中医学 (Traditional Chinese medicine)

Although being stuck in a dystopian lockdown since March 28, 上海 (Shànghǎi), China’s most cosmopolitan city of 26 million people, keeps hitting new records of cases, thus revealing the dramatic failure of government’s so-called “zero-COVID” strategy. The shortage of food and medical supplies is causing desperation and much suffering for people and animals alike, to whom are denied even the most urgent forms of access to life outside the perimeters of their own cages. Laboratory data and economic evaluations indicate that a “rethink” is called for, but political analysts expect it to be after the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party set for next autumn, and only when 习近平 (Xí Jìnpíng) will be reappointed to another five-year term as President of the People’s Republic of China. Photo: 香港01 (HK01).