{
  "id": 1679449,
  "title": "At Ex-Premier Zhu Rongji’s Funeral, China’s Past Shadows Its Present",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/at-ex-premier-zhu-rongjis-funeral-chinas-past-shadows-its-present",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-18T09:11:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "slug": "the-new-york-times",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/world/asia/zhu-rongji-funeral-china.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Beijing wants to portray today’s China as carrying forward Zhu Rongji’s era of growth, but for many Chinese, the optimism of that time has since faded.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}