Lawfare Archive: Sophia Yan Reports from Quarantine in Beijing
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🗓️ 3 December 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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From April 28, 2020: Sophia Yan, a correspondent for the London Telegraph, joined Benjamin Wittes from Beijing where she is in coronavirus lockdown after traveling to Wuhan, China, to see how it was recovering from being the coronavirus epidemic center earlier in the year. They talked about what Wuhan looks like these days, what quarantine means in China, and how close the surveillance is. And they talked about the Chinese government, how it is responding to the crisis, and about how the Chinese economy is recovering and suffering.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Lil Appleton with an episode from the LawFair archive for December 3rd, 2022. |
| 0:45.6 | Earlier this week, Sophia Yann joined Benjamin Wittis for a discussion on the recent protests |
| 0:50.4 | occurring across China in response to the zero COVID policy and accompanying lockdowns. |
| 0:56.5 | To provide some context to the situation, I chose an episode from April 2020. |
| 1:02.0 | In the episode, Benjamin Wittis sat down with Sophia Yann, who at the time was in a |
| 1:06.4 | coronavirus lockdown after traveling to Wuhan. |
| 1:09.6 | They spoke about what quarantine was like in China in April of 2020 and what the level |
| 1:13.8 | of surveillance was. |
| 1:15.5 | How the Chinese government was responding to the crisis and what impacts the crisis had |
| 1:19.5 | on the Chinese economy. |
| 1:30.9 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast, April 28th, 2020. |
| 1:38.0 | Sophia Yann is a correspondent in Beijing for the London Telegraph. |
| 1:43.6 | She is also the pianist for the LawFair podcast and you're listening to her play the piano |
| 1:49.2 | right now. |
| 1:50.9 | She joined me from Beijing where she is in coronavirus lockdown and in China that means something |
| 1:58.4 | a little different than it means here after visiting the city of Wuhan to see how it was |
| 2:05.1 | recovering from being the coronavirus epidemic center earlier in the year. |
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