FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Let China sleep; for when she wakes, she shall shake the world.’ These portentous words often attributed to the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte may be apocryphal but they now sound prophetic. China, it seems, has finally woken up, two centuries later. And the world is guaranteed never to look the same again: from the deadly virus that spread out from a Chinese wet market to trigger off a global cataclysm of a scale not seen since World War II, to a trade war with the United States, a crackdown on civil protests in Hong Kong, bellicose moves in