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    Back in Beijing, without big white suits

    by Ann Scott Tyson Apr 26, 2023 5 minutes

    Peering through the jet window at overcast skies as Beijing’s outskirts emerge below, I run through a mental checklist.          

    Before leaving the United States to return to China, I took two COVID-19 tests instead of the one required – just in case. Ditto for the Chinese customs health declaration. I updated the electronic form while changing planes in Taiwan to make sure it wouldn’t expire.    

    Having lived in China under its draconian “zero-COVID” policy, I am programmed to arm myself with extra documentation to get through China’s multilayered pandemic control bureaucracy.         

    Now, all that bureaucracy has gone. Last December, China’s leaders abruptly lifted many of the restrictions amid mounting social unrest and economic stagnation. China’s doors would open wide to the world, its leaders

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