The Economist - USA (2020-11-21)

The EconomistNovember 21st 2020 3

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Contents

The world this week

6 A summary of political

andbusinessnews

Leaders

9 China and America

A new grand bargain

10 American politics

The art of losing

10 Afghanistan

Leaving too soon

11 Sovereign debt

A betterwaynottopay

14 Raceandhealth

Wanted:moredata

16 ReformingBritain

Remakingthestate

Letters

18 OntheAmerican

election,Turkey,

Thailand,a proverb,

“Hamilton”

Briefing

19 Globaltechnopolitics

America’sChinastategy

United States

23 To the bitter end

24 Missile defence

25 Charles Koch

25 The State Department

26 Midwestern corruption

27 Development v cemeteries

27 Charters and covid-

28 LexingtonBarack

Obama’sbook

The Americas

29 Mexico and cannabis

30 Illegal fishing in Ecuador

31 BelloPeru’s chaotic

politics

Asia

32 Afghanistan

33 Japanese health care

34 Pakistan’s opposition

35 India’s Islamophobes

35 Abortion in South Korea

36 BanyanThe“Quad”

China

37 Joe Biden’s China policy

39 The new China hands

40 ChaguanThe North

Korean shadow

Middle East & Africa

41 Ethiopia’s civil war

42 Cattle-rustling

43 Shackling the mentally ill

43 Iran’s plotting in Africa

44 A lack of Arab doctors

LexingtonBarack

Obama’s new memoir,

“A Promised Land”, will

give his former deputy

little comfort, page 28

On the cover

As president, Joe Biden should
aim to strike a grand bargain
with America’s democratic
allies: leader,page 9,and
briefing, page 19. Why China
may prove the biggest
foreign-policy challenge for
America’s president-elect,
page 37

• Race and health: far from
  equalCovid-19 has shone a light
  on racial disparities in health,
  page 53. Governments need to
  overcome their qualms about
  collecting data on ethnicity:
  leader, page 14


• Afghanistan, a premature
  evacuationAmerica risks
  handing the country to the
  Taliban: leader,page 10. As
  American forces leave, it seems
  keener on fighting than talking,
  page 32


• Remaking the British state
  The Tories have got the wrong
  idea about why government isn’t
  working: leader, page 16, and
  analysis, page 49. The ideal chief
  adviser for Boris Johnson:
  Bagehot, page 52

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