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  • Ah Long spent years building a life in Shanghai. Then the pandemic arrived. China's Zero-COVID policy cost him his job, his relationship, and eventually his faith that he could build a future there. So he did something almost unimaginable: he set out alone for the United States, crossing the Darién Gap, surviving robberies, and surrendering[...]
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[DC] is a bubble. And particularly working on one narrow set of issues and interacting with people who are like-minded, and study your issue on Twitter, and on and on... I mean you really have to enter this bubble and inhale this orthodoxy, which may or may not be right on the substance. Stepping away from that made me realize that there are a lot more points out there than just the small universe of people with whom I interacted.

Words: Laicie Heeley
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[DC] is a bubble. And particularly working on one narrow set of issues and interacting with people who are like-minded, and study your issue on Twitter, and on and on… I mean you really have to enter this bubble and inhale this orthodoxy, which may or may not be right on the substance. Stepping away from that made me realize that there are a lot more points out there than just the small universe of people with whom I interacted.

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