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CNN claimed to break big news Monday. According to leaked documents from Chinese authorities verified by six independent experts including a forensic analysis of the files, China deliberately underreported the severity of its early coronavirus outbreak in the Hubei province.
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This sharp slowdown is largely due to the prices of food products, particularly pork, the most widely consumed meat in China, which fell 2.8% year on year in October. This is the first drop in pork prices for 19 months in a country hit by an African swine fever epidemic that has decimated the herd. This crisis has caused a doubling of pork prices in recent years.
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This year in the Middle Empire, there has been "more wealth created than the previous five years combined," despite the epidemic, the Hurun ranking says.