Six hours under martial law in Seoul. Sarah Jeong, features editor at The Verge, was in South Korea on a personal trip and got caught up in the attempted coup. She wrote this engaging account. “… on the ground, at the protests that would prevent the president from seizing power, people were organized, angry, and a little drunk.”

… America will decline, but will decline less fast than its allies, and the world will split into two competing blocs. Only this time the “Western” bloc will be the weaker, less technologically advanced one.

US/China Trade War Heats Up, Ian Welsh