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Two important things going on here very much related and all pegged in some ways to that letter from foxconn's ceo to the chinese government saying that the severe covid lockdown was threatening china's role in the global supply chain. one thing to keep in mind is that foxconn makes iphones for apple. they have a factory of 300,000 workers. and those 300,000 workers over the past year have been severely restricted because of xi jinping's very tight covid lockdown. many of of them have begun complaining saying why are we working for $5 an hour when we can't leave the factory because of these qu...

They're protesting. those complaining that it hurt their livelihood and people are dying from the lockdowns. not so much the covid cases which are so pale in comparison to the rest of the world, some people wondered why they were going on in the first place. things are changing. the question is for how long. susan li has more. >> yeah, think of the roll backs as being tactical and face-saving. that's the analysis from a lot of china watchers. the fact that you had a roll back of the policies. no longer wronger a qr code to go to work. no longer quarantines. instead of locked up in the camps th...

Implemented. but the other thing, mark is that we have seen these videos of these mass concentration facilities. they say they are for quarantines but they really cannot be. i think that is to control the chinese people. this is gone well beyond disease control. this is going to the point of being able for the communist party to make sure the chinese people are actually imprisoned. mark: i agree one 100%. these facilities that they are building they look like prefab facilities. they almost remind you of the buildings they had in the third reich. they certainly are not intended to make people c...

That we have seen these videos of these mass concentration facilities. they say they are for quarantines but they really cannot be. i think that is to control the chinese people. this is gone well beyond disease control. this is going to the point of being able for the communist party to make sure the chinese people are actually imprisoned. mark: i agree one 100%. these facilities that they are building they look like prefab facilities. they almost remind you of the buildings they had in the third reich. they certainly are not intended to make people comfortable. so you're thinking is there go...

First step toward the re-opening of this pandemic. [ speaking non-english ] >> translator: for me, my company requires a 24-hour covid test because it is a public place. there are still high requirements on us so we have to continue to do covid tests every day. i have yet to feel a noticeable change ortiz-rivera here's the deal if you're in beijing you still need to get a negative pcr test every 48 hours if you want to walk into a shopping mall or into an office building. and the testing that has become kind of part of daily life, that's gotten a little more difficult because many of the testi...