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Volume 441 Number 9274

Asia

55 India’s falling fertility

56 Kyrgyzstani thuggery

57 South Korea’s floating city

57 Business succession 

in Japan

58 BanyanViolence in 

the Pacific

China

59 Single mothers unite

60 Women’s tennis v China

61 ChaguanThe democracy

war with America

International

63 Tussles at Interpol

Business

65 Asia’s tech landscape

66 Twitter’s founder leaves 

67 BartlebyThe once and

future office

68 China’s celeb crackdown

68 Christmas chart toppers 

69 Intellectual property

72 SchumpeterA shake­up

at j&j

Finance&economics

73 China’s Omicronomics

74 Emerging markets

78 Carbon pricing

78 India and bond indices

79 Buttonwood Have spacs

cleaned up?

80 Norway’s oil fund

81 Free exchangePolicing

stablecoins

Science&technology

83 Random numbers

84 Water’s arrival on Earth

85 Perovskite phone screens

85 Hybrid helicopters

86 Trypanosomes and bees

Books&arts

87 India's contested

archaeology

88 Middle Eastern Christians

89 Paul McCartney’s memoir

89 A forgotten 18th­century

war

90 Greta Garbo’s mystique

Economic&financialindicators

92 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphicdetail

93 The gulag's surprising legacy

Obituary

94 Stephen Sondheim, transformer of American musicals