Since December 2021, China has abandoned its “zero Covid” policy and lifted all its restrictions. However, the total death toll from Covid-19 in China is still strikingly low, standing at 83,150 as of February 9, leading to suspicions of underreporting. The New York Times reports that researchers believe China’s Covid wave may have killed between a million and 1.5 million people, with the early lockdowns giving Xi Jinping and the Communist Party the opportunity to show how they could manage the virus better than the West. However, the Chinese government’s reporting standards and the absence of data on total infections … Continue reading The Dark Side of China’s Covid-19 Success: Experts Suspect Undercounting of Deaths