The country dismantled its precautionary measures as quickly as they sprang up - but not at the National People’s Congress, says the Financial Times' Thomas Hale.
. It also required three polymerase chain reaction tests taken over three consecutive days, and the completion of a table monitoring your body temperature each morning and afternoon for seven days.
I found one hidden away off Nanjing Road. It was around 2pm. “Am I the first person here today?” I asked the hazmat-suited workers. “No,” they replied. “You’re the third”. The test, no longer free, cost 16 yuan . The worker added me on WeChat to collect my details. “The destination’s the UK?” she asked, assuming I was taking the test for international travel. It’s the Two Sessions, I said. It’s free for the Two Sessions, she explained, with one of those crying-with-laughter emojis, because I’d already paid.Commentary: Xi Jinping has eliminated his rivals to dominate new Chinese leadership. Now what?We were taken by bus to a hotel on Saturday afternoon, ahead of a Sunday afternoon press conference.
The press conference itself was masterfully stripped of content. It was difficult to know whether the officials - the only people not wearing masks - had, like the journalists, needed to isolate. They seemed to live and exist in a separate sphere, a closed loop, that could not easily be discussed.
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