Unprecedented heat in China crippled its economy


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Andrey Yashlavsky Heat and drought continue to torment Europeans, but other parts of the world are also ravaged by heat, adding to the pressure on economies already hit by the coronavirus pandemic and geopolitical turbulence. China has also faced hot weather unprecedented in recent decades. The Celestial Empire is facing its worst heat wave in sixty years. This year’s heat wave was the strongest and longest in China since the country began meteorological observations in 1961, Sun Shao, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, told the Global Times. Compared to China’s record heat wave of 2013,...