Power Play Podcast: China’s dicey reopening
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A couple embrace in the arrival hall at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. The reopening of China’s borders marks the end of Covid Zero, a strategy that left the world’s second-biggest economy isolated for three years and weighed heavily on the economy.
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Synopsis: Every third Friday of the month, The Straits Times examines various facets of the US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia.
Join Charissa Yong and Danson Cheong - ST’s US and China correspondents respectively based in Washington DC and Beijing - as they take a look at China’s messy reopening and its global implications.
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:38 The world reacts to China’s reopening
4:10 China’s lack of transparency
6:42 How China has responded
7:33 What the Americans say about China’s abrupt reopening
Produced by: Charissa Yong ( charyong@sph.com.sg dansonc@sph.com.sg
Edited by: Fa’izah Sani
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