6 Contents The Economist January 29th 2022
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Volume 442 Number 9281
Asia
45 Myanmar’s flailing junta
47 Life in Afghanistan
47 Kazakhifying Kazakhstan
48 BanyanSanctions that
work
China
49 A closed-loop Olympics
51 ChaguanWhat China
thinks about Ukraine
International
52 The diplomacy of
microchips
Business
54 The internet’s future
55 Coding for the masses
56 New supply-chain pains
57 BartlebyPick your
purpose
58 The chip boom. And bust?
59 SchumpeterThe Mittal
dynasty
Finance&economics
60 Market turmoil
61 Commodity prices
62 Omicron and the economy
63 Deutsche Bank’s revival
64 #MoneyTok
65 Free exchange
Quantitative tightening
Science&technology
66 Flying taxis
67 Data privacy
68 Rhinos and plants
69 A new type of camera
Culture
70 A history of the bbc
71 On the trail of textiles
72 Home Entertainment
Pliny’s wisdom
73 A critique of the mega-rich
73 Resurrecting Handel
74 JohnsonLost languages
Economic&financialindicators
76 Statistics on 42 economies
Graphicdetail
77 The fading dominance of English in streamed music
Obituary
78 Thich Nhat Hanh, father of mindfulness