The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

America and China
Biden’s new China doctrine
Its protectionism and its us-or-them rhetoric will hurt America and put off allies

Cuba
The mask slips
The best way to help Cuba’s protesters is to lift the American embargo

South Africa
Rule of lawlessness
The worst unrest since apartheid underlines South Africa’s fragility

Climate change
Carbon and capture
In principle carbon border taxes are a good idea. In practice they could be a gift to protectionists

Doping in sport
A cloud of suspicion
As athletes arrive in Tokyo for the Olympics, doping is still common. The system needs reform

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Sweden, abortion, gun rights, state pensions, Belgium
Briefing

America’s China policy
Pushing back
Joe Biden is determined that China should not displace America

Asia


The Tokyo Olympics
Rings on the ropes
Making the Olympics safe again
No fun and games
Banyan
Rajapaksa raj
The pandemic in South-East Asia
The next covid catastrophe
China


Independent publishing
The small print
Gay rights
Patriotism and prejudice
Chaguan
Turning inward
United States


Infrastructure year
Joe Biden’s mystery train
Lone-Star politics
Texodus
Drug prices
Blowing the inheritance
Baseball’s waning popularity
Pastime
Competition
Anti-trust in me
Lexington
The anti-vax delusion
Middle East & Africa


South Africa
Jacob’s looters
Sudan
Unlikely bedfellows
Al-Fashaga
The most dangerous place in the Horn
Jordan
Courting trouble
Israel and China
The enemy of my friend
The Americas


Cuba
A revolt against the revolution
Haiti’s crisis
Après Moïse, le déluge?
Bello
A Mexican show trial?
Europe


Germany
Auf Wiedersehen, Amerika!
Moldova
An anti-corruption party triumphs
Viticulture
The grapes are off
Greece
Electric island
Charlemagne
A less than jolly green giant
Britain


House-building
Blot on the landscape
The new NIMBYs
Eco-warriors
Foreign aid
The final cut
Climate costs
Pain now, gain later
Northern Ireland
Closure denied
Road haulage
Driving: a hard bargain
Heritage
Red in tooth and claw
International


America, China and the Moon
The eagle and the rabbit
Business


China Inc abroad
Inconspicuous expansion
Space tourism
The finite frontier
Staffing firms
Work in progress
Big law
White shoes are made for earnin’
Bartleby
Different pitches
Schumpeter
Superpower surge
Finance & economics


Fintech
The funding frenzy
Wall Street
Fat and happy
The European Central Bank
Promises, promises
Inflation in America and Britain
Sticker shock
Welfare and work
Make it pay
The IMF
Every little helps
Buttonwood
Margin call
Free exchange
At the coalface of climate policy
Science & technology


Sport and drugs
Still doped up?
Sports equipment
Getting a leg up
Books & arts


Communism in China
Party on
Deep seas
Beyond blue
Johnson
Death nails and foul swoops
South African fiction
The family plot
Odd couples
The love song of J. Maynard Keynes
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Long covid
Fitbit for purpose
Obituary


Esther Bejarano
Songs against hate