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on top of that, combined with a zero covid policy and more specifically the promotion of li keqiang,i's lockdown. none of these suggest that the new policymaker inside the party are particularly pro reform or pro opening up. and, zoe, as we know, this zero covid is a very controversial policy, impacting on the policy within china, where we know there have been lockdown is major cities, but also on the world, keeping the chinese tourists at home, for example. on the show, just a few weeks ago i had the big boss of the radison hotel group who told me he doesn't think that that policy will stay. i am wondering, what did the congress suggest? if i was a hotelier, i would also want to see the zero covid policy being removed very soon. the party congress signalled that beijing is probably unlikely to remove the covid policy any time soon despite the immense socioeconomic costs. so xi jinping did say that by permanently implementing the zero covid policy, the communist party has been able to maximise chinese people's life and health, so by sticking with china's zero covid policy, xijinping

in china, starting the first visit by the leader of a g7 nation in three years. and the premier li keqiangnow on bbc news — hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. winter is coming to europe, and vladimir putin is hoping the battle lines in his war on ukraine will be frozen, buying him time to reinforce at the front, while exposing ukrainians and all of europe to the reality of an energy crisis. the ukrainian armed forces have made gains in recent months, but can they go further, and will kyiv�*s backers in the us and europe maintain their support? well, my guest is general ben hodges, former commander of the us army in europe. could this winter be russia's friend? thanks, steve. even more so. i think ukrainians have achieved irreversible momentum. the russians are losing in every facet of this war. so that's why they're resorting to things like going after energy infrastructure, doing what they can, exactly as you said in the lead—in, to stretch this out in hopes that the west would lose the will to continue supporting ukraine. but it's not a small thing, is it? the way the rus