The future of Ukraine

The world this week

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Leaders


The future of Ukraine
How to win the hot war in Ukraine and the cold war that will follow it
After a year of fighting, what comes next?

Not enough Wende
A year after he promised a transformation, Olaf Scholz has done too little
Energy policy has radically altered; defence, much less so

Making America greater
Joe Biden’s new border policies irritate the extremes. Good
They mix toughness with generosity and are a step in the right direction

Irrational interest
South Africa’s diplomatic descent
Cosying up to Russia and China harms South Africa, and the world

Tighter belt, shorter road
China has not resolved its past lending mistakes. But it is learning from them
How to speed up debt-relief talks

Letters

On South Korea and Ukraine, ChatGPT, corruption in Britain, Moldova, Bolivia, etymologies
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
Mark Sedwill on a year of fighting in Ukraine
Africa and the world
Mo Ibrahim on the need to reform international financial institutions
Briefing


A year of war: Geopolitics in flux
Ukraine’s fate will determine the West’s authority in the world
A revanchist invasion has become an ideological battle

A year of war: Keeping the guns blazing
The West is struggling to forge a new arsenal of democracy
Production of weapons is set to increase, but it may be too slow for future conflicts as well as for Ukraine

A year of war: Militarising Russia
The invasion has stalled, but Putin’s war on dissent marches on
Russian society is almost as closed and repressive as it was in Soviet times

A year of war: Ukraine’s self-belief
The war is making Ukraine a Western country
But the cost is appalling

A hail of destruction
Data from satellites reveal the vast extent of fighting in Ukraine
The scars of the war can be found far beyond the front lines
Asia


The indispensable archipelago
The Philippines’ proximity to Taiwan makes it central to Western strategy
Renewable energy
India’s solar power rollout is flagging
Crypto-heist
North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7bn of crypto last year
Banyan
Keeping up with the Tokugawas
China


Proxies and peril
The conflict in Ukraine risks inflaming the Sino-American rivalry
In the net
China’s war on graft in football
Policy maize
Is China’s attitude to genetically modified crops changing?
Chaguan
China’s public is fed up, but not on the brink of revolt
United States


America’s industrial policy
State subsidies fuel America’s EV boom but risk overcapacity
Ghost of the machine
Chicago may throw Mayor Lori Lightfoot out in the first round
The fire and the fury
The Ohio train derailment is turning into a political circus
Land of the fat
Christian Californians may have a solution to America’s obesity
A new awakening
A Christian college in Kentucky has experienced a religious awakening
Lexington
“Freedom” is America’s latest political football

Middle East & Africa


Not so neutral
Why South Africa is drifting into the Sino-Russian orbit
Scorpions can be cuddly
A Nigerian trade in insects that bite
Workers of the world
Young Africans are logging in and clocking on
Cutting your losses
Saudi Arabia is reconciling with regimes it once tried to topple
Could his kingdom come?
The son of Iran’s last shah bids to regain the throne
The Americas


A new chapter
Joe Biden needs Mexico’s co-operation on migration
Not delivering the goods
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president, wants to smother the gig economy
A small, necessary step
One Canadian province has decriminalised drugs
Europe


The slow shift of Mr Scholz
A year on, Olaf Scholz’s promise of transformation is only partly kept
Neither shock nor awe
Russia’s vaunted second offensive is a damp squib
The might of miltech
Ukraine’s tech entrepreneurs turn to military matters
Ukraine’s tiger queen
Meet the woman who is saving Ukraine’s wild animals
Charlemagne
Why Vladimir Putin will never stand trial in The Hague
Britain


Protospasm
Rishi Sunak’s uphill struggle to make Brexit work in Northern Ireland
True crime
Nicola Bulley and the era of the social-media sleuth
Nice to have
Britain’s biggest skills problem is that many firms don’t value them
Found in translation
A BBC monitoring station that listened in on the world is being sold
Courting disaster
Why crumbling courts are worsening Britain’s trial backlog
Referee!
The British government hopes a regulator can save football from folly
Bagehot
Bring back Shamima Begum and then put her in prison
International


A home from home
Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
Business


The Altasian option
Global firms are eyeing Asian alternatives to Chinese manufacturing
Refurbishing the boardroom
Demands on corporate boards are more intense than ever
Bartleby
Unshowy competence brings drawbacks as well as benefits
Everyday low profits
A warning from Walmart about the health of the American consumer
Pay as you post
Facebook sells subscriptions as the ad business stumbles
Mathias in the middle
Axel Springer is going all in on America
Schumpeter
It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube
Finance & economics


Time for the tab
The world’s interest bill is $13trn—and rising
Farewell to Africa
Xi Jinping’s next overseas-lending revolution
Reserve judgment
Big Asian economies take on the forces of international capital—and win
Buttonwood
Despite the bullish talk, Wall Street has China reservations
Budgeting for conflict
What war has done to Europe’s economy
Free exchange
What would the perfect climate-change lender look like?
Science & technology


Scientific malpractice
There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research
Culture


The singer and the song
At Young Thug’s blockbuster trial, rap lyrics are used as evidence
European history
Timothy Garton Ash travels across Europe and into its past
World in a dish
The rise of chilli crisp is a study in how foods become fads
America’s Federal Reserve
A new book traces the evolution of the Fed’s extraordinary powers
Fiction from Trinidad
In “Hungry Ghosts”, spectres of Trinidad’s past haunt the island
Back Story
How an Ethiopian prince came to be buried at Windsor Castle
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What are “golden visas”?
The Economist explains
What is Section 230?
Obituary


What madness looks like
Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone