What was it like living in lockdown under China’s zero-COVID policy? CNA correspondent Wei Du writes about her experience speaking to people who were at the frontlines of the struggle for freedom and why she decided to make the podcast series Red Wall: Inside China’s zero-COVID world.
; and a worker who was confined inside Foxconn, the world’s biggest iPhone factory.
I spoke to some of interviewees again in February 2023 after the country was hit by a brutal exit wave of infections."Jie" was one of the first workers to escaped from the iPhone factory in Henan. He is now doing odd jobs to support himself and his widowed mom. "Kaka" is the tech worker who was laid off and went to work as a lockdown enforcer for only a few days before China ended lockdowns for good.
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