Prof. Minxin Pei published an op-ed in Bloomberg, “Why Didn’t China Prepare Better for Covid Chaos?”

“The trauma of China’s exit from Covid Zero represents a major policy failure that did not need to happen,” Pei wrote. “The country had plenty of time to prepare for this moment and could easily have applied the lessons learned from other countries, such New Zealand and Australia, that adopted and then abandoned similarly strict pandemic restrictions.”