The nighttime bus crash that killed 27 people in southwest China set off a storm of anger online over the country’s strict COVID-19 policies.
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Zero COVID also has become a political issue, and at one point was celebrated by many Chinese as signifying the superiority of their country over the U.S., which has had more than 1 million COVID deaths. According to FreeWeibo, a website that tracks censored posts on the popular social media platform, three of the top 10 searches on Weibo were related to the bus accident.
Users online questioned how a driver could see properly when his face was covered up, and why he was driving so late at night. Many comments were censored, but some that expressed discontent with the current approach to the pandemic did remain up.First tariffs, then COVID, now worries of war. Multinational companies have more reasons than ever to get out of China — if they can.
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