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How China's response to zero-COVID protests could affect global business

Written by Stephen Morgan, Professor of Economic History (Emeritus), University of Nottingham

The recent protests in China against the country’s zero-COVID policy have been unprecedented in their scale, intensity and distribution. Protestors numbering in the thousands were reported in dozens of cities. Not since 1989’s Tiananmen Square protests has there been such widespread civil disobedience.

The protests do not signify the...

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