The battle for China’s backyard

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Tech competition
The dust-up
A new phase in the global tech contest is under way

South-East Asia
The battle for China’s backyard
The growing rivalry between America and China will hinge on South-East Asia

Innovation
How to make sparks fly
Lessons from the pandemic on how to promote innovation

Big men, big money
Fixing Africa’s pricey politics
Tackling patronage requires understanding how it works

The trouble with duty-free
Call of duty
It is time to close the airport-shopping loophole

Letters

Letters to the editor
On genocide, bitcoin, loneliness, model aircraft, daredevils, music
Briefing

China and South-East Asia
Tea and tributaries
In no region is China’s influence felt more strongly than among the ten nations of South-East Asia

Asia


China and Asia
Life in the doghouse
Minority rights in Indonesia
Breaking cover
Housing in South Korea
Get me a flat—or else
Banyan
Toolmasters
China


Politics in Hong Kong
Time for some holistic love
Wolves
Reviled to revered
Chaguan
Build it and they will go
United States


Biden’s nuclear dilemma
Nukes of hazard
The toll of covid-19
It contains multitudes
Immigration reform returns
Go big or go home
Quietly fixing health care
To smooth a cliff
Testing in schools
Stop writing
The Texas model
Snow business
Lexington
Teach first
Middle East & Africa


Pricey politics
The gilded path to power
The war in Tigray
Murder in the mountains
Israeli politics
Abu Yair wants your support
The Americas


Haiti
Hoping against hope
Cuba
Reggaeton rebellion
Bello
Victory for the old politics
Europe


Russia and Turkey
The odd couple
France
Uphill struggle in the snow
Germany
Secret snips
Charlemagne
Underground abortions
Britain


Covid-19
How life sciences came to the rescue
Opening up
Pencil it in
Scotland
Feuding nationalists
Class and ideology
Minecraft
Bank debt
A scary scenario
After Brexit
Counting the cost
Pig farming
This little piggy didn’t go to market
Bagehot
An impossible job
International


Home-schooling
Kitchen-table classrooms
Business


Technology and competition
Collusion and collisions
Duty-free retail
Continental drift
Loss of Sneadership
McKinsey casts off its managing partner
Bartleby
Foot-in-mouth disease
Schumpeter
Headsets at dawn
Finance & economics


Carbon trading (1)
Coming into its own
Carbon trading (2)
Cleaning up
Brazil’s economy
Petrol problems
Cryptocurrencies
UnTethered
Buttonwood
Jumping the skew
America’s labour market
Not having it all
Carbon abatement
Giving up carbs
Free exchange
Regression to the memes
Science & technology


Covid and genetics
A mixed blessing
Geoengineering
Floating a trial balloon
A video-call from Mars
Mission accomplished
Electricity transmission
Look, no wires!
Clean energy
Toothpaste in your tank
Ocean ecology
Meet the new boss
Books & arts


Covid, cinema and censorship
The siege of Bollywood
The online life
More of a rat
Spies and lies
No regrets
Commodity-traders
Black-gold rush
Johnson
The human touch
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19 mutations
It’s a family affair
Obituary


George Shultz
The secret persuader