‘I want freedom’: One man’s escape from zero-Covid China to seek his American dream – KAKE

By Yong Xiong, Selina Wang and Nectar Gan, CNN On a sunny afternoon in June, Wang Qun pushed his nose up against the 20-foot high steel fence, peering at the palm trees and detached houses across the border — the first glimpse of his American dream. Unlike many of the thousands aiming to cross the nearly 2,000-mile US-Mexico border illegally each day, Wang was not fleeing poverty or violence south of the wall. Instead, the 33-year-old Chinese citizen was running from China’s unrelenting zero-Covid policy and growing authoritarianism under leader Xi Jinping. From the other side of the Pacific Ocean,…