China and COVID: the cost of infallibility

Chinese President Xi Jinping has pressed on with the zero-COVID policy even at great cost to the Chinese economy and in the face of growing resentment among ordinary Chinese people.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has made victory over COVID his signature achievement, so there can't be any doubt, especially when he is planning to make his dictator-for-life status official, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 2, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—Even the Pope claims to be infallible only on matters of faith and doctrine. On the chance of rain or the speed of a racehorse, he will freely admit that he is just as fallible as you and I. Whereas secular dictators, and especially ones who are building a personality cult, are implic...

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