This week’s readings include a look at the shrinking Singapore market, a conversation with PAG’s Weijian Shan about his new book “Out of the Gobi,” Stephen Grenville on Indonesia’s policy options to slow volatile financial flows, George Soros on how Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion and the story of how Coca-Cola came to China 40 years ago.

• The incredible shrinking Singapore market: For the last five years, delistings have outnumbered listings. Does it matter? Not as much as you might think.
• Remembering China’s cultural revolution: Interview with Weijian Shan, chairman and CEO of PAG. See here for more on his new book “Out of the Gobi.”
• Indonesia – taming foreign fund managers: Whipsawed in the markets, Jakarta should mull ways to slow volatile financial flows.
• Europe, please wake up: George Soros argues that the EU cannot be saved without transforming its political party systems.
• How Coca-Cola came to China, 40 years ago: The sugar trap of market normalization.