Special episode: The COVID lockdown protests, with David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne
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The Police Response to the Tiananmen Protests
It does feel like at least in Beijing that the initial response was to contain the protests, make sure they didn't get out of hand. But again, it does feel like in Shanghai, and we talked about this in the beginning, that on night two and night three, either they got new orders or they were just tired of having to be passive against direct challenges to their authority. It's so much harder to be a journalist right now in China than any other time I can remember.
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