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◆On the cover
The recent glimpses of a resentful, snarling China should scare the country's government as much as the world



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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

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◆Leaders
China
Angry China
France
Sarkozy's difficult year
Credit crunch
Too soon to relax
Farm subsidies
The right time to chop
Competition law
The American way of trustbusting

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◆Letters
On capital inflows, Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Turkey, medals, Silvio Berlusconi, Heathrow

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◆Special Report
Sarkozy's France
The presidency as theatre

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◆United States
Illegal drugs
Speedy decline
The Montana Meth Project
Shock tactics
The Indiana primary
More workaday than thou
On the campaign trail
Primary colour
Voting rules
Prove who you are
Campaign promises
Priming the pump
Genetics and privacy
Hands off, maybe
Police tactics
A deadly force
Lexington
Wright's wrongs

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◆The Americas
Argentina
Cristina in the land of make-believe
Canada
Not on our roads
Cuba
Committee of elders
Drug trafficking
Waving, not drowning
Venezuela
Unfraternal

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◆Asia
China
A lot to be angry about
Afghanistan
Fearful asymmetry
Pakistan's tribal areas
Dangerous deals
Japanese politics
Fukuda's botched repairs
Suicide in Japan
Death be not proud
Tonga
Unsteady as she goes
Malaysia
The winds of change

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◆Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe
The pressure on Robert Mugabe steadily mounts
African rock art
The continent's true history
Malawi
Can it feed itself?
Congo
Atrocities beyond words
Lebanon
A president at last?

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◆Europe
The European Union and Russia
Divide, rule or waffle
Direct democracy in Germany
When voters want a say
Turkish politics
An ineffective opposition
A new mayor of Rome
Right back
Charlemagne
Going Dutch

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◆Britain
Conservative economic policy
The trust question
Financial stability
Hopes of healing
Northern Ireland's economy
Hard sell
The Old Bailey online
In the dock, and on the web

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◆International
Rivers and conflict
Streams of blood, or streams of peace
North Korea and Syria
Oh what a tangled web they weave
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◆Business
American media
On the brink
Indian media
Calling the shots
Confectionery firms
A sugary mouthful
European boards (1)
Jobs for the girls
European boards (2)
Money spinners
Investment in Indonesia
One-pronged attack
Clean-technology firms
Labour pains
Face value
Take two

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◆Special Report
Investigating price-fixing
Supermarket sweep
Mergers and dominant firms
Oceans apart

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◆Finance & Economics
Global monetary policy
Ben's bind
Bank of Japan
In a pickle
Investment banking
Rank injustice
Buttonwood
The fragility of perfection
Deposit insurance
When the safety net fails
China's stockmarket
Seeing red
Mexican banks
Riding high
Economics focus
An aberrant abacus

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◆Science & Technology
Gene therapy
Seeing is believing
Innovation
Home invention
Palaeontology
Gnashers at work
Psychology
Inside a deal

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◆Books & Arts
Religion and secularism
Power points
Smyrna, 1922
End of an era
English memoirs
An invitation to the dance
New fiction
Memory and forgetting
The business of AIDS
Sex and sensibility
New film
Look behind you
Amazon worldwide bestsellers
True stories

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◆Obituary
Alfonso López Trujillo

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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Internet protocol television
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Productivity