Mark Gongloff, Columnist

There Are Scary Downsides to Xi Ditching Covid Zero

China isn’t ready for a surge of infections, hospitalizations and deaths in an under-vaccinated population.

They’ve had enough.

Photographer: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images AsiaPac
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