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Venezuela erupts
How to defend Taiwan
India’s internet tycoon bets big
Drones: hovering with intent
JANUARY 26TH–FEBRUARY 1ST 2019
Slowbalisation
The future of global commerce
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Contents
The world this week
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A round-up of political
and business news
Leaders
Global business
Slowbalisation
Venezuela erupts
Removing Maduro
Drones
Saviour or menace?
Democratic Republic
of Congo
The great vote robbery
Index funds
Beating the pros
27
28
29
29
32
32
33
34
Britain
The absent agenda
Parliamentary plotting
Mike Ashley, saviour of
the high street?
Polygraphs proliferate
Nuclear policy meltdown
The (Inter)National
Health Service
A free port for Teesside?
Bagehot
Michael Gove,
moderate maverick
Europe
Hospital superbugs
Germany’s economy
Tardy Teutonic trains
Trying war crimes
Money-laundering in
Malta and Cyprus
Charlemagne
A gulf of
misunderstanding
United States
Young Americans
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Riding bulls
Foxconn in Wisconsin
Lexington
Who is
winning the shutdown?
The Economist
January 26th 2019
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11
12
12
14
On the cover
Slowbalisation, a new pattern
of world commerce is
becoming clearer—as are its
costs: leader,
page 11.
Why
globalisation faltered,
page 23.
What to make of China’s
weakest growth in 28 years,
page 72.
The euro area is back
on the brink of recession: Free
exchange,
page 77
Venezuela erupts
How to
hasten the demise of an
incompetent dictatorship:
leader,
page 12.
Juan Guaidó has
popular support and diplomatic
recognition. But Nicolás Maduro
still controls the army,
page 47
How to defend Taiwan
China’s
growing might is forcing the
island to overhaul its military
strategy,
page 53
India’s internet tycoon bets
big
Thanks mostly to the
ambitions of Mukesh Ambani,
Indians are getting onto the
internet faster than ever,
page 63
Drones: hovering with intent
Regulators need to encourage
drones, but also to protect
people from them: leader,
page
12.
The technology for dealing
with rogue drones is getting
better,
page 79
16
Letters
20
On housing, Europe,
Britain, Pakistan, the
military, Chairman Mao
Briefing
23
Slowbalisation
The global list
35
36
38
38
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40
41
42
44
45
46
The Americas
47
Two presidents for
Venezuela
48
Guns in Brazil
Charlemagne
What
Britain and its
neighbours
misunderstand about
each other,
page 40
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50
51
51
52
Middle East & Africa
Netanyahu and the press
Egypt’s new capital
Repression in Zimbabwe
A murder in Ghana
Congo’s bogus president
1
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Contents
The Economist
January 26th 2019
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Asia
Defending Taiwan
Banyan
Asian democracy
South Korea’s judiciary
Education in India
Japanese dress codes
Politics in Afghanistan
Extremism in Indonesia
71
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73
74
75
76
76
77
China
58
Belt-and-road students
59
Politics and the law
60
Chaguan
Greenery and
universal values
Finance & economics
Risky cyber-insurance
China’s slowing economy
Monetary policy in Africa
Replacing LIBOR
Cleaning up Italian banks
Buttonwood
Wizened
of Oz
Fixing the audit market
The Fed’s balance-sheet
Free exchange
#Eurogloom
Science & technology
Defending against drones
Migrating sea cucumbers
Fossils and Earth’s orbit
Placebo buttons
A camera that sees round
corners
Books & arts
Max Weber’s wisdom
Down with Davos Man
Native American history
A novel of celebrity
Snapshots of New York
International
61
Protecting athletes from
brain injury
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82
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66
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68
Business
India’s Jeff Bezos?
The Siemens-Alstom deal
Bartleby
Woke capitalism
France v Google
Huawei’s woes
Bike-sharing in China
Schumpeter
Lessons
from IKEA
83
84
85
86
86
Economic & financial indicators
88
Statistics on 42 economies
Graphic detail
89
The cost of studying the arts at Oxbridge
Obituary
90
Marcel Azzola, champion of the accordion
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