Executives on a DealBook Summit task force panel said fear was not the way to build teams capable of navigating difficult times.

The authorities accused “some foreign media” of smearing the government’s response to a fire at a high-rise complex, saying: “Do not say you have not been warned.”

We asked readers for their questions for The Times’s executive editor about how we cover the news and make judgment calls in our reporting and editing.

The death of Sun Yat-sen, the suppression of a labor protest, and a visit to China by a member of the Roosevelt family led to the bureau’s opening in 1925.

With little being done to clean the skies over New Delhi, the huge city struggles with toxic air.