中国's '無-COVID' （選挙などの）運動をする under 緊張する as Omicron 殺到するs
By David Stanway
SHANGHAI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - 中国 is 二塁打ing 負かす／撃墜する on its "無-COVID" 戦略, 説 the spread of the 潜在的に milder Omicron variant is no 推論する／理由 to lower its guard まっただ中に 警告s of 経済的な disruptions and even public 不安 as lockdowns drag into a third year.
As other countries talk about a 移行 from "pandemic" to "endemic", 中国 has stepped up 政策s to stamp out any new 突発／発生 as soon as it arises, 調印（する）ing off cities, shutting 輸送（する） links and 開始する，打ち上げるing 集まり 実験（する）ing programmes.
The approach has kept 感染s at a 最小限, but some 専門家s 警告する that 中国 could become the 犠牲者 of its own success as a 欠如（する） of （危険などに）さらす to COVID-19 over the last two years leaves it 攻撃を受けやすい to the more 感染性の Omicron.
That could 誘発する 当局 to 訴える手段／行楽地 to ever more draconian 対策, with more 可能性のある disruption of 全世界の 供給（する） chains, at least until a 決定的な autumn conclave of the 判決，裁定 共産主義者 Party, when 大統領 Xi Jinping is 推定する／予想するd to 安全な・保証する a third 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 as 中国's leader.
中国 has "支援するd itself into a corner", Yanzhong Huang, a 全世界の health specialist at the 会議 on Foreign Relations (CFR), a U.S. think 戦車／タンク, told Reuters.
"Beijing seems to be 確信して that stringent pandemic 支配（する）／統制する 対策 will still work," said Huang.
"But with a large 全住民 that does not have 免疫 against COVID-19, it should be 平易な for this new variant to quickly multiply and spread in 中国."
中国 has cancelled 得点する／非難する／２０s of inbound international flights in 最近の weeks 予定 to 乗客 感染s.
He Qinghua, a 病気 予防 公式の／役人 at 中国's 国家の Health （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 (NHC), said that while the country is under 増加するing 緊張する from 輸入するd 感染s, it is still 井戸／弁護士席-equipped to 含む／封じ込める the ウイルス.
"Once the 疫病／流行性の is discovered, it will be 扱うd and 消滅させるd すぐに so as to 確実にする that the people enjoy a happy and 平和的な spring festival," He told reporters on Saturday.
The approach of the Lunar New Year, when hundreds of millions of people typically travel, has already led to tougher 抑制（する）s in many cities.
VICTIM OF SUCCESS
In Shanghai, a major 輸送 point that has seen a spike in "輸入するd" 感染s in 最近の weeks, 当局 recently 調印（する）d off office 封鎖するs, department 蓄える／店s and a tea shop where two people who 実験（する）d 肯定的な for COVID had worked. Several schools in the city have の近くにd 早期に for the holiday.
中国 has become a 犠牲者 of its own success and is now struggling to find a way out, the U.S.-based Eurasia Group said in a 報告（する）／憶測 earlier this month.
"The 初期の success of 無 COVID-19 and Xi's personal attachment to it makes it impossible to change course," it said.
"中国's 政策 will fail to 含む／封じ込める 感染s, 主要な to larger 突発／発生s, 要求するing, in turn, more 厳しい lockdowns," it said, 予報するing greater 経済的な disruptions and rising public 不満.
That 刺激するd an angry 返答 from the 公式の／役人 中国 Daily on Friday, which 述べるd it as "a ridiculous conjecture 十分な of political bias".
中国's swift 開発 of its own ワクチンs was another 早期に success that could lead to problems later. 中国 was able to vaccinate its 抱擁する 全住民 quickly while many other countries were still 争う for 供給（する）s, but 熟考する／考慮するs 示唆する its 発射s may not be as 効果的な against Omicron as the mRNA ワクチンs used 広範囲にわたって in the West.
塀で囲む Street bank Goldman Sachs said just 10% of its 中国-based （弁護士の）依頼人s believed the "無-COVID 政策" would 緩和する in coming months.
Chinese 公式の／役人s have 強めるd the 鳴り物いりの宣伝 of 警告s.
Omicron is "faster and stealthier compared to Delta, but still has a destructive 力／強力にする that cannot easily be ignored," said Zhang Wenhong, who leads a Shanghai team of 専門家s on COVID-19 治療, in comments 地位，任命するd on his Weibo microblog.
Social マスコミ 使用者s 発言する／表明するd 失望／欲求不満 over 強化するing 支配する s in the run-up to the holiday.
One Shanghai 居住（者） "almost didn't dare to leave home" because of the 最近の lockdowns, she wrote on Weibo.
"最高潮の場面ing the 危険 提起する／ポーズをとるd by the new variant helps 支える the 恐れる の中で the public, which 正当化するs the 延長／続編 of the 無-COVID 政策," said CFR's Huang.
"But it also makes it even more difficult for 中国 to 器具／実施する an 出口 戦略." (報告（する）／憶測ing by David Stanway; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Peter Graff)
