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Negative pcr test, they will no longer be required to apply for digital codes used to track people's health or quarantine. a rolot of changes. let's talk about that is happening in china right now with ian bremmer. good morning. this is like and then now they're allowing paxlovid when they didn't allow foreign made vaccines. xi jinping has done a complete 180, and it seems shocking, unexpected, i wonder what you think is driving it. >> it is a stunning 180. a lot of people thought maybe after he got that third term at the party congress a couple months ago then they would open up. they had no ...

What is your response? >> grace and i stand by the reporting we have done and the follow-up stories. i can only speak to the stories we have written, not the many follow-ups that have been done. one thing that mr. santos said in his interviews yesterday is that he denies ever committing criminal charges. there is a report that we found, a court case in brazil, that we pulled up, that suggests that he has admitted to a case of check fraud and one thing we have seen is that brazilian media outlets released new details and delved into that more and corroborated our reporting. >> he also corrobora...

Didn't prepare for it, he suddenly let it rip and you're right, what this means is you're going to see enormous spread of cases and a lot of people, a lot of elderly and chinese particularly either aren't vac na vaccinated at all or only mrna chinese vaccines, less effective than what we have in the west, and that means you're seeing extraordinary numbers of deaths or there will be extraordinary numbers of deaths. the chinese government stopped recording most covid deaths in conjunction with this new policy. >> right. and how do you think that's going to reflect on xi? >> internationally it is...

Same. unfortunately, that's not the case. and shame on ceo's like tim cook and many others. he is not the only one. when you see wall street. when you see big tech, when you see some of the congressman and local congress, hollywood, ports world is, they are bow don't to big tech and business. and ccp. >> carley: china is easing covid restrictions and that was the original goal of the protest. do you think that shows a crack in jill jinping's role that could turn into something bigger? >> you know, the last few weeks is unbelievable. you see these unshakeable the regimes are now being taken at ...

Clearly china is a major economic player and china still struggling with covid. there is an impact on the economy obviously. >> shanghai disneyland closed again after opening four days ago. a $5 billion facility from disney saying they are complying with china's covid 0 restrictions. china reported 32,000 new covid cases monday and a country whose health system is underdeveloped. the latest world bank data showing china has fewer hospital beds per 1,000 people than kazakhstan. it's why beijing argues they need strict measures to prevent covid from spreading across the country. >> bill: susan l...