Costly and dangerous: Why Biden’s China strategy isn’t working
The world this week
Leaders
The business of sport
Kicking up a $10bn sporting storm
Inside Saudi Arabia’s plan to dominate football’s Premier League, PGA Tour golf and more
Costly and dangerous
Joe Biden’s China strategy is not working
Supply chains are becoming more tangled and opaque
Strait-forward
Can China escape deflation?
Three false dogmas are inhibiting the authorities’ response
Natural resources
How Latin America could be a commodities superpower
It must not squander the opportunity of the next commodity boom
Value judgments
Authoritarians are on the march
They argue that universal values are the new imperialism, imposed on people who want security and stability instead. Here is why they are wrong
Letters
On Singapore, working from home, Henry Stimson, the Republicans, in vitro fertilisation, gold prices
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Scoring political goals
Saudi Arabia is spending a fortune on sport
It says this will help diversify its economy. Critics call it “sportswashing”
Britain
Life sciences
Britain doubles down on the life-sciences industry
How to tackle loneliness
Five years on, is Britain’s strategy to combat loneliness working?
Northern Ireland’s police
A big data breach endangers police in Northern Ireland
Ferry bad indeed
What broken ferries reveal about Scotland’s government
Loosing it
In defence of Britain’s public toilets
Europe
Life after occupation
In north-east Ukraine the war is close, upending daily life
When friends just can’t be found
Pedro Sanchez struggles to form a new government in Spain
Charlemagne
The Baltic is delighted to be a NATO lake
United States
Trial balloons
How strong is Trump’s defence in the election-stealing case?
Middle East & Africa
Crisis in the Sahel
After Niger’s coup, the drums of war are growing louder
Call for the doctor, call Nigeria
Why Nigeria’s hospitals are losing their staff
One state, or two states, or no state
Can Yemen hold together?
A record bank heist
The plot thickens over Iraq’s bank heist
The Americas
Political violence
An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
Asia
Indo-Pacific strategy
Why Joe Biden will host Japan and South Korea’s leaders at Camp David
Dangerous shoals
A rotting warship becomes a flashpoint for Sino-American rivalry
Comeback kid
Rahul Gandhi is back in parliament
Enter the generals
Pakistan’s army is back in charge of politics
International
Thinking for themselves
Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world’s
Business
The view beyond the Valley
Beyond the tech hype, how healthy is American business?
Logistic nightmares
America’s logistics boom has turned to bust
Let the chips rise where they may
How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?
Not-so-super pumped
Can Uber and Lyft ever make real money?
Finance & economics
Rising tigers, hidden dragon
How America is failing to break up with China
A pointed threat
Deflation and default haunt China’s economy
The risk-on rate
American stocks are at their most expensive in decades
Resurrection
Meme stocks are back from the dead
Buttonwood
In defence of credit-rating agencies
Free exchange
Elon Musk’s plans could hinder Twitternomics
Science & technology
Advanced manufacturing
If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots
Parasites at work
Tiny hitchhikers on viruses could promote resistance to antibiotics
Culture
World in a dish
How Provençal rosé became the summer tipple par excellence
A chronicle of stories not told
John McPhee revisits story ideas he had but never pursued
Middle age and beyond
Hip-hop’s future will be less American and more global
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Charging ahead
How China became a car-exporting juggernaut
Obituary
The place where she was
Sinéad O’Connor hated the very idea of being a pop star
By Invitation
Hong Kong’s democratic deficit
Sebastien Lai on the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
What is nuclear fusion?
The Economist explains