At Ex-Premier Zhu Rongji’s Funeral, China’s Past Shadows Its Present

The New York Times | Aug. 18, 2026, 5:11 a.m. | Original
Beijing wants to portray today’s China as carrying forward Zhu Rongji’s era of growth, but for many Chinese, the optimism of that time has since faded.
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