In this podcast [31 min], Insightview.eu has interviewed China expert Joergen Delman, Professor, PhD. Insightview.eu asks Joergen Delman whether more than just Covid has triggered the protests in China.
It has been a fact for some time that China's Covid strategy has not worked due to more contagious Omicron variants. However, it is also a fact that President Xi Jinping has made many policy mistakes in the last few years - or many of his decisions have been ill-timed.
These decisions have created headwinds for the economy, which now seems to be in an undeclared recession. [Read the Insightview.eu article, The big read: Xi Jinping faces heavy headwinds after a series of policy mistakes, July 2022.]
Insightview.eu asks Joergen whether the problem for many young Chinese and the middle class is that China first opened the door to the rest of the world in the two decades before Xi Jinping gained power - and now Xi plans to close the door again. Furthermore, this website asks how today's situation compares with the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
