China’s Public Puts on a Show of Zero Covid for an Audience of One

By Li Yuan, Sept. 9, 2022, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/business/china-covid-zero-xi-jinping.html

Because of Xi Jinping’s unrelenting policy, the Chinese people put up with a precarious existence filled with lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing.