“How long can China be cut off from the world? »

Un president shouldn’t say that. Especially at the court of Xi Jinping, where only praise is allowed. However, he dared to raise his voice: Jörg Wuttke, president of the European Chamber of Commerce of China, the lobby of large European companies, came out of his reserve in a Swiss financial magazine, to criticize the health policy of the Chinese government, the famous “Zero Covid”, which, through drastic and early confinements, quarantines, isolation of the sick and mass testing, aims to contain the pandemic outside the country.

But faced with the unprecedented virulence of Omicron, and while the rest of the world turns the page, this model goes off the rails. Tests become daily, transport is paralyzed, and the economic capital, Shanghai, finds itself confi…