today we are doing something a little different. We are going to put two stories side by side on the reference table and look at them together — because sometimes the most important thing a librarian can do is show you how two books are really about the same subject.

The first story you already know. The Strait of Hormuz. The second story is one that's been quietly building in the background — That story is the Taiwan Strait, that foreign policy analysts are increasingly saying we should take far more seriously. Because recession now with Hormuz, but Elmer Fudd of Economics with the Taiwan Strait.