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China

China’s national-security bill for Hong Kong is an attempt to terrify

It could turn the territory into a Sino-American battleground

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China has launched rule by fear in Hong Kong

United States

Why the prosecution of a Minneapolis police officer is such a rarity

The doctrine of “qualified immunity” too often gives police miscreants a free pass

Highlights
Middle East & Africa

Why African governments still hire mercenaries

Professional gunmen are cheap, efficient and deniable

Leaders

How tourism will survive the pandemic

Foreign adventure, discovery and hedonism are on hold. They will be back

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Britain

Bagehot: Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson: united by a shared contempt for rules

Both believe that great men ought to be free of everyday restrictions

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America first

China drops its GDP target • The end of Hong Kong • No tourists • Socially distanced cash

Moreover

Online meetings are even duller than real ones

There’s only one thing worse than a bore, and that’s a Zoom bore, says Adrian Wooldridge

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How the world’s most powerful country is handling covid-19

May 30th 2020
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United States

How the world’s premier public-health agency was handcuffed

Business

Farewell for now to a golden age of drinking

Europe

Russia’s covid-19 outbreak is far worse than the Kremlin admits

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Early projections of covid-19 in America underestimated its severity

By luck or by design, they have improved markedly since

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In context: Poverty and the pandemic

International

Covid-19 is undoing years of progress in curbing global poverty

The number of very poor people was steadily falling; now it is rising fast

Leaders

The coronavirus could devastate poor countries

It is in the rich world’s self-interest to help

United States

American inequality meets covid-19

China

A slump exposes holes in China’s welfare state

Special report: International banking

Geopolitics and technology threaten America’s financial dominance

And now the covid-19 pandemic is precipitating a split, says Matthieu Favas

As China goes global, its banks are coming out, too

European banks are losing their influence

China wants to make the yuan a central-bank favourite

And it is playing a trump card in order to achieve it

The financial world’s nervous system is being rewired

And it is not America that is doing it

Can China be trusted to be a responsible financial power?

There are still a lot of questions that it must answer

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