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Export hub Yiwu locks down

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Christmas could be in trouble.
On Thursday, the eastern city of Yiwu in Zhejiang province was put under a three-day COVID lockdown.
So what? Yiwu boasts merely 1.9 million residents, modest by PRC standards. But it's home to the world's largest small commodities market, and is therefore a major Chin...