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A fascinating long read from The Atlantic on the profound changes under way in China today. The government’s increasingly authoritarian approach to its society is likely to have profound effects on entire supply chains as the ease with which western businessmen have struck deals with their Chinese counterparts disappears, to be replaced with something far more unpredictable, and a whole lot riskier. “Given the chaotic contradictions of modern China, what any one person sees can be an exception. What strikes me is the consistency of evidence showing a country that is cracking down, closing up, and lashing out in ways different from its course in the previous 30-plus years.”

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