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The US invented shopping malls, but China is writing their next chapter

Written by John Rennie Short, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

People walk under a light projection at a shopping mall in Beijing. (Photo by Jade Gao / AFPJade Gao/AFP via Getty Images)

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