Poles apart: China, America and the planet's biggest break-up
The world this week
Leaders
The superpower split
Don’t be fooled by the trade deal between America and China
The planet’s biggest break-up is under way
Fled to the Med
No one comes out of the Carlos Ghosn affair smelling of roses
Le Cost Killer is on the run
Governing dangerously
A year of Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s president can boast some achievements. They come at a high price
Elusive justice
How to reduce rape
It is the hardest violent crime to prosecute. But most countries can do better
Letters
On carbon capture, health care, rats, conservation, Joe Biden
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Chinese students
The new red scare on American campuses
Both their host government and their home government increasingly view Chinese students with suspicion
Europe
From protest to power
The stars have aligned for Germany’s Greens
Goodbye casino, hello smugglers
A tiny Italian exclave unwillingly joins the EU’s customs union
Britain
Britain after Brexit
Dominic Cummings’s plan to reshape the state
Bull market
How darts flew from pastime to prime time
Middle East & Africa
Neighbourhood watch
How America and its allies are keeping tabs on Iran at sea
Hoping for a cheerier Algeria
An Algerian general takes over from another general
Francly speaking
Making sense of west Africa’s new currency
Reviving Johannesburg’s Rand Club
The new generation trying to overhaul a once racist and sexist club
United States
Laboratories of democracy
The 2020 presidential election will be decided in the suburbs
The wrong kind of racy
A dispute over racism roils the world of romance novelists
Crying in the chapel
The decline of Las Vegas weddings
The Americas
Please don’t let me be misunderstood
Jair Bolsonaro’s contentious first year in office
Not so fast
The troubles of Bogotá’s TransMilenio
Asia
Ghosn, going, gone
The flight of a car-industry megastar shocks Japan
The Hong Kong effect
Taiwan’s China-sceptic president, Tsai Ing-wen, may win again
China
International
Her word against his
Why so few rapists are convicted
Technology Quarterly
Chinese technology
With the state’s help, Chinese technology is booming
Intellectual property
Chinese inventiveness shows the weakness of the law
Microprocessors
China is slowly moving up the microprocessing value chain
Business
Life’s not good enough
LG, South Korea’s cuddliest chaebol, wants a sharper edge
Thank you for the music
Tencent buys a stake in Universal Music
Bartleby
A manager’s manifesto for 2020
Finance & economics
What’s the catch?
Trade negotiators have missed a deadline to help protect fish stocks
Science & technology
Culture
Economic & financial indicators
Graphic detail
The year in probabilities
What markets and models expect in 2020
Obituary
Tearing down the past