The Chinese government can still make policies that meet their citizens' expectations — but it will need to change course fast.
In the first two years of the global pandemic, China’s model of lockdowns, mass testing and algorithmically-driven quarantine provided an alternative path for controlling Covid that effectively restricted the virus’s spread. Yet last week’s protests across several Chinese cities have shown the limits of the model, as the economy weakens and anger at the government’s restrictive policies boils over.
A root problem in current policy making is that decisions are increasingly made w
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When Joe Biden took office, many of his supporters thought the first order of business would be unwinding Donald Trump's trade war with China. But his trade czar, Katherine Tai, has been largely MIA, a stark contrast to her predecessor, the fiery and ubiquitous Robert Lighthizer. So what has Tai been up to?
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