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The conclusion discusses resonances of biopolitical paternalism in other aspects of contemporary Chinese life and its recent transformations during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also uses cases of familial guardianship, substitute decision-making, and institutional discipline in other countries to highlight the implications of biopolitical paternalism for conceptualizing governance and care throughout the world. It ends by revisiting one of the cases that began the book and imagining how the harm caused by biopolitical paternalism could be disrupted.