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    As trade war escalates, Chinese remember 'national humiliation'

    by Alice Su, Los Angeles Times May 13, 2019 4 minutes

    BEIJING - As Li Xuewei stepped through the ruins of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, one phrase repeated itself in her mind - and on almost every explanatory sign:

    Wu wang guo chi. "Don't forget national humiliation."

    The 24-year-old medical student was visiting the capital from Shandong for the first time with her boyfriend, Jia Jiyao.

    They'd come to see a scene printed in every Chinese student's textbooks: a devastated palace, its European-style columns now broken, their swoops and arches upturned among jumbled piles of rocks.

    Li learned this place's history as a child. The Qing Dynasty called it

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