Undermining the Chinese Communist Party’s claim that Hong Kong has never been better, the financial hub city is reverberating under President Xi Jinping’s failed COVID-19 strategy.

Fixated on a delusional zero-case strategy, Communist Party officials face rising infection rates and frustration from city residents. Those residents, after all, see the freedom that much of the world now enjoys. They have also noticed as Communist Party officials gallivant about town getting COVID-19 and then blame others for their arrogant folly. Unfortunately for Hongkongers, COVID-19-related suffering is only the tip of Xi’s Hong Kong iceberg.