The world China wants

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


China
A new chapter
The Communist Party’s obsession with control will make China weaker but more dangerous

Bond markets
The Iceberg Lady
Britain’s prime minister wilts in a mess of her own making

Europe’s energy crisis
Less is more
Europe has not done enough to curtail energy demand and boost the supply of gas

Financial markets
Keep your powder dry
Emerging economies have coped with the rate shock surprisingly well. But the real test is yet to come

Cocaine
Legalise it
The costs of prohibition outweigh the benefits

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Russian draft-dodgers, peer review, Sir Keir Starmer, moths, John F. Kennedy
By Invitation


America and the Taliban
Afghanistan’s central bank needs its assets back, argues Graeme Smith
America’s 2022 midterms
A conversation with Stacey Abrams
Briefing


Tech supremacy
Mothering invention
China and the West are competing frantically to foster innovation
Asia


Energy in Asia
Transitional justice
Pilgrims’ pleas
What Indians pray for
Repression in Bangladesh
Reviled rival
Thailand
The madness after the massacre
Banyan
Peripheral visions
China


The party congress
Showtime
The zero-covid policy
Not going anywhere
Chaguan
The dark side of pop culture
United States


The midterms
Heisman Shuffle
Animal rights
Sow confusing
Midterm maths
Herd behaviour
Migration
Masses huddled
Breast cancer
Nipped in the bud
California’s economy
A stimulating debate
Los Angeles
Black and blue
Lexington
Legitimate childishness

Middle East & Africa


Nigeria’s election
A new hope
Digital taxes in Africa
Tempting—but not so easy
Iran
All the mullahs’ bullets
Palestine
Slouching towards Damascus
Gas, gas everywhere
Nor any drop to burn
The Americas


The militarisation of Mexico
Guns and AMLO
Bello
Argentina in its labyrinth
Europe


Russian intelligence
Not-so-special services
Ukraine’s air war
Missiles and bridges
French nuclear energy
Out of order
Russia and Turkey
Business as usual
Charlemagne
Small steps
Britain


The gilt market
Playing with fire
Rough weather
The threat of energy blackouts in Britain forces a rethink on gas storage
Abortion and free speech
Over here
Transport
Scoot first, ask questions later
The BBC
Apocalypse then
Bagehot
The great thaw in the union
International


Cocaine
The war on drugs don’t work
Special report


China’s ambitions
A new order
Sovereignty first
For China, less is more
Development banks
Soft-power play
Bilateral relations
A stronger actor
The deglobalisation danger
A cause for concern
Taiwan
Few painless options left
An uncertain future
Hard choices loom
Business


Global business
Peak profit?
The American consumer
Elastic brands
Deutsche Bahn
Derailed
Bartleby
Working under the weather
Tech geopolitics
No more Mr Nice Guy
Carmaking
Plugging away
Schumpeter
Everything app. Or nothingburger
Finance & economics


Middle-income countries
Defying gravity
Restraining Xi Jinping
The reform club
War economics
Crime, then punishment
Inflation
The drag from lags
Financial failure
Academic success
Startups
Pop dollar
Buttonwood
The importance of maggots
Free exchange
Solarpunked
Science & technology


Modelling the brain
Fiat lux
Biological neural networks
Brain games
Malaria
Slumbering swarms
Diets, past and present
Ham fisted
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test
DART’s success
Culture


Chinese history
Dashed hopes and bad omens
Semiconductors
Chips off the old bloc
World in a dish
The weight of the world
In pursuit of Bob Dylan
The wheel’s still in spin
Journalism in Mexico
Murdering the messenger
Back Story
The talking cure
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The cocaine industry
The youngest victims
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why did Joe Biden pardon people convicted of federal marijuana offences?
The Economist explains
Why the exodus of Russians to Central Asia matters
Obituary


Loretta Lynn
From coal to gold