Weekly #2: canned peaches 🍑 Abbott Labs 🍼NIO 🚗 Alipay 🤑 Lanvin Group 👗 | Following the yuan

Getting Covid has continuously been normalized in China, and people are ready to fight this collective battle with Vitamin C, functional drinks and smuggled Ibuprofen.

How have times changed? For the past month, I’m in the U.S. for a visit and watching China from afar through WeChat feeds.

Before I left, the atmosphere was suffocating, I was at the world’s largest import & export fair in mid-Nov and I was overwhelmed by 5 types of different police and intense Covid restrictions.

Police guarding a subway station near th…