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Why China’s Most Can-Do City Is Tired - The New York Times
Chinese pride and triumphalism have given way to malaise in the post-Covid era.
In 1979 my mother pulled out a Band-Aid in a Nanjing hospital. The nurses clustered around it, amazed. “The West has everything!” they said.
We were on a family visit to China, where my Shanghai relatives were similarly wowed by our excellent teeth a... [1215 chars]