Taiwan and Japan reopen to most travel, but will business pick up? Does Taiwan prioritize children sufficiently, and do Taiwanese think Americans will really help them in a war? Is Hong Kong going to phony up financial analysis in the name of national security? Christian is just back from Kaohsiung, Tainan, and Taipei.

Singapore displaces Hong Kong as the East’s key financial capital. New York still ranked at the top globally but will its politicians ruin that? China wants to have its cake and eat it too. Are Republicans surging as Latinos ditch Dems?

India declines to play along with the Biden administration's joke of an economic framework for Asia and some flee expensive Singapore to work from Bali, but probably not for “naked experience” hotels. Is there a role for special ops in Taiwan and the broader fight looming in the Pacific?

Why China's real estate crisis is a YUGE problem, the US-China accounting agreement flops, Taiwan relies too much on fleeting semiconductor hoopla, and Singapore welcomes you if you're rich.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan; why did Beijing think it could stop the trip? Manufacturing dips in China at the housing industry crisis deepens. Hong Kong goes from bad to worse for business.

Joe Biden tells House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to go to Taiwan. Will she comply and why the wimpy tone from Biden? Also, China’s real estate crisis deepens and Beijings is cutting is dollar reserves. Will Japan increase its defense budget?

China has an ugly reaction to the assassination of Shinzo Abe, banks start to pull back in Northeast Asia amid slump but Southeast Asia may be a different story. Will Taiwan suffer from semiconductors becoming boring again? Myanmar is back in play.

The bear market continues; is there a refuge? Mark has a plan to fix CNBC with Family Guy. Woke companies alienate anti-abortion employees. Aussies give 70 percent support to nuclear subs. White progressives don’t want armed minorities. China might attack something other than Taiwan first.

Stagflation hits markets, CNN can't recover, WaPo eats it own, Japanese yen collapse, China in a fix, Liz Cheney faces a reckoning from Wyoming voters.

Taiwan never disappoints those expecting disappointment. China hits an inflection point where it probably won’t ever catch the USA. Is beyond-gay Nordstrom selling its overpriced attire to art students? why American companies are out of style in Dubai, and whether Nelson Peltz will de-wokify flagging Unilever.