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In the summer of 2022, Xu Chen left China with his wife and young daughter and embarked on a perilous journey through South America to reach the United States. The family is part of a growing share of middle-class Chinese choosing to leave the country over the government’s zero-COVID policies, a crackdown on dissent, and economic uncertainty. We follow their first weeks in the United States, as they recount the risks they took to get here and their hopes for the future.
