Mass lockdowns or mass deaths: Xi’s COVID-19 dilemma
Following a week of extraordinary protests, China has reached the point of no return. How Xi manages the road out from his COVID zero policy will reverberate around the world.
The first protest videos started circulating on Chinese social media late last Friday night.
Hundreds of people were marching through the streets of the far western Chinese city of Urumqi, pumping fists into the air and demanding an end to a lockdown that had confined millions of residents to their homes for 100 days.
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