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By Farah Master, Albee Zhang and Casey Hall HONG KONG – Seeing Chinese authorities exercise extraordinary powers during a stringent COVID -19 lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year altered Claire Jiang’s life plans: she no longer wants to have babies in China. During the April-May lockdown, the hashtag “we are the last generation” briefly went viral on Chinese social media before being censored. The phrase echoed the response of a man who was visited by authorities in hazmat suits threatening to punish his family for three generations for non-compliance with COVID rules. “That really resonated,” said Jiang, who internalised the...
