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China's winter of discontent

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Can Xi Jinping's Protests Be Isolated?

CNN's John Defterios was in Beijing covering the anti-Zhejiang Ping protests. He says they are dramatic, but only a very small number of people were involved. The Communist Party has built an extraordinary surveillance and police machine, he says. Even Chinese who aren't interested in politics want to get rid of COVID controls, defterios says.

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