CL For the first time, Hong Kong's Five-Year Plan is open to the public, a document that maps what the city is meant to become now available to the people it describes. The queues, if there are any, will tell us more than the plan itself. In a city accustomed to watching its future arrive as announced fact, the invitation to look is not nothing.-- CL

MB The Iran negotiations collapsed in Switzerland the same weekend the United States accepted a $400 million aircraft from Qatar. This is not a contradiction but a description of how this administration operates: the announcement is the policy, and what happens afterward is someone else's problem. China moved destroyers around Taiwan while this was happening, which is the kind of positioning that tends to get lost when the foreground is loud enough.-- MB