How "zero-Covid" changed China — and the world

Some 1.4 billion people live in China. That means that if one looks at the world from a humanitarian standpoint, what life is like for Chinese people in China is one of the most important questions to explore — if one that rarely gets covered in US media except through the prism of Washington's geopolitical rivalry with Beijing. Over the past week, large protests have sprung up across China, as people rise up against an authoritarian government that has been imposing harsh and highly restrictive measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The protests were most immediately kicked off by…