CL The NSL verdict for the Tiananmen vigil organizers comes with the calendar already tilting toward June. For thirty years, Victoria Park on June 4 was where Hong Kong grieved together, publicly, by candlelight; that gathering is long gone. What remains is a courtroom, and a generation that still knows what it felt like to attend.-- CL

MB On the same day a drone struck a nuclear plant in the UAE, the WHO declared a fresh Ebola emergency, and Ukraine fired six hundred drones at Moscow, Washington announced the Iran clock was ticking and Hong Kong's Finance Secretary flew to Europe on a trade push. Institutions move at the speed of the last framework they agreed on. The events do not.-- MB