With the benefit of hindsight, some key lessons from my trip to Hong Kong last week are slowly coming into focus. First, it was great to be back in Asia.  A three-year Covid-induced travel embargo was starting to become intolerable. Zoom is great for makeshift...

I have finally made it back to Asia for the first time since the Covid outbreak.  I was supposed to travel to Singapore in mid-November but was hit by the virus a week before my long-scheduled departure.  That effectively cleared the decks for this second, successful...

Unsurprisingly, Covid is now surging in China in the aftermath of the government’s reversal of its unsustainable zero-Covid policy.  Given China’s lack of herd immunity and the prevalence of highly transmissible Omicron variants, this is hardly surprising. ...