Tidbits from China
Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong’s flagship airline, is struggling to recover from Covid lockdowns and Beijing’s crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
Before China rewrote the rules for Hong Cong as an autonomies zone Cathay Pacific business class was the best of any airline
As China’s young people face record unemployment, our columnist writes, the Communist Party is telling them to embrace hardship.
I guess that might be better than telling them to eat cake
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis