Leaders
Ideology versus prosperity
How Xi Jinping is damaging China’s economy
Inflexible policies are trumping pragmatism
Learning from Uvalde
Why America should make it harder to buy guns
In many states, it is easier to own a gun than a dog. That is absurd
No time to go wobbly
Ukraine needs support, not timorous advice
Appeasing Vladimir Putin will not bring lasting peace
Kim Jong Understudy
Containing Eritrea, the North Korea of Africa
Sanctions should be reimposed on Issaias Afwerki’s regime
Prophets and profits
Why investors are increasingly worried about recession in America
And why the speed of the market correction offers a crumb of comfort
”The safest place in the world”
Britain should scrap its Online Safety Bill
It is both illiberal and impractical
Letters
On money-laundering, medieval history, Utah, shrinkflation, food oil, pandemics, digital twins, football
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
Fortified but not enriched
China is trying to protect its economy from Western pressure
The results are mixed
Europe
Thinking about the endgame
When and how might the war in Ukraine end?
The return of the king
Spain’s former monarch is a headache for his son
Britain
Neither black nor white
Sue Gray produces a patchy account of the Downing Street parties
Internet regulation
Britain’s Online Safety Bill could change the face of the internet
Tweak and ye shall find
Gene-edited food is coming to Britain
Retailer therapy
What John Lewis’s turnaround says about the British high street
Land of hops and glory
Britain celebrates a jubilee, again
United States
Another mass shooting
The spate of gun violence shows American exceptionalism at its worst
Bentonville’s lessons
The home of Walmart wants to beat sprawl
Bordering on chaos
The Title 42 furore highlights America’s broken immigration system
The talent war
America has an opportunity to lure Russia’s tech talent
Lexington
Sex scandal and Southern Baptists
Middle East & Africa
Issaias’s army
Inside Eritrea, Africa’s gulag state
Clicks and middlemen
How e-commerce looks different in Africa
Meet the new boss
The UAE’s new sheikh may jolt both succession and federation
Marriage makers
Qatar wants to become a leader in genomics
The Americas
Asia
Semiconductors and strategy
Taiwan is worried about the security of its chip industry
Chadchart topping
An election in Bangkok heralds an optimistic new kind of politics
Political weather
Australian voters have had enough of climate inaction
Testing situation
India’s exams are plagued by cheating
China
A timely reminder
Hacked files reveal more details about Chinese abuses in Xinjiang
Testing out of unemployment
Many young Chinese choose graduate school over a grim job market
Corruption and disruptions
Trouble at the top and bottom of China’s financial sector
International
Special report
Debt and infrastructure
Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge
Business and trade
How Chinese firms have changed Africa
Political links
The price of friendship
The media
China, meet Fourth Estate
Defence co-operation
Ace of bases
The future
Countering China in Africa
China in Africa
Sources and acknowledgments
Business
A postcard from the edge
Is this the end of Davos man?
Bartleby
The power of small gestures
A taste of things to come
Plant-based proteins are no longer a side dish in diets
Finance & economics
Mood swings
Foreign investors are fleeing China
Bloody but unbowed
The credit market hasn’t cracked yet
Up in the air
Carbon markets are going global
Science & technology
Life, but not as we know it
How to improve the search for aliens
A new outbreak of disease
Monkeypox is not covid mk2, but it needs to be nipped in the bud
Culture
Archaeological revelations
Turkey’s temple mounds illuminate the birth of civilisation
The smell of success
The ingenuity of plants and people lies behind fragrances
Urban adventures
The charm and peril of Naples
Handlebars of history
The bicycle is humanity’s most underrated invention
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
From Main Street to Wall Street
Stimulus cheques have buoyed America’s stockmarket
Obituary
The barefoot laird