
Inside the Shanghai lockdown, with SupChina's own Chang Che
Sinica Podcast
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Is China a Victim of Their Success?
i'm just sort of struck by the parallels between shangai and hong kong. One of the things that, you know, i i thought might be a major factor in this is simply that china was kind of a victim of its on success,. The threat of of it just didn't loom very large. I mean, they could read, just like the rest of us, the very, very, very low case rates in china. Until the emergence, really, of the omicron variant, there was very little threat and very little incentive to get vaccinated because,you know, it was like being vaccinated against being struck by lightning.
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