Run part one: Why are Chinese people running to Japan?
At the height of China\u2019s zero-covid restrictions, a Chinese character that sounds like the English word \u201crun\u201d became a coded way of talking about emigration. Since then many Chinese people have left their country for better opportunities abroad.
In the first episode of a three-part series on the \u201crun\u201d phenomenon, we travel to Japan and meet educated, urban Chinese who have made the decision to move. Alice Su, The Economist\u2019s senior China correspondent and David Rennie, our Beijing bureau chief, ask: what does their choice say about the country they\u2019ve left behind?
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