Bajing is extremely careful about exposing shejing ping too, to the coronovirus. It's hard to measure the impact of itsisolate an i would say that it's not helping china's increasingly abrasive and more hostile foreign policy style. E, what had once blunted, i think, anxiety about china's rise was that so many people still travelled to china. And none of that’s happening any more - we are only getting either public propaganda or limited numbers of reports from journalists like myself who have been able to remain in china.
China’s 1.4 billion people are averaging fewer than 100 cases of Covid-19 a day. All it takes is the willingness to shut down anything at any time.
NPR’s Emily Feng explains from Beijing.
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