>> However the mundanity masks the dark secrets of one of the world’s largest economies.
I have failed entire English classes for writing a sentence like that. Whoever penned that grotesque thing ought to be hung.
Hate to be a pedant but “hung?” I believe it’s “hanged.”
And I’ve seen the author in his banana hammock at the beach — and he IS HUNG!
Was the irony inherent in that last sentence intentional?