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Political Gabfest: Is Antisemitism Back?

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Zero COVID - What's the Trigger for the Protests?

This is a set of protests that are really unusual in terms of what we've seen in China during the zero COVID period. The trigger for this particular wave of protests was a fire in Xinjiang that left officially about a dozen people dead. We haven't seen that sympathy expressed towards Xinjiang specifically before. To see multiple points of failure in that system simultaneously must be really concerning to party authorities in Beijing.

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