A vendor sells Hong Kong’s pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily. Apple Daily shut down last month amid China’s crackdown on media freedom. The COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest global public health emergency in a century, has handed power to government authorities and restricted life for billions of people, preventing democratic progress worldwide.

First published in the July 16, 2021, 12:33 a.m. edition

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