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Fortune
Chloe Taylor

Weibo users have discovered a way to bash China's zero-COVID strategy online

Epidemic control workers wear protective equipment as they walk in the street in Beijing. (Credit: Kevin Frayer—Getty Images)

A dialect spoken in southern China is helping people discuss their anger at ongoing COVID restrictions without their social media posts falling prey to Chinese censorship.

China has taken one of the world’s strictest approaches to handling the coronavirus, and unlike most countries, it is continuing to pursue the elimination of COVID-19 from its population.

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