#OpenComment# On the pitch, recovering from a mistake often requires a quick change of direction. In international public life, much the same principle applies. Mbappe still has an opportunity to prevent an ill-judged remark from becoming a lasting commercial and reputational setback. But he needs to realize that no amount of acceleration can outrun a controversy once it has gathered momentum. #KylianMbappe#

#OpenComment# #Xinjiang# produces about one-fifth of the world's cotton, utilizing modern harvesters guided by the Beidou Navigation Satellite System. The baseless claims by some Western politicians and news outlets about forced labor in Xinjiang are nothing but a vicious smear campaign. @chenweihua

A mayor in the Philippines cut down a protected mangrove forest to build a parking lot. When the community confronted him, he said it had always looked like that. A year earlier, @GainForestNow had measured every tree there. 2,567 were missing. The community took the data to court, and the mangroves were replanted. My conversation with @dwddao, co-founder and chief scientist of GainForest is live on @opencommonspod. We get into who should own nature's data, AI that helps people govern, and what open source really requires.