Schwerpunkt: Where will he stop?

Inhalt:
The world this week
A summary of political and business news 07

Leaders
Vladimir Putin´s war
Where will he stop? 09
Spending America´s federal bonanza
Wasting a windfall 10
Private markets
The private-equity delusion10
South Africa
Courting trouble12
Workplace automation
Rise of the robots 14

Letters
On Canada, bilingual people, Estonia, levelling up, Uganda, Gordon Brown, tech giants 16

Briefing
The war in Ukraine
A frightening wait yields to awful reality 17

Europe
Turkey's Russia problem 22
The French economy 23
The popes's secret decrees 24
Smuggling greenhouse gases 25
Charlemagne
The free-rider continent 26

Britain
New trade diplomacy 27
Nigel Farage v net zero 28
Bagehot
Tories and NHS 29

Middle East & Africa
South Africa's judiciary 30
Jihadists moving south 31
Africa's narrative names 32
Dirty money in the UAE 33
Minibuses in Cairo 34
Falconry in the Gulf 34

United States
The American Rescue Plan 35
New York's governor 36
Parks and permits 37
Child brides 38
Anti-woke universities 38
Lexington
Reality against Putin 40

The Americas
Uruguay's success story 41
Inflation in Brazil 42
Bello
Drugs and politics 44

Asia
Moon Jae-in's legacy in South Korea 45
Asian place names 46
Blasphemy in Pakistan 47
Cambodia's diplomacy 47
Banyan
Ukraine viewed from Asia 48

China
Choosing sides on Ukraine 49
Hong Kong's covid-19 chaos 50
Chaguan
The horrors of bride trafficking 51

Business
China's techno-dependencies 52
Sea Group at sea 54
Bartleby
Dirty work 55
Private equity and the press 56
Icahn's v McDonald's 56
VW and Porsche part ways 57
Schumpeter
Gaz Prom and war 58

Finance and economics
The fallout from Ukraine 59
Chinese-American trade 60
The IMF's woes 61
India's gold rush 62
Generali's future 63
Inflation in Turkey 63
Buttonwood
The sun rises for the yen 64
Free exchange
Saving globalisation 65

Science & technology
The future of robots 66
Brain organoids 67
Intergenerational memory 68
Gathering lithium 68
Eyewittnesses' reliability 69

Culture
Murals im Mexico 70
A Nobel-prizewinning novel 71
Home Entertainment
Vampires of yore 72
Nixon's watchdog 72
Refugees and reportage 73

Economic & financial indicators
Statistics on 42 economies 76

Graphic detail
Are some countries faking their covid-19 death counts? 77

Obituary
P.J. O'Rourke, scourge of liberals everywhere 78

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