CHINA
A Not-So-Local DifficultyECONOMIST
Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has promised a “great revival” of the Chinese nation. Presiding over the G20 summit was a perfect opportunity to show the public that he was on target. How awkward, then, that as he was doing so voters in Hong Kong were sending Mr. Xi a different—and, for the party, shocking—message. In elections for the territory’s Legislative Council, or Legco, six candidates who want Hong Kong to be more independent from China gained seats in the 70-member body.
NORTH KOREA
North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test
Alastair Gale and Carol E. Lee, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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Source: Victims of Communism
