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It was certainly a success for residents’ lungs, as a two-week closure of various factories and power stations left the skies blue and the air clear for the duration of the forum.
But really, how could the summit have been anything other than a triumph when the propaganda build-up was so mesmerizing? The China Daily news outlet somehow persuaded its US-born journalist Erik Nilsson to film a video of himself explaining the Belt and Road Initiative to his five-year-old daughter with Lego and maps (“It’s China’s idea, but it belongs to the world”).
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