Tuesday assorted links

1. Chinese temples are being transformed into consumption opportunities, https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017275

2. Andrew Batson visits India, https://andrewbatson.com/2025/07/27/india-and-the-invidious-comparison-with-china/

3. New paper on the economics of stablecoins, https://www.nber.org/papers/w34066#fromrss

4. Dan Wang on Breakneck, a new letter, https://danwang.co/breakneck/

5. What does YIMBY for Africa look like?, https://asteriskmag.com/issues/11/yes-in-my-bamako-yard

6. Ads in AI are OK, https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/yes-ads-are-inevitable-in-ai-its

7. It is not just selection, owning a small business makes people more conservative and more skeptical about government regulation, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/politics-of-small-business-owners/492835B42B70C24F6613B352E4C3B83E

8. Long piece on Xi and Xi and power, https://jamestown.org/program/terminal-authority-assessing-the-ccps-emerging-crisis-of-political-succession/