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China’s zero-Covid horror show is inspiring Taiwan to open up

8 May 2022

4:00 PM

8 May 2022

4:00 PM

Taipei

Nowhere is watching the zero-Covid horror show unfolding in China more closely than Taiwan, where it is encouraging the island to ease restrictions, even as cases of the infectious Omicron variant spike. Taiwan’s premier Su Tseng-chang has said the extreme measures being imposed on the other side of the Taiwan Strait are ‘cruel’ and his country would not follow suit.

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