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Outsourcing Repression

Pekingology

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The Resilience of the Regime After the End of the Zero-Covid Protests

The stress test was a number of things when the variant evolved to one that was so easily transmissible, it needed zero COVID. They started using soft violence, intimidation, kicking, punching. That is when I think that people started questioning state policies. In Shanghai, the Shanghai government did do a great job. But groceries did not arrive on time. People were on the verge of starvation. So we don't want to extrapolate too much out of this,. but just curious for your thoughts on taking stock of the resiliency of the regime right now.

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