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Volume 434 Number 9185

Asia

46 Myanmar’s meddling army

47 Traffic jams on Everest

48 Afghanistan’s two

presidents

48 Anti-Muslim bias in India

49 BanyanKorean cults

China

50 Xi Jinping in Wuhan

51 The virus and farming

52 ChaguanNationalism

bites back

International

53 Covid-19 quarantines

55 Fatality rates

Business

56 India’s troubled startups

57 The anti-covid industry

58 Bartleby Sick leave

59 Multi-cloud computing

59 CEO stakeholderism

60 Schumpeter Accenture’s

rise

Briefing

61 The house that Jamie

built

Finance & economics

64 Risks in credit markets

65 The oil-price war

66 Italy’s virus response

66 Entering a bear market

67 An Indian bank rescue

68 Buttonwood The dollar

in a time of crisis

70 Free exchangeThe cost

of pandemics

Science & technology

72 Ocean sensors

73 Why turtles eat plastic

74 Battlefield nuclear energy

74 The smallest dinosaur?

Books & arts

75 Protest music in Chile

76 Among the hungry

77 Colum McCann’s novel

77 Traces of the

Anthropocene

78 JohnsonThe language

of policy

Economic & financial indicators

80 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphic detail

81 Foot traffic has cratered in cities affected by covid-

Obituary

82 Freeman Dyson, re-imaginer of the universe