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Volume 428 Number 9101

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Contents

1

Helsinki How to interpret

Donald Trump’s humiliating

press conference with Vladimir

Putin: leader page 10. Two

depressingly similar presidents

meet page 37. Mr Trump’s

defensiveness about the effect

of Russian hacking is

revealing: Lexington page 23

On the cover

The global trading system is

in grave danger but there is

still a chance of a rescue:

leader page 9 .The peace

planpage 16 .Amid tensions

with America China is

reassessing its ties with

Europe page 31. The idea of

Eurasia is once again in

fashion: Banyan page 30

5 The world this week

Leaders

9 World trade

A plan to save the WTO

10 Donald Trump in Europe

Humiliation in Helsinki

10 Britain and the EU

A second referendum

11 Europe v Google

High fines meagre results

12 Pakistan’s election

Foul play

Letters

15 On populism Brexiteers

technology political

language data sampling

solar energy meetings

Briefing

16 The world trading system

Trade blockage

United States

19 Unions

Beginnings and endings

20 Election interference

GRU II

21 Male voters

Sometimes it’s hard

22 The Midwest

Nice change

23 Lexington

A legitimacy problem

The Americas

24 Unrest in Haiti

A gamble gone wrong

25 Law and politics in Brazil

Lula livre?

25 Paraguay and Taiwan

The blossom and the

passion flower

26 Bello

Mexico’s misshapen

economy

Asia

27 Pakistan’s election

Military machinations

28 The Cook Islands

When economic success

stings

29 LGBT rights in Singapore

Cautious progress

30 Banyan

The return of Eurasia

China

31 Diplomacy

China turns to the EU

32 A hit and a flop

A notable month for

cinema

Middle East and Africa

33 Red Sea scramble

Ports in the Horn

34 Djibouti in deep water

The risk of Chinese cash

34 Turkey in Syria

You break it you own it

35 Morocco’s new friends

Handshakes in Africa

35 Infertility in Nigeria

A bad place to be barren

36 Slavery in Mauritania

Still with us

Europe

37 The Trump-Putin summit

In the Hall of Mirrors

38 Corruption in eastern

Europe

Miss justice

38 Xenophobia

Stranger swings

39 Turkey’s

ultra-nationalists

Dancing with wolves

39 Spanish history

Disturbing Franco’s ghost

40 An interview with Bruno

Le Maire

The adaptable Gaullist

41 Charlemagne

The backlash against

Airbnb

Brexit If Parliament cannot

agree on a plan the decision

must go back to the people:

leader page 10. The mechanics

of a second referendum

page 43

Pakistan Time for the generals

to aim for clean elections:

leader page 12. Abuses and

violence overshadow a vote

that could hand power to

Imran Khan a former cricket

star page 27