After WHO criticism of China’s “zero Covid”, Beijing raises its tone


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Sébastien Le Belzic (in Beijing), edited by Alexis Rey-Millet modified to 5:06 p.m., May 13, 2022 A little phrase that does not pass for Beijing. On Tuesday, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) delivered a rare criticism of Chinese power. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has indeed asserted that the “zero Covid” policy stubbornly defended by Beijing was not sustainable. The “zero Covid” being firmly defended by the highest communist leaders, in particular President Xi Jinping, the censors quickly intervened to counter the dissemination of these remarks. On the Weibo microblogging site, the hashtags #Tedros and #OMS no longer yield...