2: Order a crackdown
How to become a dictator
The Wuhan Coronavirus Epidemic
China's increasingly autocratic tendencies were only felt by certain groups. Most Chinese people could wave off the growing crackdown as something that wouldn't hit them, so long as they kept their heads down. But then... COVID erupted. A deadly new strain of coronavirus. The toll from that deadly coronavirus now grows, spreading from Wuhan. We go to Xinjiang, and then Hong Kong after brutally suppressing pro-democracy protests in 2019.
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