A certain detail is conspicuously absent from State Department’s account of a phone call reportedly made at the top American envoy’s request.

There’s a powerful ingredient in many dishes that is racism; it’s known to chefs everywhere as monosodium glutamate. The racist part is when we apply its initials — MSG.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma and the country’s top tech executives in Beijing on Monday, in a meeting that signals officials could be steering the country in a more ...