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Shanghai crisis: street brawls, social media storm, global shipping slowed, Xi's political test

Inside China

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Introduction

Last week, the sound of frustration and anxiety from within shanghai echoed around the world as 25 million people templated another week of lock down. This week, it's not so much the sound, but the images showing the cracks appearing in china's dynamic zero covid strategy. After weeks of claiming not one single person had died in the shanghai omi albrick this week, authorities have begun announcing there have been fatalities. As i speak to you, the official count is less than ten people officially dead from covert 19. More and more questions are being asked about this number. Meanwhile, off the coast of shanghais container port, the busiest port in

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