US Intelligence says Chinese President Xi Jinping is unwilling to accept Western vaccines<p>Amidst the trickle of news on China's more targeted approach to coronavirus restrictions and moves towards reopening, this for example:</p><p><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/news/beijing-and-shenzhen-have-loosened-more-covid-19-restrictions-20221203/" target="_blank" rel="follow" data-article-link="true">Beijing and Shenzhen have loosened more Covid-19 restrictions</a></p><p>Comes this from over the weekend, carried in T<a href="https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2022/12/05/2003790152" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">aiwanese media</a>:</p><ul><li>Chinese President Xi Jinping is unwilling to accept Western vaccines despite the challenges China is facing with COVID-19, and recent protests could affect his personal standing in the Chinese Communist Party, US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said on Saturday.</li></ul><p>On the protests and how it might impact Xi:</p><ul><li>"Seeing protests and the response to it is countering the narrative that he likes to put forward, which is that China is so much more effective at government," Haines said.</li><li>"It's, again, not something we see as being a threat to stability at this moment, or regime change or anything like that," she said, adding that "how it develops will be important to Xi's standing."</li></ul><p>More at that link above. </p><p>There is no love lost between Xi and Japan's Disney shop. Some git ideas:</p>
This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at forexlive.com.
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