🚢 Breaking: China fully reopens the world’s third-busiest port after a terminal’s two-week shutdown snarled supply chains. https://bloom.bg/3mtVBam

👂 Vice President Kamala Harris departed Singapore more than three hours late on Tuesday because of concerns of “an anomalous health incident” — a phrase used by the State Department to describe Havana Syndrome — in Hanoi, her next destination. https://bloom.bg/3mJIP87

🪨 China is making a risky bet on the Taliban, with an eye on Afghanistan’s $1 trillion in untapped mineral riches. https://bloom.bg/3kfCbTS

📦 The world's supply chain problems keep getting worse. A crunch thought to be temporary now looks like it will stretch well into next year. https://bloom.bg/3gAFMuR

👨‍💻 China’s internet is seeing a form of “cyber-Cultural Revolution,” where an ultra-loyal web army silences critics — often with government backing. https://bloom.bg/2Wodrkn

🪙 A video game is turning the jobless into crypto traders. Mark Cuban-backed Axie Infinity costs over $600 to join, but many players earn far more in tokens. https://bloom.bg/3mxXvqA

🇺🇸 The Supreme Court lifted the Biden administration’s moratorium on evictions, ending protections for millions of people who have fallen behind on rent payments during the pandemic. https://bloom.bg/3sONMxl

🏦 President Joe Biden’s advisers are considering recommending Jerome Powell for a second term as Federal Reserve chair with Lael Brainard as vice chair, sources say. https://bloom.bg/3mzpCph

💉 Patients face a much higher risk of developing blood clots from Covid-19 infections than they do from receiving the AstraZeneca or Pfizer shots, a large U.K. study shows. https://bloom.bg/3zokFDk

💉 New Zealand reports its first death believed to be linked to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine. https://trib.al/a7xz2pK

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi calls on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to work with the Taliban government and stop pressuring Beijing over the virus origin probe. https://trib.al/UnBX3j7

₿ And FOMO remains alive and well in the cryptocurrency world. Lesser-known crypto coins like Cardano and Avalanche are outperforming in the wake of recent rallies staged by industry leaders Bitcoin and Ether. https://trib.al/TBKKJrX

🏭 Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a high-level meeting that approved action on everything from monopolies to pollution as part of his push to improve the lives of the population. https://bloom.bg/3DH78cO

💉 Moderna's Covid vaccines generated more than double the antibodies of Pfizer-BioNTech shots in new research comparing immune responses. https://bloom.bg/3jx4T3L

👨‍💻 Calls for a probe of Covid’s origins plunged Australia into a hacking nightmare. Experts say any nation could be at risk if they annoy China enough. https://bloom.bg/2YbCTdH

🇦🇫 The departure of the last U.S. military plane from Afghanistan has left the region facing uncertainty, with the Taliban seeking to control a nation shattered by two decades of war. https://bloom.bg/3gNPRVo

😷 When Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an independent probe into the origins of Covid-19, Chinese bots swarmed on to Australian government networks in a massive and noisy attack. https://bloom.bg/3sYUlgK

🆘 Apple is planning to add satellite features to iPhones for emergencies, allowing users to send texts to first responders and report crashes in areas without cellular coverage. https://bloom.bg/3jvx9nl

💼 Business travel as we’ve known it is a thing of the past. A Bloomberg survey of 45 large companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia shows 84% plan to spend less sending staff around the world. https://bloom.bg/2WIezj1

👛 For a glimpse of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vision of “common prosperity,” look to Alibaba’s home province. Zhejiang, home to some of China’s most successful private companies, is piloting policies to reduce inequality. https://bloom.bg/3BoGsvg

⌚ The upcoming Apple Watch with a larger screen is posing manufacturing challenges that will likely result in shipment delays or limited supplies. https://bloom.bg/3DyAMRi

📱 Apple will let media apps avoid a 30% commission on downloads and in-app subscriptions as it settles a long-standing dispute. https://bloom.bg/3BE7MWF

😷 Kidney damage is the latest side effect identified in Covid “long haulers.” Painless and silent, the ailment can occur among non-hospitalized patients, escalating with the severity of infection, a study finds. https://bloom.bg/3kLa8MD

🏢 Conjured out of nothing and ignored by almost everyone, China’s gleaming “ghost cities” sat empty for years. Now they’re finally filling up. https://bloom.bg/3gV2ZYJ

🌀 The remnants of Hurricane Ida ripped through New York, New Jersey and across the Northeast early on Thursday morning, triggering tornadoes, thunderstorms, and torrential rain. https://bloom.bg/2V8ngm2

💉 The EU says there’s no need for Covid-19 vaccine booster shots, though people with weakened immune systems may be offered a third dose. https://bloom.bg/38zxS0r

🇪🇺 WhatsApp has been fined $266 million for failing to be transparent about how it handled personal information. https://bloom.bg/3kG8WtC

💉💰 Wealthy people in some of Asia’s Covid-19 hotspots are nabbing booster shots even as most people remain unvaccinated. https://bloom.bg/3jGFPat

🇸🇬 The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance must stop offering services regulated in Singapore after a potential breach of local payment rules. https://bloom.bg/3yHiTfF

⌚ And here’s everything we know so far about the next Apple Watch. https://bloom.bg/3yAH7rK

🇸🇬 Singapore will hit pause on its reopening plans after a recent rise in Covid cases and plans to start vaccine boosters. https://bloom.bg/3zHtQiv

💉 Scientists behind the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Covid-19 shot are using the same technology to try to develop a therapeutic cancer vaccine. https://bloom.bg/3BJ02mh

🇵🇱 Poland’s controversial media law has angered the U.S., but it may say more about the battle by one man to keep power. https://bloom.bg/2YoRZg1

🦠 The pandemic’s summer resurgence is slowing the global economic recovery as the delta variant dogs efforts to rev up factories, offices and schools. https://bloom.bg/3l1MFXH

🛑 Crypto exchange Binance is going to stop offering some products in Singapore after regulators said the company may be in breach of local payment rules. https://bloom.bg/3h1dhqv

➡️ 🍃And these are the biggest environmental risks facing the world’s largest cities. https://bloom.bg/3h1die3

🇨🇳 Billionaire investor George Soros criticized BlackRock’s China push “a tragic mistake,” calling it a risk to clients and U.S. security interests in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. https://bloom.bg/2WQhTbH

₿ El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. It bought 400 coins worth about $20 million ahead of the rollout. https://bloom.bg/3jOE3nJ

✈️ And Hong Kong will start allowing visitors from China to enter without quarantine from Sept. 15. https://bloom.bg/3DSRKdu

📉 Bitcoin plunged after El Salvador’s troubled rollout of the cryptocurrency as legal tender. https://bloom.bg/3l5RQWm

💸 BlackRock set up a $1 billion China mutual fund after billionaire investor George Soros called its push in the country a “tragic mistake.” https://bloom.bg/38TdU0A

🎤 Britney Spears’s father filed to end the court conservatorship that has controlled the singer’s life and money for 13 years. The judge overseeing the case still needs to approve the move. https://bloom.bg/3BPlkyv

🎮 GameStop lost 11% of its market value in late trading after reporting a worse-than-expected loss. Meme-stock fans were left hanging after its new CEO took no questions from analysts. https://bloom.bg/3jUJNw6

🇨🇳 George Soros called BlackRock’s China investment a “tragic mistake,” but other U.S. firms like Fidelity and JPMorgan show no signs of retreating either. https://bloom.bg/3njxUlA

🌳 Banks and borrowers are rushing to add sustainability targets to loans, yet the incentives are all but meaningless for many deals. https://bloom.bg/2X9XaAb

📞 Joe Biden calls Xi Jinping to tell him the U.S. is frustrated with what it regards as a lack of seriousness in Beijing's engagement with officials. https://bloom.bg/3lcqwFT

🇨🇳 🇦🇺 China is lobbying Australia for its support to join a multilateral regional trade pact, despite the fact their relationship is in tatters. https://bloom.bg/3jXDRTe

💇🏻‍♂️ Kim Jong Un appeared at a military parade showing off a thinner frame, a trace of a tan and a new haircut. https://bloom.bg/2YDzXql

💸 U.S. Democrats are set to propose raising corporate taxes to 26.5%, much less than what President Joe Biden wanted. https://bloom.bg/3C5iVzP

💉 Covid will end once everyone is vaccinated, infected or both, experts say. Here’s what the next six months will bring. https://bloom.bg/3k7hbji

🦁💍 Britney Spears announced her engagement days after her father filed to end her conservatorship. She showed off a diamond ring engraved with the word “lioness” on Instagram. https://bloom.bg/3A9gbki

📵 Breaking: Google is fined $177 million by South Korea for squeezing out rivals that might compete with Android. https://bloom.bg/391XNhu

💉 Covid shots work so well that most people don’t need a booster yet, scientists say. https://bloom.bg/396Qt44

💰 The vaccine industry exploded during the pandemic. From companies to ETFs, here’s how you can invest. https://bloom.bg/3loTjHl

🇨🇳 Breaking: China’s economy weakened further in August after a fresh Covid outbreak curbed consumer spending. https://bloom.bg/3nzCKvm

📱 Apple unveiled a new line of iPhones with faster chips, upgraded camera systems and longer battery life. https://bloom.bg/3zbxGPQ

🇦🇺 Border blockades have sparked Australia’s biggest federal crisis in 120 years, with states pitted against one another due to differing Covid strategies. https://bloom.bg/2VJZMUI

🚀 SpaceX launched four civilians on a three-day orbital excursion that many see as a harbinger of a new era in human spaceflight. https://bloom.bg/2XoQNJw

🏦 The biggest set of U.S. tax increases in a generation were approved by a House committee to help pay for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. But challenges remain in the Senate. https://bloom.bg/3tRJfKX

💸 Peter Thiel gamed Silicon Valley, Donald Trump and democracy to make billions tax-free. Read our exclusive excerpt from the new biography “The Contrarian.” https://bloom.bg/3nDdpRg