Recent protests against China’s strict zero-COVID policy took a lot of people by surprise. But they might have worked. The Chinese government is now taking steps to ease the rules around the pandemic lockdowns that sparked so much public frustration. The World’s Asia correspondent Patrick Winn has been following the story and he speaks with host Marco Werman.
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