China’s messy options for ending zero-Covid
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Reuters
4.4 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:52.1 | That's the sound of police detaining protesters last Sunday. |
| 0:56.3 | Tensions have been flaring in recent days over COVID-19 restrictions and in the wake of a deadly fire in the country's far west. The implications of this tense |
| 1:01.9 | situation in China is the focus of this week's views room. Welcome back to the views |
| 1:07.2 | the podcast from Reuters Breaking Views, where columnists from around the world talk |
| 1:11.1 | about the big stories of the week. I'm your host, Amy Donnellin, coming to you from London. |
| 1:15.8 | Tensions are rising in China around the country's zero COVID policy. And I'm delighted to be |
| 1:22.9 | joined by Yawin Chen and Pete Sweeney, who are going to talk to me all about the protests, the COVID policy itself, |
| 1:30.7 | and what this all means for the rest of the world. |
| 1:36.0 | Yawin, very nice to chat to you. Pete, very nice to chat to you. So, Yawin, I'll start with you. |
| 1:40.9 | We are in a situation away from China. I just literally got on the tube |
| 1:46.2 | this morning, pretty busy tube, two people in wearing masks in the entire carriage. If you go into |
| 1:52.9 | restaurants, they're busy bustling. Nobody is wearing masks. So it seems like certainly in this |
| 1:58.0 | country and any other country I've been to lately, they're living |
| 2:01.5 | with COVID. That is certainly the policy. A certain amount of deaths are acceptable. Most people are |
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