2023-03-09-Economist Graphs
1. The world this week
1.1 Politics
1.2 Business
1.3 KAL’s cartoon
1.4 This week’s covers
2. Leaders
2.1 Britain has endured a decade of early deaths. Why?
2.2 How to avoid war over Taiwan
2.3 A stubbornly strong economy complicates the fight against inflation
2.4 Strikes at home and war in Ukraine test the French president
2.5 American universities are pursuing fairness the wrong way
3. Letters
3.1 Letters to the editor
4. By Invitation
4.1 Britain’s most recent defence attaché in Moscow on the failings of Valery Gerasimov
5. Briefing
5.1 America and China are preparing for a war over Taiwan
6. Europe
6.1 Ukraine is building up its forces for an offensive
6.2 France is in a stand-off against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform
6.3 Turkey’s opposition has picked its man
6.4 Ukraine’s most committed backer wins a huge election victory in Estonia
6.5 Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse
6.6 Germany is letting a domestic squabble pollute Europe’s green ambitions
7. Britain
7.1 Why did 250,000 Britons die sooner than expected?
7.2 Can an AI be an inventor?
7.3 Britain’s new plan to “stop the boats”
7.4 Sales of romance novels are rising in Britain
7.5 Thatcher, Sunak and the politics of the supermarket
8. United States
8.1 What if Joe Biden decided against running for re-election?
8.2 Legal action may change transgender care in America
8.3 Cannabis and anaesthesia do not mix
8.4 America’s schools are heading for a crunch
8.5 Three Republican states pull out of voter-fraud prevention scheme
8.6 Quite a few young Americans plan to end their days as compost
8.7 America’s government has not been “weaponised”
9. Middle East & Africa
9.1 As they cut back on hiring, Arab bureaucracies are spending more to get less
9.2 Fiddling with Egypt’s clocks
9.3 The growth of Africa’s towns and small cities is transforming the continent
10. The Americas
10.1 Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
11. Asia
11.1 How Donald Trump damaged America’s interests in Asia
11.2 Are Thailand’s gay TV dramas the next K-pop?
11.3 South Korea has a plan to end its forced-labour feud with Japan
11.4 The rift in Singapore’s first family turns even nastier
12. China
12.1 Tough language from Xi Jinping belies his anxiety
12.2 Interpreting China’s unambitious growth target
12.3 Many of China’s top politicians were educated in the West
12.4 What party control means in China
13. International
13.1 Emmanuel Macron’s vision of a more muscular Europe is coming true
14. Special report
14.1 Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
14.2 How Taiwan is shaped by its history and identity
14.3 It is time to divert Taiwan’s trade and investment from China
14.4 Taiwan’s dominance of the chip industry makes it more important
14.5 The battle with China is psychological as much as physical
14.6 Taiwan needs a new defence strategy to deal with China
14.7 Taiwanese politics faces a crucial election in early 2024
14.8 Taiwan desperately needs support from the world
14.9 Sources and acknowledgments
15. Business
15.1 How China Inc is tackling the TikTok problem
15.2 Don’t fear an AI-induced jobs apocalypse just yet
15.3 After years in decline, is the gender pay gap opening up?
15.4 The small consolations of office irritations
15.5 How to stop the commoditisation of container shipping
16. Finance & economics
16.1 Can the West’s perplexing employment miracle continue?
16.2 How to measure China’s true economic growth
16.3 China’s Communist Party takes aim at hedonistic bankers
16.4 New York’s stockmarkets are thrashing Hong Kong and London
16.5 Lessons from finance’s experience with artificial intelligence
16.6 Why commodities shine in a time of stagflation
16.7 Emerging-market central-bank experiments risk reigniting inflation
17. Science & technology
17.1 A cartography of human histology is in the making
17.2 The ocean is as important to the climate as the atmosphere
17.3 Studying broken chromosomes can illuminate neuroscience
17.4 Newfangled coins and mercenaries may have brought about democracy
18. Culture
18.1 Two brave books tell the story of lockdown in Wuhan
18.2 Peter Frankopan looks at the past differently in “The Earth Transformed”
18.3 It’s war at this year’s Oscars
18.4 Singapore’s unique dining style comes to Manhattan
18.5 Sumner Redstone and the battle for Paramount
18.6 In “Birnam Wood”, Eleanor Catton returns with a thriller
19. Economic & financial indicators
19.1 Economic data, commodities and markets
20. Graphic detail
20.1 Retail investors are losing billions buying stock options
21. The Economist explains
21.1 Why a new UN treaty to safeguard the “high seas” matters
21.2 Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines?
