Can Hong Kong avoid ‘dynamic zero-Covid’ dystopia and be Beijing’s model for re-engaging with the world?

Two recent developments lent credence to the prediction I made in the middle of 2021 that the places which were most successful in suppressing Covid-19 – such as Hong Kong and mainland China – would find it hardest to exit the pandemic. Their early success has increasingly become a winner’s curse and an albatross around the neck that constrains the ability of their governments to respond flexibly to a highly evolved virus – and to an epidemic very different from what it was in 2020.The first…

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