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Is President Xi's leadership at risk, especially after China's zero-covid protests?

The Global Gambit

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Is China a Zero COVID State?

I think most of the protests have been specifically anti-lockdown and then we've got these very potent but smaller protests with a more general pro-freedom speech, anti-party bent. And again, it differs a lot by location because there's no organizing force here. There isn't even the level of coordination you see with Russian or Iranian protest where stuff is run through telegram and so on. I think more than anything else, the sense of hopelessness that has really seized young Chinese people in particular over the last two years is a big part of this.

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