CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS June 4, 2024 15:40:00
It's fair to say china's strict zero covid policy tanked that country's economy. and as china emerges from lockdown, it needs to restart its economy. to do just that, president xi jinping appears to be reverting to an old playbook he had tried to get away from. what does this mean for china's future and for the world? joining me now is lingling wei, the chief china correspondent for "the wall street journal." welcome. first, i've got to ask you, because you reported so well on this, what is your sense of why xi jinping so abruptly and dramatically ended the zero covid policy. because it happen...