'I want freedom': One man's escape from zero-Covid China to seek his American dream
CNN
On a sunny afternoon in June, Wang Qun pushed his nose up against the 20-foot high 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 2,000-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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