Xi Is Finally Leaving Mainland China After 893 Days at Home

President stopped traveling after emergence of Covid in 2020
China’s Covid Zero policy has isolated nation diplomatically

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By Krystal Chia and Kari Soo Lindberg

June 29, 2022 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated on

June 29, 2022 at 11:51 PM UTC

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President Xi Jinping is set to finally leave mainland China after 893 days at home, even as he still trumpets a Covid Zero policy that has isolated the world’s No. 2 economy diplomatically amid rising geopolitical tensions.

Xi will nip across the border to neighboring Hong Kong over the next two days, according to local media, for events marking 25 years of Chinese rule in the former British colony. Although China has sovereignty over Hong Kong, their border has been closed since early in the pandemic.