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736: Ian Bremmer | The Power of Crisis to Change the World

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Is China's Zero COVID Policy a Good Idea?

Shanghai, Chengdu and a bunch of other cities where there's, I think in Sichuan, there's like 21 million people on lockdown. And it was just like, when you're growing food on your balcony in a major city, the equivalent of New York, you're in trouble if that's what you're using to survive. But yet here's an interesting point: China's life expectancy has just passed that of the United States just now. The American life expectancy because of COVID and because of the opioid epidemic has deteriorated by a couple of years over the last three years of COVID. And China's, of course, has not.

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