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China's uphill battles, from Putin to COVID: Newsweek's Melinda Liu

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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Is There Any Level of Social Descent in China?

Shanghai, the largest city in china has been completely locked down for a week. Is there any level at all of social descent as a consequence of that? Or is that way too far beyond the pale for a country with as much centralized control as China?" There's not really much social descent in people taking to the streets, because there's actually nobody in the streets," he says. "You can have social descent when you are locked into your apartments right now"

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