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Tourists walk in a busy shopping area in Beijing during the Golden Week holiday in October 2020: it becomes costly to maintain the zero-infection policy. © Getty Images

Yanzhong Huang is senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations. He is author of "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State."

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