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History of the Present

The power of a blank sheet of paper

Chinese protests, the World Cup and the fallacy of extrapolation

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Timothy Garton Ash
Dec 04, 2022
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Notes to the Future 3 (week ending 3 December 2022)

The ‘A4 Movement’

In the very long run, the most important thing to have happened this week for Europe and the West may yet prove to be the protests that briefly spread across many cities in China. Although they were mainly against continued Covid lockdown, they segued remarkably quickly into broader pro…

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