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Kinda interesting that the century of American globalization and the century of Chinese globalization both have a pandemic about 25 years in. I’d date the former to the 1893 Chicago world fair, and the latter to the death of Deng Xiaoping, 1997.
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This is just one narrative amidst the research, and one that tends to be selected not b/c people want truth, but b/c they want a memetically potent take. After looking at the diff studies, my $ is on those that point to China, though it’s unlikely we’ll ever know definitively.
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Yes, one suggests, in contrast to others that suggest otherwise. The question should of course be one of evidence, but much like a great deal of other contemporary research in fields where good data is hard to come by, tends to follow narrative appeal.
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