For the last four decades, the Chinese government has measured its performance almost religiously with one metric: GDP growth. But the GDP God is falling, and it’s not certain that the Deity of Security can replace it, argues Jeremy Wallace, author of the new book Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts.

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