HONG KONG ¨C Seeing Chinese authorities exercise extraordinary powers during a stringent COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year altered Claire Jiang¡¯s life plans: she no longer wants to have babies in China.
During the April-May lockdown, the hashtag ¡°we are the last generation¡± briefly went viral on Chinese social media before being censored.
The phrase echoed the response of a man who was visited by authorities in hazmat suits threatening to punish his family for three generations for noncompliance with COVID-19 rules.
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