It felt as if power was just much less constrained that it had been before. There was a time in China where there was more space for civil society, there was more openness and tolerance. We've seen a return to a much more sort of ideological style with zero-covid. It's like we've gone back to the cultural revolution - people can just burst into your home and drag you out.

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