By Julie Zhu, Yew Lun Tian and Engen Tham HONG KONG/BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – As unprecedented protests against China’s zero-COVID policies escalated in November, Li Qiang, the man recently elevated to No.2 on the ruling Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee, seized the moment. Top Chinese officials and medical experts had been quietly formulating plans over the preceding weeks to
