Apr 6th 2024

China’s risky reboot

The world this week

Leaders

China and the world economy

Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation

It will disappoint China’s people and anger the rest of the world

Fool me once

Central banks have spent down their credibility

That will make inflation trickier to handle in future

Nuclear deterrence

Beware a world without American power

Donald Trump’s threat to dump allies would risk a nuclear free-for-all

Beware malware

A chilling near-miss shows how today’s digital infrastructure is vulnerable

This is how to protect the internet from malicious attacks

Culp able

What Boeing, Disney and others can learn from General Electric

Lessons from the tenure of Larry Culp

Letters

On carbon pricing, handbags, museum collections, Starship, AI and music, British immigrants, how to describe X

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

Chinese aspirations

Yu Hua on why young Chinese no longer want to work for private firms

Nuclear weapons

As the world changes, so should America’s nuclear strategy, says Frank Miller

Briefing

Nuclear weapons

America and its allies are entering a period of nuclear uncertainty

And it means the balancing act is getting harder

Asia

The Modi paradox

Why India’s elite loves Narendra Modi

Building back stronger

Japan is still reeling 100 days after the Noto earthquake

In a different league

The end of cricket’s Indian monopoly

Damaging dynasties

Asian “nepo babies” are dominating its politics

Banyan

For a glimpse at Japan’s future, look at its convenience stores

China

The power of princelings

How China’s political clans might determine its future

Chaguan

China’s tin-eared approach to the world

United States

Like a dream to me now

The Biden campaign in Michigan has a tremendous ground-game advantage

Florida woman

An abortion ruling has Democrats hoping Florida is in play

Marriage

The rise of the remote husband

Drug-dependent

Joe Biden’s assault on the $900 child-eczema cream

The struggling state

California is gripped by economic problems, with no easy fix

Lexington

Are American progressives making themselves sad?

Middle East & Africa

Israel’s shadow war with Iran

Israel is ratcheting up its shadow war with Iran

World Central Kitchen

What Israel’s killing of aid workers means for Gaza

Jihadist blues

Protests have erupted against another Syrian dictator

A cruel law

Ugandan judges uphold a draconian anti-gay law

Cool it

Recent heatwaves are a harbinger of Africa’s future

The Americas

The Anti-communist International

Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro

Feeling the heat

South American vineyards brace for tricky summers ahead

A house divided

Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate

Europe

The Olympics and urban planning

The new geography of Paris

The trouncing of a strongman

An electoral bruising for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey

A well-timed feud

Poles and Ukrainians are at loggerheads. That’s good news for Putin

Organised crime in Italy

The mafiosi of Naples turn white-collar

Happy Finns

The secret behind the world’s happiest country

Charlemagne

Germany’s Free Democrats have become desperate spoilers

Britain

Stormy weather

How has the Bank of England dealt with four years of shocks?

Private renting

Two cities show the problems faced by Britain’s renters

Unionism stunned

What Jeffrey Donaldson’s arrest means for Northern Ireland

Young people’s movements

Why some parts of England have so few graduates

Waxing and waning

Madame Tussauds reflects the fragmentation of fame in Britain

Bagehot

Sadiq Khan’s London offers a taste of Starmer’s Britain

International

Mass killings

Thirty years after Rwanda, genocide is still a problem from hell

Business

King of the castle

Bob Iger has defeated Nelson Peltz at Disney. Now what?

The world’s largest startup

India’s biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking

Less general, more electric

Will GE do better as three companies than as one?

System engineering

Meet the French oil major that balances growth and greenery

Bartleby

The six rules of fire drills

A new opening?

The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China

Schumpeter

Why Japan Inc is no longer in thrall to America

Finance & economics

A lovely wall

The Federal Reserve cleans up its money-printing mess

The $10.6bn question

Will FTX’s customers be repaid?

Buttonwood

How to build a global currency

Free exchange

Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions

Hype and hyperopia

How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America

Science & technology

Pharmacology

Could weight-loss drugs eat the world?

Robotics

Why robots should take more inspiration from plants

Hacking the internet

A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers

Culture

Under the mushroom cloud

What would nuclear war look like in the 21st century?

Atomic beast

On his 70th birthday, Godzilla has roared back to relevance

Selling scripture

How to make money from the Bible

A numbers game

In the Premier League, data help minor clubs take on the mighty

Rwanda

How Paul Kagame uses culture to keep Rwandans on message

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Obituary

Fighting for breath