Well, like always, this western journalist seems to be obesessed with labelling and fail to process the facts.
He can label zero covid a failure, but facts is millions is dead, and thousand continuingly dying each weeks in US but not in China.
Saying that many is going to be dead in the future in China is just cope.
First of all, that has not happen yet, and second, that is like telling a cancer patient not to do chemo, because going to be dead anyway or not to brush your teeth, because it is going to rot anyway.