CL China's coast guard widened its patrols near Taiwan this weekend, and Taipei answered with its largest reservist overhaul in decades. A brisk way to spend a long weekend. Officials on both sides call it routine preparedness, the phrase governments reach for right before things stop being routine.-- CL

MB A funeral crowd chants revenge while the government calls it mourning, proof the two stopped being the same event. Hong Kong's central bank spent the morning warning about bubbles without a number and threats without a name, the kind of caution that costs nothing to say. And a ransomware attack ran itself, start to finish, no human required, crime automating faster than most banks automate a wire transfer.-- MB