SEP 5TH 2020
How Abe changed Japan

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Politics
America’s ugly election
What could go wrong?

A prime minister’s legacy
How Abe Shinzo changed Japan
He not only reshaped the economy and foreign relations, he also paved the way for future reforms

High finance in China
The exception
Even as the trade war rages, Wall Street and China are getting closer

Digital ID cards
Time for proof
Covid-19 has strengthened the case for digital identity systems

Rwanda
Nowhere to hide
An authoritarian regime arrests the hero of “Hotel Rwanda”

Letters

On coming out, competition, the Midwest, Turkey, John Snow, York
Letters to the editor
Briefing

America’s presidential election
A house divided
An election carried out during an epidemic and in an atmosphere of deep distrust poses serious risks

Asia


Japanese politics
A new story at last
Feminism in Pakistan
No shrinking violets
Covid-19 in India
Double whammy
Taiwan
Unambiguously dangerous
Banyan
Three-finger salute
China


Education reform
Testy times
Inner Mongolia
Mongolingualism
Chaguan
Keeping a grip
United States


Swing states
The suburban strategy
Polls and nerves
Shorting volatility
Inclusivity v fairness
Vitrix ludorum
NYC’s MTA
Train wreck
Lexington
It’s the covid-economy, stupid
The Americas


Brazil
An increasingly prickly partnership
Canada and the United States
Frontier friendship
Middle East & Africa


United Nations peacekeeping in Congo
Blue helmet blues
Rwanda’s celebrated hotel manager
We don’t need another hero
Elections in Burkina Faso
Sacking the voters
Lebanon
The sultan et le président
Egyptian politics
Defendant number 54,000,000
Europe


France
The man with le Plan
Belarus and Russia
A distorted picture
Germany’s envoy to Poland
Not much of a welcome
Animal rights in the Netherlands
Not fur sale
Charlemagne
Politicians or technocrats?
Britain


Boris Johnson
Could do better
Dog-walking
Parading the pooch
Brexit negotiations
Deal or no deal?
Covid-19 in England
A summer break
5G
Moobile networks
The housing market
Flatlining
Rave revival
Third summer of love
Bagehot
The Lib Dems might just fly again
International


The digitisation of government
Paper travails
Business


Prosus
Winner’s curse
Wizz Air
Rising in the east
Japanese business
Rebalancing act
Berkshire Hathaway’s Japanese bet
Buffett bets on Japan
Bartleby
After the fall
Indian business
Over-Reliance
TikTok
Limbo dance
Schumpeter
Reconstituted
Finance & economics


Financial coupling in China
Present tense, future market
The Federal Reserve
New job description
Indian finance
Silent no more
Campaign finance
Wall Street’s money
World Bank
Unease of Doing Business
Buttonwood
Impaired visibility
Free exchange
Parting shot
Schools brief


A social turn
Hard work and black swans
Science & technology


Military strategy
What motivates the dogs of war?
Brain-computer interfaces
And pigs may drive
Forensic botany
Murder will out
Psychology
Lucid dreams
Books & arts


Violence and music
Drilling down
Johnson
Lost in dictation
Myrmecology
A bug’s life
Abe Shinzo
Family man
Home Entertainment
Assassin’s creed
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Air pollution
Blue skies turn grey
Obituary


Chadwick Boseman
To be a king