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The Puzzling Ascent of China’s Corporate Giants
One measure of a country’s economic strength is the scale and number of its modern corporations. In 2008, China had only 27 corporations in the Fortune Global 500, a small fraction of the United States’ 150. By 2021, China remarkably had surpassed the United States. The speed and timing of this…