The Economist - UK - 09.14.2019

The EconomistSeptember 14th 2019 5

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Contents

The world this week

8 A summary of political

and business news

Leaders

13 Connected computers

Chips with everything

14 The war in Afghanistan

Talking chop

14 The tech cold war

A way forward?

16 E-cigarettes

Don’t panic

18 Europe’s economy

A singular opportunity

Letters

20 On sea levels, democracy,

property, Taiwan, India,

Europe, Jacob Rees-Mogg

Briefing

23 The single market

An unconscious

uncoupling

Technology Quarterly:

Chips with everything

Ubiquitous computing

Afterpage 46

Britain

27 How Europe sees Brexit

28 The Speaker muted

29 British Airways v pilots

29 Foreign students’ visas

30 Political pacts

31 Ministerial churn

31 Interest rates after

no-deal

32 BagehotTwo tribes go to

lunch

Europe

33 Macron and pensions

34 Europe’s new commission

35 Moscow’s slap to Putin

36 Protest rap in Turkey

36 State-run tithing

38 CharlemagneThe EU and

trade

United States

39 After John Bolton

40 North Carolina’s election

41 Gig workers

41 Organised labour

42 Deaths linked to vaping

44 Facebook’s dating service

44 Indiana’s Modernism

46 Lexington Political

journalism

The Americas

47 Venezuela’s exodus

48 Eating Chinese in Havana

49 BelloVenezuela’s morass

Middle East & Africa

50 Bibi’s West Bank gamble

51 Tunisia’s odd election

52 Mozambique’s nuts

52 Xenophobia in South

Africa

53 Zimbabwe after Mugabe

BartlebyA new book

reveals the excessive

attention paid to how

executives look, page 64

On the cover

How the world will change as
computers spread into
everyday objects: leader,
page 13. Drastic falls in cost are
powering another computer
revolution, see our Technology
Quarterly, afterpage 46

• The EU problem no one talks
  aboutEurope’s best hope of
  economic revival lies in
  reanimating its neglected single
  market: leader,page 18. It is not
  just incomplete, in many areas it
  is going backwards: briefing,
  page 23


• Huawei’s peace offering
  Don’t dismiss it entirely: leader,
  page 14. Ren Zhengfei appears
  prepared to sell all Huawei’s 5G
  technology to a Western buyer,
  page 63


• What next for Afghanistan?
  America calls off negotiations to
  end its 18-year war with the
  Taliban, page 54. It will have to
  resume them eventually: leader,
  page 14


• Flying taxis take offSmall
  hovering craft are being readied
  to fly people around cities,
  page 78