Rumors that Xi Jinping will step down due to COVID-19 incompetence abound on Chinese social media

The mismanagement of the severe Covid-19 lockdowns, along with the country's economic collapse, has sparked rumors that President Xi Jinping may resign. Following a meeting of the party politburo standing committee, which is China's collective leadership body, rumors about Xi Jinping stepping down began to circulate. Furthermore, before China restricted it, a video created by a Canadian blogger was making the rounds on social media. In another press conference, Han Wenxiu, the Deputy Director at the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee office for financial and economic affairs had spoken that the pandemic should be contained with scientific precision, by stabilizing…