On a sunny afternoon in June, Wang Qun pushed his nose up against the six-metre steel fence, peering at the palm trees and detached houses across the border – the first glimpse of his American dream.Unlike many of the thousands aiming to cross the nearly 2000-mile US-Mexico border illegally each day, Wang was not fleeing poverty or violence south of the wall.Instead, the 33-year-old Chinese citizen was running from China's unrelenting zero-COVID policy and growing authoritarianism under leader Xi Jinping.
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