I'm very concerned about where China's going. I have many good friends in China. I look at the zero-COVID policy and I see the effect that it has had on the human rights of people being forced to stay home for months on end. The Uighurs have been at home since August without adequate food replenishment, so I've been concerned about that.
Now we're seeing that the national health commission is starting to ease up on some of the COVID restrictions. That's good to see in terms of the zero-COVID constraints, but the really concerning thing is that they don't have vaccines that will protect their population. Most of their seniors are not fully vaccinated. The vaccines they are using are less than effective. It seems that mRNA vaccines from the west have been offered to them, but they have not accepted them.
Xi Jinping is very much invested in his zero-COVID policy, and it seems he doesn't want to take vaccines from the west. They're going to have to do it or there are going to be millions of deaths, and it's really going to put a big strain on their hospital system.