Inside China’s Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking
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In 2015, when Lazarus Liu moved home to China after studying logistics in the United Kingdom for three years, he quickly noticed that something had changed : Everyone paid for everything with their phones. At McDonald’s, the convenience store, even at mom-and-pop restaurants, his friends in Shanghai used mobile payments. Cash, Liu could see, had been largely replaced by two smartphone apps : Alipay and WeChat Pay. One day, at a vegetable market, he watched a woman his mother’s age pull out (...)
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