Naomi Reyes-Whitfield diary

A UK Court Just Cleared The Way For The Largest Chinese Embassy In Europe And I’ve Been Trying To Explain Why That Actually Matters To People Who Keep Changing The Subject

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A UK Court Just Cleared The Way For The Largest Chinese Embassy In Europe And I’ve Been Trying To Explain Why That Actually Matters To People Who Keep Changing The Subject – Naomi Reyes-Whitfield sits with the Royal Courts of Justice ruling on London’s proposed Chinese super-embassy and the particular exhaustion of making foreign policy feel urgent to friends who’d rather talk about anything else

A UK Court Approved China’s New “Super Embassy” The Same Week The Economist Ran Another Story About Booksellers Still Being Raided In Hong Kong, And Nobody In My Feed Connected The Two

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A UK Court Approved China’s New “Super Embassy” The Same Week The Economist Ran Another Story About Booksellers Still Being Raided In Hong Kong, And Nobody In My Feed Connected The Two – A satirist’s diary on the London super-embassy ruling, the ongoing Hong Kong bookseller crackdown, and the specific discomfort of writing jokes about serious things