Call it despair, with Chinese characteristics. The buzz among social media users in China is that their country has entered a new historical era, which has been dubbed as “garbage time” — a term used in sports to describe the minutes left on the clock when the results are clear, and there is already a definite winner and a loser. It is obvious which side Chinese internet users find themselves on, in a country where a stagnating economy has led to rising unemployment, surging food prices and a generation that no longer believes in the promise of the “Chinese century”....