Great @WSJ from @greg_ip:
"Xi Jinping has elevated Chinese industrial policy into something the world has never seen. It targets almost every industry and region, demand as well as supply, services as well as goods, the sophisticated and the mundane. Its goals are economic, technological and strategic. Its tools are microeconomic and macroeconomic.
The “Liao-Chin-Yuan Rubbings” database features 2,200 items (dating 946–1382) of various scripts (Chinese, Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolian) with 1,800 having transcriptions. These valuable materials for medieval Chinese phonology and history are now available. https://t.co/JAcS1dTHdc