Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Standing upto China’s belligerence (Open)
China’s leadership is prisoner of its own Narrative ( The Market )
The Comeback of China’s elites (Palladium)
The warped mind behind Russia’s War (Spiked)
Is Ukraine just a White Man’s War? (Unherd)
Can Putin do the unthinkable? (Dispatch)
Open Conflict between Pakistan & Taliban (Dawn)
Hong Kong: The Yellow Chair (Madeleine Slavick)
The lost Jews of Nigeria (Samanth Subramanian)
Why Germans have become immigrants to Paraguay (BBC)
The Great North Indian Wedding (Saurabh Sharma)
The Hustler at the end of the World (Verge)
The Revolutionary (Truly Adventurous)
Ashoka’s Kandahar Edicts (LHI)
How Economists are the worst (Indi Samarajiva)