>Not that Chinese leadership cares about human suffering, of course.

They've lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Even if that number is exaggerated, its still going to be a lot. Nobody is a mind-reader, so regardless of whether any one person from CCP cares or not, the people who are benefited, certainly do care that they're no longer poor.

Ah, well perhaps you can tell the couple million people in the camps that the leadership who put them there have only their best interests in mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

So is a million, I've never got this surprisingly common argument based on population size, would it be fine for a country of 100,000 to do nothing/would a hypothetical country 10x the size of China be reckless if it didn't act even more forcefully than they are? The human costs of lockdowns also scale with population after all.

China isn’t using modern treatments or vaccines so that’s irrelevant. Go look up how many hospitals are in China. China is extremely poor.

No but they should be, if the regime were able to actually engage in useful dialogue and stop crapping on about Taiwan, they'd probably get access to better modern medicines. They can't because the only thing that is keeping them in power is fear and lies.

>Given more modern treatments, milder strains and vaccines, do you have a source for your tens of millions of deaths claim?

Not my claim.

>I highly doubt zero covid is about public health, I think it's about ego and control.

Agreed.