China has rolled out a slew of policies to boost its shrinking population. Yun Zhou, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Department of Sociology, talks about the issues behind the demographic crisis, but also warns of the policies’ impacts on gender inequality and what might come next.
Diana Choyleva, the chief economist at Enodo Economics, talks about Xi’s COVID zero U-Turn and what it might mean for China's economic recovery in a post-pandemic world.
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Jennifer Bouey, an epidemiologist and the chair of the Department of International Health at Georgetown University, discusses the incoming wave of COVID infections that could strain China’s healthcare system and endanger the elderly.
Xifan Yang, a China correspondent for Die Zeit, discusses the relief, but also the widespread anxieties over the tsunami of COVID infections that will inevitably hit China.
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James Zimmerman, a partner in the Beijing office of Perkins Coie, talks about China's U-turn on its COVID zero policy, and what to expect next.
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Lynette Ong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, discusses how the recent anti-COVID-zero protests shook up Beijing’s ‘weiwen’ system of maintaining stability.