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Photos: The Smog that Ate Beijing

Beijing’s dismal air quality has repeatedly made headlines, grounding flights and eventually shaming authorities into reforming rose-tinted official readings. One leading meteorologist recently warned that substantial improvement will take decades. Today, Foreign Policy presents a gallery of photos by Sean Gallagher which captures the grim reality of the capital’s ‘crazy bad’