The Economist Continental Europe Edition – August 17, 2019

38 TheEconomistAugust 17th 2019 1 A s he concludedhis eighth round of negotiations with the Taliban on Au- gust 12th, Zalmay Kha ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 Asia 39 2 members at an intra-Afghan conference in Doha organised by Germany and Qatar. The previo ...

40 Asia The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 T hemorningsunwasfiercebutthe crowdpressedagainstthegatesofthe palacedidnotseemtomind.They ...

TheEconomistAugust 17th 2019 41 1 A ten-week-oldpolitical crisis in Hong Kong has taken a lurch for the worse. Flash-mob protest ...

42 China The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 P erchedoncliffsabove a river, Hong- yadong is a stilt-house complex in mock-traditiona ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 China 43 T here is somethingdepressing about the Chinese govern- ment’s claim that foreign “black ...

44 TheEconomistAugust 17th 2019 1 O n june 22 ndthere was an alleged coup attempt in Ethiopia. The army chief of staff was murde ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 International 45 2 1 dissent at home and exports the technol- ogy to censor it abroad. The United ...

46 International The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 media, from an autocrat’s point of view, is that they tend to be boring. So ano ...

TheEconomistAugust 17th 2019 47 1 I n may champagne corks popped as Mumbai’s bankers, investors and indus- trialists feted the r ...

48 Business The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 All this looks like an odd way to boost India’s flagging animal spirits—the deeper r ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 Business 49 1 T he earningscall lasted about half an hour and was, by conventional mea- sures, und ...

50 Business The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 A merica’s mediabusiness once lion- ised boutique firms and their icono- clastic bos ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 Business 51 F ar fromthe soulless corporate offices of midtown Manhattan is a door in Greenwich Vi ...

52 Business The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 F or outsiders, FedEx is synonymous with the business it pio- neered: the overnight de ...

TheEconomistAugust 17th 2019 53 1 “T here’s tariffson games and tariffs on toys—try explaining tariffs to your little boy. Santa ...

54 Finance & economics The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 companies make plans over a five- to ten- year horizon and invest in ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 Finance & economics 55 1 I n the autumnof 2008,strangeand novel things happened in financial m ...

56 Finance & economics The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 2 tospendvaluabletimeplanning.Between November 2018 and January2019,nea ...

The EconomistAugust 17th 2019 Finance & economics 57 I n east africamillions of people are suf- fering from a prolonged drou ...