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Volume 441 Number 9266

Asia

53 What Pakistan wants

56 Korea’s “Squid Game”

56 Violence in Rohingya

refugee camps

57 BanyanSo long,

zero­covid­

China

58 Threatening Taiwan

59 Sounds of old Beijing

60 ChaguanWeighing up

accession to the cptpp

International

61 The growth of private

tutoring

Business

63 Restyling China Inc

64 Volvo’s electric ipo

65 Bartleby“Out of office”

etiquette

66 The Mexican startup wave

66 GlobalFoundries

67 Expropriation in Berlin

68 SchumpeterThe carbon

crackdown

Finance&economics

69 Back to the 1970s?

70 The energy crunch

71 A capex bonanza

72 The $1trn coin

72 Green government bonds 

73 ButtonwoodEmerging

markets

74 Free exchangeInflation

expectations

Science&technology

75 The 2021 Nobel prizes

77 Thermoelectric cooling

78 Sea slug symbiosis

78 Malaria vaccination

Books&arts

80 After the pandemic

81 Fiona Hill’s memoir

82 John von Neumann

83 Sustainable business

83 Colm Toibin on Thomas

Mann

Economic&financialindicators

84 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphicdetail

85 To win a Nobel, get yourself nominated by another laureate

Obituary

86 Bernard Tapie, entrepreneur, crooner and football magnate