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China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty::Chinese government censors tried to control discussions about the country's economy this week.

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[–] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was in China during the pandemic. In 2022 everyone got COVID. Literally everyone in every big city.

So they should have opened up after omega became the dominant variant. No point in locking people down when they lost anyway.

It was a good response in the beginning, but they doubled down on it for three years