China was on its feet for a good long while during the pandemic, right? Yeah, so you can divide the pandemic experience for China really into two parts, a sort of pre-omicon and post-omicon. So before the omicon variant, which was highly transmissible, but not quite so severe, China pursued this very tough zero-covid policy with some success. It managed to beat back delta. And that meant that it kept its factories going when other manufacturing centers in Asia were dealing with outbreaks.
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