Day 1,748: attest

Relations with America are steadier, as a phone call between Mr Xi and President Joe Biden this week attested.

Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation

Artwork of the day 
Psyche showing her sisters her gifts from Cupid
Jean-Honore Fragonard
Date: 1753
Style: Rococo
Genre: mythological painting
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 192.4 x 168.3 cm

Word of the day 
attest: to show, say, or prove that something exists or is true:

Quote of the day
“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows”

― Andre Breton