Do you think that China's "Zero Covid" policies may be in part about building an alternative justification for the CCP's rule ("only we are ruthless enough to beat this virus!") once the demographic factors you wrote of here put an end to the economic miracle on which the CCP have built their legitimacy ever since the death of Mao?
Absolutely fantastic essay. Very few of these data points are widely-known, as far as I can tell
Do you think that China's "Zero Covid" policies may be in part about building an alternative justification for the CCP's rule ("only we are ruthless enough to beat this virus!") once the demographic factors you wrote of here put an end to the economic miracle on which the CCP have built their legitimacy ever since the death of Mao?