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This week marks the turning point of China’s Zero-Covid policy.Overnight, the lockdown was lifted in major cities of China, to put it accurately, it happened on Wednesday. Yeah, no bluffing, it came overnight.The propaganda also made a U-turn this week. It began to downplay the severity of the virus (or you can say they finally admit it) which it has portrayed as a monster for three years. Propaganda is shameless. I hope you take this lesson from China’s experience. So we Chinese are kinda celebrating the end of this fucking lockdown in our WeChat group. You know when the happiness comes so fast, you become suspicious and doubt if it’s true. Do I deserve it? How could the happiness come so fast?That’s the mentality of most of the Chinese right now. Let’s call it collective “imposter syndrome”. At the same time, we’re not dumb, and we know we need ...
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