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The new Russia-China partnership
Heatwaves and climate change
Microsoft’s lessons for other tech giants
Liberal Canada: a special report
JULY 27TH–AUGUST 2ND 2019
Here
we go
Britain’s new prime minister
Contents
The world this week
5
A summary of political
and business news
Leaders
Britain’s new prime
minister
Here we go
Russia and China
Brothers in arms
Heatwaves
Hot as hell
Currency wars
Do not escalate
Microsoft
Rebooted
19
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21
22
23
United States
Overcrowded primaries
Mueller’s testimony
New Orleans and snow
Indian-Americans
Lexington
Hotshots in
Alaska
The Americas
Corruption in Brazil
Picking judges in
Guatemala
Poor but sexy Oaxaca
Bello
Latin America and
Europe
Asia
Taiwan’s president
North-east Asia’s
contested skies
Indian politics
Pakistan and America
Banyan
Japan’s identity
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On the cover
Buckle up, Britain. Boris
Johnson promises thrills but is
heading for a serious spill:
leader,
page 7.
The new prime
minister will lead a fragile—
and potentially short-lived—
government,
page 48.
Why
predicting the impact of
no-deal is so hard,
page 49.
The hazards of having a prime
minister who hates to be
hated: Bagehot,
page 50
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The new Russia-China
partnership
The close
relationship between Vladimir
Putin and Xi Jinping is much
better for China than it is for
Russia: leader,
page 8.
How
Vladimir Putin’s embrace of
China weakens Russia: briefing,
page 15
•
Heatwaves and climate
change
Extreme heat is a silent
killer. Countries must do more to
adapt: leader,
page 9.
Greenhouse-gas emissions
contribute to the rising
frequency of heatwaves,
page 67
•
Microsoft’s lessons for other
tech giants
What the software
company’s surprising comeback
can teach its tech rivals,
page 10
•
Liberal Canada: a special
report
As many Western
countries turn to populism,
Canadians will soon decide
if they want to remain a
liberal beacon, says Brooke
Unger, after
page 40
10
28
29
29
30
Letters
12
On conservatism, taxing
assets, Uzbekistan, Nazi
operations, work
Briefing
15
Russia and China
The junior partner
Special report: Canada
The liberal north
After
page 40
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32
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34
China
35
Hong Kong’s protests
36
International reactions to
Xinjiang
37
38
38
39
40
Middle East & Africa
The Gulf crisis
Croquet in Egypt
Separatism in Ethiopia
South African politics
Africa’s coal craze
Schumpeter
The plastics
business has yet to come
to terms with a backlash
against its products,
page 57
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July 27th 2019
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Europe
Ukraine’s elections
Protests in Moscow
Kosovo’s prime minister
resigns
Berlin’s Jewish Museum
Malta and abortion
Tour de France
Charlemagne
The
muscles from Brussels
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64
Britain
48
The new government
49
No-deal forecasts
50
Bagehot
Lonely at the top
Finance & economics
Europe’s bright spots
Currencies, trade and
Trump
Land of the tax-free
Profiting from robo-advice
Buttonwood
The
auto-technocrats
Pricing live music
The perils of fine print
Free exchange
Culture
and growth
Science & technology
67
Heatwaves and climate
68
Living tree stumps
70
Flat lenses
International
51
Designing parliamentary
chambers
71
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73
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74
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57
Business
Greening American
utilities
Tech in the crosshairs
Bartleby
The curse of
efficiency
Lego v Barbie in China
Germany’s no-frills
grocers
Schumpeter
The plastics
business
Books & arts
Fact and fiction on film
A hero of the resistance
Islam in America
Kipling in Vermont
Gaia meets AI
Economic & financial indicators
76
Statistics on 42 economies
Graphic detail
77
Yield curves and economic growth across the rich world
Obituary
78
Li Peng, the butcher of Beijing
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