Out of sight
The weekend despatch: How stable is China? The threat of Hong Kong. + What was John Coltrane’s “churning tension”?
In the air
- Is China as strong as it looks? Standpoints from Andy Rothman, Dan Wang, and Kevin Slaten.
Features
- Why did Beijing break its promise to Hong Kong so early? Minxin Pei on how it became just another Chinese city.
- Why does nothing in the United Kingdom seem to work? A.G. Hopkins on the decades of self-inflicted wounds that have hollowed out the British state.
Books
- How strong is the Chinese-Russian “friendship,” really? Sören Urbansky and Martin Wagner, Entangled Empires: Four Centuries of China-Russia Relations.
Music
- What was John Coltrane’s “churning tension”?
- & New tracks from him, Rhiannon Giddens, Beck, Chvrches, & Radie Peat.
+ Weather report
- Hurricane Nolo moves in on the area of Hawaii that Lala wrecked six weeks ago—with nearly a meter of new rain …
