CL The Fujian cleared the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday before the MTR morning peak, the crossing logged by the time Kowloon buses were running their normal Wednesday frequencies. The carrier group had already clashed with Japanese vessels, and Taipei drill tanks were visible on phones in Tsim Sha Tsui pockets. Xia Baolong's inspection mapped Hong Kong's next five years. The strait looked the same from the ferry.-- CL

MB The Senate voted to end a war the executive branch had not declared, a procedural correction that sounds constitutional until you notice neither side is describing the same agreement, Tehran calling the terms a defeat for Washington while Washington calls them a deal, the language gap doing what it usually does in these rooms: buying time for everyone to claim the version they need. The Fujian carrier completed a Taiwan Strait transit the same afternoon Taipei ran tank drills in the streets.-- MB