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Column: The Chinese Public May Finally Have Had Enough of the Government's Zero-COVID Approach
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English - April 23, 2022 13:47 - 7 minutes - 13.1 MB - ★★★★ - 63 ratingsDaily News News Society & Culture spokenlayer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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For the past two years, Chinese President Xi Jinping has enjoyed a luxury unavailable to many other leaders: a population almost entirely on board with his approach to COVID-19. But in the last week, as censors took their foot off the pedal on Weibo for just a few hours, the extent of Xi's new challenge became clear.