The Death of Covid Zero?

10/01/2023 48 min
The Death of Covid Zero?

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Podcast: The Little Red Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Death of Covid Zero?Pub date: 2022-12-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFinally, China’s sloughing off the Zero Covid policy it’s embraced for three years. This followed a spasm of discontent, with people taking to the streets to demonstrate against Zero Covid, in protests that quickly spilled over to demand democracy and Xi Jinping's resignation. Beijing’s adaptive authoritarianism is in full sight, as the state eases Covid controls and reverses three years of rhetoric on the dangers of the virus. To ask whether the protests were a flash in the pan, we’re joined by William Hurst, Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development at Cambridge University, Chenchen Zhang from Durham University, producer and co-host of the Shicha Podcast and Zeyi Yang, China reporter at MIT Technology Review. Image: Vigil at Southwest Jiaotong University, c/- Wikimedia CommonsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Graeme Smith and Louisa Lim, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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