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Proof: Is China’s new local surtax a game-changer, or a bureaucratic tweak?

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4f4b837997bfd065f2841602a9a00771c7f7dbc344311150962e12bb25f483c2

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-4f4b837997bf.json prints 4f4b837997bfd065f2841602a9a00771c7f7dbc344311150962e12bb25f483c2. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
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3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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