📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: http://unherd.com/join UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Louis-Vincent Gave discuss the current COVID situation in China. Read the accompanying article: https://unherd.com/thepost/louis-vincent-gave-the-truth-about-chinas-reopening/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page In the final months of 2022, China lurched suddenly from a policy of Zero Covid to a rapid re-opening of its economy. At the time, Western media went into overdrive, arguing that the end of restrictions in China had resulted in a bloodbath, with hospitals and crematoriums overflowing. Many predicted a million or more would die from Covid in China following the policy relaxation. But how did these claims match up to reality? Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv // TIMECODES // 00:00 - 01:32 - Introduction 01:32 - 02:53 - The situation with hospitals in China 02:53 - 07:53 - New York Times study 07:53 - 10:21 - How did the pandemic affect hospitals in China? 10:21 - 15:48 - Omicron isn’t as deadly as it was first thought 15:48 - 18:12 - China is going to have a new normal of low growth 18:12 - 22:57 - The easiest way to change the conversation is to get an economic boom 22:57 - 25:43 - What does this policy mistake mean for geo-strategies? 25:43 - 30:54 - You don’t invade Taiwan to get semiconductors, you buy them… 30:54 - 32:23 - What’s going on in the world economy? 32:23 - 33:04 - Concluding thoughts #UnHerd #China #ZeroCovid