Why some Chinese are angry about covid
The politics of a bungled lockdown of 25m people in Shanghai
ONE CONSEQUENCE of imposing a pandemic lockdown on Shanghai, China’s worldliest and stroppiest city, is a stream of smartphone videos showing officials being yelled at by locals. As this metropolis of 25m people approaches a month of near-paralysis, these filmed confrontations have taken on a darker tone.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “What Chinese public anger means”
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