Xi’s purge
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Chinese politics
Xi Jinping’s purge should worry the world
Installing his yes-men to lead the army could be dangerous for Taiwan

Militias and liberties
ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence
Is America’s president building his own paramilitary militia?
A Yen symbol that's cracking and being propped up
The symptom, not the cause
The weak yen and the weakening dollar are signs of financial fragility
But neither Japan nor America should meddle with exchange rates
Flowers bursting out of a red London bus
London-spurning
Haters on the right and left are wrong about London
It’s a hub, not a hellhole. Labour should give it more love
A female oil worker during turnaround maintenance at a liquefied natural gas plant on Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria
Awake, sleeping giants
Africa’s two biggest economies may be turning the corner
As Nigeria and South Africa revive, the continent’s growth may outpace Asia’s in 2026
A man and a robot chatting at a watercooler
Artificial intelligence
Stop panicking about AI. Start preparing
There is time to adapt. Use it wisely

Letters
A selection of correspondence
The chronic ­weakness of the British state
By Invitation

Don’t buy American
To protect itself, Europe needs the systems that make warfare work
Briefing
Federal agents confront protestors in Minneapolis
ICE rage
Immigration agents have become Donald Trump’s personal posse
That is a liability for America and, increasingly, for him
An illustration of an office worker holding a robot’s head, pausing in thought—echoing Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” as they contemplate AI’s role and existence in the workplace.
Tech at work
How to avoid common AI pitfalls in the workplace
Advice from our latest season of “Boss Class”
Asia

Jaw v war
Taiwan’s new opposition leader wants to talk to Xi Jinping
The last panda
For the first time in 54 years there are no pandas in Japan
Indian farming
The too-slow change of Indian agriculture
Thai politics
Thailand’s liberals face a tricky election
Banyan
Takaichi Sanae relies on her keenest fans in Japan
China
Illustration of Xi Jinping painting red crosses on portraits of 5 of the members of the military commission
The pinging of brass hats
What Xi Jinping’s purge of China’s most senior general reveals
Fighting graft
Xi Jinping is immensely powerful. Why can’t he stamp out corruption?
The Chinese navy
Behind China’s race to build aircraft-carriers
Chaguan
China fears a flood of unemployed workers in rural areas
United States
A protester sits on the street with his arms up in front of a gaggle of federal agents and Minneapolis Police
From protest to disobedience
Inside the movement challenging—and disrupting—ICE
Cracks in the crackdown
Republicans are waking up to the awful optics in Minneapolis
The art of keeping schtum
How Congress viewed Donald Trump’s Greenland grab
Good neighbours
Knocking down social housing helped poor children prosper
Academic freedom
Republican states are censoring universities
Lexington
How Congress can rein in ICE—and start to redeem itself

The Americas
A female militiaman holds a Venezuelan flag during a march
Direction of travel
How to tell if Venezuela is heading for democracy
Running a middle power
Mark Carney understands the new world, but can he survive it?
Pay dirt
China’s rare-earth chokehold terrifies the West, but Brazil benefits
Middle East & Africa
An electrical transmission tower and power lines in the Ivory Park settlement in the Ekurhuleni municipality of Johannesburg, South Africa
Lekker vibes
The case for optimism in South Africa
Green shoots
Nigeria’s economy may be back from the brink
In jail or in exile
Congo’s regime hounds its opponents
The build-up
Is America about to attack Iran?
An uncertain future
Hizbullah, Iran’s most powerful proxy, has been humbled
Breaking down and breaking out
Prisons holding jihadists in Syria are no longer secure
Europe
A worker walks between wind turbine nacelles for the construction of a wind farm off Saint-Nazaire, in Saint-Nazaire, western France
Rare, not well-done
Europe is at China’s mercy to get crucial raw materials
Runners-up club
Europe’s long-awaited free-trade deal with India
Conflict fatigue
Near the front line, Russians are growing tired of war
Tilted pitch
Viktor Orban may lose his next election
The city of light
The Paris Metro is getting a dazzling extension
Charlemagne
How its long-lost empires still shape Europe
Britain
London Underground sign on a white tiled wall, with a restart symbol replacing the red circle and “London” as the location name.
The phoenix city
How London can rise again
London’s leader
Sadiq Khan is not the mayor right-wingers imagine him to be
Enemy at the gates
London is Labour’s last bastion
A manufactured panic
London is far safer than violent viral videos will have you believe
Founder factory
How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital
Bagehot
The cost of the cost-of-living obsession
International
illustration of snail with an EU-flag shell being pointed at by multiple suited hands from above
The Telegram
Lots of world leaders are attacking Europe. Why?
Business
A person holding Meta smart glasses over a smartphone. The lenses are concentrating the sun's light to burn the phone
The next big “thing”
Will the smartphone survive the AI age?
Playing to the cheap seats
Ryanair might be the world’s most successful airline
Fleshed out
How porn stars can survive in the age of AI
Bartleby
How big a threat is AI to entry-level jobs?
Next in line
The Gulf’s family businesses have a growing succession problem
Coupangst
Silicon Valley wades into a trade spat with South Korea
Out of the blue
How IBM became an AI darling
Schumpeter
Don’t be fooled. AI bosses are regular capitalists
Finance & economics
An illustration of five hands stacked together in a teamwork gesture with shirt and suit jacket sleeves visible on four of the; the fifth is a robot arm.
The cyborg workplace
Why AI won’t wipe out white-collar jobs
Buttonwood
Just how debased is the dollar?
Ghostbusted
The West and Ukraine are capsizing Russia’s shadow fleet
Burgernomics
Our Big Mac index carries an Asian warning
Unhedgemon
The fate of Japan’s $6trn foreign portfolio rattles global markets
Free exchange
Why is the yen still so weak?
Science & technology
NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher
A new space race
For the first time in half a century, astronauts are going to the Moon
Geoengineering
Should the Arctic be refrozen?
Well informed
How to get power naps right
Culture
Army Special Forces and Danish special operators from the Jaeger Corps learn how to load and unload snowmobiles onto a CH-47G Chinook at the Yukon Training Area at Fort Wainwright military base in North Pole, Alaska.
Polar madness
What to read to understand the Arctic
Reiding between the lines
Do Democrats need another centrist old white man?
Back Story
Run for your life! The world, according to the Oscars
A different sort of ghost story
What are novels for? George Saunders has answers
In tune
How Russian brainrot became a hit for children
To have and too old
Age gaps in relationships are not as bad as you think
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Mark Tully with members of the Indian armed forces
The voice of truth
Mark Tully spoke to Indians as one of them