In the past four months, China has been through serious upheaval, from economic woes to protests to the ease of the infamous zero-COVID policy and then a huge surge in cases.

Villanova University’s Deb Seligsohn was in China for most of it and got back recently. She joins Here & Now‘s Scott Tong for a debrief on what the situation was like on the ground and a look at what the year ahead could hold.

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