Hong Kong; RRR cuts and more bad data; Pork problems; Yang Jiechi on great power diplomacy

Cat has my tongue, struggling to find anything insightful to write up top, so just some comments in the Essential Eight below.

Friday is a holiday for 中秋节 the mid-autumn festival. Sinocism HQ has people who do like mooncakes, but good ones are hard to find here.

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