The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Superpower politics
The most dangerous place on Earth
How to avoid war over the future of Taiwan

Long covid
And now for the aftershock
Evidence is mounting that long covid is a real threat to global health

America’s economy
Biden’s taxing problem
How to tax capital without hurting investment

Hungary
Viktor Orban’s university challenge
The ruling party seizes control of Hungary’s ivory towers

Hybrid diplomacy
The virtue of virtual
Diplomats have tried new tools during the pandemic. They should use them after it

Letters

Letters to the editor
On money-laundering, voting in Georgia, European TV, museums, Ebenezer Howard, simplifying
Briefing

China and Taiwan
Something wicked this way comes
America is increasingly concerned about the possibility of war in the Taiwan Strait. It has good reason

Asia


Japan’s foreign relations
Panda power
South Korea’s economy
Chips and blocks
Australia and covid-19
Isolation nation
Covid-19 in India
Heartening heroics
Banyan
A real tree-for-all
China


Demography
Is China’s population shrinking?
Analysing China
Doves become hawks
The movie business
Dissing Oscar
United States


Biden’s beginning
100 days of aptitude
SCOTUS and free speech
Sidelined
Classics at Howard
Finis
Escaping from the epidemic
Overproof
Lexington
In praise of the Mormon right
Middle East & Africa


Israel and Palestine
Past their sell-by date
Iraq
The enemy of my enemy
Crisis in Somalia
Villa-squatting
Africa’s unfinished buildings
A room without a roof
The Americas


AMLO’s military ambitions
Sergeant López Obrador
The pandemic in Venezuela
Thyme, the great healer
Bello
How will the covid-19 bill be paid?
Europe


Turkey and Armenia
Caucasian knot
Poland
The rule of Law and Justice
Religion in Spain
Empty pews, big pulpit
France and covid-19
Geeks v bureaucrats
Charlemagne
Shh! A silent centralisation
Britain


Upcoming elections
It’s all happening in Hartlepool
Sewage
Pond dipping
Scotland
Peely-wally
Scotland and England
Bordering on nervous
Northern Ireland
Foster falls
Salmon and Brexit
Fishy statistics
City jobs
Remainers
Bagehot
Domestic politics
International


Diplomacy disrupted
The Zoom where it happens
Business


Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Living on the edge
Digital advertising
Flying blind
The steel industry in India
White hot
Commercial property
Safe as warehouses
Wood products
Forest bump
Labour relations in Germany
The king of Wolfsburg
Bartleby
When the boss is behind you
Schumpeter
The magical realism of Tesla
Finance & economics


The economic recovery
Money, machines and mayhem
Taxing capital
Benchmarking Biden
Buttonwood
Up to speed
India’s economy
Lights, power, inaction
Labour shortages in America
Help wanted
The Turkish lira
Money for nothing
Free exchange
Building a boom
Science & technology


Post-covid syndrome
The sting in the tail
Books & arts


Fiction and politics in Turkey
Orhan Pamuk’s plagues
Women of the resistance
Righteous furies
Impressionistic fiction
Home, alone
Interspecies relations
Creature discomforts
The art of food
Making a meal of it
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Military spending
Buck for the bang
Obituary


LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
Black snake, sacred water