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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Joe Biden: Retro or radical? The pandemic: The way we live now Hong Kong: A safe harbour no more Investing in India: Inside game The Nile: Dam bluster Letters to the editor: On artificial intelligence, green investing, GDP, gardens, working from home Joe Biden: He persisted Russia: Parade’s end Turkey: Osman and the snails France: The president’s dilemmas Ireland: A new world Covid-19 and the Nordics: Borderline personalities Charlemagne: Let expats vote Producing a vaccine: Moonshot Relations with China: Getting off the fence The economy: V-sign Infrastructure: Boris digs for victory Lockdown in Leicester: Not again Teaching history: War of the poses Toy soldiers: The lead belt booms Bagehot: Giving the bureaucrats a rocket The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Showdown on the Nile Malawi’s new president: A lesson in democracy Another sort of plague: Locusts at the gate Sierra Leone: Guild of thieves Facebook and autocrats: With friends like these Music in the Arab world: Rap the casbah The presidential election: Donald Trump’s uphill battle State flags: Mississippi changes its colours John Roberts: Hail to the chief Capital punishment: Cruel, unusual and costly The Democratic left: Gathering steam Intelligence and the president: Pandering to the bear Lexington: It’s messing with Texas Mexican-American relations: The two amigos Colombia: Post-party town Cuba: Neither mulas nor moolah Bello: Ecuador’s anguish The war in Afghanistan: Withdraw first, ask questions later India and China: Hit them where it hurts us India’s obsession with TikTok: Fifteen seconds of fame Feeding Singapore: The rise of the rooftop farmer Vietnam: Your loss, my grain Banyan: A charged relationship Hong Kong’s freedoms: The evening of its days Popular culture: Star wars Chaguan: The great unifier The pandemic’s next stage: The new normal If the Republicans pivoted on climate: The elephant’s U-turn If water shortages destabilised China: Trickle-down policies If climate activists turned to terrorism: Green blood If carbon removal became the new Big Oil: Big Suck If covid-19 devastated aviation: Peak plane If technology tracked all carbon emissions: The rise of carbon surveillance If mammoths were recreated: Doing the tundra quick-steppe If nuclear power had taken off: The road not taken Business in India: All aboard Meal-delivery wars: Appetite for destruction Airlines and the climate: Setting a new CORSIA The Facebook boycott: With a little help from its friends Nissan: Turning down the volume Logistics (1): Seeking deliverance Logistics (2): Droning on Bartleby: Keep it practical Schumpeter: The legacy of Chesapeake Public finances: The debt toll Banks and the recession: What if? Trade finance: Collateral damage Chinese banking: Xi sank your battleship Property in America: The house wins Buttonwood: Zero gravity Free exchange: A Latin American tragedy Hydrogen power: Another look in the toy box Phylloxera: The root of the problem Urban history: A night at the Cathay American politics: Orange warning Secrets and lies: Cherchez les femmes Television drama: Creative destruction Home Entertainment: Chekhov in Siberia Home Entertainment: Hidden depths Economic data, commodities and markets Covid-19 and lockdowns: Thinking fast and slow Li Zhensheng: Facing it Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)