After reading this I have nostalgia for China, literally a country I've never been to.

The author of this new newsletter has mad skills!

It's mournful to witness so much change in such a short period as China has undergone in the last 30 years. I don't know why I would find this emotional but I do.

How evocative are the historians that suddenly talk in the personal tense! A country in a semi-permanent identity crisis of a not insignificant impact on the global order. Who is this author?