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THE WANG REPORT · MORNING EDITION
Sunday, August 2, 2026
CL
Iran's tankers stack up in Hormuz, Kyiv takes another round of Russian missiles, and Hong Kong posted 4.3 percent GDP growth on strong exports. That's a good number to be posting while the tanker lanes it depends on catch fire, six months into a war nobody's bothered naming yet.-- CL
MB
Iran hit tankers Washington was escorting through Hormuz, one way to answer a war that has run six months without anyone using the word. Minnesota officials got blamed for a cyberattack traced to Tehran, a jurisdictional theory or an admission that some things are easier to say than the alternative. Hong Kong posted 4.3 percent growth, the rare number this morning that means what it says.-- MB
MBIran and Hamas both apparently agreed to things this week, one to disarm, one to keep fighting, and only one of those claims came with actual missiles attached.