China beat: A Prisoner of the Party’s Mistakes The protests in China, notes Guy Sorman at City Journal, “illustrate the limits of all authoritarian regimes.” One: “The regime never admits mistakes.” Thus, “Xi Jinping can’t admit his mistake with Zero Covid; on the contrary, he can only strengthen the commitment to his policy,” though it can never succeed. Second, “Chinese leaders have analyzed the fall of Communism in Europe in minute detail, and they have drawn its lesson”: To “perpetuate their power, they must always inspire fear — or indeed heighten fear by an ever-tighter control of the population,” for...