The Briefing Room - What's the impact of the Shanghai lockdown?

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What will the social and economic costs be of China's full-scale lockdown of Shanghai? David Aaronovitch examines the problems with the country's vaccination programme.

Joining David in the briefing room are:

Robin Brant, BBC Correspondent based in Shanghai
Vincent Ni, China Affairs correspondent for The Guardian
Professor Nancy Qian, Northwestern University
Dr Yu Jie, senior research fellow on China in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House
George Magnus, economist and research associate at Oxford University’s China Centre.

Producers: Rosamund Jones, Kirsteen Knight and Ben Carter
Production Co-ordinator: Siobhan Reed
Studio Manager: Neil Churchill
Editor: Richard Vadon

Published on Thursday, 28th April 2022.

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