Xi's inhumane lockdowns and the unrest they've provoked point to much deeper troubles.

China's insistence on ZERO-COVID has little or nothing to do with the coronavirus one way or another. Instead, Xi's stubborn insistence on it can be explained by the experiences of Leon Trotsky and Mikhail Gorbachev. China's road to the socialist transformation hit a major eurodollar snag and threatens to do more than cause even emotional protesting.