>Not that Chinese leadership cares about human suffering, of course.

They've lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Even if that number is exaggerated, its still going to be a lot. Nobody is a mind-reader, so regardless of whether any one person from CCP cares or not, the people who are benefited, certainly do care that they're no longer poor.

So is a million, I've never got this surprisingly common argument based on population size, would it be fine for a country of 100,000 to do nothing/would a hypothetical country 10x the size of China be reckless if it didn't act even more forcefully than they are? The human costs of lockdowns also scale with population after all.

Given more modern treatments, milder strains and vaccines, do you have a source for your tens of millions of deaths claim?

Seems like hyperbole at this stage.

I highly doubt zero covid is about public health, I think it's about ego and control.