The brutal reality of dealing with China

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

The fallout from Hong Kong
Dealing with China
An epoch-defining contest between autocracy and liberal values lies ahead

Immigration
Biden’s border crisis
The president faces a decisive test of his leadership

Covid-19 vaccination
Another shot in the foot
European countries’ abundance of caution will cost lives

Civil liberties in Britain
A taste for cracking down
The government should bin its illiberal attempt to restrict protest

Economic development
How to promote African factories
A sub-Saharan industrial revolution need not be a pipe dream

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the Sussexes, language, McKinsey, UBI, duty free, beards
Briefing

Hong Kong
The way it’s going to be
China is not just shackling Hong Kong. It is set on remaking it

Asia


The coup in Myanmar
Blood money
Gay marriage in Japan
Inching forward
Covid-19 in Papua New Guinea
Mourning sickness
Children in Kashmir
A two-year break
Sexual abuse in Australian politics
Chambers of secrets
Banyan
Himalayan upheaval
China


Disability
The unseen
United States


Illegal immigration
Biden’s border bind
Murder in Atlanta
Red lights
Government software
Trying to get the hang of IT
South Dakota’s economy
Lives or livelihoods?
The black church
Haunted houses
Lexington
Joe Biden’s passage to India
Middle East & Africa


Israel’s election
Another tight one
John Magufuli
Bulldozed by reality
African industry
Manufacturing hope
Cabo Delgado
Mozambique and the war on terror
The Americas


Biden and Bolsonaro
At loggerheads over the Amazon
Politics in Honduras
Over the line
Bello
After the storm
Europe


German politics
The sleepwalker
Dutch election
Suddenly Sigrid
Pets and politics in France
Future impurrfect
Turkey
The banker and the president
Russia
Panic womb
Charlemagne
The new Turks
Britain


Foreign policy
White heat
Nuclear warheads
Stocking up
Foreign aid
Chop, chop
Protest
No more parades
Uber
Move fast and fix things
Covid-19
Speed bump
Census
Question time
Voting rights
Ballot boxing
Bagehot
England speaks up
International


Global happiness
It might seem crazy
Business


Japanese business
Analects and abacus
Eni trial
Free to go
Baidu
Searching for the next big thing
Bartleby
Winning personality
Leonardo Del Vecchio
2025 vision
Schumpeter
America’s 5G shock
Finance & economics


China’s financial opening
Over the great wall
Treasury markets
Overflowing
Non-fungible tokens
What’s wrong with this picture?
Economics education
New instructions
Buttonwood
The Draghi effect
Free exchange
For goodness’ sake
Science & technology


Espionage (1)
Ears in the sky
Espionage (2)
Round the bend
Entomology
Swarm immunity
Evolution
Mitochondria 2.0
Books & arts


Fighting falsehood
Not gonna lie
The right to die
Going gently
Caustic fiction
No man’s land
The art of repair
A crack in everything
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


War and farming
Blood and soil
Obituary


Wang Fuchun
Closely observed trains