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19 Jul, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Interesting in in @business about why China may never overtake US economically. Authors model scenarios. Note especially the yellow line, which accounts for studies that China has been overstating its growth numbers since at least 2010. US is green line bloomberg.com/news/features/…
@business I wrote about overstated fear of China for @TheAtlantic back in May. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Meanwhile, Thailand and Indonesia are gradually replacing Chinese COVID vaccine with newly abundant Western products after healthcare workers vaccinated with Sinovac caught COVID and died bbc.com/news/world-asi…
Also meanwhile, Biden administration is freer to hold China to account than Trump administration was, because it doesn't desperately need a face-saving deal to rescue it from a stupid trade war it unnecessarily started.

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