China’s regime faces difficult questions post-COVID as Xi Jinping tightens grip with unprecedented third term

The country’s carefully orchestrated equivalent of the opening of parliament provided no answers on the battered economy or the damage to public opinion following the harsh and prolonged coronavirus lockdown. China’s regime faces difficult questions post-COVID as Xi Jinping tightens grip with unprecedented third term Hundreds of masked security men kept a watchful eye at the tightly controlled event Beijing’s Great Hall of the People is magnificent. Based, as it is, in such a politically sensitive location looking out over Tiananmen Square, it’s normally impossible to film here – even taking your phone out can elicit close attention from the…