Mainland help likely on the way for Hong Kong; More support for real estate; US-China; New podcast

I released a new episode of the Sinocism podcast earlier today. It is outside the paywall.

Sinocism Podcast #4: The Economist's David Rennie on online nationalism, discourse power, reporting from China, US-China relations

David is terrific, so I hope you will give it a listen.

Today’s Top items:

1. Mainland help likely on the way for Hong Kong

2. Russia-China

3. US-China

4. Pony Ma feels the care and attention of the Party and regulators

5. More help for real estate firms

6. Olympics

Thanks for reading, and I hope to see many of you in tomorrow’s weekly thread.