Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Windmakers in Napa Valley are subject to stringent local regulations on how they grow their

vines.

So stringent that one ventner is taking the county to court.

It's more than sour grapes.

The lawsuit suggests just how unfriendly to business local officials can be.

And commercial tuna fishing involves bayon hooks spread along kilometers of line.

But sharks and rays often end up as part of the haul, threatening their populations.

A tiny cylinder may be the ingenious answer to protecting those species.

Stop them.

For many Chinese citizens, the site of COVID testing centers being dismantled must be jarring.

For nearly three years, the Communist Party's narrative has been that COVID is dangerous,

deadly, and that the party's plan was smarter, safer.

That narrative is changing as the strict lockdowns, endless testing and rigorous quarantining

are being wound down.

And fast.

That could simply be a response to recent, shockingly defiant protests.

But the truth is China always needed to find a way out of its economically crippling

zero COVID stance.

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