China’s Pre-EmptiveSanctionsChina’s never-ending war of“zero tolerance” against pandemic outbreaks with draconian lockdowns inmega-cities, notably Shanghai and more recently Beijing, represent pathologicalefforts of achieving the unattainable objective of complete eradication.The other perhaps conspiratorialpossibility is that, by design or default, the Chinese leadership is convenientlyusing the outbreak as a stealth foreign tool