• Economy bouncing back to growth
  • Breached dike successfully stemmed in East China
  • Cross-border capital flows stable in H1
  • Chinese mainland reports 22 new COVID-19 cases
  • Contagion rebounds in Xinjiang and Hong Kong (New novel coronavirus infections in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and a rebound of COVID-19 in Hongkong have added fresh pressure to contagion control efforts)
  • Fire destroys organ, shatters stained glass at Nantes cathedral in France
  • Tokyo 2020 to mark one year countdown to Olympics with a video message
  • East Africa’s woes have longer to run