I admit to being a bit obsessed with this story and I’ll also admit the reason is largely schadenfreude. I’m enjoying seeing China’s arrogant nationalists, the communist apparatchiks who believe the party knows what’s best for everyone getting humbled by the simplest of problems: economic reality. After seizing the freedom of millions of people in Hong Kong and threatening to do the same to Taiwan, China suddenly finds itself facing a severe crisis of confidence.For much of the past four decades, China’s economy seemed like an unstoppable force, the engine behind the country’s rise to a global superpower. But the...