Stop it. Stop saying “the global race”. It sounds like a round-the-world yachting competition. It is stupid, implying a zero-sum situation in which if China gets better we have to get worse. And it’s boring. You’ve used it a million times. Stop saying “hard-working people”, or, God forbid, “hard-working families”. It is cruel and exclusionary […]

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