The Economist Asia Edition - August 03, 2019

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Contents

The world this week

5 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

7 The future of the Amazon

Deathwatch

8 The Federal Reserve and

emerging markets

An opportunity

8 Baltimore

Saving Charm City

10 Digitalpayments

Thedashfromcash

12 Congo

Ifitbleeds,payheed

Letters

14 Oninsurance,Tommy

Flowers,Colombia,the

future,flatmates

Briefing

16 TheAmazon

Onthebrink

Asia

19 Politics in Singapore

20 Aboriginal rights in

Australia

21 Japan’s disabled MPs

21 Smoking in Indonesia

22 BanyanA federal

Philippines

China

23 Jobless graduates

24 Hong Kong’s protests

25 ChaguanThe semiotics

of meeting rooms

United States

27 Baltimore’s murder rate

29 Donald Trump’s

intelligence chief

29 The last man of Mount

Rushmore

30 Puerto Rico’s political

crisis

31 LexingtonThe mighty

Dolphins

The Americas

34 The humbling of

Honduras’s strongman

35 Uber in Vancouver

36 Early elections in Peru?

36 Art that moves

Middle East & Africa

37 The challenge of Congo

40 Tyranny in Tanzania

40 An exodus from Gaza

41 The death of Beji Caid

CharlemagneEurope is Essebsi

edging towards the

post-car city, page 47

On the cover

Brazil has the power to save
Earth’s greatest rainforest—or
destroy it: leader, page 7.
The Amazon is approaching
the point of its irreversible
destruction:briefing,page 16

• The Fed makes its move
  America’s central bank cuts
  rates for the first time in over a
  decade,page 58. Lower rates
  may help emerging markets
  more than anyone: leader,
  page 8. Emerging-market
  dreams of rich-world incomes
  meet reality: Free exchange,
  page 63


• Congo: fighting Ebola in a war
  zoneDisease is not the only
  enemy in Congo: leader,page 12.
  How do you reform a country
  where gunmen torch clinics?
  Page 37


• Foodoo economics—meals on
  wheelsDelivering food is
  anything but a tasty business:
  Schumpeter,page 57


• Big armchairs and Chinese
  diplomacyWhy is China so fond
  of meetings in over-stuffed
  furniture? Chaguan,page 25