CL Four in five workers in this city are carrying something heavier than their workload. The AIA figure is stark enough to sit with quietly: eighty percent reporting emotional exhaustion is not a data point, it is a portrait of how people are moving through their days. Hong Kong has always carried forward; this number asks whether carrying forward is the same as doing well.-- CL

MB The architecture of deterrence rests on the assumption that crises queue. Today's ledger, a nuclear facility struck by drones, a declared global health emergency, a record strike on a capital city, five hundred drone jets toward Taiwan, suggests the queue has collapsed. Institutions built for sequential catastrophe are still issuing statements calibrated for a more orderly world.-- MB