Exactly.

Also his zero-Covid policy that's been shutting down port cities. Even Apple (a manufacture-in-China die-hard) has been migrating facilities out (IMO way too late).

Xi's kind of stuck on this one. The Chinese vaccine pretty much doesn't work at all on variants - and they've been parroting anti-vaxx stuff about the mRNA vaccines from the West, so there'd have to be a big climb-down - and nobody will confront him with the info.