Sophia Yan Reports from Quarantine in Beijing
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Sophia Yan, a correspondent in Beijing 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. |
| 0:32.6 | You have to really wonder what impact did this kind of suppressed information from China |
| 0:38.0 | have on what the US and other nations understood and how they prepared their emergency response |
| 0:42.8 | plans. |
| 0:43.8 | You know, the beginning of the year when Rouhan was first locked down, China was so angry |
| 0:47.1 | with foreign governments for evacuating citizens and closing borders and cutting flights. |
| 0:51.8 | Beijing was lobbying the world, saying that they had everything under control. |
| 0:55.2 | So at this point, you really have to wonder, did those actions exacerbate the outbreak |
| 0:59.4 | and so by how much? |
| 1:01.4 | So there's a sense of kind of reckoning that people in Rouhan are thinking about and |
| 1:05.2 | grappling with, but they're not fully reflecting on it just yet because they really get the |
| 1:09.8 | sense they just want to move on for now and just try to put some of this behind them. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast, April 28, 2020. |
| 1:22.5 | So Fiya Gan is a correspondent in Beijing for the London Telegraph. |
| 1:28.2 | She is also the pianist for the LawFair podcast and you're listening to her play the piano |
| 1:33.7 | right now. |
| 1:35.5 | She joined me from Beijing where she is in coronavirus lockdown and in China, that means something |
| 1:43.0 | a little different than it means here after visiting the city of Rouhan to see how it was |
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