A Chinese worker looks on as a cargo ship is loaded at a port in Qingdao. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images. The COVID-19 pandemic is the second major crisis of globalization in a decade. The first was the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, from which the global economy took years to
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Canadian Dimension: China’s Economy: Powerful But Vulernable
Evening skyline in Shanghai. Photo by Adi Constantin. China’s economy is often presented as a powerful engine. This is, however, only one face of it. It has also been marked by vulnerabilities, and these have become more obvious over time, as the costs of high-speed growth have rebounded on the
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