Morning Belz, Sept. 17

Links

China applies to join TPP, which US spurned — Straits Times*
Google, Apple remove Navalny voting app — Reuters
Real debate over jabbing 12-15 yr olds in UK — BBC
Lots of benefits from fermented foods — News Station
Calm update on US women’s soccer equal pay — Soccer America
Lecture 1 in a new Columbia course on blockchain — Roughgarden
Why are there no Republican cities? — Bryan Caplan
Evergrande, China’s potential Lehman Bros. — Bloomberg

*the dark irony: “The original deal was envisioned by the US as an economic bloc to counterbalance China’s growing power, with then-President Barack Obama saying in 2016 that the US, not China, should write the regional rules of trade.”

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