This week, 28 years after Richard Nixon shocked the world by opening relations with China, America has finally moved to normalise trade with the Asian giant.

ECONOMIST: Enter the dragon

Fashion designer Elie Tahari has finally moved into a three-bedroom apartment facing Central Park at 15 Central Park West, drawing the curtain on a bitter battle between the apartment's former tenant, a New York hedge-fund manager, and its owner, a member of a billionaire Asian family.

WSJ: Luxury Home Exits Housing Court

Last month, he finally gave up: he has moved to the University of the West Indies.

ECONOMIST: Exeunt, without much glory