The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

China’s economy
Ideology versus prosperity
How Xi Jinping is damaging China’s economy

Guns in America
Perhaps make it a bit harder to buy one?
In many states it is easier to own a gun than a dog. That is absurd

Ukraine
Don’t stop now
Volodymyr Zelensky needs continued support, not timorous advice

Eritrea
Containing the North Korea of Africa
An arms embargo and sanctions should be reimposed on Issaias Afwerki’s regime

Financial markets
Prophets and profits
Why investors are increasingly worried about recession in America

Internet regulation
Britain should scrap the Online Safety Bill
It is well intentioned—but illiberal and impractical

Letters

Letters to the editor
On money-laundering, medieval history, Utah, shrinkflation, food oil, pandemics, digital twins, football
By Invitation


Health care
Sir John Bell argues for a global genomic surveillance system to thwart pandemics
Finance and economics
Sonal Desai says the Fed has kept monetary policy too loose for too long
Russia and Ukraine
Andrey Kortunov offers three scenarios for the end of the war in Ukraine
Briefing

The Chinese economy
Fortified but not enriched
China’s effort to protect its economy from Western pressure is not going well

Asia


Semiconductors and strategy
Bargaining chip
America and South Korea
Quiet comfort
Thai politics
Chadchart topping
Songbird competitions
Avian idol
Australian politics
Political weather
Education in India
Testing situation
Banyan
The Abe era
China


Rumours and leadership struggles
How to see Xi
A leak from Xinjiang
A timely reminder
Unemployment
Storming the fortress
Corruption
No mercy
Chaguan
A generational divide
United States


Another mass shooting
A senseless slaughter
Georgia primaries
A slap for Trump
Bentonville’s lessons
Live better
Labour unions
The name game
Immigration policy
Bordering on chaos
The talent war
Russians wanted, sort of
Lexington
Sex scandal and Southern Baptists
Middle East & Africa


Eritrea
Issaias’s army
B2B startups
Clicks and middlemen
The United Arab Emirates
The new man tips the scales
Genomes in the Gulf
Marriage markers
The Americas


Colombia’s election
The costs of inaction
Bello
The wealth of the Andes
Europe


The war in Ukraine
When and how might the fighting end?
Refugees in Poland
The tide turns
The EU’s covid-19 recovery fund
So far, so good
Spain’s monarchy
The return of the king
Charlemagne
Tiered and emotional
Britain


Partygate
Neither black nor white
The cost-of-living squeeze
The wind changes
Internet regulation
Headline removed for your own safety
Agricultural technology
Tweak and ye shall find
Department stores
Retailer therapy
The school curriculum
Past tense
The Platinum Jubilee
Land of hops and glory
Bagehot
The useless machine
International


Enforcing sanctions
Spies like us
Special report


China in Africa
A partnership of unequals
Debt and infrastructure
Roads to somewhere
Business and trade
With African characteristics
Political links
The price of friendship
The media
China, meet Fourth Estate
Defence co-operation
Ace of bases
The future
Countering China in Africa
China in Africa
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Swiss business
Secret sauce
The World Economic Forum
Postcard from a world on edge
Technology
Broader still
Bartleby
The power of small gestures
Foodmaking
A taste of things to come
Schumpeter
Chemical hazard warning
Finance & economics


China’s financial markets
Empty promises
The Indo-Pacific economy
A new pact for Asia
Housing markets
Home run
Corporate debt
Bloody but unbowed
Carbon trading
Up in the air
Free exchange
The ties that bind
Science & technology


Astrobiology
Life, but not as we know it
Gene banks
A close-run thing
A new outbreak of disease
The spread of monkeypox
Culture


Archaeology in Turkey
The rest is history
Aroma therapies
By the noses
Urban adventures
The living and the dead
The glory of cycling
Handlebars of history
Pirate lives
Shark bait
Back Story
Talk to him, Goose
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Stimulus and stockmarkets
From Main Street to Wall Street
Obituary


Lawrence MacEwen
The barefoot laird