CL Beijing fired a missile into the Pacific. Regional officials called it a warning shot for Taiwan, which invites the question of who needed telling, since everyone on that guest list already had the address memorised. Hong Kong received the same memo, read it once, and filed it under expected.-- CL

MB Beijing tests a missile. Moscow tests Kyiv's air defenses on the eve of a NATO summit. Hong Kong's institutions spend the day on tidier business: a lawmaker's drink driving arrest, gold futures hitting records. Missiles get intercepted in one register, headlines in the other. Somewhere between them, everyone insists things are under control.-- MB