Local Chinese Communist Party officials are often tasked with carrying out the central leadership’s policies. That includes the increasingly unpopular zero covid policy, which has left people starving in their homes, bleeding outside hospitals, and sleeping in the streets. In this just us episode of China Unscripted, we talk about why Chinese officials are terrified of zero covid, what happens to people who challenge the party’s narrative, and how western media parrot the talking points of the CCP.
