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BEIJING (LifeSiteNews) – The secretary for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seemed to indicate last week to state media that the Chinese capital should expect another five years of strict COVID policies, including lockdowns, before his statement was immediately scrubbed from state media after receiving heavy backlash on social media.
Cai Qi, speaking to Beijing Daily last Monday, said, “In the next five years, Beijing will unremittingly grasp the normalization of epidemic prevention and control.” State media also maintained that Beijing would maintain and improve its “strict management of the joint prevention and control coordination mechanism,” and the emergency response system, including those “isolation, management and control … as soon as [transmissions] appear.”
The report also noted the continuation of strict residential inspections, the “normalization” of regular testing, and the management of admittance and departure from Beijing. The statement was disseminated among other state media outlets before being deleted. Beijing Daily maintained that the statement was the
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