The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The Chinese model
Xi’s new economy
China’s strongman leader is shaping a new form of state capitalism. Don’t underestimate it

Belarus
The sham of it
Alexander Lukashenko “wins” a phoney election. So far, the Western response has been feeble

American politics
What Kamala says about Joe
Joe Biden’s choice of running-mate reflects well on him

Microfinance
Credit where it’s due
Lending to the poor will not end poverty, but it is more essential than ever

Britain’s economy
Grey v growth
Boris Johnson needs to recover the spirit of Margaret Thatcher and focus on boosting the economy

Letters

Letters to the editor
On elderly care, technology, Lyndon Johnson, choral singing, journalism
Briefing

China’s hybrid capitalism
Blooming for the glory of the state
Xi Jinping is blending market mechanisms with Communist Party control to remake the Chinese economy

Asia


Development in Cambodia
Service economy
Indonesia’s environment
For peat’s sake
NIMBYism in Japan
Anti-anti-missile systems
Eating ant eggs in Laos
Jungle caviar
Banyan
A one-family state
China


WeChat in America
The big unfriending
Repression in Hong Kong
In the party’s sights
Chaguan
Being blind and young in China
United States


Kamala Harris
Groundbreaking and predictable
Economic stimulus
Prolonging the pain
Looting in Chicago
Smash and grab
Au-pair wars
Essential or exploited?
The decennial census
All flaxen was his poll
Lexington
Flag-rapping
The Americas


Mexico
A new kingpin on the block
Bolivia
Democracy deferred
The Arctic
A shortened shelf life
Middle East & Africa


Tunisia
Ten years after the revolution
Lebanon after the blast
Taking a fall
Ivory Coast
Triumph of the gerontocrats
Nigeria
Hair from everywhere
Tanzania
Courting the big man
Europe


Belarus’s bogus election
The gentle revolution
Russia and the Baltics
Hacker alert
Germany
The ballooning Bundestag
Bike gangs
Sleazy riders
Charlemagne
The other villain
Britain


Economic policy
A grey and stagnant land
GDP
Crash
Exam results
A level playing field?
Migrants in dinghies
A rather small invasion
Fighting covid-19
Local heroes
Farm labour
Ripe for reform
Feminising the Foreign Office
Who runs the world?
Bagehot
A certain idea of Britain
International


America’s State Department
The dereliction of diplomacy
Business


Sino-American commercial relations
Endgame
More Sino-American decoupling
The nuclear option
Bartleby
Labour’s lost love
Saudi Aramco
Trial by fire
Juggling profits and purpose
Profits v purpose
Airbus A380
Superjumbo problems
Schumpeter
The new dividend royalty
Finance & economics


Economic convergence
Club class
Turkey’s currency turmoil
Not at this rate
Tax transparency
Hands off, Uncle Sam
Gold in India
Financial alchemy
Blended finance
Seeking scale
Free exchange
Conscious uncoupling
Schools brief


Raising the floor
What harm do minimum wages do?
Science & technology


Space warfare
A legal void
Quantum mechanics
A flutter in time
Palaeontology
Not guilty?
Zoology
Rules of attraction
Books & arts


Images of covid-19
Decent exposure
People power
Beginner’s luck
Espionage
The Führer’s man in Manhattan
Brazilian literature
Dead man’s blues
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


US presidential election
The old college try
Obituary


Leon Fleisher
Right hand, left hand