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Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
For decades, China's economy has been powered by millions of migrant laborers, many of whom also lived in the place they worked.
Now China has a vast and growing body of nomadic freelancers engaged in gig work.
Our correspondent explains the consequences.
And what do people mean when they talk about anti-Semitism?
You might think the definition is pretty straightforward, but a new book suggests otherwise.
But first,
A few weeks ago, I took a trip into the Öresund Strait between Denmark and Sweden.
Alice Su is our senior international correspondent.
I was aboard the Virsaitis, a Latvian naval ship that's part of a NATO mission called Baltic Sentry,
and we were called to check on a suspicious Russian fishing boat
that had stopped in a busy shipping lane near an undersea gas pipeline.
It claimed to have suffered a power failure.
As we approached, officers asked everyone on board to turn off their mobile phones for protection from possible hacking.
Commander Jānis Oče explained exactly why NATO forces are interested in vessels like these.
We observe everything, we are trying to tell their operating pattern of life,
to get what is unusual, what is abnormal with their action.