Target:Taiwan
The world this week

Leaders

Europe
The new Germany

Thanks to Vladimir Putin, Europe’s most important country has woken up

America and China
Target: Taiwan

Preventing a war over the island is becoming increasingly difficult

The Inflation Reduction Act
Climate policy, at last

America’s green-plus spending bill is flawed but essential

The energy crunch
How to help with those bills

There are better, fairer and cheaper ways than meddling with prices

Ghana and the IMF
Bail early, bail often

Ghana is asking for a 17th bail-out. Surprisingly, that is a good sign
Letters

Letters to the editor
On ESG investing, currency conversions, carp, hydrogen, alien life
By Invitation

Taiwan
Xi Jinping may attack Taiwan to secure his legacy, warn Admiral Lee Hsi-min and Eric Lee

Taiwan
China’s huge exercises around Taiwan were a rehearsal, not a signal, says Oriana Skylar Mastro
Briefing

Germany
Schafft Deutschland das?

The war in Ukraine is forcing Europe’s most important country to face challenges well beyond those of military prowess. They will be hard to handle
Asia

Nuclear weapons in South Asia
The three-body problem

South Korea
The crownless again shall be king

Australia’s indigenous people
Voice recognition

Papua New Guinea
Worst. Election. Ever.

Banyan
Lost in transition

Life under the Taliban
Peace, of a sort
China

China, Taiwan and America
Danger ahead
United States

The Democrats’ tax-and-spend bill
And now for my next act

Minnesota’s primaries
Cops, robbers and votes

Flying with guns
Oops, I did it again

Mass timber
Seeing the wood for the trees

The far right
Extreme goes mainstream

Lexington
Utmost gravity
Middle East & Africa

Jihadism
Al-Qaeda and Islamic State are both digging into Africa

The United Arab Emirates
Joule in the rain

Kenya’s election
Too close to call

Ghana and the IMF
Making a success out of failure
The Americas

Inequality
The jet set and the rest

A Cuban conflagration
Human error may have played a role in Cuba’s oil-terminal fire

Bello
Darkness returns to Guatemala
Europe

Conflict in Ukraine
The rungs of escalation

Explosions in Crimea
Wrecked planes smoulder at Russia’s Saky airbase in Crimea

Conscription in Donbas
Putin’s disposables

Trauma in Ukraine
Minds in pieces

Italy’s election
Defeat foretold

Gastronomy
The great French mustard shortage

Charlemagne
Feeling the heat
Britain

State of the nation
The summer of discontent

The British economy
Electric shock

The short straits
Borders and bottlenecks

Policing
Stop and think

Water usage
Metered litres

Bagehot
Live by the bank, die by the bank
International

Russia’s exiles
The best and the brightest
Business

Private enterprise
China’s new tycoons

Defence technology
Can tech reshape the Pentagon?

Biotechnology
More cash, stat!

Bartleby
Working for the baddies

Schumpeter
WeChat, they snoop, no one wins
Finance & economics

The Gulf
Funding which future?

Buttonwood
Recurring nightmares

America’s economy
Two cheers amid the fears

The winter ahead
Putin’s present

Property in China
A finite problem

Hedge funds
Shorts, squeezed

Free exchange
America v Europe
Science & technology

The 24th International AIDS Conference
Protest and survive

Forming continents
Impact creator
Culture

Interest rates
Bernanke v Chancellor

Jazz and the criminal underworld
Fast and loose

“Bambi”
Burning up

New fiction
Our last summer

Johnson
The data is in
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail

Social capital
It pays to be friends
The Economist explains

The Economist explains
What do caretaker governments take care of?

The Economist explains
Why isn’t Russia blocking GPS in Ukraine?
Obituary

Obituary
The doors of perception