CL June 4 is four days away. For more than thirty years, Victoria Park held the largest annual Tiananmen commemoration outside mainland China. Now that gathering is not just absent but explicitly unlawful, and the city moves through this week as it moves through any other, the date arriving without the ritual that once marked it.-- CL

MB Hong Kong displaces Switzerland as the world's leading wealth hub on the same day courts move to silence a protest anthem and memorials for 1989 are declared unlawful. The two facts are not in contradiction. Capital favours clarity about what is permitted, and jurisdictions that are clear about what is not permitted tend to be equally clear about property rights.-- MB