The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Industrial policy
China’s attack on tech
Xi Jinping’s assault on his country’s tech titans is likely to prove self-defeating

The war in Afghanistan
Last chance
America might still be able to save the Afghan government if it tried

Covid-19 and borders
Open up
International travel restrictions are illiberal and often ineffective

Climate change
It is not all about the carbon
Carbon dioxide is by far the most important driver of climate change. But methane matters, too

Germany
After Merkel, muddle
Voters deserve a more serious election campaign

Letters

Letters to the editor
On risk and vaccines, science fiction, climate change, lending, beer, rainfall
Briefing

China’s growth prospects
Automatic for the people
China’s future economic potential hinges on its productivity. Can the government boost it?

Asia


The return of the Taliban
There goes the neighbourhood
The mood in Kabul
Pro-God, anti-Taliban
Indonesia’s favourite game
A pretty good racquet
South Korea’s power players
The ties that bind
Banyan
Autocratic for the people
China


Proletarian culture
Production-line poets
United States


Congress
Function in Washington
Andrew Cuomo
Oye, Cuomo va
Finding abused children
Hashing ambiguous
Texas and covid-19
Getting schooled
Compulsory vaccination
Spreading
Lexington
Green and black
Middle East & Africa


Cabo Delgado
Rwanda’s new fight
Ghana’s oil buy-back
Crude business
Niger’s cry for help
Jihadists on all sides
Nigeria
Crime and government
Democratic immunity
Of coups and covid jabs
The Americas


Race in Brazil
One city, two worlds
Cuba
A small step away from socialism
Europe


Germany’s election
Jamaica, traffic-light or black and green?
French rhetorical hysteria
1789 and all that
Free media in Poland
Unwelcome Discovery
Italy’s coast
The megayachts are back
Covid in Bulgaria
Bottom of the heap
The Balkans
Knocking on the 27’s door
Charlemagne
A tale of two flights
Britain


The legal system
In trouble with the law
Public spaces
Parks and recriminations
Universities
Seeing stars
Infrastructure
The wrong track
International trade
Brexit dividend
Long-term damage
Not too gruesome
Driving politics
The petrol party
International


Covid-19 and travel
Getting off the ground
Business


Chinese capitalism
What tech does Xi want?
Biotechnology
Just what the doctor ordered
Bartleby
Get flexible or get going
The Olympics and advertising
Loser takes all
Entrepreneurship
Wiping the slate
Schumpeter
Joan of Instacart
Finance & economics


Job markets
Coming up short
Inflation in America
Beatable prices
Foreign investors and India
Bygones are bygones
Capital markets in Europe
SPACs and the City
Buttonwood
Cease and delist
South-East Asia
A quiet giant
Free exchange
The fundamentals of finance
Schools brief


Making organs
Leaves, limbs and lights
Science & technology


Climate change
A new reality
Solar geoengineering
It that cannot be named
Books & arts


“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
Buy the ticket, take the ride
Art and the Nazis
The mind’s eye
Women in sport
Championship points
Psychological fiction
The devil inside
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Football
Simply the best
Obituary


Graham Vick
Puccini with lunch-trays