Juno News - December 02, 2022Why is Xi Jinping so committed to 'Zero Covid'？
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Summary
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the situation in China. What is going on in China, why is it so bad? Why are they locking people away in quarantine camps? Why is there so much fear and panic in the population? What are the tactics being used to quarantine people and keep them in isolation? And why is China the only country in the world with a pandemic?
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uh why would uh xi jinping do this i mean it's like a self-inflicted wound right i mean
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surely he knows what is happening in the rest of the world everybody else is moving on economic
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activity is uh picking up um um and uh whereas in china people are being locked down in factories
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this uh this there are protests now um what is what's he thinking what is the what is the
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strategy here well i think ultimately for him it's about political power and control so since the
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very beginning of the pandemic they've been telling their people because everything in china is
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controlled by the party right so they've been telling the people like oh this virus is like
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the most dangerous thing and there's almost a stigma around it so if you get the virus right
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you're moved to these quarantine camps that they build and anyone in close contact to you even
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though they don't have symptoms they don't have the virus they're also put there so it's all about
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like this fear in the people right and then they've been told since the pandemic started like look at
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what the western countries or other countries are doing they're really dumb they're getting it wrong
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we're doing it right and we have so few cases because like from our own reporting they're not
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revealing the true number there's no way it's of course thousand right it's like but they're telling
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their people that right and then they point to the numbers and like america for instance they're like
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look you know over like half a million like all these a million you know all these cases what a
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disaster look at how great we're doing but two years later can they suddenly tell their people
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oh sorry we were wrong right it's like they're not gonna admit that but within it it's like are you
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gonna see maybe other sectors stepping forward when then without being silenced right you did have the
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you know medical journalists or just independent journalists in the beginning of the pandemic trying to
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sound the alarms and then they were you know accused of spreading rumors the regime's favorite
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line like spreading rumors and get sentenced and then mysteriously die um and so it's it's ultimately
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about power and control and that's like the whole thing with the communist party they're like you know
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oh communism it's for the people we care about the people but it really isn't but the issue is there's
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kind of like two layers of everything so it's like you know on the front end what they tell the outside
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world you know oh we so care about the people so then you have um westerners like henry kissinger or
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like elon elon musk too or uh canadians prime minister trudeau being like wow you know these communist
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leaders they really do just care about the people but then if you were actually to go to china and see
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what's happening not like the acts that they show the outside people if you actually see how the people
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are living yeah they're being treated absolutely horribly so there's that disconnect and then like
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two and then like hidden layers and the two levels of speech and everything so but with the the pandemic
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and the zero covet it's ultimately about control and then it's like he's he's you know dug his stake on
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this hill he he just can't suddenly go back like that was one of his biggest things and then in the
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20th party congress speech he reiterated like oh we're gonna wipe out covid like you can't just
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suddenly be like oh sorry guys i was wrong we're gonna follow america and so you know it's like
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he's put his all of his eggs in that basket yeah follow the zero covet so yeah extraordinary