Like any country, China catches the occasional cold. But the explosion of a chemical warehouse in Tianjin on Aug. 12, occurring in the middle of a year when the news about the country has been mostly bad, reinforced a narrative that China has turned ill. Other symptoms of this illness are a deflating stock market, the devaluation this month of the Chinese currency, and the worst economic slowdown in decades.

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