How does this get to be the biggest protest movement in China since Tiananmen? It was able to take advantage of a sort of loophole or flaw in the Chinese censorship system. You had a lot of people posting images of the fire just on WeChat, which is the super app in China that everybody uses.
The protests in China might force the government to back down from its extreme Covid restrictions and ramp up its extreme surveillance programs. The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Chin explains.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Sean Rameswaram who also hosted.
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