with Jean-Philippe Béja, research director emeritus at the CNRS/Sciences-Po-Ceri, specialist in the politics of contemporary China and author of the book “

 ” (threshold editions).

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