Why a German court’s challenge to the EU is more disturbing than Trump’s outrage or China’s tantrums

It has been a dismal period for news, even setting aside Covid-19 and US President Donald Trump. Indeed, the coronavirus may be a cover for some of the nastiness. Here in Hong Kong, we have the spectacle of police seemingly wanting to punish dissent by attacking and pepper spraying chanters of slogans they find disagreeable. It is hard not to feel that, as after the 1967 riots and until the Independent Commission Against Corruption was formed, loyalty to the government gives officers carte…

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